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Metropolitan Orchestra @ Montgomery College
Pablo Saelzer, conductor
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission
Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center
51 Mannakee St, Rockville, MD
Program
Johann Strauss, Jr.: Overture to The Gyspy Baron
Édouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
Marlisa Del Cid Woods, violin
Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge (Music of the Spheres), op. 235
Johannas Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 6
The Metropolitan Orchestra is composed of 68 musicians: professional and highly-accomplished adults; Montgomery College students; and high school students. The Metropolitan Orchestra creates individual and collective opportunities for musicians who enjoy making music together and listening to each other to enrich and impact the college and community with outstanding performances.
Conductor Pablo Saelzer is Professor of Music at Montgomery College/Rockville, where he conducts its Metropolitan Orchestra http://metropolitanorchestramc.org He also conducts Avanti Orchestra of the Friday Morning Music Club http://fmmc.org, the Chamber Orchestra of the Maryland Classical Youth Orchestras, with which he made his Carnegie Hall debut this past May,and is Music Director of the Mississippi Symphony’s Premier Orchestra Institute.
Marlisa del Cid Woods, a native Washingtonian, is highly acclaimed as a solo artist, chamber musician, and orchestral violinist. She has performed at many of the world’s leading venues including Severance Hall, Avery Fisher, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Strathmore Music Center, Blossom Music Center, the National Cathedral, the White House, DAR Constitution Hall, and the Kennedy Center.
She started her violin studies under the Suzuki Method with Robert Cole at the age of four. As a promising young artist, Marlisa was selected as a National Symphony Orchestra Fellow, won prizes in multiple competitions, and performed as concertmaster and soloist with the American Youth Philharmonic. Ms. Woods went on to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music with David Updegraff and Donald Weilerstein (B.M. ‘98, M.M. ’00). She was the recipient of the Baruch prize, awarded yearly to a highly talented violinist. Ms. Woods also studied baroque violin at Case Western Reserve and privately with Marilyn McDonald. While a student at the Cleveland Institute, she was invited by music director Jeannette Sorrell to audition for Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, with whom she performed and toured for four seasons. During her third year of studies at CIM, Ms. Woods made her Kennedy Center debut performing the Brahms Double Concerto with cellist Erin Espinoza by invitation of the National Symphony’s Summer Music Institute.
In the fall of 2000, Ms. Woods returned to the D.C. area, having won a violin position with the Pershing’s Own U.S. Army Orchestra with whom she is featured as a soloist on numerous occasions. She has also performed at the request of the President George W. Bush at the White House for the U.S. Cabinet. Last summer, Ms. Woods performed Ravel’s String Quartet and the Martinu Madrigals for a live audience on NPR in “Live from the Atherton” in Honolulu, Hawaii. This past season’s solo engagements included performances of the Shostakovich Violin Concerto #1 with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic and Lalo’s Symphony Espagnole with the Annandale Symphony, both with standing ovations.
Ms. Woods has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Concert Artists of Baltimore, Alexandria Symphony, National Gallery Orchestra, Canton Symphony, Youngstown Symphony, and the Erie Philharmonic. As a baroque violinist, she performs regularly with the National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, Bach Sinfonia, Harmonious Blacksmith, the Vivaldi Project, and the Washington Bach Consort. Ms. Woods can be heard on the Eclectra and Lyrichord labels.
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