COD Chamber Orchestra concert features guest violinist Dec. 7
The College of DuPage Chamber Orchestra will perform a concert featuring guest Alison Dalton, violinist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, on the Mainstage of the McAninch Arts Center, 425 Fawell Blvd. in Glen Ellyn.
The chamber orchestra performs under Music Director and Conductor Dan Pasquale D'Andrea of Downers Grove.
The Dec. 7 concert features Beethoven's “Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93,” Mozart's “Così Fan Tutte Overture K588 (1790),” and Saint-Saëns' “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28 (1863).”
“Had history a different course, ‘Symphony No. 8' could very well have been Beethoven's last symphony, his final tribute to the great classical symphonic masters,” D'Andrea said. “The Saint-Saëns is one of the most famous single-movement violin solos and we have the tremendous honor to hear this work in the hands of our soloist, Alison Dalton.”
Alison Dalton began taking violin lessons at age 5 with her father and later studied with virtuoso William Primrose and Henri Temianka. She debuted at age 12 with the Utah Symphony under Maurice Abravanel before studying under Ivan Galamian at the Curits Institute of Music. Dalton received her master's degree at Manhattan School of Music.
As principal second violin of the Austrian Radio Orchestra in Vienna, Dalton toured extensively with the Klaring String Quartet and as a member of the avante garde chamber group Kontrapuktus. She was invited by Sir George Solti to join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and is a founding member of the Axis Ensemble and Westshorelands Preparatory Music School.
D'Andrea is music director of several ensembles, including the Senior Suburban Orchestra, COD's Chamber Orchestra, Combined Church Choir of Itasca, Wind Harmonies Wind Ensemble, and Sinfonietta Bel Canto. He has music degrees from DePaul University, the New England Conservatory and Northern Illinois University and is a skilled harpsichordist and bassoonist. D'Andrea served as director of the Salt Creek Sinfonietta for 14 years and currently is principal bassoon with the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra.
For more information, call the MAC Ticket Office at (630) 942-4000, or visit: www.atthemac.org.