The Adelphi Orchestra Presents: "Beethoven & Brahms"

RIVER EDGE, N.J. - Feb. 13, 2019 - PRLog -- The Adelphi Orchestra, (http://www.adelphiorchestra.org/) now in its 65th season of Music for All, presents "Beethoven and Brahms" on Sunday, March 31st at 2 PM, Pascack Valley  Regional High School Auditorium with an emphasis on their long-standing young artist initiative.
The orchestra will perform works by Brahms and Beethoven under the baton of Guest Conductor Jason Tramm. The program will showcase Oradell native piano prodigy Drew Petersen winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 American Pianist Award in Brahms Piano Concerto no 1. The concert will also include, Beethoven Symphony No 7.
Funding for the Adelphi Orchestra has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, through grant funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs.

Drew Petersen
Pianist Drew Petersen is the winner of the 2017 American Pianists Awards and the Christel DeHaan Fellowship of the American Pianists Association and has been named Artist-in-Residence for two years by the University of Indianapolis. In March of 2018, he was honored as a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant.
This is the latest accolade in a decorated young career that includes prizes from the Leeds International Piano Competition, the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition and the New York Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition.
His summer concert activities included chamber concerts within Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, orchestral performances with the Indianapolis Symphony and a recital at Chicago's Ravinia Festival. It also marked the release of his first solo recording of American music on the Steinway label for which BBC Music Magazine acknowledged his presence as a rising star.
Petersen was presented at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall at age five and by age ten he was presented in a solo recital at Steinway Hall in Manhattan for the company's 150th Anniversary. The New York Times has written about the early performances of the gifted, "freckle-faced 10-year-old who still impresses adults with his intelligence, maturity, and depth" and New York Magazine prominently featured Petersen in an article about child prodigies. Petersen's extraordinary gifts were also chronicled in the documentary Just Normal produced by Kim A. Snyder, and in Andrew Solomon's book, Far From the Tree, which featured case studies of exceptional children.
An avid traveler, Petersen's emerging career frequently takes him abroad, where he sets out to discover new foods and meet locals as eagerly as he performs for new audiences. Overseas engagements have included recitals at the Musica e Arte Festival in Tolentino, Italy; Verbier Festival in Verbier, Switzerland; Euro Arts Music Festival in Leipzig, Germany; and American Spring Festival of the Czech Republic.
Petersen graduated cum laude from Harvard at age 19 with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Social Science and did his undergraduate and graduate music studies at the Juilliard School, the former as a recipient of the prestigious Kovner Fellowship. He has recently been accepted into the Artist Diploma program at the Juilliard School.

Tickets
VIP Tickets $25; General Admission/Student and Seniors Free; Suggested Donation $20

Upcoming 2018-19 Concert Season

Adelphi Chamber Ensemble
Mahwah Public Library  Mahwah, NJ
Sunday, February 24, 2019 – 2:00 PM
Adelphi Chamber Ensemble
Teaneck Public Library Teaneck, NJ
Sunday, March 3, 2019 – 2:00 PM
Celtic Irish Concert
The Community of St John the Baptist  Mendham, NJ
Sunday, March 17, 2019 – 4:00 PM
Adelphi Youth Artist Competition Finals Recital
Marc A. Scorca Hall  NYC
Saturday, April 27, 2018 –10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

The Great Romantics
Works of Dvorak, Berlioz  and Tchaikovsky, Schumann
River Dell Regional Middle School River Edge, NJ
Friday, May 10, 2019 – 7:30 PM
Conductor: Richard Owen, Bryan Cheng (Cello)

Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church NYC
Saturday,  May 11, 2019 – 7:00 PM
Terry Eder (Piano), Bryan Cheng (Cello)

To learn more about the orchestra and its programs visit adelphiorchestra.org