Youthful Canadian violinist Christer Tepper will be featured soloist with the Lake County Symphony at its Spring concert on Sunday, May 6 at the Marge Alakszay Center in the Lakeport Unified School District campus. The venue marks a change, since the concert was originally scheduled for Keseyville High School.
The program will open with Mozart”s “Violin Concerto No. 5 in A. It is a fitting selection in that Tepper, like Mozart, started his music career as a child of 3, with his first public performance at age 4. Mozart wrote his five concertos at age 19, breaking with tradition to feature solo instruments leading the orchestra. Tepper”s talents are well-suited to show just how important this innovation would prove to be in the future of classical music.
As a teenager, Tepper studied with a number of different artists across Canada at various universities and colleges, including a scholarship to the Young Artists Performance Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. This was followed by a scholarship to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, after which he moved to Europe to pursue violin studies in Germany and Italy. Since returning to Canada and the U.S. He has won honors in many competitions, appeared on radio and television, and served as guest soloist with a number of symphony orchestras, all to critical acclaim.
He is the son of noted pianist Sigfried Tepper, who has made several appearances in Lake County.
The second number on the program is Beethoven”s “Romance in F for Violin and Orchestra.” Written during a romantic period in the composer”s life ? and one of his happiest, it has been a favorite of music lovers for two centuries, . Since the violin provides the music of romance, Tepper will again play the lead role, while John Parkinson conducts the orchestra.
The Lake County Youth Orchestra will present Vivaldi”s “Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Orchestra,” with students taking the challenging solo parts, while the Lake County Symphony plays the orchestra parts.
The final orchestra selection will again feature work by Beethoven, this time his popular “Symphony No. 7 in A Major.
The concert starts at 3 p.m., and the venue can be found by driving north on Lakeshore Boulevard and looking for the directional signs to the Lakeport Unified School District complex.
Admission for the general public is $15, and for CLPA members $10. Young people younger than 18 are free For additional information call 279-0877.
