West Virginia State Philharmonic Orchestra to Perform Concert March 10

3/3/2020

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Contact: Jack Bailey
(304) 766-4109
Jbaile19@wvstateu.edu
 
   
INSTITUTE, W.Va. – The West Virginia State Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing a concert Tuesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the John W. Davis Fine Arts Theater at West Virginia State University (WVSU).

The orchestra, which is comprised of WVSU students and faculty as well as members of the community, will be performing such works as Beethoven’s “Fidelio Overture,” Bruch’s “Concerto for Clarinet and Viola,” Tchaikovsky’s “Andante Cantabile,” Elgar’s “Nimrod” and Ravel’s “Bolero.”

The concert is free and open to the public.

Following the March 10 performance on the WVSU campus, the Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing a special concert on March 17 at 7 p.m. Winfield Middle School, with students from the middle school playing along with the orchestra. This educational concert is free and open to the public and gives the middle school students the opportunity to play alongside their counterparts in the orchestra.  

The West Virginia State Philharmonic formed in 2015 as the Charleston Chamber Orchestra and their first concert was given at WVSU’s Fannin S. Belcher Theater in December 2015. In the past year, the orchestra has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York for the Viennese Master’s Orchestra Invitational and at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Capital Orchestra Festival in Washington, D.C.

The Philharmonic Orchestra has been invited to perform in Vienna, Austria, at the “Beethoven 250” Festival in the summer of 2020.

For more information, contact Dr. Scott Woodard at (304) 766-3190, (304) 550-7853 or swoodar1@wvstateu.edu.

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West Virginia State University is a public, land grant, historically black university, which has evolved into a fully accessible, racially integrated, and multi-generational institution, located in Institute, W.Va. As a “living laboratory of human relations,” the university is a community of students, staff, and faculty committed to academic growth, service, and preservation of the racial and cultural diversity of the institution. Its mission is to meet the higher education and economic development needs of the state and region through innovative teaching and applied research.