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Corey Chang of Woodbridge, to be a featured soloist with NMS' Greater New Haven Youth Ensembles Spring Concert

 

New Haven, Conn., May 7, 2013 – Woodbridge resident Corey Chang will be a soloist performing in the Neighborhood Music School’s Greater New Haven Youth Ensembles Spring Concert, on Sunday, May 12, at 2 p.m. at Yale’s Battell Chapel on College St. in New Haven.

            The Mother’s Day concert showcases four of Neighborhood Music School’s auditioned ensembles, which draw many of the best and brightest musicians from middle and high schools across Connecticut. More than 139 students from 29 towns and cities participate in these ensembles, under the skilled direction of professional conductors. The ensembles include the Concert Band, conducted by Rachel Stevens Antonucci; the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conducted by Mark Gahm; the Concert Orchestra, conducted by Marvin Warshaw and assistant conductor Christopher Jones; and the Youth Orchestra, conducted by Netta Hadari. Concert tickets are available at the door and cost $10 for adults; $5 for seniors and children age 12 and under.

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            A junior at Hopkins School, Corey is a member of NMS’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and will play a solo from George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” Corey started playing piano at the age of two and has been a student at NMS since age five, taking lessons in classical and jazz piano and drums. His teachers at Neighborhood Music School have included Jesse Hameen II, Rex Cadwallader, Nick Forte, Rebecca Raffaelli and, currently, Mary Bloom. Corey started composing at age seven. From 2009-2011, he participated in the New Haven Symphony’s Young Composers’ Project with Augusta Read Thomas, and his final composition, “Nature’s Release,” was premiered in Yale’s Sprague Hall. He is currently working on a string trio in the 2012-2014 Young Composers’ Project with Christopher Theofanidis. This year, Corey won first place in the Golden Key National Piano Composition Competition, and his piece, “Evening Light,” will premiere in Austria in July. He is also second place winner of the 2013 Renée B. Fisher Competition for Young Pianists in the high school division, and will perform in the Winner’s Concert on Sunday, May 12 at 7 p.m. at Neighborhood Music School. Corey is a member of Hopkins’ male a cappella group, the Harmonaires.  

Please visit the NMS website at neighborhoodmusicschool.org/summer to learn more about our summer programs.

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Neighborhood Music School, established in 1911, is one of the 10 largest community arts schools in the country. NMS offers private music lessons on more than 30 instruments; group music classes; classical, rock and jazz ensembles; and a Suzuki program. The school’s dance program offers classes for adults and children in ballet, modern, tap, jazz, hip-hop and yoga. NMS also offers a state-licensed, arts-based preschool for two, three and four year olds. NMS programs are made possible in part with support from the Connecticut Office of Economic and Community Development and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, along with many other generous foundations and individuals.

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