The Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra will perform “Mostly Mozart” at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Bellefonte Area High School auditorium, 830 E. Bishop St.
Featured will be Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Symphony No. 2. Op. 11; and Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, featuring soloist Moran Katz, and Symphony No. 39.
The orchestra conductor is Yaniv Attar.
A native of Israel, Attar is the first-place winner of the Duna Szimfonikus Conducting Competition Budapest, and the recipient of the 2010/2012 and 2014 Georg Solti Foundation U.S. Award and the 2009 Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Award. Attar is the newly appointed music director of the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra and music director of the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra in Bellingham.
Drawn to orchestral conducting from an early age, Attar has studied with Israel Edelson in Jerusalem, Virginia Allen at the Juilliard School in New York and Neil Thomson at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was also the associate conductor and cofounder of the Tempus Chamber Orchestra. In 2008, Attar earned his doctor of music degree from McGill University, where he studied under the tutelage of Alexis Hauser.
Winner of the 2013 Ima Hogg Competition, clarinetist Katz also received the Audience Choice Prize and the Artistic Encouragement Prize voted on by the Houston Symphony musicians. In 2009, Katz won first prize at the Freiburg International Clarinet Competition in Germany, second prize at the Beijing International Music Competition for Clarinet in China and first prize and overall prize at the Midland/Odessa ‘National Young Artist Competition’ in Texas.
Katz performs extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. She is an adjunct faculty member at Vassar College.
General admission seating is $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Youth tickets for those 16 and younger are $5 with an adult ticket purchase. Penn State students, with valid student ID, are $5 at the door.
To purchase tickets, call (814) 234-8313 or visit www.centreorchestra.org.
