Lake Forest Symphony Presents Czech Mates
1/22/2010 8:00pm
James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts in Grayslake, IL
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Czech Mates will feature masterpieces from the greatest of all Czech composers and the brilliant young cellist, Gabriel Cabezas, will make his Lake Forest Symphony debut performing the Dvořák Cello Concerto. The program also includes other Dvořák favorites plus the colorful music of Smetana and Suk.
This concert is sponsored by the Butler Family Foundation. Guest Artist sponsor is Lesser, Lutrey and McGlynn LLP. Partial funding has also been received by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Free pre-concert lecture by author and composer Jim Kendros offered at 7:00 pm.
Tickets are $30, $40, and $50 with student and senior discounts available. Call the Box Office at 847-295-2135 or order tickets online at www.lakeforestsymphony.org.
Tickets are $30, $40, and $50 with student and senior discounts available. Call the Box Office at 847-295-2135 or order tickets online at www.lakeforestsymphony.org.
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Born in Chicago in 1992, Gabriel Cabezas commenced his music studies at age four. He has performed as a guest soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the New World Symphony,. the Florida Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Nashville Symphony, the Rackham Symphony Choir and the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, among others.
A zealous chamber musician, Cabezas has performed with artist Béla Fleck in the televised program “From the Top - Live From Carnegie Hall” and with the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra at “The Sphinx Gala Concert,” both at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Cabezas is a Second Prize Winner of the prestigious 2008 and 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the recipient of the First Prize Award of the 2008 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions, the winner of the First Prize of the Low Strings Concerto Competition of the 2008 Aspen Music Festival and School, as well as the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Junior Division of the 2008 Fischoff Chamber Music National Competition (The Quartet Polaris).
Cabezas has studied under the tutelage of Professor Hans Jørgen Jensen of the Academy of the Music Institute of Chciago, and was invited to join the studio of Artist Faculty Carter Brey at the Curtis Insitute of Music in the fall of 2009. Cabezas plays a distinctive violoncello crafted in 1934 by Chicago’s legendary luthier Carl G. Becker.