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The North Carolina Symphony continues its Southern Pines/Moore County season on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m., as Grant Llewellyn leads the orchestra in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.  The performance will take place in Pinecrest High School’s Lee Auditorium in Southern Pines.

The concert will also feature Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31, with tenor Nicholas Phan and Symphony Principal Horn Rebekah Daley, Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, featuring Symphony Principal Viola Samuel Gold, and Symphony Associate Principal Viola David Marschall; and Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin.

Nicholas Phan’s many engagements this season included appearances with the St. Louis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Boston Baroque, Chicago Bach Project, Oratorio Society of New York in Carnegie Hall, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and recitals in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, and Istanbul.  Also considered one of the rising young stars of the opera world, Mr. Phan recently appeared with the Portland Opera as Fenton in Falstaff, the Atlanta Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and the Seattle Opera as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Rebekah Daley won her position as Principal Horn of the North Carolina Symphony while pursuing her graduate work at the Shepherd School of Music, studying with William VerMeulen.  She previously completed her bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Jerome Ashby and Jennifer Montone. Also an avid chamber musician, Ms. Daley has spent several summers at the Marlboro Music Festival. Other summer festivals include Twickenhamfest, Music Academy of the West, National Repertory Orchestra, Sarasota Summer Music Festival, and Colorado College Festival. She has performed with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Symphony in C in Camden, N.J.

North Carolina Symphony Principal Viola Samuel Gold began studying the viola at the age of four with Sherida Josephson of the Des Moines Symphony.  He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where he studied primarily with Martha Strongin Katz and Roger Tapping, and the University of Iowa, where he studied with Christine Rutledge and Elizabeth Oakes. Mr. Gold has performed at the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Taos School of Music, and the Montreal International String Quartet Academy. In May of 2008 he performed as soloist with the University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra after winning the school’s concerto/aria competition.

David Marschall has been a member of the North Carolina Symphony since 1987 and was appointed Associate Principal Viola in 2007. Since 1990, he has spent his summers playing in the orchestra of the Santa Fe Opera. Mr. Marschall is a member of the chamber ensemble Quercus, and he is a member of New Music Raleigh, an ensemble dedicated to the music of living composers. He also performs regularly in the Manning Chamber Music Series at William Peace University. Mr. Marschall has also served as Principal Viola for the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and the Columbus Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra. He was a member of the New Orleans Symphony, the Innsbruck (Austria) Symphony, the Des Moines Metro Opera, and the Colorado Philharmonic. A native of Columbus, Ohio, he studied first at Ohio State, and he received his Master’s degree from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Karen Tuttle. His viola was made in 2009 by Grubaugh and Seifert of California.

Tickets for the Nov. 15 performance in Southern Pines range from $24 to $45.  To purchase tickets, visit the North Carolina Symphony website at www.ncsymphony.org or call the Symphony Box Office at 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724.  Tickets are also available at the Campbell House, 482 East Connecticut Avenue, Southern Pines, N.C., 28387. 

All performances take place in Pinecrest High School’s Lee Auditorium in Southern Pines, located at 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines, NC 28387.  A popular subscription option in Southern Pines is “MyMix,” which emphasizes flexibility for patrons to choose concerts that fit their schedules. 

Other dates on the Southern Pines/Moore Country Series:

 • Holiday magic is in store with the North Carolina Symphony’s performance of Handel’s Messiah on Sunday Dec. 7, featuring conductor Douglas Boyd, and the North Carolina Master Chorale. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m.

• Dvořák’s New World Symphony on Jan. 22, 2015, features guest conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto.  The program, which begins at 8 p.m., will also feature Falla’s “The Three-Cornered Hat.” 

 • Grant Llewellyn will lead the North Carolina Symphony in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica,” on March 12, 2015, at 8 p.m.  The master composer wrote the work in 1804, originally as a tribute to Napoleon Bonaparte. The program also features Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude and Brahms’ Shicksalslied.

• On April 9, 2015, at 8 p.m., Michael Francis will lead the North Carolina Symphony in Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique, along with Messiaen’s Les offrandes oubliées, and Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5, featuring North Carolina Symphony Concertmaster Brian Reagin.

 • The season finale will take place on May 2, 2015, at 8 p.m., with Grant Llewellyn and the Symphony performing Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, along with Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Essay No. 2, as well as Three Dance Episodes from Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town.

Partners for the 2014/15 Southern Pines/Moore County series include First Bank, Southern Prime Steakhouse, and St. Joseph of the Pines.

About the North Carolina Symphony

Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony gives more than 200 performances annually to adults and school children in more than 50 North Carolina counties.  The North Carolina Symphony has held a concert series in Moore County since the 1950s, and works with a committed group of volunteers in its Moore County Chapter to present classical and education concerts.  An entity of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the orchestra employs 66 professional musicians, under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, and Associate Conductor David Glover. 

Headquartered in downtown Raleigh’s spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor summer venue at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It holds regular concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington—as well as individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities throughout the year—and conducts one of the most extensive education programs of any U.S. orchestra.  

Nov. 15 Concert/Event Listings:
North Carolina Symphony
Brandenburg
Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Rebekah Daley, horn
Samuel Gold, viola
David Marschall, viola

Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, 8 p.m.
Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, Southern Pines

BACH – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
I.    Mvt. I
II.   Allegro

BRITTEN – Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31
I.    Prologue
II.   Pastoral
III.  Nocturne
IV.  Elegy
V.   Dirge
VI.  Hymn
VII. Sonnet
VIII. Epilogue
     Nicholas Phan, tenor
     Rebekah Daley, horn

BACH – Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051
I.   Mvt. I
II.  Adagio ma non tanto
III. Allegro
     Samuel Gold, viola
     David Marschall, viola

RAVEL – Le Tombeau de Couperin
I.   Prelude
II.  Forlane
III. Menuet
IV. Regaudon