A Festival Celebration featuring Sarah Chang
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Thursday, July 13, 2023
7:00pm
The Shippensburg Festival returns featuring one of the most celebrated and gifted violinists of our time, Sarah Chang, performing Bruch’s triumphant violin concerto followed by the massive 77-piece Shippensburg Festival Orchestra performing Rachmaninoff’s sumptuous Symphonic Dances.
Recognized as one of the foremost violinists of our time, Sarah Chang has performed with the most esteemed orchestras, conductors, and accompanists in an international career spanning more than two decades. Since her debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of eight, Ms. Chang has continued to impress audiences with her technical virtuosity and refined emotional depth. In 2006, Ms. Chang was listed in the20 Top Women in Newsweek Magazine’s “Women and Leadership,” and in2008,Ms. Chang was named a Young Global Leader for 2008 by the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2012, Sarah Chang received the Harvard University Leadership Award, and in 2005, Yale University dedicated a chair in Sprague Hall in her name. In 2004, Ms. Chang carried the Olympic Torch in New York for the Olympic games, became the youngest person ever to receive the Hollywood Bowl’s Hall of Fame award, and was awarded Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana Prize in Sienna, Italy
Other previous distinctions include the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Gramophone’s “Young Artist of the Year” award, Germany’s “Echo” Schallplattenpreis, “Newcomer of the Year” honors at the International Classical Music Awards in London, and Korea’s “Nan Pa” award. In 2011, Ms. Chang was named an official Artistic Ambassador by the United States Department of State. OFFICIAL BIO.https://www.opus3artists.com/artists/sarah-chang
Conductor Lawrence Loh is Music Director of Symphoria (Syracuse, NY). He previously served as Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony and a 12-year tenure as Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. Loh had a decade-plus association with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and continues with Pittsburgh leading pops and other select programs.
Loh’s previous positions include: Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Syracuse Opera; Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.
Having a particular affinity for pops programming, Lawrence Loh has been engaged for repeat performances with Chris Botti, Idina Menzel and Ann Hampton Callaway. He is particularly adept at synchronizing live orchestral music with film and has led Star Wars Ep. IV & V, Jaws, Pixar in Concert, Disney in Concert, Wizard of Oz, Casablanca and Singin’ in the Rain among others.
Lawrence Loh is an active guest conductor including engagements this season with Seattle Symphony; San Diego Symphony and the Grant Park Festival. Plus, recent past engagements in Washington D.C. (National), Indianapolis, Malaysia and Daejeon (South Korea) . His summer festival appearances have included Bravo Vail Valley, Aspen, Mann Center in Philadelphia, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra.
Lawrence Loh received his Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from Yale, his Masters in Choral Conducting from Indiana University and his BA, and Certificate of Management Studies, from the University of Rochester.
About the Shippensburg Symphony Festival Series: The Shippensburg Festival is an annual summer series of three concerts featuring artists of international renown. On hiatus since 2020 due to the pandemic, the festival returns in 2023 with three fantastic concerts. See full festival information here.
The Shippensburg Festival Celebration Series is made possible by the Dr. Jean V. Johnston Memorial Fund established with the Shippensburg University Foundation. Dr. Johnston’s interest in promoting the cultural arts and her love of classical music led her to serve as a board member of the Festival Chamber Orchestra Association for many years. She recognized Shippensburg University’s important role in setting the cultural tone of the region. This endowed fund is for the benefit of the Shippensburg University Festival Orchestra summer concert series to bring world-class musicians and programming to the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center.
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