Adé Williams
Benard L. Maas Foundation Family Concert
featuring violinist Adé Williams
March, 17th 2013
at 4:00 pm
(pre-concert activities beginning at 2:30 pm)
at the Michigan Theater
Family concert single tickets are $8 child and $12 adult. To order tickets, call (734) 994-4801; email
tickets@a2so.com; or purchase online at www.a2so.com.
Buckle your seatbelt as your Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra takes you on a trip around the world with music! In this Benard L. Maas Foundation Family
Concert, cosponsored by St. Joseph Mercy Health Service with further
support from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs and
the National Endowment for the Arts, you’ll learn about music traditions
from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. With special
guest violinist Adé Williams, 14-year-old first place laureate of the
Junior Division at the 2012 Sphinx Competition, the A2SO will perform
pieces by composers from Copland to Akpabot to Sibelius and more. This
exciting whirlwind tour of music will take place March 17th at 4:00 pm at the Michigan Theater, with
pre-concert activities beginning at 2:30 pm. This concert is part of
the area-wide collaboration of Understanding Race, part of the
Smithsonian Institution touring exhibit.
Appearing with the A2SO for the first time is 14-year-old violinist Adé Williams. Williams,
who studies at the Music Institute of Chicago, won first place in the
Junior Division at the 2012 Sphinx Competition, and has successfully
competed in many other performance competitions since 2005. She
performed in a 14-city tour with the Sphinx Virtuosi, internationally
soloing in countries such as Switzerland and Bermuda in 2011. Her 2004
orchestral debut at the age of six was with the Chicago Sinfonietta as
that orchestra’s youngest-ever soloist. Williams will be performing the
3rd movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.
Beginning at 2:30 p.m. there will be a bounty of family-friendly activities including an Instrument Petting Zoo, as
well as activities with our community partners such as the Ann Arbor
Hands-on Museum, Ann Arbor Art Center, or the U-M Museum of Natural
History.
All the pieces you’ll hear at the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s final family concert of the Benard L. Maas Foundation Family
Concert Series will show you what the Joy of Music in the Key of A2 is
all about. Don’t miss out; order your tickets today for March 17th at
4:00 pm at the Michigan Theater.
The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra is a
premier regional orchestra offering live symphonic music for audiences
of all ages. The A2SO touches the lives of over 80,000 people every
year, from tiny tots to seasoned citizens in venues ranging from the
historic Michigan Theater to Hill Auditorium as well as schools,
daycare, libraries, and various senior citizen centers in the
five-county area.
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