FREE Concert at DCR’s Hatch Shell on the
Charles River Esplanade
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 7:00pm
Save the Date! On Wednesday, August 18th, Longwood Symphony will be returning to live music with a FREE concert at DCR’s Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade in partnership with our colleagues from Mercury Orchestra.
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
7:00PM
DCR’s Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade
Presented by Boston Landmarks Orchestra
7:00pm Longwood Symphony Orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin: Polonaise
BACH Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 with Ala and Maria Jojatu
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 36
8:00pm Mercury Orchestra
COPLAND El salón México
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade
For more information about attending concerts at the Hatch Shell, please visit the Landmarks Orchestra website.
Soloists
Ala Jojatu, violin
Ala Jojatu joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra's violin section at the start of the 2011-12 season. Ala was a regular extra player with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, and she has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New World Symphony, Boston Lyric Opera, New England String Ensemble, Portland (Maine) Symphony, and as concertmaster of the Indian Hill Orchestra. Born in Moldova, Ala began her Bachelor of Music degree at the Bucharest National University of Music, where she studied with Stefan Gheorghiu, and then finished it as a full scholarship student at the Boston Conservatory, studying with Lynn Chang and former BSO principal second violin Marylou Speaker Churchill. She completed her Master of Music degree as a student of BSO concertmaster Malcolm Lowe at Boston University. Ala was a Tanglewood Music Center fellow in 2000 and 2001. She has won numerous competitions, resulting in performances of the Sibelius violin concerto with the Moldova National Orchestra, and the Berg violin concerto with the Boston Conservatory Orchestra. Ala and her husband, BSO cellist Mihail Jojatu, are the proud parents of Maria Luiza and Gabriel Valentin.
Maria Jojatu, violin
Maria Jojatu began studying violin at 4 years old and developed rapidly. At age 7 she entered the prestigious New England Conservatory Preparatory School to study violin performance and chamber music. Within the school, Maria has been selected to participate in the Chamber Music Intensive Performance Seminar (CHIPS), which offers select advanced students an in-depth chamber music immersion experience with an emphasis on enhancing chamber music skills and performance practice at a high artistic level. As part of the program, she has played master classes for Donald Weilerstein, Paul Katz, Kim Kashkashian, and Paul Biss and performed in the prestigious Jordan Hall.
With her chamber music group, Maria won second price in the Boston Music Institute International Competition. As a soloist, Maria performed with the Boston Pops this past spring. She won the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association competition twice. Maria was also selected to perform in Masterclasses for Miriam Fried and the former New York Philharmonic concertmaster, Glenn Dicterow. Maria has attended Greenwood Music Camp in Cummington, MA and Aria International Summer Academy, where advanced students play solo repertoire, chamber music, and in orchestra and chorus.