Wonder in Unity
Jotaro Nakano, Music Director
Mariana green hill, violin
VALERIE COLEMAN
Umoja: Anthem of Unity
JOSEPH BOLOGNE, CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES
Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 2, No. 1
Mariana Green Hill, violin & featuring students from Project STEP
JULES PEGRAM
L.A. Glows
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
La Mer
CONCERT SPONSOR:
JUDITH AND JAMES BARR
About the Community Partner
Since 1982, Project STEP (String Training Education Program) has provided talented young musicians that identify with historically underrepresented groups in classical music with comprehensive music instruction. Project STEP envisions a world in which the classical music profession reflects the racial and ethnic diversity of our communities. 100% of Project STEP graduates have gone on to college or conservatory.
About the Soloist
Mariana green hill, violin
Mariana Green Hill began studying violin at the age of four. At age nine she auditioned into Project STEP, and under its auspices Ms. Green Hill studied at the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School. Her teachers included Farhoud Moshfegh, Marylou Speaker Churchill, then Principal Second Violin of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Tamara Smirnova, Assistant Concert Master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Green Hill received Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the Juilliard School, and a Professional Studies Diploma from the Mannes College of Music. Ms. Green Hill is a Second, Third and Best Tone Award Winner of the Sphinx Competition and placed First in the Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Competition, the 17th Annual NAACP Act-So Competition, and the Chinese American Art Society Competition.
Ms. Green Hill has been a featured guest soloist with the Memphis, New Jersey, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, the Boston Pops, Symphony Pro Musica, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and the Cape Ann Symphony. Ms. Green Hill is a member of the Young Eight, a group of emerging African American artists who perform chamber music throughout the country. She is concertmaster of the Soulful Symphony in Baltimore. For eight years she was the second violinist of the Amaryllis String Quartet.
She currently teaches at the Boston Arts Academy and Orchard Gardens Pilot School, as well as privately. She is Artistic Advisor of Project STEP.
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The Longwood Symphony Orchestra strongly recommends that its musicians and audience members be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In addition, we strongly recommend receiving updated vaccines against both COVID-19 and influenza in the Fall of 2023.
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