Coming to the Highland Center for the Arts:
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra takes to the road in late September, visiting intimate venues like the Highland Center for the Arts with a Made in Vermont chamber orchestra tour. This season marks Jaime Laredo’s 20th anniversary as Music Director, his excitement is palpable as he conducts a program that features Ifetayo Ali, a teenage cellist from the Sphinx Program, playing Haydn’s famous C Major Concerto. (Her instructors agree that she could be the next Yo-Yo Ma!) Also in the spotlight is the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s principal flutist, Melissa Mielens, with a concerto, often called “the Mozart of the flute,” by Francois Devienne. And in the Symphony’s third year of collaboration with the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, a world premiere commission from composer Matthew Evan Taylor is paired with a screening of a new film, “The Greatest Night,” by Jeremy Lee MacKenzie.
Tickets start at $20, Seniors 20% off, Students $10.