Music of Mozart and Haydn will be performed by the Minnesota State Mankato University Orchestra Tuesday, Oct. 20.
The performance, sponsored by the Department of Music, will be at 7:30 p.m. in Halling Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center. General admission is $9; tickets for Minnesota State Mankato students with a valid MavCard are $6.
The University Orchestra, directed by Joseph Rodgers, is a select instrumental group of string and wind players. The ensemble offers students, regardless of their majors, opportunities to read and perform music from composers of orchestra and chamber ensemble pieces.
The concert will feature solo performances by violists Johanna Reiche Torbenson and Milana Elise Reiche.
Torbenson won first prize in the Louisville Orchestra Young Artist’s Competition at the age of 13. She was a finalist in the XXXIII International Primrose Competition, was a prizewinner in the Mary Graham Lasley Competition, and won the University of Maryland’s School of Music Concerto Competition. She studied viola with Roland Vamos, Donald McInnes and Roberto Diaz.
Torbenson has given many solo and chamber music performances throughout the United States and Europe, touring Europe as principal violist with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra. She was assistant principal violist of the Washington Chamber Symphony in Washington, D.C., where she appeared as a soloist at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Reiche is a member of the first violin section of the Minnesota Orchestra and concertmaster of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. In addition to her work as an orchestral musician, she has given numerous solo recitals and chamber music performances to audiences throughout the United States and Europe. In June 2007 she performed at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego.
She has appeared as soloist with the New World Symphony, the Cheyenne Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
Rodgers brings years of directing and performing experience to the University Orchestra. He teaches cello, bass and music theory at Minnesota State Mankato; is music director of the Mankato Area Youth Symphony and assistant conductor of the Mankato Symphony Orchestra; is principal cellist of the Rochester Symphony; and is Tutti double bass for the Missouri Symphony and Tutti cellist for the South Dakota Symphony.
Those who wish to purchase tickets online should go to www.mnsu.edu/music/. Those who want concert information should call the Performance Series Office, (507) 389-5549. Those with a disability who need a reasonable accommodation may call (507) 389-2077 or 711 (MRS/TTY).
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive, doctoral university with 14,950 students and two satellite sites, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, which comprises 32 institutions across the state.
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