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Alicia Marie Valoti

Viola featured at Saturday's Grove Music Festival

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The latest affairs for the Grove Music Festival, which began 20 years ago, will be presented this Saturday at Chapel Lane Presbyterian Church in Midland.

Alicia Marie Valoti and Karen Follingstad are the featured artists for the program, blue-blooded “Let’s Apprehend It for the Viola.”

Follingstad is a abettor of piano at San Diego State University. She becoming a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. She has performed in Europe and North America as able-bodied as Central and South America. Follingstad has performed abandoned recitals, appeared with several orchestras and has played, or performed recitals, with artists including clarinetist Marian Liebowitz, cellist YoYo Ma and violinist Andres Cardenes.

Valoti is abettor assistant of viola and alcove music at Central Michigan University. She becoming a doctorate in viola achievement from Stony Brook University in New York and affairs to almanac a CD “of Ferdinando Giorgetti’s music in the abutting year or so.”

“He was the aboriginal viola abettor at the Florence Conservatory, and the music is from 1854,” she said.

Valoti has performed, advised and accomplished stateside as able-bodied as away in several places including Ecuador and Egypt. Most afresh she performed a abandoned account as allotment of the Houston Association College Alcove Music Series. As allotment of her time in Houston she offered adept classes at several aerial schools and additionally formed with their orchestras.

As allotment of the Grove Music Festival, Valoti looks advanced to administration about the history of the viola as able-bodied as performing.

“I am blessed to allotment this affectionate of music with the audience,” she said. “The viola is a absolutely appropriate instrument.”

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Valoti and Follingstad will accomplish works by Albeniz, Ginastera, Prokofiev, Britten and others. In addition, Valoti will conduct a adept chic for Midland Public School acceptance and added bounded apprentice musicians.

While Lois Palen started the Grove Music Ceremony in 1998, Robin Von Wald has served as the administrator for added than six years.

The ceremony offers the befalling to apprehend classical music, alcove music and applesauce in Midland at three concerts performed throughout the year.

Von Wald said Palen started the ceremony to accompany in classical artists for her acceptance who were acquirements the Suzuki method.

“She is actual absorbed in allowance her acceptance as abundant as possible, so she would do whatever it took to accord them a acceptable experience,” Von Wald said.

The aboriginal Grove Music Ceremony concert was performed by a leash from Chicago composed of a violinist, a cellist and a pianist.

“In 2000 she started agreeable applesauce artists in as well. She anticipation that was absolutely valuable, whether you are a applesauce aerialist or not,” Von Wald said.

The musicians comedy actuality in Midland alms audiences alive classical, alcove and applesauce music that contrarily they ability accept to biking to find. While the artists are here, they additionally assignment with acceptance through adept classes.

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Von Wald is the cadre administrator and music librarian for the Midland Symphony Orchestra. She additionally plays additional French horn for the MSO. Von Wald performs with the Saginaw Bay and the Flint Symphony orchestras as well.

Board associates who additionally comedy a cardinal role in ceremony programming accommodate Larry Carbary, Marilyn Gillett, Mary Haslam, Roberta Kennedy, Tom Peterson, Jon Van Regenmorter, Grant Von Wald and George Widiger.

“Regarding the 20 year anniversary, I anticipate that advanced association abutment has a lot to do with the festival’s success. We accept abutment from alone assemblage who acknowledge the befalling to apprehend classical alcove music or jazz, businesses and the Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation. It’s absolutely exciting,” Von Wald said. “Also, a big acknowledge you to the aggregation and agents of Chapel Lane Presbyterian Church who so affably acquiesce us to accomplish use of their admirable and acoustically affable sanctuary.”

The abutting Grove Music Ceremony concert is a applesauce achievement set for March 24, 2018, and will accommodate a applesauce dispensary with bounded schools.

The alcove music concert will booty abode on April 8 with Pauline Martin, pianist and administrator of Alcove Soloists of Detroit.

Martin will accomplish with Ralph Skiano, a affiliate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and abecedary as able-bodied as arch clarinetist at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and Wei Yu, arch cellist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The leash will comedy Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Bruch and Brahms.

Saturday's concert, “Let’s Apprehend It for the Viola,” will booty abode at 7:30 p.m. at Chapel Lane Presbyterian Church, 5501 Jefferson Ave. Tickets are $10, accessible at the door.

For added information, grovemusic.wordpress.com

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