Western Carolina Civic Orchestra concert

Description

The Western Carolina Civic Orchestra's spring concert will be performed on Saturday, May 4, at 7:30 pm in the Recital Hall of the Coulter Building on the campus of Western Carolina University. The soloists performing with the orchestra are the winners of the 23rd annual Student Solo Competition held in January, which is sponsored by the Jackson County Arts Council. Cassidy Quillen, vioilinist, is a senior at Smoky Mountain High School from Whittier, who studies with Cathy Arps. Joel Jeffries is a WCU junior from Gastonia, who studies trombone with Dr. Daniel Cherry. Leanna Smith, clarinetist, is a WCU senior from Wanchese. She studies with Dr. Shannon Thompson. Eric Jackson is a WCU senior from Lincolnton who studies English Horn with Dr. Terri Armfield. The Civic Orchestra will be featured in works by Mussorgsky, Dvorak and Schubert. The Civic Orchestra is made up of student and faculty musicians from WCU, and students and adults from Jackson, Macon, Haywood, Swain, Cherokee and Buncombe counties, and is sponsored by the WCU School of Music. The program receives a Grassroots Grant from the Jackson County Arts Council, supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information please call the School of Music at 227-7242. Admission is free.