Award-winning conductor Ramiro Soto Monllor, music director of San Isidro Orchestra School, has also been affiliated with Giuseppe Verdi Opera Company, J. Hernandez Superior Institutes of Music and orchestras in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina.A Harvest of Friendship Concert presented by maestro Jooyong Ahn and his UTC Orchestra tonight, Oct. 9, will mark the North American debut of an award-winning Argentine conductor.
Ramiro Soto Monllor, music director of San Isidro Orchestra School and winner of the 2006 National Arts Fund Scholarship for orchestra conducting in Argentina, will lead the orchestra in performing Haydn's Symphony No. 104 in D. The challenging work, Haydn's final symphony, is characterized by a grandiose opening and jubilant end, say concert organizers. Its movements offer distinct moods of drama, whimsy and mischief.
Ahn, director of orchestras and professor of conducting, will take up the baton on Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals." This musical romp journeys through an autumn forest filled with the calls of all manner of beasts, played on various combinations of instruments.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine St. Admission is free.
For more information, visit www.utc.edu/music or call 423-425-4601.