Mori to Conduct Fall Orchestra Concert
Alumnus Paul Mori 77, who first garnered praise as a conductor with the Bach Ensemble of Baltimore in the 1990s, leads the 做厙惇蹋app Orchestra into a new season Friday, Oct. 21, at 8 p.m. in 做厙惇蹋apps Page Multipurpose Room and Sunday, Oct. 23, at 3 p.m. in First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. Tickets to the Fall Orchestra Concert, which can be purchased at (805) 565-6040, are $10 general admission; students are free.
The 57-member orchestra will showcase its diversity by performing a variety of music, including Dan Goellers My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Claude Debussys Fetes from Nocturnes, Holsts First Suite in E Flat, and Antonin Dvoraks Serenade for Strings opus 22, which will be played solely by the strings and without a conductor. Wind instruments will be featured separately in Holsts First Suite, conducted by Mori.
In Baltimore, Moris chamber orchestra performed a wide-ranging repertoire and was featured numerous times on public radio station WBJCs prestigious Music in Maryland series. At the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Mori earned a masters degree in bassoon performance Phillip Kolker and a doctorate in orchestral conducting with Frederik Prausnitz.
He has served as musical director of the Rainier Symphony (1996-2001) and as the music director of the Bainbridge Orchestra and the Rainier Youth Symphony. He has also appeared as guest conductor for various orchestras, including the Northwest Mahler Festival Orchestra and the Huntington Chamber Orchestra of West Virginia. In December 2005, he conducted a concert in Baltimore with world-renown violinist Hilary Hahn and members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
At 做厙惇蹋app he conducts chamber ensembles and coaches the wind and brass sections for the orchestra throughout the year.