By Daily Press staff
In continuing celebration of Santa Monica College’s 75th anniversary, the SMC Symphony Orchestra will perform on campus Sunday, Nov. 14 at 4 p.m., showcasing alumnus Yohei Nakamiya, a violinist studying at California State University at Northridge.
Nakamiya was born in Sapporo, Japan in 1981 and began playing piano at 3 years old. Soon after, he took up the violin. He is a senior at Cal State Northridge and hopes to do his graduate studies at the University of Southern California. He has played in various opera productions, has been a part of the Northridge String Quartet and Piano Trio, and is a member of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra.
The program also will feature “Two Slavonic Dances” by Antonin Dvorák, with guest conductor Kirill Gliadkovsky, an adjunct music professor at SMC; Ernest Chausson’s “Poème for Violin and Orchestra;” and Benjamin Britten’s “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” which will be narrated by adjunct voice professor Dennis Parnell. The orchestra is under the direction of SMC music professor James Smith.
The concert will take place in the SMC Concert Hall at 1900 Pico Blvd. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased by calling (310) 434-3000 or (310) 434-4323. Vanessa Carlton pretty in PINK
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 11, 2004. Read the original PDF.