Music for Youth presents cellist, Cicely Parnas, Saturday, April 4th, 2PM, at Pequot Library, Southport

Music for Youth presents cellist, Cicely Parnas, on Saturday, April 4th, 2 pm, at Pequot Library. First Prize Winner of the 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Cicely is the granddaughter of the distinguished cellist, Leslie Parnas. Cicely holds the Anne and George Popkin Cello Chair of YCA and was the recipient of YCA’s Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women Artists in 2012. She started playing the cello at the age of four and made her concerto debut at eleven with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. Parnas earned an Artist Diploma from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music where she worked with Sharon Robinson. The concert in April is FREE for families with children. Master classes for intermediate to advanced cellists will follow the concert. To sign up to play, call (203) 254-0123 or e-mail musicforyouthct@gmail.com. For more information, see www.musicforyouth.net