Evanston Resident to Perform at Free Concert Apr. 14

CHICAGO: Evanston resident Julimar Gonzalez will be bringing her musical talents to the stage in a FREE concert for local residents!

Julimar Gonzalez, violinist, will be performing with Francisco Lopez Malespin,cellist, and Young jee Cho, pianist, as part of the "Second Sundays" concert series of Concordia Church.

The family-friendly concert takes place on Sunday, April 14 at noon at Concordia Church: 3855 N. Seeley Ave., Chicago. Tickets are not required, but an rsvp through Concordia’s website is encouraged.

Julimar Gonzalez began her violin studies at the age of 7 with Professor Heemath Jahoor at the world-renowned music program known as ‘El Sistema’. She was chosen to be part of the first violin section of the Jose Felix Ribas Youth Orchestra in 2006 and later in 2007 became a member of the National Children’s Orchestra of Venezuela conducted by Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and Sir Simon Rattle. During that same year she joined the Latin American Academy of Violin where she studied under Maestro Jose Francisco Del Castillo until 2013.

She has appeared as a soloist in various cities around Venezuela with conductors such as Pablo Castellanos, Carlos Riazuelo, Manuel López Gómez and Joshua Dos Santos including performances with Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and most recently she has performed with the Chautauqua Festival Orchestra at the Chautauqua Amphitheater conducted by Mto. Timothy Muffit and the Roosevelt University Orchestra at Chicago Symphony Center conducted by Maestro Emanuele Andrizzi. She has also performed overseas recitals in Barcelona, Spain at the Vesprades de Tardor Music Festival and she has spent her summers at Chautauqua Music Festival and most recently participated as a Fellow at Bowdoin Music Festival.

Gonzalez in July of 2022 won the SAI competition at Chautauqua Institution, In April, she won the concerto competition at Roosevelt University as a graduate student and in the same year she won first place in the Collegiate Strings Division of the national young artist competition held by the Coeur d´Alene Symphony Orchestra. In 2021 Ms. Gonzalez won The Farewell Trust award by the Musician’s Club of Woman competition. In 2019 she won the concerto competition at Chicago College of Performing Arts as a bachelor’s student and also got first place at the Illinois American String Teachers Association Competition of the same year. In the past she has also been a semifinalist of the Sphinx Competition in Detroit and other competitions.

For more about Concordia Church and its concert programs, visit http://concordiafaith.org/concerts.
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