The Würzburg Youth Orchestra (Tatjana Masurova, director) presents its first concert in the United States on Saturday, May 26 at 5 PM at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, 472 Massachusetts Avenue in Acton as part of the Second International Rachmaninoff Russian Music Festival. Admission to the concert is FREE and voluntary donations are welcomed and appreciated. For further information on this and other Festival concerts, please call 617-564-FEST (617-564-3378) or visit the Rachmaninoff Russian Music Festival website: http://www.russianmusicfest.ru/.
The Würzburg Youth Orchestra features students from the independent Waldorf School and the Grunewald Music High School, both located in Würzburg, Germany. All take private lessons and have performed in numerous concerts. In May 2011, the pupils of the independent Waldorf School successfully participated in the International Music Festival of Würzburg.
Würzburg Youth Orchestra's program on May 26 will include:
* George Frideric Handel: Sarabande
* Christoph Willibald Gluck: Two dances from the opera Alceste
* Peter Tchaikovsky: The Children's Album, Op. 39 , arranged by Tatjana Masurova
"March of the Wooden Soldiers"
"The Witch" (Baba Yaga)
"Waltz"
* Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in A minor for string orchestra, Op. 3 No.6
About Tatjana Masurova, WYO's director
Tatjana Masurova was born into a musical family in Russia and studied music from an early age. She is a graduate of the Glinka Gorky State Conservatory (Nizhni Novgorod, Russia) with an MM in choral conducting. She also attended a master class at the world-famous Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
For the past 16 years Ms. Masurova has lived in Germany. Initially, she freelanced as a choir director, an instructor of piano and singing, an organist in a Roman Catholic church and as the choir rehearsal leader at the National Theatre of Coburg. In September 1998 Masurova began her career as a music teacher at the Independent Waldorf School of Coburg and founded the boys' choir "Cantate" in Coburg. Numerous concerts and appearances were organized for "Cantate" including participation in the well-known International Youth Music Festival of Rodachtal.
Ms. Masurova joined the music faculty of the Independent Waldorf School of Würzburg in 2009; there she directs the elementary orchestra, the junior and senior orchestras as well as senior choir. As the initiator of cultural presentations including workshops and concerts, she offers artistically and musically talented individuals a path for advancement.
In May 2011, the International Music Festival of Würzburg was successfully held under her musical supervision and direction. Now she is putting finishing touches on the Waldorf School of Würzburg's senior orchestra program for their participation in the International Russian Rachmaninoff Music Festival in Boston, Massachusetts.