MCC Joined by Lowell Chamber Orchestra for Performance

“A World of Music” – Middlesex Community College’s spring concert series – will debut a new season with a performance of the “Grand Chamber Music” at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 1 at the Donahue Family Academic Arts Center Recital Hall on the Lowell campus.

MCC faculty member Orlando Cela will conduct, MCC faculty member Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta will play piano, and MCC dual-enrollment student Nathaniel Abreu will play cello.

They will be joined by members of the Lowell Chamber Orchestra – Wei Zhao on flute, Amy Dinsmore on oboe, Wolcott Humphrey on clarinet, David Stevens on saxophone, Stephanie Busby on bassoon, Megan Riccio on French Horn, Susanna Powers on violin, Jessica Cooper on viola, John Dowd on double bass, and David Wade on electric guitar.

Featured works include Nonets by African British composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Bohsulav Martinů and a new septet by Armando Bayolo inspired by “Los Caprichos” by Francisco Goya.

Another performance by the Lowell Chamber Orchestra at MCC’s Donahue Family Academic Arts Center will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 18. Both performances are free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, director of A World of Music, at 781-280-3923 or peraltac@middlesex.mass.edu.

Go to www.youtube.com/user/MCCmusicOnline2 to see video clips of previous MCC concerts.

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