Cello Festival Comes to Westborough

The eleventh annual concert of the Vivaldi Cello Festival Orchestra is planned for Saturday, May 28, in the auditorium at 7 p.m.

The orchestra gives young local cellists an opportunity to perform with a professional orchestra as a soloist in a formal concert setting. The featured soloists are accompanied by Boston musicians who come together each year for the event.

Works by Vivaldi, St. Saens, Faure, Dvorak and Lalo will be performed. The conductor is Paul Dulude, director of the Boston Virtuosi.

The free performance is sponsored by parents and local businesses and organizations. Donations are encouraged and gratefully received.

The performers are all students of Maryan McClelland Pietropaolo, who taught at the University of Lowell and Phillips Exeter Academy. She moved to Westborough in 1999 with her husband, Joe Pietropaolo, a mber of the Boston Symphony Orchestra viola section for 39 years.

Information courtesy of Joyce Rapaport on behalf of Vivaldi Cello Festival Orchestra.