The eleventh annual concert of the Vivaldi Cello Festival Orchestra is planned for May 28 at the Gibbons Middle School.
The purpose of the event is to give local young 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 as the Vivaldi Festival Orchestra.
Works by Vivaldi, St. Saens, Faure, Dvorak and Lalo will be performed. The conductor is Paul Dulude, director of the Boston Virtuosi.
The performance is sponsored by parents and local businesses and organizations. The concert, which starts at 7 p.m., is free, but 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 member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra viola section for 39 years.
Performing in the cello concert are James Murray (Westborough); James Hardy (St. John's); Jordan Hensley (Westborough); Kevin Lai (Westborough); Andrew Hyde (Westborough); Max Polich (Westborough); Emily Brown (Westborough); Instructor Maryan Pietropaolo; Ayako Mikami (Westborough); Max Huynh (Shrewsbury); Inset, Matt Hudson (Whitinsville Christian).
