Live, in Westborough, the seventeenth annual concert of the Vivaldi Cello Festival Orchestra will take place on Sunday, May 28 at the Congregational Church, 57 W. Main St., in Westborough at 4:00 PM.
The purpose of the event is to give local young musicians an opportunity to perform with a professional orchestra as a soloist in a formal concert setting. Boston professional musicians who come together each year as the Vivaldi Festival Orchestra accompany the featured soloists. Works by Vivaldi, J.C. Bach, Faure, Haydn and Popper will be performed. Paul Dulude, director of the Boston Virtuosi, owner of New England Violins in Boston, is the conductor.
Parents and local businesses and organizations sponsor the performance. The concert is free, and donations are encouraged and gratefully received.
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Five of the cellists are students of Maryan McClelland Pietropaolo, a native of Pittsburgh, PA. Maryan Pietropaolo attended Carnegie Mellon, graduated from New England Conservatory in Boston, and did graduate studies in Brandeis. She taught cello at University of Lowell, where she was a member of the String Quartet in Residence, and Phillips Exeter Academy for 14 years. She studied with Joseph Derdyn, Eugene Eicher at Carnegie Mellon, and Alfred Zighera at New England Conservatory. She also studied with Madeline Foley and William Stokking. She moved to Westborough in 1999 with her husband, Joe Pietropaolo, who was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra viola section for 39 years. Ms. Pietropaolo has her cello studio in Westborough.
Five of the cellists are students of Cynthia Forbes, long-time cello continuo for the Vivaldi Festival Orchestra. Cynthia currently teaches at Indian Hill Music and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, maintains a private studio, and freelances throughout the New England area. She has in recent years directed several string festivals in Cambridge, MA and has a devoted following of cello and chamber ensemble students.
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Eight of the cellists are students of Susanne Friedrich, who is originally from Vienna, Austria, where she studied cello and worked as a freelance cellist and cello teacher for many years. In 1997 she moved to the Boston area and established herself as a cellist and teacher at several music schools (New England Conservatory, Rivers School Conservatory, Dana Hall School of Music, as well as in her studio at her home in Framingham.
The concert is in memory of Joseph Pietropaolo.
