Bucks County Symphony Orchestra To Present Festive Winter Concert

DOYLESTOWN, PA — The Bucks County Symphony Orchestra continues its 70th anniversary season with a festive winter concert on Sunday, Feb. 19 beginning at 3 p.m. at Central Bucks High School South in Warrington.

Conducted by music director José Luis Domínguez and assistant conductor Sebastian Grand, the concert will feature a solo performance by violinist Julian Rhee who will join the orchestra for Erich Korngold’s demanding Violin Concerto.

The orchestra will open the concert with the Prelude to Richard Wagner’s magnificent opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The closing number will feature The Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky, one of three such suites drawn by the composer from his original ballet score.

An avid soloist, Rhee made his Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra debut at age eight, and has been featured with numerous professional orchestras, including the San Diego Symphony and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Rhee was honored in 2022 as Silver Medalist of the 11th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and was the winner of the 2021 Astral National Auditions. In January 2020, he was named first prize winner and was awarded the special Community Engagement Award of the Elmar Oliveira International Competition. He has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center as a Presidential Scholar and received his medal at the White House.

A top prize winner of the Johansen and Klein International Competitions, he was also winner of the Aspen Concerto Competition, where he performed with the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra at Benedict Music Tent.

Rhee studied at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy, and is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree at the New England Conservatory. He currently plays the ‘Lady Tennant’ Stradivari of 1699 on extended loan through the generosity of the Mary B. Galvin Foundation, Inc. The Stradivari Society, a division of Bein & Fushi, Inc. and The Mary B. Galvin Foundation, Inc.

Tickets for the Feb. 19 concert are $25 for adults and $20 for seniors and can be purchased in Doylestown at Rutherford’s Camera Shop and the Doylestown Bookshop, or online at BucksCountySymphony.org. Students are admitted free. Call 215-348-7321 or visit https://www.buckscountysymphony.org/ for more information.