MN Sinfonia Holiday Pops November 30, 2007
700 East Seventh Street
St Paul, Minnesota 55106
St Paul, Minnesota 55106
Join the Sinfonia in our annual Holiday Pops concerts, this year featuring Aaron Wolff, the winner in the junior division of our Young Artist Competition. Aaron will be performing the Saint Saens Cello Concerto with the orchestra, along with special guest Alexis Salsko, the winning bidder to conduct the orchestra from our String Fling Gala, who will be showcased in Bizet's March of the Toreradors.
These concerts are free and open to the public and children are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Official Website: http://mnsinfonia.org
Added by mnsinfonia on November 2, 2007
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Cellist Aaron Wolff, winner of the junior division of the Minnesota Sinfonia Young Artist Competition, also won prizes last year in competitions sponsored by the Schubert Club and Thursday Musical. An eighth grader at Saint Paul Academy, he plays in the St. Paul Blackhawks Youth Soccer League and in a rock band with his older brothers, Alex and Matthew. A Twin Cities native whose family moved here when his father, Hugh Wolff, was appointed music director of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, he has lived five years in London, England and is fluent in King's English and cockney. A cello student of Katja Linfield, he plays a half-sized eighteenth century cello.