YPSILANTI — Music Director Adam C. Riccinto and the Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra (YSO) continue celebrating the orchestra’s 25th anniversary season with a concert at Lincoln High School Performing Arts Center on Sunday, April 14 at 3:30 p.m. The orchestra will offer an afternoon of inspiring and electrifying music, and will be joined for the second year in a row by world-class guest artist and former Detroit Symphony Orchestra principal violist Alexander “Sasha” Mishnaevski—this time performing a brand new work for electric viola that has been composed especially for him.
Sure to satisfy music lovers of all ages, the concert will feature several showstopping works, including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s monumental Fourth Symphony (1877) and the dramatic Zampa Overture by French composer Ferdinand Hérold (1831). The highpoint of the program will be Mishnaevski’s virtuosic performance as he and the YSO collaborate to present the premiere of the Jazzy Suite for electric viola and orchestra by Russian composer Alexander Rosenblatt—a completely new work written just for Mishnaevski. This is a rare opportunity for audiences to experience the first performance of this new jazz-inspired composition, and become acquainted with a unique instrument played by a master.
“We are so excited to welcome Alexander Mishnaevski back to perform once again with the Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra at our April concert,” said Music Director Adam C. Riccinto. “The premiere of Rosenblatt’s fantastic new Jazzy Suite with Sasha playing the electric viola will be unforgettable—and the thrilling orchestral works by Hérold and Tchaikovsky will make for a remarkable afternoon of music!”
The YSO will perform with Alexander Mishnaevski on Sunday, April 14 at 3:30 p.m. at Lincoln High School’s Performing Arts Center, 7425 Willis Road, Ypsilanti, MI, 48197. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for students/seniors/children, and $30/ per family, and can be purchased at the door or online at A2Tix.com.
The YSO is grateful for the many businesses and individuals who shared their support by contributing auction items. The YSO also thanks its Corporate Sponsors: Bank of Ann Arbor, The City of Ypsilanti Bicentennial Committee, Dennis Green, Dykema, The Faber Piano Institute, in2being LLC., Dan and Linda Wagner, Washtenaw Parks & Recreation Commission, Wealthpoint Management, The Ypsilanti Performance Space (The Ypsi), and Zingerman’s Community of Businesses. As well as our Business Sponsors: The Brian Bundesen Team, King’s Keyboard House, Meadow Montessori School, The Pho House, Ruoff Mortgage, Satchel’s BBQ, Sidetracks Bar & Grill, South Arbor Animal Hospital, and Wellspring Healing Center LLC.
More information about the Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra can be found at www.ypsilantisymphony.org, on Instagram @ypsilantisymphony, on TikTok @ypsilantisymphony, on our youtube channel @ypsilantisymphonyorchestra194 and on Facebook.
