Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes Starts New Season

The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, under the baton of Music Director Marietta Cheng, will perform the first concert of the 2004-2005 Season at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 16 at the Corning Museum of Glass. This is the start of a season called "Breakaway with Brahms," a season devoted to the inspiring music of Johannes Brahms.

The Program: Bacchanale, by Griffes
Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra, by Johannes Brahms
Emily Buskin, Violin
Julia Buskin, Cello
Scheherazade, by Rimsky-Korsakov
Augusto Diemercke, concetrmaster

Concert Tickets: Call (607) 734-8191
$25 for adults, $5 for students

Julia and Emily Buskin Perform
Julia and Emily Buskin have very generously agreed to appear performance with the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes to perform Brahms' Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra. The sisters, originally from Massachuesets, make up two of the three members of the Claremont Trio, which won the first ever Kalichstein-Larefo-Robinson Trio Award in 2003. Two years earlier the group became the only piano trio in history to win the Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions. Also recipients of the Harvard Musical Association's Arthur W. Foote Award and YCA's Helen F. Whitaker Chamber Music Chair, the trio has been described by New York Concert Review as "an exhilarating, polished team."

Augusto Diemercke Solos in Scheherazade

Augusto Diemecke, originally from Guanajuato, Mexico, studied at the National Conservatory of Mexico and the University of Houston. Mr. Diemecke won First Prize at the 1982 National Violin and Bach Competition in Mexico City. He has appeared as soloist with the Orquesta de Camara de Bellas Artes, the Monterrey Orquestra, the Youth Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, the Colgate University Orchestra, and the Symphonies of Guanajuato, Motrelia, and North Houston. Mr. Diemecke is First Violin and co-founder of the string quartet, Finger Lakes Strings, and has performed in chamber music performances throughout the United States and Mexico as well as in Portugal, Spain, and France.

Established in 1996 and conducted by Music Director Marietta Cheng, the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes is the principal ensemble of Corning-Elmira Musical Arts, Inc. (CEMA). CEMA serves New York's Southern Tier communities through extraordinary musical programs and educational offerings. CEMA was established in 1996 through a consolidation of the Corning Philharmonic Society and the Elmira Symphony and Choral Society. The organization now comprises more than 150 musicians in its Chorus, Professional Orchestra, and Youth Orchestra.