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Benefit Concert Supports UC Clermont College's Fine Arts Initiative
UC Clermont College is teaming up with the Clermont Philharmonic Orchestra and Clermont Festival Chorale to hold a benefit concert Nov. 14 in the college's Krueger Auditorium.
The event raises awareness for the arts in Clermont County and funds for a new fine arts lab on the Batavia campus.
kicks off the event at 2 p.m. with Welcome to the 60s - a concert of vocal music. Founded in 2006, the group's mission is to bring choral music programs to the greater Clermont community.
Beginning at 3 p.m., the Clermont Philharmonic Orchestra will take the stage to present Rhapsody in Blue, featuring renowned pianist Michael Chertock.
Chertock received undergraduate and graduate degrees in music from UCs College Conservatory of Music, where he is now a professor of piano. He also conducts the Blue Ash-Montgomery Symphony and is artistic director of the Peanut Butter & Jam Sessions for the Linton Chamber Music Series, an interactive music series geared toward children ages 2 to 5.
Chertock, an orchestral soloist and member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, has worked with many industry luminaries and performed solo at some of the world's prestigious venues and festivals, including the Boston Pops, l'Orchestre Symphonique du Montreal and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In 1991 he was awarded the silver medal at the World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association. Other awards include the 1989 Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition prize, 1993 St. Charles International Piano Competition grand prize, the 1988 and '90 winner of the CCM Concerto Competition and first prize in the 1990 Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn Competition.
Ticket Price: $10-Student/Senior; $20-General Admission or $40-VIP Experience
Online Tickets: www.regonline.com/rhapsodyinblue
Questions: dana.parker@uc.edu or 513-558-9964
Sponsors for the event include: Gold Sponsors- Cincinnati United Contractors, Santoro Engineering and Bronze Sponsor - Edward Jones.
UC Clermont College is at 4200 Clermont College Drive, Batavia. Directions to campus: http://www.ucclermont.edu/about/directions.html
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