Music for Youth announces its annual Benefit Concert, featuring “Rising Stars”, young performers from area towns who have participated in master classes sponsored by Music for Youth. The concert will take place on Sunday, November 3 at 5:00 PM at Trinity Church, 651 Pequot Avenue, Southport. All proceeds from the Benefit Concert will go towards MFY’s FREE Young Persons Concert Series at Pequot Library and school residency program in Bridgeport.
The November 3rd Benefit will feature eight separate acts of talented youth from Fairfield County and beyond. Performers include Camden Archambeau of Weston and Julian Shively of Trumbull (2cellos2 duet); Declan Cummiskey of Redding and McKenna Mase of Trumbull (Shoreline Piano Trio); Katherine Waugh of Easton (soprano); and Vivace, the Suzuki School of Westport’s string ensemble (with members from Stamford to Avon, including Reddingite Olivia Owens).
Katherine Waugh, a sophomore at Joel Barlow, is a member of the Fairfield County Children’s Choir and is well-known as a National Anthem vocalist for various locales, including the Bridgeport Bluefish and Sound Tigers, and the National Hockey League. Katherine was a featured soloist with the FCCC at Tanglewood this past summer. She is a member of Barlow’s Select Choir and A Cappella singing group. For the MFY Benefit she will sing an aria from Mozart’s opera Marriage of Figaro.
Violinist Declan Cummiskey will perform as one third of the Shoreline Piano Trio. A freshman at Barlow, Declan studies violin with Dr. Andrew Smith at the Suzuki School of Westport. He has performed at Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center for the America’s Youth in Concert programs. He was concertmaster of the Fairfield County Strings Festival Orchestra in 2013, and is currently in the Principal Orchestra of the Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestra, with whom he will tour China in 2014. Along with Ben Crosby, cello, and McKenna Mase, piano, Declan will perform Haydn’s Gypsy Trio. Olivia Owens, violin, will perform as part of Vivace Strings, the advanced string ensemble of the Suzuki School of Westport. Founded in 2009, Vivace is a choreographed performance ensemble which appears regularly in Fairfield County. It is comprised of thirteen teen violinists. They will perform Bach and rock at the November 3 Benefit Concert.Reception to follow the concert.
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