Join Cordancia Chamber Orchestra, a naturalist from the Seneca Park Zoo, and guest soloists for a concert celebrating some of the amazing animals at the zoo and in our own environment!  

Esteemed tuba soloist and Eastman faculty member Justin Benevidez performs Rochester-born composer Alec Wilder's Effie Suite, celebrating an elephant who lived at the Oakland Zoo.  Soprano Tyler Cassidy-Heacock sings works inspired by animals and nature, while Sunshine Quan performance Rochester composer Sean William Calhoun's A Thickness of Birds. 

During the concert, a Seneca Park Zoo naturalist will share the real stories of animals featured in the music, including those represented at the Zoo as well as our local wildlife and environment. 

Additional music includes Albert Roussel's "Symphonic Fragments" from The Feast of the Spider and Hubert Parry's The Birds.

Winter fantasies and spring awakenings fill this program of colorful music. The concert title comes from works by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Mabel Daniels. Thorvaldsdottir's Hrim (Hoarfrost) sounds like ice and wind, while Daniels's Deep Forest takes impressionistic turns inspired by the woods of New Hampshire. 

Two violin soloists, winners of the Nico Toscano Young Musician Competition, play selections from Bruch - Scottish Fantasy and Piazzolla - Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Fairy tales of Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel complete the evening.  

As with each concert this season, we will hear from a guest naturalist from the Seneca Park Zoo Society, sharing about the forests around us and animals who live in colder climates.

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