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Nov. 3 , 2004 Cal Poly Symphony To Kick Off Season with Nov. 20 Fall Concert SAN LUIS OBISPO -- The Cal Poly Symphony's Fall Concert will kick off its 2004-2005 season Saturday, Nov. 20, with works from the far corners of Europe. The concert, at 8 p.m. in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts Center's Christopher Cohan Center, will be the Cal Poly debut of the symphony's new conductor, David Arrivée. The program will open with Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia," followed by the restrained mourning of Gabriel Fauré's "Pelléas et Mélisande" suite. The concert will conclude with the passionate lyricism of Zoltán Kodály's "Variations on a Hungarian Folksong" (The Peacock), which has been described as "the apotheosis of folksong." Originally from Monterey, Arrivée has worked with a variety of ensembles as a conductor, pianist and clarinetist. In Chicago, he served as the assistant conductor of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras and taught music theory at Northwestern University. Last fall, he guest conducted the Princeton University Orchestra in their first concert of the season. Before moving to the Chicago area, he earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from Boston University, where he studied with David Hoose. While in Boston, Arrivée was active as a clarinetist in the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, as a vocal accompanist and as a conductor. He served as the assistant conductor for the Boston University Symphony Orchestra and the March Chapel Choir of Boston University, conducted the Auros Ensemble for New Music, and sang with the Cantata Singers. Arrivée also lived and worked in Leipzig, Germany, where he served as a pianist and conductor for the Schola Cantorum. He moved to Chicago to pursue a doctorate in orchestral conducting at Northwestern University with Victor Yampolsky, and wrote a dissertation on the use of other arts in educational concerts. Arrivée has participated as a pianist in the Schumann Duos Program at The Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Study, England, as a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, and as a conductor at the International Workshop for Conductors in the Czech Republic. In addition to conducting the Cal Poly Symphony, Arrivée teaches music theory, musicianship, and coaches small chamber ensembles in the Music Department. Tickets to the concert are $6 to $11 and can be bought at the Performing Arts Ticket Office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. The concert is sponsored by Cal Poly's Music Department, College
of Liberal Arts, and Instructionally Related Activities program.
For more information call the Music Department at # # # (NOTE TO EDITORS: For an electronic image of David Arrivée, please contact Jo Ann Lloyd at jlloyd@calpoly.edu or 756-6530.)
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