Orchestra NOVA Presents 'California Premieres!'
Published on November 08, 2023
Ivan Shulman, Music Director
Karolina Protsenko, Special Guest
Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Veterans Memorial Auditorium
4117 Overland Ave., Culver City CA 90230
Free Parking
Visit the Orchestra Nova LA website for tickets and information.
California Premieres! is part of The California Festival: A Celebration of New Music, a statewide initiative showcasing California’s most compelling and forward-looking voices in performances of works written in the past five years.
Program
- California premiere of Homeward Bound by Adrienne Albert
- Violin Concerto in E Minor by Felix Mendelssohn (Karolina Protsenko, violin)
- Ballet Suite by Manuel de Falla
- Bolero by Maurice Ravel
A reception will follow the performance.
Orchestra Nova LA, formerly known as the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra, is one of the oldest medically oriented community orchestras in the United States. Founded in 1953 by Dr. Reuben Strauss with 35 doctors, dentists, veterinarians, nurses, and allied health care professionals, it boasted 70 members at the time of its first concert at the Philharmonic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles in 1954.
The fifteen-year-old Karolina Protsenko is a classically trained violinist who studies at Colburn School of Music. Protsenko is known for violin renditions of popular songs on YouTube, and has been featured on TV shows such as Ellen, Kelly Clarkson, and Hollywood Access. This concert will be Protsenko's first with a full orchestra.
$25 General Admission (Free for 18 and under)
Payable at the door.