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Music
Bernstein, Dance Variations from Fancy Free
Lalo, Symphonie Espagnole in D Minor Op. 21, 1st movement
Stravinsky, Firebird Suite
Williams, ‘Hedwig’s Theme‘ from Harry Potter Suite
Featuring
Kyle Knox, Conducting
Lorenz Fradkin-Annen, Violin
Kyle Knox, Conducting
Lorenz Fradkin-Annen, Violin
This concert is made possible through the Richard H. Mackie Catalyst Fund, with additional support from Barbara and Norm Berven.
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In the fall of 2018, Kyle Knox assumed the positions of Music Director of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras and Associate Conductor of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. Recent past and upcoming conducting credits include the Milwaukee Symphony (on both their Family and Connections concert series), the Madison Symphony’s Beyond the Score (including Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4), their full annual Education Series (including their Fall and Spring Youth Concerts, Community Concerts, Symphony Soup, and the Bolz Final Forte), as well as Concert on the Green. In works for the stage, Kyle led Mark Adamo’s Little Women for Madison Opera, and later helped coordinate a studio artist showcase in the first ever collaboration between that company and WYSO. Other stage credits include Albert Herring, The Turn of the Screw, and Transformations with UW Opera, as well as Die Fledermaus, The Gondoliers and H.M.S. Pinafore with Madison Savoyards. Additionally he has conducted UW Music Clinic’s High School Honors Orchestra.
He was formerly a clarinetist with the Milwaukee Symphony, Santa Fe Opera, and Philadelphia Orchestras, and on faculty at UW-Milwaukee. His festival credits include Tanglewood, Spoleto (Italy), Santa Fe Chamber Music, and Bowdoin Summer Music Festivals, as well as the New York String Orchestra Seminar. He has recorded for the Koch and Naxos labels and has been featured numerous times on NPR’s Performance Today.
Kyle has premiered works by Osvaldo Golijov, Tan Dun, Sean Shepherd, Huang Ruo, and Jonathan Leshnoff, among many others. Nico Muhly’s chamber work Service Music (2004) was written for and dedicated to him. His debut album, a recording of Conrad Susa’s chamber opera Transformations (the work’s world premiere recording) was recently released on Spotify.
Kyle studied conducting with James Smith, and clarinet with Ricardo Morales and Yehuda Gilad. He holds degrees from Juilliard and UW-Madison.
Lorenz Fradkin-Annen, 12, is an eighth-grade student at Oregon Middle School in Oregon, WI. When she was three and a half, she attended her oldest sibling’s school orchestra concert and then begged her parents for violin lessons for an entire school year before they gave in and found her a private teacher. This past summer she was a finalist in the Interlochen Intermediate concerto competition. She received Honorable Mention in the 2021 and 2022 Madison Symphony Orchestra’s Fall Youth Concerto Competition and has also twice won Honorable Mention in the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra concerto competition. She has received two WSMA Exemplary Performance awards. In 2020 she was the Intermediate winner of the Nie Young Artist Scholarship Competition (violin) and is a past winner of the Rhapsody Arts Center’s Sonatina Festival (piano). Lorenz would like to thank her current violin teacher Eugene Purdue and her former teacher Maureen McCarty. She plays bassoon and violin in WYSO’s Philharmonia orchestra, where she has served as concertmaster. She also studies piano and performs in MadFiddle, a Madison violin ensemble led by Shauncey Ali. When not practicing music, she can be found writing music and computer code and tinkering with computers. Someday she would like to write and perform music for a movie.