Cellist returns for another symphony performance
FAIRFIELD — Cellist Brady Anderson is the featured performer at the Solano Community Symphony Salute to Youth concerts this weekend.
Anderson, who grew up in Benicia, is a three-time winner of the symphony’s youth competition. This year, the 23-year-old is a guest and will perform Robert Schuman’s “Concerto for Cello and Orchestra.”
Solano Community Symphony Salute to Youth
- 8 p.m. Saturday
- Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, 1035 Texas St.
- 448-6500
- Tickets can be purchased one hour before showtime at the venue box office.
- 3 p.m. Sunday
- Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive.
- 469-4013
- http://www.vpat.net
- http://www.solanosymphony.org
The work is considered by many cellists as the first concerto for the instrument, according to a Solano Community Symphony press release.
Anderson calls it his favorite concerto piece, though it’s 25 minutes long and requires endurance.
“It’s like running a marathon,” he said. ”It’s mentally and physically exhausting. But it’s great fun doing it. It’s a great piece.”
Anderson began playing the cello when he was 9. His mother signed up him and his twin brother for violin classes after hearing the two play music together.
“I don’t know why, but I had a fit and refused to play the violin. I wanted to play cello,” he said.
Boy, did he.
His twin brother played violin for about five years. Today, his twin is a firefighter, Anderson said.
Anderson graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor’s degree in music. He has played in the cello section of area orchestras such as the Stockton Symphony and Monterey Symphony.
He was principal cellist of the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and the Berkeley Chamber Orchestra.
He twice won the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.
Recently, he participated in a recording session with Jennifer Hudson.
Anderson, who lives in Martinez, teaches at Jonathan Koh’s private studio as well as his own private studios in Martinez and Berkeley.
In a few years, he plans on attending graduate school for cello performance. But he’s in no rush.
“The earlier you go to grad school, the earlier you go into the working world and are up against people (who) have had more experience than you,” he said. “Having a career in music is not a short career. With music you pretty much play until you decide to hang it up.”
The Solano County Youth Orchestra, directed by Steve Thompson, will also perform with the symphony.
Other musical selections for the shows include “Tragic Overture,” from Brahms, ”Concert Waltz No. 2″ from Glazunov, “Tubby the Tuba,” from Kleinsinger and selections from Deilbes’ ballet “Coppelia.”
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Posted by Amy Maginnis-Honey
on Feb 10 2012.
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