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CLASSICS - "Romeo & Juliet" Feb 18, 2012 - (Sat.) 2:30 pm

The Inland Valley Symphony presents some of the "Best of the Best" in classical music, opening the concert with Tchaikovsky's famous Overture from "Romeo & Juliet."

Audiences rave about pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough whose piano artistry continues to touch the hearts of those who have the opportunity to experience him in concert. Ryan is back again this season to perform yet another fabulous classic, Chopin's "Piano Concerto No. 1." We thank patrons Rose E. Cook and Mavis Whalon for sponsoring Ryan on this special concert. He comes to us all the way from Toronto, Canada for this performance.

Meg Cassell, oboe soloist, will perform the beautiful Strauss "Concerto for Oboe", which has graciously been sponsored by IVS patron Al Ball, who is also an active member of the Friends of IVS group. Meg is traveling from Florida to join us on this concert.

You can read more about Ryan on his website: [link]

A BEETHOVEN TRILOGY! - Exclusive Recital - Feb. 26th, (Sun.) 2:30 pm - Trinity Lutheran Church in Temecula

Enjoy an exclusive recital featuring, Ryan MacEvoy McCullough who will perform Beethoven's final 3 sonatas. Maestro Anthony Parnther will make a special guest appearance on bassoon.

When asked to describe why he choose the repertoire for this program Ryan commented as follows:

"In 2004, when I was still a teenager and had not left home yet, I got to hear a concert that would change the direction of my musical life. My teacher at the time, Dr. Deborah Clasquin, had arranged for the celebrated pianist and pedagogue John Perry to give a recital at master class at the university (the implicit hope being that I might end up studying with him the following year), and the program he offered for his recital was Beethoven's final three piano sonatas. The performance he gave was inspiring.

I did end up in his studio (and have been studying with him for six years now), and through his influence have arrived at the following conclusion:
The biggest problem we face as classical musicians is that by having a centuries-long established canon of masterworks, we have to deal with layer upon layer of preconceived notions about how these works should sound. Our ears memorize musical mannerisms we have heard in performance and recordings, mannerisms which can often have little to do with the actual content of the music and pull us further away from the composer's original intent. One reason why I love playing contemporary music and working with talented living composers is because it brings me closer to the process of learning a work from the inside out, a process that would have been familiar to the original performers of works by Brahms, Beethoven, Debussy, Mozart, and other great masters.

When I heard Mr. Perry play these three works—often described as the greatest piano sonatas written by any composer in history—I heard this process at work. What I heard was a subtle effect, not something that can really be quantified in words, but it was essentially true understanding. These works were transformed from familiar staples of the piano repertoire, often performed and often recorded, into something that may as well have been written last week.

Since that concert, I have been wanting to play this program, and have been slowly working on it since 2009. I started with op. 111, the last of the three and the most mysterious, and have worked out of order, learning next op. 109 and now op. 110. The American sculptor Arthur Ganson once said that the greatest art lives in a perfect balance between total clarity and total ambiguity, allowing the audience a key to understanding the language of the work while at the same time teasing their imaginations into filling in the rest. This balance is a perfect description of these three works and is perhaps why they were Beethoven's final piano sonatas, continuing in this strain only with his late string quartets, which became progressively more mysterious.

In addition to this concert, I will also be playing this program in Toronto and Sofia, Bulgaria, and it is exciting for my work with John Perry to come full circle like this.

I hope to see you in February, both at the symphony concert and this recital!" - Ryan MacEvoy McCullough

YOUTH ARTISTS - "Young People's Concert" March 31, 2012 (Sat.) 2:30 pm

Young talent is the highlight of this concert as IVS features concerto performances by the winners of the 2012 Young Artist Competition.

The Symphony will also be joined by the Inland Valley Youth Symphony in a co-performance of "Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber!

LEGACY IN FILM - "The Music of John Williams" May 26, 2012 (Sat.) 2:30 pm

Enjoy an exciting concert jam-packed with music from the highly acclaimed film composer John Williams.

IVS will be joined by special guests, the Temecula Valley Master Chorale for a spectacular season finale!

THIS CONCERT HAS PASSED - CHRISTMAS FAVORITES "Celebrate the Season!" - Dec. 3, 2011 (Sat.) at 2:30 pm

CELEBRATE THE SEASON! the Inland Valley Symphony presented their annual Christmas concert featuring traditional holiday music for the whole family to enjoy.
IVS trumpets, Amy Morris & Yaphet Jones, performed Vivaldi's Double Trumpet Concerto. Patrons experienced the magic of the Christmas Season with "KOBZAR," the Ukrainian National Choir, directed by Gregory Hallick. Luke Lashchuk Miller performed a solo on the Bandura, the Ukrainian national instrument. The choir sang traditional Ukrainian and English Christmas Carols and three world-class vocalists sang selections from the "Messiah." This concert was SOLD OUT!

Dec. 3rd Soloist - Janelle DeStefano, Mezzo-Soprano

Janelle DeStefano, mezzo-soprano, has performed numerous times in past years with the Inland Valley Symphony. American mezzo-soprano Janelle DeStefano has been praised for her “magnificently executed vocal cascades” and her “passionate delivery.” She has sung on regional operatic, orchestral and musical theater stages across the United States. A member of the San Diego Opera Ensemble from 2002-2005, Ms. DeStefano sang several notable roles.

Equally comfortable on the concert stage, Ms. DeStefano has rendered dramatic performances of works such as the Bach Magnificat, the Vivaldi Magnificat, Handel's Messiah, the Mozart Requiem, Bach's B-minor Mass, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and Mahler's Fourth Symphony. She has performed with Grossmont Symphony and the early music ensemble, El Mundo, for the San Diego Early Music Society and the Da Camera Society where she received critical acclaim.

A member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Ms. DeStefano made her debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles as the alto soloist in Handel's Messiah in 2010. In 2011, she will appear with the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus in Bach's The Passion According to St. Matthew, and will return to the Walt Disney Concert Hall as the alto soloist in the Messiah with the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

Ms. DeStefano earned her Doctorate in Musical Arts from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, her Master of Music Degree in Voice
Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music, from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Dr. DeStefano is currently an Associate Professor of Voice at Santa Monica College (Santa Monica, CA) and teaches privately in Los Angeles and San Diego.

Dec. 3rd Soloist - Bradley Baker, Baritone

Bradley Baker, baritone, is making his second appearance with the Symphony. He is familiar with all styles of vocal music from opera to musical theatre, gospel, rhythm and blues, and jazz. Mr. Baker attended USC and the American Center for Musical Theater. While at USC, he sang with the Opera Department and later with the Los Angeles Music Center Opera.

He has participated in world premiers too numerous to mention and appeared and sang with "The Glory of Christmas," and "The Glory of Easter," at the Crystal Cathedral.

Baker has enjoyed working with children in Los Angeles and the South Bay area for more than 20 years. He is the founder, director and producer for W.A.D.E., a dance company for under-privileged children in Los Angeles, and has been a member of the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers. Baker is a world-renowned artist having performed in concert halls and opera houses in more than 25 countries.

Dec. 3rd Soloist - Renee Rulon Cortez, Soprano

Renée Rulon Cortez, soprano, is the 2010 winner of the American Institute of Fine Arts Award, the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, and the American Liszt Society Award. Some of her recent engagements include singing the role of Adina in L’elisir d’amore with Intimate Opera at the Pasadena Playhouse, Isabel in Cecilia Valdés with the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, and performing in the workshop of Ken Roht’s commission of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker with Center Theatre Group.

In the spring of 2010 she was featured in a national story on NBC Nightly News - "Making a Difference" which highlighted Renée's work with Stephanie, an autistic child, who has learned to sing opera in four different languages and has shown remarkable progress in her battle to overcome autism.
She has given recitals in honor of the bicentennial of Franz Liszt for the Hungarian Consulate in New York, and the American Institute of Fine Arts in Los Angeles; and performed with the Pacific Symphony and has sung opera and oratorio arias in concert with the Orange County Symphony and the Orange County Wind Symphony. In 2009 she sang the role of Carolina conducted by the son of the composer, Federico Moreno Torroba Larregla, and recorded the role of Bildad in the new opera Job's Truth by Darius Holbert.

Dec. 3rd Soloist - Amy Morris, Trumpet

Amy Morris is currently the Principal Trumpet of the Inland Valley Symphony and the San Diego Mormon Choir and Orchestra and has performed many years as the trumpet soloist in productions of Handel’s “Messiah.” She has a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from Brigham Young University (BYU) where she was heavily involved in performing and teaching.

Amy was Principal Trumpet with BYU’s Philharmonic Orchestra, with Top Brass! Quintet, and was Co-Principal Trumpet with BYU Wind Symphony. She has experienced playing all styles of music from symphonic to jazz to musical theatre and has previously soloed with Inland Valley Symphony performing the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto. She has professional studio recording experience and can also be seen in Latin Grammy Award Winner, Marco Antonio Solis’ music video, “A Dónde Vamos A Parar?.”

Ms. Morris has toured throughout the U.S., Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan and China with many classical and jazz performing groups, including stops at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. (Jazz Legacy Dixieland Band), the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland and the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in Norway (with Synthesis), sharing the stage with Jazz Legends B.B. King, Chick Corea, Bob Berg, Ken Peplowski, John Clayton and Bobby Shew. As a professional educator, Amy has taught high school band, marching band and orchestra, and currently gives private instruction to piano, organ and brass students in her Murrieta based music studio [link] Amy is also an active member of the International Trumpet Guild.

Dec. 3rd Soloist - Yaphet Jones, Trumpet

Yaphet Jones is the Co-Principal Trumpet of the Inland Valley Symphony and is one of its newest members. Mr. Jones retired from the United States Marine Corps in May of 2011 after 22 years of active service, attaining the highest enlisted rank of Master Gunnery Sergeant. Yaphet recently served as the Bandmaster of the Third Marine Aircraft Wing Band in San Diego, CA.

During his career as a United States Marine musician, he has performed on thousands of occasions and has served three tours in combat. Yaphet has also performed as a soloist at the Armed Forces School of Music, with the 1st Marine Division Band, the San Diego Young Artists Symphony and with Marine Band San Diego. In 2001, he was named as the Marine Corps Staff Non-Commissioned Officer Musician of the Year. He has also performed with the Pacific Symphony, San Diego Symphony, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, San Diego Chamber Brass, the Westwind Brass, the La Jolla Symphony, the National Orchestra of Honduras and the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic. In 2008, he performed and recorded the CD “American Rhapsody” as a member of the Brass of the Potomac with members of the premiere military bands in Washington DC.

Yaphet’s private instruction includes study with members of the Boston Pops, Chicago Symphony, National Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pacific and San Diego Symphonies. Yaphet is a member of the International Trumpet Guild. He has been mentoring and instructing musicians of all ages for the past 15 years and is the Trumpet Instructor at Poway High School in San Diego, CA and at the Master Musician in Murrieta, CA.

Venue Information.

Concert Venues & Directions

MURRIETA MESA HIGH SCHOOL
GERSHWIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
24801 Monroe Ave., Murrieta, CA 92562

Directions:
From the I-15 exit at California Oaks & go east, turn right on Monroe, turn right on Murrieta Mesa. Enter the campus & turn right. The theater is on the north end of the parking lot.