(ATLANTIC CITY/BRIDGETON, NJ) -- Enjoy an evening of music in the Classical Viennese tradition—one of Mozart’s virtuosic horn concerti, beloved overtures from two of the master’s most famous operas, and the last of Haydn’s epic group of 104 symphonies—as the Bay Atlantic Symphony closes the 2015 “Symphony By The Sea” summer series of concerts sponsored by the Avalon Free Public Library on Saturday, August 15, at 7 p.m., at the Avalon Elementary School, 235 32nd St., Avalon, NJ.

 

The last of this two-concert series—conducted by Bay Atlantic Symphony Music Director Jed Gaylin—will feature the Bay Atlantic Symphony’s principal hornist Jonathan Clark in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 417, one of four masterful horn concerti that Mozart wrote that have become staples in the repertoire for that instrument. The well-known overtures to two of Mozart’s most beloved operas—Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro—will also be included. The program will conclude with Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 in D major, Hob. 1/104, “London”—the last of the 12 symphonies Haydn composed while living in London and the last in the composer’s entire monumental set of symphonies.

 

Tickets are free and available to the general public from the Avalon Free Public Library, 235 32nd St., Avalon. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

For more information, call the Avalon Free Public Library at (609) 967-7155, or visit the library’s website at www.avalonfreelibrary.org. For more information on the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, call its office at (856) 451-1169, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

 

 

Jonathan Clark, principal hornist of the Bay Atlantic Symphony, is also a member of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and Symphony in C. He also plays with the Philly Pops, Pennsylvania Ballet Company orchestra, Allentown Symphony Orchestra, and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. Outside of the concert hall, he has recorded for NFL Films and plays horn in the popular musical Les Misérables on Broadway.

Clark started playing the French horn while in the fourth grade and played steadily in middle and high school ensembles. His undergraduate studies took place at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he earned his Bachelors of Music in Horn Performance in 2008. While there, he studied with Richard Mackey and Jason Snider and worked with many other members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He received a Master in Horn Performance degree from Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance, studying with Jeffrey Lang of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

 

The aim of the Bay Atlantic Symphony is to share and develop a love for transcendent, live, concert music in southern New Jersey communities through performance and education. Since its founding as the Bridgeton Symphony in 1983, the orchestra has been recognized for its world-class performers, diverse programs and outstanding community services. Under the talented baton of passionate Music Director Jed Gaylin since 1997, the Bay Atlantic Symphony is the only professional orchestra to serve the five southern-most counties of New Jersey. The orchestra makes great music accessible through live concerts with low ticket prices at the Richard Stockton Performing Arts Center, the Guaracini Performing Art Center, the Avalon Symphony by the Sea Series, the Cape May Music Festival and Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa.