New Jersey Youth Symphony Chamber Music Concert

New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS) wraps up its six-week chamber music program with a concert of its chamber music ensembles on Sunday, November 10 at 7:00 p.m. at the Wilson Union Church located at 7 Valley Road in Watchung, NJ. The concert is free and open to the public.

 The concert, under the direction of Diana Charos Reilly, Artistic Program Coordinator of NJYS, features NJYS’s Ambassador Ensembles: the NJYS String Quartet, NJYS Brass Quintet, and NJYS Woodwind Quintet. Members of the Ambassador Ensembles were selected by NJYS artistic staff to represent NJYS at various public venues and functions throughout the concert season.
Other ensembles performing at the concert include a string trio, two string quartets, a bass ensemble, a quartet of two flutes, cello, and piano, and a trio of two flutes and piano. The string ensembles will play music by Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Ravel. The flute ensembles will perform music by Pepusch and Delibes. The Ambassador Woodwind Quintet will perform Briccialdi’s Quintet No. 1 opus 124. The Brass Ambassador Quintet will perform Bankelsangerlieder. NJYS’s chamber music program is coached by Diana Charos Reilly, Terrence Thornhill, Brittney Leghorn, Philip Setzer of the Emerson Quartet, Raymond Mase of the American Brass Quintet, Bärli  Nugent of The Juilliard School, and Nate White.

New Jersey Youth Symphony is the orchestral and ensemble division of Wharton Music Center, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS) is located at 570 Central Avenue in New Providence. NJYS, one of the foremost youth orchestras in the state, has ten orchestras and ensembles for which auditions are held annually. NJYS’s premiere orchestra, Youth Symphony, has performed in internationally-renowned concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York City and Musikverein in Vienna.

Wharton Music Center, located at 60 Locust Avenue in Berkeley Heights, provides music, theater, and dance instruction, educational programs, and performances for children, teens, and adults. In addition to instruction in all instruments and voice, WMC offers classes in musical theater, drama, choral music, vocal music, music theory, audio recording, early childhood music, and music for children with special needs. Offering a range of musical genres including classical, rock, jazz, and blues, WMC is one of New Jersey’s largest independent non-profit community music centers serving students in Union, Morris, Essex, Somerset, Middlesex, and surrounding counties.
For more information, visit www.NJYS.org and www.WhartonMusicCenter.org