The final performance of our 2022-23 season, “Mestizo America”, took place on April 23 and featured the “Concierto Sinfónico Machu Picchu para Quena (flauta andina)” with noted musician and Goshen resident Nayo Ulloa playing the Quena (Andean folk flute) as solo instrument for this composition.
On February 19, Victoria Petrak and the Maple City Community Orchestra performed a special benefit concert that raised nearly $6,500 for medical relief to injured people in Ukraine.
A highlight of this concert was the American premiere performance of Victor Kaminsky’s orchestral arrangement of “Second Ukrainian Rhapsody” by Mykola Lysenko—with Ukranian-born Solomia Soroka, professor of music at Goshen College, performing as violin soloist.
Change is inevitable, and this concert season brought changes in both staff positions for the Maple City Community Orchestra. We welcomed a new Music Director Tori Petrak and a new Executive Director William Mateer!
In our “Christmas Stories” concert on December 18, the Maple City Community Orchestra and the Elkhart Community Chorus collaborated to celebrate the music of Christmastime!
The MCCO performed the Polar Express Concert Suite and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Christmas Overture, and we were joined by the Elkhart Community Chorus in performing selections from Handel’s Messiah and Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson.
As with all MCCO concerts, this event was free and open to the public. It was also streamed live 🎧 from the Goshen College Music Center.
October 16 marked the Maple City Community Orchestra’s first concert of the 2022-2023 season with our new Music Director Victoria Petrak!
We performed works by Beethoven, Jennifer Higdon, Amy Beach, and Soon He Newbold.
All MCCO concerts are free and open to the public.