Festival Finale: Beethoven’s Fifth

Sunday, August 18th, 2024
3:00pm
Sherman’s Park, Dance Hall

Caroga Arts Ensemble performs Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Fabiola Kim and Nate West team up for Bottesini’s Gran Duo Concertante

Tickets:
$25 General Admission

Free general admission for students 17 and under!
Caroga Arts offers FREE admission to concert goers 17 and under for all Caroga Arts presented concerts at Sherman’s.

Nathaniel West joined The Philadelphia Orchestra bass section in September 2017, and has served as Acting Assistant Principal Bass since October of 2019. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Harold Robinson and Edgar Meyer. Mr. West is also a former member of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra in Washington, D.C. As a chamber musician, Mr. West has performed with the Jupiter Chamber Players in New York, the Gamut Bach Ensemble of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center during its annual residency in Saratoga Springs, NY. In addition to VIVO, Mr. West has performed at summer chamber music festivals such as Twickenham Fest in Huntsville, AL; Caroga Lake Music Festival in Caroga Lake, NY, Luzerne Music Festival in Lake Luzerne, NY, and the the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.

Hailed by the New York Times as “a brilliant soloist,” who “played with extraordinary precision and luminosity,” violinist Fabiola Kim enjoys a diverse career. Her CD, titled “1939” with the Munich Symphony and Kevin John Edusei has gotten many international acclaims from BBC magazine, The Strad Magazine, Gramophone, and others. Ms. Kim is the winner of various competitions, including the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra’s Concerto Competition, the Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition, The Juilliard Concerto Competition, and is a prize winner at the Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings.

Ms. Kim is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan and she is on faculty at the Colburn School. Additionally, she is a Co-founder/Co-Artistic Director of Sounding Point Academy.