Write a commentThe Oswego Community Youth Orchestra (OCYO) will hold its Annual Spring Concert Sunday, April 9 at 7pm. Sheldon Hall Ballroom of SUNY Oswego is the elegant concert hall, and special guests SUNY Oswego Community Orchestra will perform the finale with OCYO. Parking is plentiful and free.
Tickets are only $5 at the door or email ocyomclark@gmail.com. For more information on OCYO and to join the OCYO their web page is http://www.ocyo.org/home.html. Free refreshments will be offered following the concert. Your support of local youth and the Arts is welcome.
Solos by OCYO student musicians will compliment the full orchestra selections composed by Mozart, Bach and more. OCYO musicians are elite local string musicians in grades 7-12.
Juan Francisco La Manna is orchestra director at the State University of New York in Oswego, Artistic Director and conductor of Oswego Opera, and conductor of the Oswego Youth Orchestra. Prior to his appointment at S.U.N.Y., Dr. La Manna was conductor for the State Ballet of Missouri, where he directed the St. Louis and Kansas City Symphonies; he was also music director of the Northland Symphony and the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra.
Dr. La Manna was principal conductor for Miami City Ballet for four years, directing ensembles such as the Cleveland Orchestra and the Naples Philharmonic, and receiving excellent reviews from newspapers such as The New York Times and The Miami Herald. This past November he directed Oswego Opera’s production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.
Front row, L to R: Sasha Loayza, Gillian Clark, Thomas May, Cassie Romeo, Kirsten Bell.
Second row: Ruhma Khawaja, Colin Li, Elise Maniccia, Melissa Chun, Sofia Loayza, Jenna Garcia
Third row: Luke May, Anna Samson
Fourth row: Leanna Restani, Elizabeth Bush, Hunter
Pryor, Nolan Callahan, James May
Not Pictured: Andrew Smith
