Saturday, October 24 ~ 7:30-9 p.m.

Dr. Leonid Yanovskiy, Associate Professor of violin, viola and orchestra at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, will perform the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. In 2006-07, his student Samuel Park won the FSMTA Young Artist String Competition and succeeded to win the second prize at the MTNA National Finals. This coming November, he is scheduled to perform the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Pensacola Symphony.

Born on November 24, 1948 in New York and raised in South Florida Dr. Rene Gonzalez is currently Director of Guitar Program at the University of Miami, Frost School of Music where he completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts under the tutelage of Maestro Juan Mercadal. As a pedagogue, Dr. Gonzalez is recognized throughout the United States for his workshops and clinics on classroom guitar teaching. His text the “Advancing Guitarist”, published by Ellis Family Music, is used throughout the U.S. in public and private schools.

As a performer he has performed in solo, chamber and concerto concerts in the U.S., Central America, Puerto Rico, Mexico,Eastern Europe and Italy. He has performed with the Fort Worth Chamber Orchestra, the Augusta Symphony, Orquesta de Cámara Independencia (Costa Rica), the Bergonzi String Quartet, Juan Mercadal and Victoria de Los Angeles. Rene Gonzalez has  conducted master classes and served on competition juries at major guitar festivals.

His CD “The Hummingbird” was released in the year 2000 on EFM label.

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