After a successful concert at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica last November, followed by a winter break, the Culver City Symphony Orchestra returns home with a special “Back to Culver City” concert at 4:30 Sunday, Feb. 25 at Veterans Memorial Building.
Besides the illuminating presence of Frank Fetta, conductor and music director, the afternoon concert welcomes Andy Park on the viola.
“Please join us for an afternoon concert of favorites, and a rare solo work for viola,” Fetta said.
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for ages 13 to 17. Tickets purchased online will be held at the box office. For membership, go to http://www.culvercitysymphony.org/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
Veterans Memorial Building is at 4117 Overland Ave. at Culver Blvd, Culver City. Free parking, entrances along Culver Blvd. Street parking along Overland Avenue, check the meters. For more info, call 310-717-5500 or go to
info@culvercitysymphony.org
Membership and Community Support
The Symphony Society relies on its membership to ensure that the concerts continue to present the nest classical music throughout the Culver City, Los Angeles, Marina del Rey and Westside areas. At this time, we are striving to present our normal season’s concerts for the upcoming year. With your nancial help, we can accomplish this goal. Please join us and have your friends join as well. We need all of you.
Conductor Frank Fetta
As the Symphony’s Music Director and Conductor, Maestro Fetta is responsible for the creative decisions regarding the performance, the artists and its repertoire.
Maestro Fetta’s versatility and skills have been widely acclaimed in both symphonic and operatic repertoire.
Maestro Fetta received his musical education and training in New
York and Los Angeles and fulfills conducting engagements and operatic coaching assignments throughout the United States.
From coast to coast, Frank Fetta’s musical talents have been glowingly praised and warmly appreciated.
As a guest conductor, Maestro Fetta is in high demand, and Maestro Fetta has had a number of his performances heard on both radio and cable television. Many of his fans enjoyed his appearance in the Blake Edwards’ film, “Mickie And Maude” starring Dudley Moore and Amy Irving and with the Symphony on the David Letterman Film Festival with Michael J. Fox. He was the music consultant on the film “Song of the Lark” which was seen on the Mobil Masterpiece Theater.
He has collaborated with the Riverside Symphony, the Los Angeles Opera, Sinfonia Mexicana, Inland Dance Theatre; Fresno Ballet, Symphony and Opera; the Pasadena Symphony; the Honolulu
Symphony; Opera A la Carte; the Toledo Opera; and the San Diego
Symphony.
Among the fine artists he has conducted are Julian Lloyd Webber, Judy Collins, Louis Lebherz, Suzanna Guzman, Eugene Fodor, Leila Josefowicz, Diane Schuur, Daniel Rodriguez, Lorna Luft, Vicki Carr, and Eduardo Villa.
In addition to his engagements with the Culver City Symphony and the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony, he is the Conductor and
Artistic Advisor to the Redlands Bowl Music Festival, Music Director
and Conductor of the San Bernardino Symphony Symphony, Conductor for the Zachary Foundation International Vocal Competition, and Principal Conductor for the Nevada Opera Theatre
and other engagements as conductor.
From Perth Amboy, N.J., Conductor Fetta’s early passion for music led him to the piano and organ. He still coaches, accompanies, and guides the careers of vocalists and instrumentalists, and serves as organist at Corpus Christi Church in Pacific Palisades. But his great love is conducting.
He resides in Los Angeles with his artist-inventor wife Susan Henniger. Their son, Rafael, is an actor living in New York City
Andy Park: A Viola Student at Colburn CSFPA
Andy Park, 15, is in his sophomore year in Crossroads School for
Arts and Science. He studies viola with Gina Coletti at Colburn Community School for Performing Arts.
He was a principal violist at Colburn String Orchestra and Elizabeth
Mendel Music Institute Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Treger. Park was an assistant violist in The Eastern Sierra Symphony.
Park also participated in the Debut Chamber Orchestra, the Colburn Chamber Orchestra, The Eastern Sierra Symphony, the Pasadena Conservatory of Music Chamber Program, the Elizabeth Mendel Music Institute Chamber Group, and the Colburn Chamber Music Program.
While in the Honors Quartet for Pasadena Conservatory of Music, he was coached by Andrew Cook and Aimee Kreston, which advanced to M-Prize semi-finalist. He won third place in Pasadena Chamber Music Competition.
Park’s Elizabeth Mendel Music Institute Chamber Group, Colburn Chamber Group, and Colburn Chamber Orchestra performed at
LACMA, in the Bing Theater.
Andy Park earned third place in the LA ASTA competition for viola section.
He was awarded a half-scholarship for the Idyllwild Music Camp. He
performed in a master class with Robert Diaz. Currently he is in the
Maestro Foundation Instrumental Lending Program, and using a bow and viola lent by the Maestro Foundation