Brockton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr.Emilian Badea, presented their Holiday Pops Concert on Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 3:PM at the West Middle School, Brockton, MA with more of your holiday favorites and joyous music from around the world with Brockton’s own Kennedy School Chorus, back by popular demand! The concert featured 12 year old accordion soloist, Ian Mtichell, and soprano, Kimberly Moller. Ian performed the “Hungarian Dance No. 5” by Brahms, with the symphony and was enthusiastically received by the audience. See the video of his performance above.
Ian Mitchell, began studying the accordion with Dr. Emilian Badea at age 9. He has competed at the New England Music Festival in Newton, MA, and at several AAA Festivals. At the 2012 AAA Festival in Baltimore, Ian placed first in his age group in the categories of Jazz, Folk, Classical and Pop. Ian’s hobbies include math and trains. His future goals are to enter the Roland competition and eventually compete in the Coupe Mondiale. Ian said, ” I really like playing the accordion. I enjoy my lessons with Dr. Badean and his talks to me about music, in general. I feel relaxed about my performance with the orchestra because I am well prepared. ” Ian currently lives in Brookline, MA where he is in seventh grade at the Pierce School.
On March 24, 2012, Ian will play this selection again with the Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra in a Family concert conducted by Emilian Badea who will perform a duet of Monti”s “Czardas” with the concert master.
Bassoonist, accordionist, musicologist, and educator Emilian Badea graduated from one of Romania’s most prestigious Music Academies. He earned a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree, both as a Dean’s scholar, from Boston University. Emilian Badea has performed most of the symphonic repertoire with the Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra and as a freelance musician in the Boston area. He has performed with the Boston Ballet, the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Classical Players, the Boston Academy of Music, the New Hampshire Symphony, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Brockton Symphony, and many other New England ensembles.
Emilian Badea is a member of The National Music Honor Society Pi Kappa Lambda of the American Federation of Musicians, The International Double Reed Society, the American Accordionists’ Association, and the Accordion Teachers Association of Massachusetts. Dr.Badea is currently on the music faculty of the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Brookline Music School, and the New School of Music In Cambridge. He also maintains his music studio in Natick, MA with many successful students at local and national levels.
Dr. Badea said, ” I conduct 65 wonderful musicians of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra who accompany my accordion student, Ian Mitchell,……….this is TOTAL HAPPINESS for me!”
The program for Dec 2, 2012 Holiday-Pops concert of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra included:Tchaikovsky, “Polonaise” from “Eugene Onegin”; Anderson, “Suite of Carols”;“O Holy Night”, Kimberly Moller, Soprano; Leopold Mozart “Sleigh Ride”;”Feasts of Light”; Brahms “Hungarian Dance No 5”, solo accordion w/ orchestra Ian Mitchell; Brahms, “Lullaby”, “Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer:”Jingle bells forever”; Josef Strauss, “Ohne Sorgen” Schnell Polka; Luigini, “Ballet Egyptien” I-III-IV.; Anderson, “The Typewriter”; Puccini, “O Mio Babbino Carol”, Kimberly Moller, soprano; Charles J. Orth, “In a Clock Store”; Selections from “My Fair Lady”, Kimberly Moller, Soprano; Anderson, “A Christmas festival” audience singalong; Johann Strauss Sr, “Radetzky March”.
The Brockton Symphony Orchestra is recognized as Brockton’s leading performing arts institution, one of the leading community symphony orchestras in Massachusetts, and one of the best regional orchestras in the country.
The Brockton Symphony Orchestra is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council; and grants from the Brockton Cultural Council, Abington Cultural Council, Bridgewater Cultural Council, Easton Cultural Council, Sharon Cultural Council, and Stoughton Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Their generosity is gratefully acknowledged.
For further information: emilian@emilian.org,
