#InTheLoop | Queens Symphony Orchestra Is Back with Concerts around the Borough – QEDC

#InTheLoop | Queens Symphony Orchestra Is Back with Concerts around the Borough

BY QEDC It's In Queens

In a clear sign that summer is up and COVID is down, the Queens Symphony Orchestra has just announced an upcoming free concert schedule.

The first one, entitled “Light Carnival,” will happen on Saturday, June 5, at 7 pm at Juniper Valley Park near 80th Street and Juniper Boulevard South in Middle Village. It’ll feature music by Haydn, Mozart, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, and others.

Details are scarce now, but here’s the currently available information on the rest of the schedule.

Poulenc Organ Concerto at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague St., Brooklyn, Saturday, June 12, 7 pm.

Queens Symphony Strings: Baroque to the Beatles, St. Thomas More Church. 204-25 Rockaway Point Blvd., Breezy Point, on Tuesday, June 15, at noon.

Queens Symphony Strings: Baroque to the Beatles, All Saints Episcopal Church, 85-45 96th St., Woodhaven, Thursday, June 17, 7 pm.

Queens Symphony Percussion: Concert for Kids, Frank Principe Park, vicinity of Maurice Avenue, 63rd Street, and Borden Avenue, Maspeth, Saturday, June 19, 12:30 pm.

A Night At the Opera, Take 4, Russo’s on the Bay, 162-45 Cross Bay Blvd., Howard Beach, Wednesday, June 30, 7 pm.

David Katz, who was District Attorney Melinda Katz’s father, founded QSO in 1953. The nonprofit’s current music director is Martin Majkut, a Slovakia native who came to the United States as a Fulbright scholar in 2003 and earned his second doctorate from the University of Arizona in 2008. He was named Emerging Artist by the League of American Orchestras in 2016, about a year before taking over at QSO.