Some great music. An open sky. A comfortable spot. It all adds up to a wonderful night.
The Queens Symphony Orchestra’s 24th Annual Summer Concert is a St. John’s University’s Great Lawn on Tuesday, Aug. 6, at 7 pm.
Entitled “A Little Night Music: Mozart Comes to Queens,” this year’s program opens with one of the Austrian composers’s most famous creations, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Next, violin virtuoso Bella Hristova plays Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219. Then, the fun concludes with Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550.
Admission is free. So is parking, but motorists are advised to enter the campus via Gate One at 80-00 Utopia Pkwy.
Founded in 1953, Queens Symphony is the borough’s oldest professional arts organization and the only NYC-based orchestra that’s not in Manhattan. The conductor since 2017 is Maestro Martin Majkut, a former Fulbright scholar who is also the Music Director of the Rogue Valley Symphony in Ashland, Oregon.
Born in Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), Majkut earned his Ph.D. in conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts while serving as Assistant Conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic. He earned a D.M.A. from the University of Arizona in 2008. He also studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and at the Wiener Meisterkurse in Vienna, Austria.
In case of rain, the concert will move indoors to the Little Theatre on campus.
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