Orchestrating Dreams Sinfonietta

Join us for the inaugural concert of the Orchestrating Dreams Sinfonietta, led by Music Director Andrea Profili and Guest Concertmaster Eric Wyrick (Concertmaster of New Jersey Symphony Orchestra).

The Orchestrating Dreams Sinfonietta Inaugural Concert

Tuesday May 30th, 2023 at 7pm

The Dimenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall

The inaugural performance of the Orchestrating Dreams Sinfonietta is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

About the Sinfonietta:

The Orchestrating Dreams Sinfonietta is a community chamber orchestra that combines Orchestrating Dreams’ top students with college students majoring in music and professional musicians . Established in 2023, the Sinfonietta offers a unique mentorship opportunity for advanced music students and early professionals who have been historically underrepresented in the professional field of classical music. As a community chamber orchestra, the mission of the Sinfonietta is to cultivate a music community that provides a pathway from “student” to “professional” in a profession that has so many invisible barriers for black and brown young people.

About the Artists:

Andrea Profili, Music Director

Panamanian conductor Andrea Profili is music director of American Youth Orchestra, in New York City. Since 2016 she has served as executive director of Orchestrating Dreams and is a founding board member of The Bach Store.

Profili has worked as a lecturer at Carnegie Hall’s Music Educators Workshop and the LA Phil: Take a Stand Symposium and in 2015 collaborated with Fundación Musical Simón Bolivar and UpbeatNYC to prepare the first binational youth orchestra of Venezuela and the United States. Andrea served as conducting assistant at the Spartanburg Philharmonic in South Carolina.

Eric Wyrick, Guest Concertmaster

Violinist Eric Wyrick is Concertmaster of the New Jersey Symphony and has been an Orpheus Chamber Orchestra member and frequent leader since 1988.

Born in New York City, Wyrick started playing the violin at 4 years old. He attended The Juilliard Pre-College Division and later The Juilliard School, studying with Dorothy DeLay. His varied orchestral career began with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic at the age of 14. He has been Concertmaster of the American Symphony, Eos and L’opera Francais de New York, as well as the Christmas String Seminar under the direction of Alexander Schneider.

Wyrick has appeared as a soloist with the Danish Radio Orchestra, Orchestre de Toulouse, Hudson Valley Philharmonic and San Angelo Symphony Orchestra. In annual New Jersey Symphony solo appearances, he has brought unusual and new violin repertoire to New Jersey stages, performing concertos of Ferruccio Busoni, Darryl Kubian, Edward T. Cone and Prokofiev, among others. In addition, Wyrick has had several solo television appearances including the “Dance in America” presentation of Chausson’s Poème, and, as featured soloist, the BBC’s “Great Composers” Series.

An active chamber musician, Wyrick can be heard frequently with the New Jersey Symphony Chamber Players and is a founding performer at the Bard Music Festival. He has recorded for Bridge Records, Vanguard and, with Orpheus, Deutsche Grammophon. He is the soloist on a recording of Kubian’s 3-2-1 Concerto for Acoustic and Electric Violin with the Orquesta Sinfónica of Michoacan, available online.

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