Music Director: Richard Hornsby

 

(Photo by Rob Blanchard)

Richard Hornsby is the new conductor of the FCO. Hornsby is the Director of the Centre for Musical Arts at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton where he teaches conducting, Canadian music history, music technology and conducts ensembles. He is the founder and artistic director of the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival and Atlantic Sinfonia, a professional chamber orchestra. He is also a member of Motion Ensemble.

Spotlight on Orchestra Members: Ron MacDonald

Ron MacDonald, FCO Concert Master, was one of the founding members of the Fredericton Chamber Orchestra in 1976. "The orchestra began with only four people in Colin Mailer's basement." Ron studied violin with a number of teachers, including Jean Fraser (a pupil of Leopold Auer), Alfredo Campoli (he now owns and plays one of his violins, pictured below), and had master classes with Joseph Szigeti, with whom he shares his birthday on September 5. Currently he has 26 violin and viola students. Now retired, he was a professor of philosophy at UNB. Also pictured are Susan O'Connor and Julie Probert.

Photo by Aldo Bongiorno (at a Cathedral Concert, Oct 2010)

FCO a Hit at Officers Square Outdoor Concert

Photo by Aldo Bongiorno

A beautiful evening greeted members of the Fredericton Chamber Orchestra after threatening weather forecasts dissipated. Conductor Samuel Arnold delivered the downbeat to the jay and satisfaction of a good sized audience. Visitors smiled, children danced and music of a wide variety swept across the square, sometimes to the accompaniment of an occasional Harley!

The program included:

• Thieving Magpie Overture - Rossini
• Chanson du Toréador - Bizet (John Tickner, soloist)
• 2nd movement of the Haydn Trumpet Concerto (John Tickner, soloist)
• La Virgen de la Macarena (John Tickner, soloist)
• Water Music by Handel/Harty
• Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 & 3 by Brahms
• Offenbach Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld

Something there for everyone!

Photo by Aldo Bongiorno