April 15, 2016 -- Heights High’s principal bassoonist Aviva Klein will be the featured senior soloist during the Spring Instrumental Music Finale Concert on April 29, 7:30 p.m.
She will perform the Concerto for Bassoon in e minor by Antonio Vivaldi.
The concert includes performances by both the Heights High Symphony and Symphonic Winds.
Earlier in the week, on April 27, 7:30 p.m., the Heights High Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Concert Orchestra will present their final concert of the year.
On Friday April 29, the Heights High School Symphony will perform The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives, Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, and Throne Room/End Credits from Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope by John Williams.
The Symphonic Winds will present Sang by Dana Wilson, Sea Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Sevens by Samuel Hazo.
On Wednesday, April 27, the Concert Orchestra will share The Country Hoe Down by Soon Hee Newbold, and Black River Ballad by Doris Gazda. The Concert Band and Symphonic Band will perform the Liberty Fleet March by Karl King/Arr. Swearingen, and Contrails by Mark J. Connor, and all three ensembles will perform Selections from Star Wars, Episode VII: The Force Awakens by John Williams/arr. J. Vinson.
Aviva is one of two seniors selected to solo this year and has been a musician since she was in preschool. She began piano lessons in the first grade, played clarinet and switched to bassoon in middle school.
In high school, Aviva became principal bassoon player in the Heights High Symphony and the Symphonic Winds. She plays trumpet in the marching band and joined The Jazz Band her senior year.
Aviva has been a member of the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony and the Contemporary Youth Orchestra (CYO.) She has been CYO’s principal bassoon player for the past three years and was awarded the John and Nicole Clouser Bassoon Chair for her junior year. In tenth grade, Aviva joined the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) and is the co-principal bassoon player.
After graduation, Aviva plans on continuing her musical studies in hopes to become a conductor.
Both the April 27 and 29 concerts will be hosted in the auditorium of the Cleveland Heights High School Wiley Campus at 2181 Miramar and will be preceded by a Chamber Ensemble Recital at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets, available the day of the shows, are $3 for students and $5 for adults. Parking is available in the school parking lot as well as on the other side of Miramar Boulevard (accessible from the University Square shopping area).
By Cynthia Larsen, Band and Orchestra Parent Organization Communications Chair.