2009 Wennberg Music Festival

Saturday, March 21, 2:30 p.m.

Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

"I have been involved with the Annual Wennberg Concert for 8 years and the quality, expertise and verve of our young players always astounds me. This is a celebratory concert not to be missed" ——Peg Smith

The Bodil Wennberg Music Festival provides an annual opportunity for orchestral musicians from Davis public schools celebrate their musical achievement with our community. Musicians from 6^th through 12^th grade perform in the world-class performance venue of the Mondavi Center for Performing Arts, at UC Davis. Each year the Wennberg Festival features the All-District Elementary Strings students (primarily 6^th graders), the Combined Intermediate Junior High Orchestra (7th graders), the Combined Advanced Junior High Orchestra (8^th and 9^th graders), the Davis High School Chamber Orchestral & Davis High School Symphony (10^th – 12^th graders). Selected members of the UC Davis Symphony perform in conjunction with the high school as well.

This year, the concert will be held on Saturday, March 21, 2009.

The mission of the Festival is three-fold:

• To support music program development in the Davis schools;
• To foster the integration of music training resources in our community;
• To support community efforts which enrich the cultural soul of Davis.

Proceeds from the Wennberg Music Festival fund various needs of the Davis Joint Unified School District’s strings and orchestral program: Strings and upkeep of school owned instruments throughout the district; master classes; scholarships for participation in fieldtrips; adjudication for seating auditions and the numerous other needs of running a program of this caliber.

This concert usually features the winner of the DHS Concerto Competition for Davis High School students. The competition has both an instrumental and a vocal category. Recent concerto competition instrumental category winners include:

2008 Monday, Angela Yeung, piano
2007 Elaine F., cello
2006 Cynthia H., piano
2005 Serena Y., piano
2004 Nick W., violin

This community concert features Directors Angelo Moreno and Greg Brucker sharing the direction of the DHS Symphony Orchestra, DHS Chamber Orchestra, Jr. High Advanced and Intermediate Orchestras (from Emerson, Harper and Holmes Junior High Schools), and Kim Cole and Sherie Wall conducting the All District Strings (selected students from all of Davis’ public elementary schools).

This Annual concert draws community leaders, public school officials, and private music teachers who support the music program in the Davis schools. Without the support of these citizens, our program would not be the caliber it is today. With the size of this venue, we are able to provide the entire community an opportunity to see what the students of Davis have achieved.

Click on the pieces below to see videos from Previous Bodil Wennberg Music Festival