July 26th Concert Featuring Téa Prokes

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Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4                                                                                                  Elgar

English Folk Song Suite                                                                                               Vaughn Williams

                                                                                                                                    arr. Gordon Jacob

A Train Through Yorkshire                                                                    Britt Andrew Burns (b. 1980)

Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042                                                                                    J.S. Bach

      I. Allegro

                                                                             Intermission

Best of the Beatles                                                                                                    arr. Calvin Cluster

Beatles Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra                                                                    Maxime Goule

About Téa Prokes

Téa Prokes is originally from Buffalo, New York, and began studying the violin at Buffalo Suzuki Strings at the age of four. She pursued her post-secondary studies with Peter Zazofsky, first violinist of the Muir String Quartet, at Boston University where she was awarded Bachelor of Music degrees in violin performance and music education. She continued her studies at the University of Michigan as a student of Yehonatan Berick where she completed Master of Music degrees in violin performance and chamber music. While at Michigan, she served as concertmaster of the University Symphony Orchestra and was a member of the Rosseels Graduate String Quartet.

In 2013 Téa joined the first violin section of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and in 2014 became the associate concertmaster of the TSO, where she spent the next nine years of her career. Téa and her family now call Columbus home, and she frequently appears with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Outside of music, Téa enjoys gardening, cooking gluten-free food, and playing with her two beautiful, rambunctious daughters.

About Maxime Goulet

Fascinated and inspired by the connections between different forms of artistic expression, Montreal-based composer Maxime Goulet explores various realms of musical creation, from symphonies to operas, and even video game music, going so far as to set the flavors of chocolate to music! He currently teaches composition at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec. 

Goulet's Beatles Fantasy is a concerto for solo violin and orchestra, in three movements, composed in collaboration with Eric Jones-Cadieux, based on some of the most popular songs of the musical group The Beatles. Although the songs within each movement are not necessarily in chronological order, the intention of having three movements based on three different Beatles’ period is to bring the listener on a journey following the evolution of the Beatles’ music throughout their career and their main creative phases. 

Learn more about Maxime Goulet here: https://maximegoulet.com/