String Chamber Orchestra Concert to Feature Saxophonist Caleb Evans

MANSFIELD, PA—The Mansfield University String Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Sarch, will perform in concert on Friday, November 4, 8 p.m. in Steadman Theatre. The concert is free and open to the public.
The Orchestra will perform the Legende by French composer Andre Caplet, featuring saxophone soloist Caleb Evans. Oboe, clarinet and bassoon will join the Orchestra to complete the orchestration.
Evans is a senior Music Education major from Westfield, PA studying with Professor Joseph Murphy. He will be student teaching in the Elmira (NY) School District and in Australia this spring. Evans is a member of “The Spirit & Pride of Pennsylvania” MU Marching Band, Symphonic Band, and Jazz Lab Band. He has performed extensively with Hamilton-Gibson Productions in Wellsboro.
The program will also perform the Vivaldi Sinfonia Concerto in D minor and Bop Gavotte by American composer Alan Shulman.
The MU String Chamber Orchestra is an ensemble comprised of 12 string players from the Mansfield Music Department. It was founded by Sarch in 2008. The ensemble has been invited to perform at the Gmeiner Art Museum in Wellsboro, at Lycoming College Honors Hall, Corning Community College Concert Series and for the Thursday morning Music Club at the Clemens Center in Elmira.
Sarch is professor of Violin and Viola at MU. He has conducted district, regional and state orchestra festivals in several states and has been invited five times to conduct the Panama National Youth Orchestra. He has also conducted the String Orchestra of the Jordan National Music Conservatory, the Symphony of the Jordan Armed Forces, and the CMI Youth Orchestra in Brazil.
Sarch has received four USIA Arts America Grants to Panama, Brazil, Israel and Jordan and two Fulbright Scholar Awards to Brazil and Bolivia. In Bolivia he formed a new orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil de Santa Cruz, and served as its first conductor.