‘Mystery and Magic’ at OKCPhil

(Oklahoma City OK) --- Internationally acclaimed cellist Julie Albers, joins the OKC Philharmonic and Joel Levine on the Inasmuch Classics Series in a concert titled "Mystery and Magic" onSaturday, February 7 at 8pmat the OKC Civic Center. Albers will perform the elegiac and searing Cello Concerto written after World War I by Edward Elgar as a tribute to fallen friends. Julie Albers performs on a N.F. Vuillaume cello made in 1872. Maestro Levine opens the program with Maurice Ravel'sPavane for a Dead Princess,and the program also includes both the Overture and other music fromA Midsummer Night's Dreamby Felix Mendelssohn.

American cellist Julie Albers is recognized for her superlative artistry, her charismatic and radiant performing style, and her intense musicianship. She was born into a musical family in Longmont, Colorado and began violin studies at the age of two with her mother, switching to cello at four. She moved to Cleveland during her junior year of high school to pursue studies through the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Miss Albers soon was awarded the Grand Prize at the XIII International Competition for Young Musicians in Douai, France, and as a result toured France as soloist with Orchestre Symphonique de Douai.

Julie Albers made her major orchestral debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1998, and thereafter has performed in recital and with orchestras throughout North America, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand. In addition to solo performances, Miss Albers regularly participates in chamber music festivals around the world.

Tickets are available for $19 to $65 at the Philharmonic ticket office, 428 West California, Suite 210 in downtown Oklahoma City or by phone at 405-TICKETS (842-5387). Tickets are also available online at www.okcphilharmonic.orgorwww.myticketoffice.com. Tickets are also available at the Civic Center ticket office, 201 N. Walker.

The Oklahoma City Philharmonic -Tracing its roots to the city’s first professional orchestra in 1924, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic formed in 1988 under the musical direction of Joel Levine with the help of many civic leaders and corporations.

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