GLENDALE YOUTH ORCHESTRA 25th SEASON
Brad Keimach, Conductor

Program:
BELLINI – Overture to Norma
BEETHOVEN – Violin Concerto (2nd & 3rd movements)
Sarah Worden, violin
Plus a screening of
Charlie Chaplin’s THE RINK
with the orchestra playing the score to the film

Sarah Worden, a senior, is currently the concertmaster of the Glendale Youth Orchestra and the Crescenta Valley High School Orchestra. She began violin studies at the age of 7 under the instruction of Herman Markosian at the Metzler Violin Shop in Glendale. For the past 5 years, she has also been studying (via Skype) with his brother, Boris Markosian, who lives in Moscow, Russia. Sarah was chosen as an alternate to the inaugural National Youth Orchestra of the United States (2013). Sarah was an auditor in 2008 and a participant in 2009 in the Pasadena Pops Side By Side Orchestra. She placed first in the intermediate level of the 2010 Callie McGrath Competition, was a finalist in the 2011 LA Phil Young Musicians Competition, and a finalist in the 2009 Valley Cultural Competition. Aside from playing the violin, she enjoys playing soccer, biking, hiking, and running. She is on the girls varsity soccer team at her high school and on the GU18 team at Crescenta Valley Soccer Club.

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