Appalachian Spring + Amaryn Olmeda
Sunday, January 11th at 3:30PM
First Prize winner at the 24th Sphinx Competition, violinist Amaryn Olmeda has already appeared as a soloist with many of America’s greatest orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Omaha Symphony, and Charlotte Symphony. This season sees Olmeda make debut performances with the Dallas Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Tallahassee Symphony, and more and appear in recital at the Celebrity Series of Boston. She joins the Apollo Ensemble to perform Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto on a program that also features two works based on American folk melodies: the world premiere of a new piece by Èbùn and Copland’s Appalachian Spring.
First Church Cambridge
11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Program:
Èbùn – World Premiere
Miklós Rózsa – Violin Concerto (Amaryn Olmeda, Violin)
Copland – Appalachian Spring
Artists:
| Conductor | Elias Miller |
| Violinist | Amaryn Olmeda |
| Composer | Ebun Oguntola |
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The Apollo 2025–2026 season also features violinist Keila Wakao, first prize winner of both the Menuhin International Violin Competition and the Stulberg International String Competition. A Boston native and current student at the New England Conservatory of Music, Wakao made her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut at the BSO’s Opening Night Gala in 2024 under Andris Nelsons and has performed with orchestras across the United States. She joins the Apollo Ensemble to perform Sibelius’s Violin Concerto on a program alongside Joel Thompson’s An Act of Resistance and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9.
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