She’ll be the featured guest soloist during the Springfield Symphony Orchestra’s MasterWorks II concert “Going for Baroque,” Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Clark State PAC. Ngwenyama will take on “Viola Concerto” by Handel.
Doing a handful of performances with orchestras each season, she’s excited to perform here for the first time in the Springfield Symphony’s first show of 2017.
“I love playing anywhere there’s a community that wants to hear music,” Ngwenyama said.
The viola is often confused with the violin. They are all fiddles, and Ngwenyama sums them up according to size: the violin is the smallest, something like a soprano; the viola is a little bigger, followed by the cello and the bass is the largest.
She has a busy year planned, starting out at a music festival and later playing in Ohio again with Sandra Rivers of the University of Cincinnati.
Ngwenyama also has no less than four albums in post-production now, with everything from covering classical composers such as Bach to some of her own compositions.
“It’s going to be a really fun year,” she said.
Ngwenyama also said she’s prepared for the potentially chilly, snowy or icy weather here by bringing some of the sunshine from her Arizona home.
“It’s a wonderful thing to be able to connect with a community through music, and I’m really looking forward to sharing mine in Springfield,” she said.
The Opening Notes and Performance Prelude will combine to begin the evening in the Turner Studio Theatre at 6:30 p.m. and will feature Lowell Greer and The Natural Horns.
How to go
What: Springfield Symphony Orchestra, “Going for Baroque”
Where: Clark State Performing Arts Center, 300 S. Fountain Ave., Springfield
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14
Admission: $56-30
More info: 937-325-8100 or www.springfieldsym.org
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