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Lake Forest, Ill – Lake Forest College will present a concert by the CYSO’s Encore Chamber Orchestra on Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel, located at the intersection of College and Sheridan Roads in Lake Forest. The orchestra, under the direction of guest conductor Rossen Milanov, will perform Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks, Schubert Symphony #5, and Mozart Piano Concerto #23 in A Major, with Jonathan Yates, piano. Suggested donations are $15 for adults and $5 for students. For more information please call (847) 735-5169. The Encore Chamber Orchestra is a 35 member ensemble composed of the top Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra (CYSO) musicians. The Encore program was designed to provide specialized training and performance opportunities to serious career-track musicians. Encore repertoire is challenging and includes works rarely performed by other orchestras. In 1997, Encore made a world premiere recording entitled, "Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries" which featured violinist, Rachel Barton. The orchestra performs at major Chicago venues and makes periodic international tours. During its second full season, Encore toured the United Kingdom where they performed concerts in London, Cambridge, Stratford, and as a part of the chamber music series at Birmingham Symphony Hall. In 1998, the ensemble toured Eastern Europe, performing in Prague and Sofia, Bulgaria. More recently Encore has been featured at venues including: the Argonne National Laboratory, Fourth Presbyterian Church in downtown Chicago, and the Union League Club of Chicago. During the 2000-2001 season, Encore participated in an exchange with the Greater Boston Youth Chamber Orchestra which included joint performances at Northwestern's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall and Boston's Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum. Rossen Milanov is currently the Assistant Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Music Director of New Jersey's Haddonfield Symphony and New Symphony Orchestra in his native city Sofia, Bulgaria. Mr. Milanov's past positions include four seasons as Music Director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra (1998-2001); Symphony Orchestra in Sofia; and interim artistic advisor for the Westfield Symphony in New Jersey. Milanov received his education at the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, Duquesne University, and the Bulgarian National Academy of Music. His primary teachers were Otto-Werner Mueller, Robin Fountain, and Vassil Kazandjiev. He also has studied at numerous summer festivals including Tanglewood and Weimar. Milanov is the recipient of a 1993 Presser Foundation Music Award and received the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship for four years while a student at Juilliard. His first CD (New World Records) features works by Ned Rorem recorded with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Pianist Jonathan Yates' diverse musical résumé includes extensive experience as a chamber musician, solo pianist and conductor. He is currently pursuing a Master's in piano performance with Gilbert Kalish at State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1997, magna cum laude, and was the recipient of the music department's John Knowles Paine Fellowship. He has conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in a special Millennium Stages Performance. He has performed as soloist with orchestras in Bulgaria, Japan, Illinois and Massachusetts, in recital series in New York, Washington DC, and California, and as a chamber musician in France, Italy and Monaco. Yates is the pianist of the Amelia Piano Trio, finalist in the 2000 Naumberg Chamber Music Competition. The trio has been presented by Isaac Stern in their New York debut at Weill Recital Hall, and were invited by Yo-Yo Ma to participate this past summer in his Silk Road Project at Tanglewood, which fosters communication between musicians from the East and West. Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,250 students representing 44 states and 41 other countries.
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