Metropolitan Youth Orchestra Performs at Lakeside Theatre in Eisenhower Park on June 28

NOTE: The Venue for this concert has changed to Herricks High School Auditorium

at 100 Shelter Rock Road in New Hyde Park.

The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra (MYO) will perform at Eisenhower Park’s Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre on Thursday, June 28, at 7:30 p.m., announced Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi.  The orchestra, under the direction of John McNeur, will perform works by Copland, Dvorak, Mozart, Arthus Sullivan and others.

Joshua Feldman, a 17-year-old pianist who won the Stravinsky Award in 2002, will perform Greig’s "Piano Concerto" with the orchestra. Feldman made his debut at age 6 and has been a frequent performer in the New York metropolitan area, including with the “Piano Century” concert series at Juilliard School of Music and the Perlman Music Program, directed by acclaimed violinist Itzhak Perlman.  

Feldman has also played the role of a young Beethoven in the 1998 "A&E Biography" series, performing music of Mozart and Haydn. In addition to being a top student at Herricks High School, he has been named a Davidson Young Scholar as well as a Davidson Fellow Laureate by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. He will be attending Yale University in the fall on a full Disney scholarship.

Founded in 1993, MYO has 400 members in its four orchestras and two choirs from 81 towns in Nassau and Suffolk counties and New York City. The ensembles has performed atvLincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Tilles Center at C.W. Post University. The MYO Touring Orchestra has performed in the U.K., China and throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Following its concert at Lakeside Theatre, the Orchestra and Chorus are departing for a tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Admission for this concert is free and is sponsored by the Nassau County Department of Parks and a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, Decentralization Grant, through the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport.  For more information, visit www.myo.org or call the MYO office at 516-676-4751.

The Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre is located near parking fields 6 and 6A in Eisenhower Park. Special accommodations are available for disabled patrons, including reserved parking, easily accessible restrooms, and a convenient reserved location on the hill. Assistive hearing devices are available for the hearing impaired. 

There is no formal seating at Lakeside Theater, so concert-goers are urged to bring folding chairs. If weather conditions appear threatening, call (516) 572-0355 after 7 p.m. for updated performance information.