<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="background:white;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2775"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2776">The <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2777">Parma Symphony Orchestra</b> will perform a concert on <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2778">Sunday, October 16, 2016</b> at 3:00 PM at <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2779">Valley Forge High School Auditorium</b> located at 9999 Independence Boulevard in Parma Heights. <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2780"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2781"></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2783"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2784">Music Director <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2785">Dr. Randolph P. Laycock</b> presents:</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2786"> <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2787">Bizet’s </span><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2788"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2789">Carmen Suite No. 2</i></b> and <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2790">the powerful <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2791"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2792">Carmina Burana</i></b>
by Carl Orff featuring the combined choirs of Parma, Normandy, Valley
Forge, Padua Franciscan High Schools and Cuyahoga Community College
Choir and soloist Kira Seaton and Brian Keith Johnson.</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2793"></span></div><div style="background:white;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2794"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2795"> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2796"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2797">The orchestra, in its 4</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2798">7</span><sup id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2799"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2800">th</span></sup><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2801">
season consists of 75 members of all walks of life from all over the
entire Greater Cleveland area. They meet weekly for rehearsals and
present at least four concerts annually.<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2802"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2803">General admission is $10
for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens. Family passes of
$20 are available for families of up to 2 adults and their children.
All tickets are available at the door beginning at 2:30 PM. <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2804"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2805">The
Parma Symphony Orchestra is a self-supporting community orchestra in
cooperation with the Parma City Schools. For more information can be
found on Facebook, web-site <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.parmasymphony.org/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2806">www.parmasymphony.org</a> or calling Business Manager Joe Germana 440-882-2012.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2807"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2808"> </span></div><div style="text-align:right;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2809" align="right"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2810"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2812">Brian Keith Johnson</b> has performed many roles in opera from Figaro in <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2813">il barbiere di Siviglia </i>to Ford in <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2814">Falstaff</i>. As a member of Actors’ Equity Association, he has also performed a variety of musical theatre roles ranging from Jim in <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2815">Big River</i> to Father/God in <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2816">Children of Eden</i>.
His concert repertoire includes most of the major baritone works such
as Carmina Burana, Elijah, The Verdi Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony, The Brahms Requiem and The Faure’ Requiem. He has performed
operatic and musical theatre roles across the United States including
performances with The Cleveland Orchestra, Akron Symphony Orchestra,
Canton Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland,
Blossom Festival Orchestra, Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, Opera Western
Reserve, Carolina Master Chorale, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and
Porthouse Theatre. Mr. Johnson received his Bachelor’s Degree from The
University of Akron and has also studied abroad at The New Opera Academy
of Rome in Rome, Italy and The American Institute of Musical Studies in
Graz, Austria. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2817"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2818"> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2819"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2820"> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2821"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2823">Kira Seaton,</b>
Assistant Professor of Music at the Western Campus, teaches courses in
Voice, Choral Music, Music Theory, and Musicology. After receiving her
Master’s of Music in Performance in 1985 from O.U., Ms. Seaton moved to
Cleveland and joined the music faculty of the <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2824"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2825">Cleveland Music School Settlement</i></b> and helped to found <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2826"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2827">The Magnolia Ensemble, </i></b>the Settlement Artist-in Residence Chamber Ensemble<b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2828"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2829">.</i> </b> She is the former Director of Music at <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2830">First Congregational United Church of Christ of Berea,</b> and currently serves as a musician for the contemporary worship services at <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2831">St. Thomas Episcopal Church</b>
in Berea. An active classical and musical theatre soloist throughout
the Mid-West, Ms. Seaton has performed, musical directed, or directed at
a majority of the theatres in the area, and has sung with both
Cleveland Opera and the Cleveland Orchestra. Since joining the CCC
faculty in 1987, she has directed, musical directed, or performed over
forty CCC-Western Campus Theatre productions, including the highly
successful Holiday Christmas Projects, performing Children’s Operas for
over 12,000 school children over the past decade. Professor Seaton has
directed or participated in touring choirs performing in a number of the
nation’s premiere performance halls, including The Kennedy Center in
Washington D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York City, and our own Severance
Hall. Ms. Seaton conducted the Tri-C Chorale on tour in Venice,
Florence and Rome, Italy in 2004, and Montreal in 2009. She is the
founding co-director of the CCC-West Summer Performing Arts Program, and
is an adjudicator and coach for several regional music and theatre
associations.</div><div style="" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2832"> <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1475890474239_2833"></div></div></body></html>