<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 id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3293"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3294"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3304"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3296">The
Parma Symphony Orchestra will perform a concert on Sunday, March 12 at
3:00 PM at Valley Forge High School Auditorium located at 9999
Independence Boulevard in Parma Heights. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3298"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3300">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.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3305"> Baldwin
Wallace University Professor Emeritus Loris Ohannes Chobanian will
conduct Parma Symphony in the World Premiere of his composition "Ani-
City of 1000 Churches for String Orchestra, Piano and Timpani". </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3306"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3307"> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3308"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3309">Also
on the program will be Chobanian's AESOP'S FABLES: The Ant and
the Grasshopper, The Dog Who Saw His Shadow, The Fox and the Grapes, and
A Man His Son and His Donkey. The composer will provide the narration.
</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3310"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3311"> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3312"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3313">The
rest of the program, conducted by Maestro Laycock will include
Tchaikovsky's Symphonic Poem "Francesca da Rimini" and Chopin's "Piano
Concerto No. 1" with Tomasz Robak, as piano soloist. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3314"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3315"> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3316"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3318">Polish-American
artist Tomasz Robak is a concert pianist, chamber musician, organist,
and educator. Through his versatile skills in multiple areas, he
continues the age-old European tradition of the "complete musician".
His achievements as a pianist include concerto appearances with the New
North Shore Chamber Orchestra, the Memphis Repertory Orchestra, the
Manassas Symphony Orchestra, and the Southwest Symphony Orchestra. He
has been heard in solo recitals across the United States, in Baltimore,
Austin, Chicago, and Memphis, as well as on radio at WFMT-Chicago and
WKNO-Memphis. An enthusiastic chamber musician, he most recently
performed in five concerts at the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival in
Memphis, a festival promoting emerging composers and music of the 20th
and 21st centuries.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3319"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3320">Mr.
Robak has also had a long-standing involvement in music ministry, and
has worked as an organist for churches in Chicago, Houston and
Baltimore. As an organ performer, he has collaborated with the Concert
Artists of Baltimore and the Peabody Singers. His performance of
Kodaly’s Missa Brevis with the Peabody Singers has been broadcast on
Baltimore’s WBJC. Since April 2014, he has been serving as Organist and
Associate Choirmaster at historic Mount Calvary Catholic Church in
Baltimore. Mr. Robak holds the Associateship of the American Guild of
Organists. In addition to performing, Mr. Robak is a passionate
educator. He is a member of the piano faculty at the Peabody
Preparatory, is in his fourth year serving as a Graduate Assistant in
Keyboard Studies at the Peabody Conservatory, and also works for the
Baltimore Children’s Choir as its Associate Director. Mr. Robak has
received scholarships from the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Polish
American Arts Association of Washington, DC. In 2013, he took Second
Prize at the International Beethoven Sonata Competition in Memphis. In
recognition of his achievements in organ playing, in 2016 he was awarded
the Richard Ross Memorial Prize in Organ at the Peabody Institute. Mr.
Robak completed his undergraduate studies at Rice University,
graduating magna cum laude with degrees in both piano and philosophy,
and a Distinction in Creative Works and Research. He completed a Master
of Music degree in piano performance at the Peabody Institute, where he
is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. His principal
teachers have been Dr. Robert Roux, Benjamin Pasternack, Alexander
Shtarkman (piano) and Donald Sutherland (organ). He has also
participated in a host of masterclasses with renowned pianists including
Eteri Andjaparidze, Leon Fleisher, Andrzej Jasinski, Julian Martin,
John Perry, and others.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3321"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3322"> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3323"><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3324">The
Parma Symphony Orchestra is a self-supporting community orchestra in
cooperation with the Parma City Schools. The orchestra, in its 48th
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.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3325"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3510"><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3326">For
more information can be found on Facebook, visiting
www.parmasymphony.org or calling Business Manager Joe Germana
440-882-2012.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488682881166_3327"></span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>