LCCC CIVIC ORCHESTRA TO FEATURE OBERLIN NATIVE JONATHAN SALTER ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4

The Lorain County Community College Civic Orchestra 2011-2012 season continues at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 4 on the Stocker Arts Center stage. 

Tickets are $7 for adults; $6 LCCC for staff and students, and $6 for Buckeye cardholders. For more information, contact the LCCC Stocker Arts Center box office at (440) 366- 4040. Tickets may be purchased from the box office from 12-6 p. m., Monday through Friday.

The concert will feature clarinetist Jonathan Salter in two works, the jazz-inspired “Concerto for Clarinet,” by Artie Shaw and the “Russian Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra,” by Alexander Manevich. Salter is an Oberlin native who earned his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He recently completed a concert tour in China. 

This performance serves as a preview of LCCC Musical Director Robert Beckstrom’s new opera, “Job,” taken from the Old Testament story, which will be presented with full staging next October.  In the title role will be baritone, Mark Wanich.  Appointed to the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2010, Wanich is a rising star having performed with Opera New Jersey, Opera per tutti, Opera Cleveland and Nashville Opera.  Also singing, will be soprano and LCCC Vocal Faculty, Janine Porter.

Beckstrom is the Dean of LCCC’s Arts and Humanities department. He earned a Ph. D. in music composition from the University of California Los Angeles.

Salter will also perform with the LCCC Jazz Band at 3 p.m., Sunday, February 5 in Stocker Arts Center.

For more information, visit www.stockerartscenter.com and click on “Arts and Humanities.”