YSO to close season with ‘All Beethoven’

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Caroline Oltmanns

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Dana School of Music faculty member Caroline Oltmanns wil be the guest piano soloist at the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra’s season-ending concert Saturday.

Titled “All Beethoven,” the program will feature Leonore Overture No. 3, Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”), which is the solo piece Oltmanns will perform, and Symphony No. 7, op. 92, A major.

Oltmanns is a professor of piano at Youngstown State University and an international Steinway artist. She has presented master classes and workshops in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, South Africa and Canada, and her students have been accepted into prestigious programs in the United States and abroad.

A native of F ºrth, Germany, Oltmanns received a performance diploma from the Staatliche Musikhochschule Freiburg, and consequently accepted a Fulbright Scholarship and the prestigious Stipendium der deutschen Wirtschaft for graduate and doctoral studies at the University of Southern California.

Michael Crist, director of the Dana School of Music, said, “The Dana School of Music and the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra have enjoyed a long and positive relationship. Many Dana faculty perform as members of the YSO. To have one of our own perform a Beethoven solo is exciting and shows the level of musicianship we offer to our students.”

The orchestra is under the direction of Randall Craig Fleischer.