The Carleton College Orchestra will perform their fall concert on Friday, November 13 at 8:00 pm in the Concert Hall.  Professor of Music and S. Eugene Bailey Director of the Carleton Orchestra Hector L. Valdivia will be directing the performance. The program will include Brahms’ “Academic Festival Overture,” Mozart’s “Symphony #40,” and Moussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.”  This event is free and open to the public.

Valdivia received the B.M.A. from the University of Wisconsin and the M.M.A., M.M., and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. His research interests include the music of Eugene Ysaye, Luisa Adolpha Le Beau, and Amy Beach. Dr. Valdivia recently recorded Beach's "Variations on Balkan Themes" with the Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc, Czech Republic. As a violinist, he performs with the Veblen Piano Trio and recently recorded several new works by Phillip Rhodes, Carleton's Composer-in-Residence.

The Carleton College Concert Hall is located at First Street and Winona Street in Northfield. For more information or disability accommodations, contact the music department at (507) 222-4475.