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SPRING CONCERT with the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA under the bâton of Music Director JEFFREY MILARSKY featuring Luxembourg second violinist LEA MELKI
SPRING CONCERT 2017 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
under the bâton of Music Director JEFFREY MILARSKY
featuring Luxembourg second violinist LEA MELKI
Friday, April 21, 2017 at 8:00pm
ALICE TULLY HALL – LINCOLN CENTER
65th Street & Broadway
http://cuo.music.columbia.edu/events/wagner-and-berlioz-lincoln-center
Tickets $5.00 only sold at the door !!!
PROGRAM
Richard Wagner - Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Joseph Haydn – Concerto in D for Violoncello and Orchestra (First movement), featuring Alec Hon, 2017 Concerto Competition Winner
Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
Lea Melki was born in Luxembourg to Lebanese parents. She started the violin at the age of 4 at the Luxembourg Conservatory. At 9, Lea and her family left Steinsel for her father’s work and moved to Dubai, where she continued her violin studies joining the Emirates Youth Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2009.
After graduating from high school in 2009, she moved to Paris to enter the French preparatory classes to the entrance of Engineering Graduate Schools. She put the violin on standby, and received her Engineering Degree from Telecom Physique Strasbourg along with a Master Degree in Medical Imaging from the University of Strasbourg. In the fall of 2015, she moved to New York to start her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University in the Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging Laboratory. Her main research interest focuses on the electromechanical behavior of the heart to create new non-invasive diagnostic tools.
A passionate violinist, Lea simultaneously joined the Columbia University Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky from the Juilliard School.