Under the baton of Music Director Marcy A. Sudock, Musique Sur La Mer Orchestra performs locally and travels extensively around the globe performing concerts that inspire and sustain, raising money for charities. This concert, For the Love of Our Oceans, will feature world premieres of four masterworks by American composers with special guest Brett Deubner, viola virtuoso.

Program:

• The Voyager for Viola and Orchestra, Richard Danielpour
• Pacific Visions for String Orchestra, Kenneth Fuchs, commissioned by Dennis and Suzanne Poulsen
• Ocean of Possibilities for String Orchestra, Edward Zeliff
• St. Melangell’s Voyage Across the Sea for Viola and String Orchestra, Max Wolpert
• Encore: River Cam for Viola and String Orchestra, Eric Whitacre

This event is managed by an outside organization and is not an official Aquarium event.

Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras (MSLMO) was founded in 2001 by music director, conductor and violinist, Marcy A. Sudock. Their mission is to empower musicians, serve humanity and create peace through the international language of music aimed to work hand in hand with strong ethics, responsibility, musicality, education, passion and commitment.

Locally based in the Long Beach/Seal Beach area of Southern California, MSLMO performs locally and travels extensively around the globe performing concerts that aim to inspire and sustain, raising money for charities. Musique Sur La Mer Orchestra performed in London in the Amaryllis-Flemming Concert Hall of the Royal College of Music as the American tribute in honor of the wedding of HRH Prince William and Catherine Middleton and in honor of the Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras have performed for sold out audiences in Vienna’s Musikverien-Saal (Austria), the Royal Cathedral of Monaco (Monaco), the Esterhazy Palace (Austria), the Salzburg Cathedral (Austria), the Sydney Opera House (Australia), the Teatro Nacional (Costa Rica) and the Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, CA.)

About Brett Deubner, viola: Brett Deubner is considered by some as one of this generation’s most accomplished violists. The New Jersey Star Ledger commented,”Deubner played with dynamic virtuosity hitting the center of every note no matter how many there were” and the Strad magazine noted his playing for his “infectious capriciousness.”

Recent performances include concerto appearances with over fifty orchestras on four continents. Deubner has garnered critical acclaim from solo appearances with such American orchestras as the Grand Rapids Symphony, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, Missoula Symphony, Musique Sur La Mer Orchestra, Peninsula Symphony and acclaimed solo debuts in South American orchestras from Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela, and Argentina. Recent concerto appearances in Europe include well received performances with Orchestre Bel’Arte of Paris, the Thuringer Symphoniker of Saalfeld, Germany and the Kiev Kamerata of Ukraine.

Deubner’s commitment to extending the repertoire for the viola is made evident by collaborations with some of today’s greatest composers such as Richard Danielpour, Samuel Adler, Lalo Schifrin, Andrew Rudin, David Del Tredici and several of this generation’s leading young composers. To date, over 80 works for viola including 30 viola concerti and numerous solo and chamber works for viola have been dedicated to and premiered by Brett Deubner.

As a recording artist Brett Deubner has over 15 CD’s to his credit from the Naxos, Centaur, Innova and Albany labels. Deubner is on the faculty at Queens College where he instructs young violists at the Aaron Copland School of Music in New York City. Deubner also serves on the faculty of the Round Top Festival Institute in Texas and the Gramado in Concert International Music Festival in Brazil.