Pianist Terrence Wilson will perform as the featured guest artist of \u201cTerrence Wilson & Friends,\u201d a free concert on Thursday, June 9, at 7 p.m. at Sylvan Hills Middle School in South Fulton County. Also performing on the program are the AMP Summer Series Faculty Brass Ensemble, AMP Summer Series Festival Choir and the AMP Summer Series Faculty String Quartet. The opening concert repertoire will include Felix Mendelssohn\u2019s Fantasy \u201cScottish Sonata\u201d for piano, music from George Gershwin\u2019s Porgy & Bess for brass ensemble, and Johannes Brahms\u2019 Piano Quintet in F Minor. <\/span><\/p>\n The second concert of the 2016 AMP Summer Series will be \u201cAn Evening of Woodwinds & Strings\u201d on Wednesday, June 15, featuring the AMP Summer Series Faculty Woodwind Quintet and Faculty String Quartet, with advanced students performing as well. \u00a0The AMP Summer Series will cap off its program with two concerts in the last week of the festival featuring the student ensembles, which are comprised of experienced middle and high school students. The AMP Summer Series Festival Orchestra performs on Wednesday, June 22; and the AMP Summer Series Festival Choir performs on Thursday, June 23. <\/span><\/p>\n AMP Summer Series concerts are produced by the Atlanta Music Project in an effort \u00a0to bring free, high-quality musical performances to underserved neighborhoods, featuring not only renowned professional musicians, but also accomplished student musicians from these neighborhoods and beyond. <\/span><\/p>\n The AMP Summer Series is a tuition-free, three-week summer music festival and school in its inaugural year. The foundation of the AMP Summer Series consists of three weeks of intensive musical instruction for middle school and high school-aged students to include group lessons, music theory, composition, master classes and participation in an orchestra or choir. The AMP Summer Series is a program of the Atlanta Music Project, a year-round tuition-free after-school music program for youth based in underserved neighborhoods of Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2016 ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT SUMMER SERIES CONCERT SCHEDULE<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 7:00 p.m. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n *All concerts are free and open to the public, with free will donations encouraged.<\/span><\/p>\n About Terrence Wilson, piano<\/b><\/p>\n Pianist Terrence Wilson has established a reputation as one of today\u2019s most gifted instrumentalists. He has appeared with many prestigious ensembles, including the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Washington, DC (National Symphony), San Francisco, St. Louis and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well as with the orchestras of Cleveland, Minnesota and Philadelphia. Among the conductors with whom he has worked are Christoph Eschenbach, Alan Gilbert, Hans Graf, Gunther Herbig, Neeme Ja\u0308rvi, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Robert Spano, Yuri Temirkanov, and Bramwell Tovey.<\/span><\/p>\n Terrence Wilson is also active as a recitalist, having made his New York City recital debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Washington, DC recital debut at the Kennedy Center. In Europe he has given recitals at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, and at the Louvre in Paris. In the United States, he has given recitals at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society. An active chamber musician, Mr. Wilson performs regularly with the Ritz Chamber Players.<\/span><\/p>\n Terrence Wilson has received numerous awards and prizes, including the SONY ES Award for Musical Excellence, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Juilliard Petschek Award. He has also been featured on several radio and television broadcasts, including NPR’s “Performance Today,” WQXR radio in New York, and programs on the BRAVO Network, the Arts & Entertainment Network, and public television. In December, 2010, Wilson was nominated for a Grammy Award for his recording of Michael Daugherty’s <\/span>Deus ex Machina<\/span><\/i> for Piano and Orchestra with the Nashville Symphony conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. <\/span><\/p>\n Terrence Wilson is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. A native of the Bronx, he resides in Montclair, New Jersey. Read more about Terrence Wilson <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n About the Atlanta Music Project<\/b><\/p>\n Founded in 2010, the Atlanta Music Project provides intensive, tuition-free music education for underserved youth right in their neighborhood. Now in its sixth year of programming and serving 200 students at four sites, AMP provides all its students with an instrument, a teaching artist, classes and numerous public performance opportunities. AMP does not hold entrance auditions – the only requirement is a commitment to attending all classes. AMP\u2019s programs include: the AMP Orchestra; <\/span>AMPlify<\/span><\/i>, the choral program of the Atlanta Music Project; the AMP Academy, which provides advanced musical training to AMP\u2019s most talented and dedicated students; and the AMP Summer Series, a music festival and school. AMP\u2019s young artists have performed at Atlanta\u2019s most prestigious venues, including the Woodruff Arts Center, Spivey Hall, and the Rialto Center for the Arts. In 2015 Clayton State University established the Atlanta Music Project Endowed Scholarships, providing scholarship funds for AMP students choosing to attend Clayton State as music majors and music minors. In the next two years, AMP will expand to serve more than 300 students at multiple sites. For more information visit<\/span> www.atlantamusicproject.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n ###<\/span><\/p>\n Atlanta Music Project Contact:<\/b><\/p>\n Lindsay Aleshire, <\/i>706.202.6132, lindsay@atlantamusicproject.org\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GRAMMY NOMINATED PIANIST TERRENCE WILSON TO OPEN THE INAUGURAL ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT SUMMER SERIES CONCERTS AMP Summer Series to Present Four Free Concerts Featuring Faculty & Students The Atlanta Music Project (AMP) Summer Series, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,339,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-features","category-press-release"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Terrence](\"http:\/\/www.atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Terrence-Wilson-2-150x150.jpg\")
Thursday, June 9, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
\n<\/span>Opening Night: Terrence Wilson & Friends
\n<\/b>Featuring pianist Terrence Wilson, the AMP Summer Series Faculty Brass Ensemble, AMP Summer Series Festival Choir and AMP Summer Series Faculty String Quartet
\n<\/span><\/i>Sylvan Hills Middle School:\u00a0<\/span>1461 Sylvan Rd. SW, Atlanta, GA 30310
\n<\/span>Repertoire to include Johannes Brahms\u2019 Piano Quintet in F Minor<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AMP_Artmore_Vision_009-150x150.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>An Evening of Woodwinds & Strings
\n<\/b>featuring AMP Summer Series Faculty String Quartet, AMP Summer Series Faculty Woodwind Quintet, and AMP Summer Series student musicians
\n<\/span><\/i>Sylvan Hills Middle School:\u00a0<\/span>1461 Sylvan Rd. SW, Atlanta, GA 30310
\n<\/span>Repertoire to include Astor Piazzolla\u2019s Libertango for woodwind quintet and Edvard Grieg\u2019s String Quartet in G Minor Opus 27<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Orchestra](\"http:\/\/www.atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Orchestra-2-150x150.jpg\")
Wednesday, June 22, 7:00 p.m.
\n<\/span>Atlanta Music Project Summer Series Festival Orchestra
\n<\/b>Christopher Thibdeau, conductor
\n<\/span><\/i>Sylvan Hills Middle School
\n<\/span>1461 Sylvan Rd. SW, Atlanta, GA 30310
\n<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Choir](\"http:\/\/www.atlantamusicproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Choir-3-150x150.jpg\")
Thursday, June 23, 7:00 p.m.
\nAtlanta Music Project Summer Series Festival Choir
\n<\/b>Emily Hobson, conductor
\n<\/span><\/i>Kindezi School West Lake:\u00a0<\/span>1890 Detroit Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30314<\/span><\/p>\n