Sara Serpa performs with Albany Symphony Orchestra

Sara Serpa will have her debut as a soloist with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Allan Miller, singing a piece by Grammy-nominated composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel “Mar de Setembro”, a composition written to Portuguese Eugénio de Andrade’s poem with the same title.  The concert will also feature the Scottish virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie.

The concerts will take place at the famous Troy Music Hall in Troy, NY on April 16th and 17th. In the early years of the 20th century the Music Hall featured performances from artists such as Lillian Nordica, Henri Vieuxtemps, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Albert Spalding, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Myra Hess and Jose Iturbi. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists including Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin and Artur Rubinstein played there.