Title: Holiday Music and Educational Updates from the CU Symphony Guild
Description:
Award-winning, prominent regional musicians Flutist Amanda Pond and Cellist Barbara Hedlund will help launch the season performing holiday favorites, classical and popular music for your dining pleasure, and present information on CU Symphony Guild in-school music education programs, plus balancing their active performance, teaching, and family lives.
About the Speakers:
Amanda Pond enjoys an active career as a flutist and teacher. As an orchestral flutist, she currently performs with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Heartland Festival Orchestra, Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, Danville Symphony Orchestra, and Sugar Creek Opera Festival. https://amandapond.net
Barbara Hedlund is an orchestral and Broadway veteran, recipient of shared Emmy, Tony, Grammy, Gran Prix du Disque, and multiple awards. Barbara enjoys an active career as orchestral, chamber musician, recording artist, orchestra and college music festival administrator, music editor and publisher, orchestra founder/Executive Director/librarian, university professor, adjudicator, associate producer for Public Radio Television, concert, opera, and theatre producer, City of Urbana Public Arts Commissioner, young artist scholarship sponsor and mentor. With decades of performance, arts management, and music educator experience, her legacy demonstrates commitments to live music, arts education, innovative program building, collaboration, customer service, arts management, and advocacy. www.barbarahedlund.com
Registration Information:
This event will be hosted in person at the iHotel in Champaign
and
on ZOOM for those who would prefer to attend virtually
**Where to Find Your Zoom Link:
Each registrant will receive 2 reminder emails prior to the luncheon. You'll find the Zoom meeting information in those emails, as well as in your confirmation email which you will get immediately upon registration.
Registration for in person is $18.00 and includes lunch.
Registration to attend in person will be available until noon on Thursday, December 9. After December 9, registration switches to "late registration" at a price of $25.00. Registration via Zoom is free and will close on Wednesday, December 15th, at 12:00 noon.
Luncheon Start Time:
11:30 a.m.: Registration and Networking
11:45 a.m.: Lunch is served
12:00 p.m.: Meeting/Program begins in person and Zoom Call Starts
Non-Members: If you are not a member of ECCC and wish to attend as a guest, please contact Janice McAteer, Outreach Chair, to register.
