The Shadow
Maestro
David Wiley
Maestro
David Wiley
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The Alleghany Highlands Arts Council continues its “Broadway Month” that features a rare evening with Roanoke Symphony’s Mae-stro David Wiley, two soprano sisters and a recently-visiting baritone in a concert titled, “Broadway and Beyond.”
The performance is slated for Friday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Curfman Hall at Covington High School.
The night of music features soprano soloists, Adelaide Muir Trombetta and Wendy Muir.
Ray McLeod will also give a return performance for this show. Audiences saw him at the beginning of Broadway Month in “Ray McLeod and Friends.”
Maestro Wiley will be at the piano with Tracy Cowden on bass. This high-energy program takes you to Broadway and beyond with the spectacular voices, infectious personalities and fast-paced song and tap routines
The audience will hear favorites from “Wicked,” “Spamalot,” “West Side Story,” “Peter Pan,” “Into the Woods,” “Carosel,” “Man of La Mancha” and “The Great American Songbook.”
The New York Times called Adelaide Muir Trombetta “sensitive and affecting” during her performance as a National Finalist of the renowned Metropolitan Opera National Counsel Auditions.
During her time at Yale University she performed leading concert and stage roles.
Adelaide has been featured on NBC’s “Good Morning America” and in Classical Singer Magazine and Opera News.
In September 2011 she was invited to present a solo recital at the University of Utah, appeared as the soprano soloist for the “Messiah” and as the featured soloist for the Holiday Pops Concert with the Roanoke Symphony.
She regularly visits Italy to maintain a modern concept of the Bel Canto style and Italian language for opera. She is an assistant professor of voice at Liberty University and resides with her husband in Lynchburg.
Wendy Muir graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.
She’s performed with the Ohio Light Opera, Stiletto Entertainment, Music by the Lake and the National Tour of “Sweeney Todd.” Wendy has been a finalist in the Americas Tradition Competition and has been recognized by the National Foundation for the Advancement for the Arts.
Ray McLeod started his career at the Metropolitian Opera, then moved to Broadway in shows like “Jekyl and Hyde,” “Wonder-ful Town,” for which he was a Drama Desk nominee, “Dance of the Vampires,” and “Tale of Two Cities.” He’s performed Off-Broadway in innumerable roles and is the singing voice of many Disney movie musicals.
“I’m excited to be returning to your stage after that great residency experience earlier this month, and I hope to see many of my new friends there in the audience,” said McLeod.
David Wiley is no stranger to Alleghany Highlands audiences. He is an experienced and energetic orchestra builder, sharing his many talents as conductor, concert pianist, pops arranger, composer and recording artist.
As a solo pianist, Wiley has performed with numerous major orchestras throughout the United States, including Minnesota, Indianapolis, Oregon, Honolulu, Wheeling, and West Virginia, performing major concerti by Baroque to contemporary composers, often conducting the orchestra from the piano.
He has appeared as a jazz pianist in Boston’s Symphony Hall and in recital and chamber music appearances throughout the U.S. as well as in China, Russia, Romania, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria.
Summer engagements include the Aspen Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Garth Newel, Wintergreen, Park City, Minnesota Orchestra Sum-merfest, and Prince Albert (Hawaii) summer festivals.
Tickets for Friday’s show are $20 adults and $8 students and can be purchased at the Alleghany Highlands Arts Council Office as well as Owen’s Pharmacy and the Alleghany Highlands Chamber of Commerce and Tourism or by calling the Arts Council at 962-6220.
Corporate co-sponsor for the event is Cucci’s of Covington.
The project is underwritten through a grant from The Alleghany Foundation with supplemental funding from the Virginia Commis-sion for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
