On Sunday, November 22, The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York will present performances featuring all of the Nassau County MYO orchestras at the new Adelphi University Performing Arts Center in Garden City. The featured soloist will be flutist, and and radio host, Suzanne Bona.

Two concerts will be presented on November 22. The 2 PM concert will feature the MYO String & Concert Orchestras, led by Victoria Alaimo and Peggy Ho. At 5 PM the MYO Chamber Orchestra, led by Patricia Koppeis, and the MYO Nassau Principal Orchestra, directed by Scott Stickley will perform. Music will include works by Dvorak, Glinka, Torke, Nielsen, Rossini and Wagner. Ms. Bona will perform the Concerto for Flute by Carl Neilsen.

Flutist Suzanne Bona is a native of Fairfield, CT where her first private flute teacher was MYO founder and executive director John McNeur. Thanks to his coaching she joined the Greater Bridgeport and Norwalk Youth Symphonies, and continued private studies in New York with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra flutist Harold Bennett and NY City Ballet Orchestra flutist Andrew Lolya. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree in performance at The University of Connecticut where she studied with Martin Orenstein, and continued post-grad flute lessons with Thomas Nyfenger in New Haven. She has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles and as a soloist throughout Connecticut, New York, and Ohio.

Suzanne is also host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a syndicated weekly public radio showcase of Baroque and early music. She originated the program in 1987 on WSHU Public Radio in Fairfield, CT. Sunday Baroque has been distributed nationally since 1998, and is currently heard by more than a quarter million listeners every week on 114 public radio stations and networks nationwide.

The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York was founded in 1993 and now has almost six hundred members in its six orchestras and four choirs. Members hail from over one hundred different towns in Nassau and Suffolk Counties and New York City. The ensembles perform at various venues throughout Long Island, always including concerts at Tilles Center and at Lincoln Center or Carnegie Hall each year. The orchestra usually tours during July and has performed throughout central and eastern Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and China. This year the Orchestra and Chorus are planning a return performance tour of Poland and Eastern Europe. The MYO was founded by Glen Head resident, John McNeur, who recently was named “Educator of Note for 2008” by the Long Island Music Hall of Fame and was honored this past May as a Nassau BOCES “Educational Partner.”

MYO Choruses will also perform at Adelphi surrounding the November 22 concerts. On Saturday, November 21 at 7 PM the MYO Treble Choir and Concert Choir will perform and on Tuesday, November 24 at 7 PM the MYO Youth Chorale will perform.

The Adelphi University Performing Arts Center is located at 1 South Ave. in Garden City. Tickets are $15 ($5 for students and senior citizens) and may be ordered online at http://aupac.adelphi.edu or by calling the Adelphi box office at 516-877-4000. For more information about the program, the orchestras or choruses or the summer tour, visit the web site at www.myo.org.