The Edison Arts Society presents the Edison Symphony Orchestra in concert on Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 8PM in Middlesex County College Theatre (2600 Woodbridge Avenue, Edison, New Jersey, 98818).

For information and tickets please contact the Edison Arts Society: (908) 753-2787.

Tickets cost: $25 Adults, $20 for Subscribers and Students.

The President of Edison Arts Society and Edison Symphony Orchestra, Angelo Orlando conveys that a percentage of ticket sales for this concert will be donated to the families of the victims from the World Trade Center Disaster.

The Edison Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra founded by the Edison Arts Society, the Music Director and Conductor is Judith Morse.

The program on 10/13 will be: Franz von Suppe's "Light Cavalry", Beethoven's "Symphony No. 1 in C Major", Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" featuring piano soloist Wendy Fang Chen, Verdi's "La Forza Del Destino", Tchaikovsy's "Slavonic March", Sabin Pautza's "Saxophone Jazz Concerto" featuring soloist Paul Cohne.

The Edison Arts Society is in collaboration with Metropolitan Opera Bass, Jerome Hines with a program entitled Opera Link. This program is the bridge where opera singers will have the opportunity to work with the symphony and Mr. Hines on polishing their craft for future work at the Met. Mr. Hines will audition opera singers for this program and they can find out more information about this by contacting the Edison Arts Society Office at

908-753-2787.

Judith Morse - Conductor

Judith received her B.M. from the Manhattan School of Music and her M.A. and Ed.M. from Columbia University. She also holds a conducting diploma from the Vienna Conservatory where she studied under Yuji Ozawa. In New York, Ms. Morse studied conducting under Anton Coppola and violin under Raphael Bronstein.

As a participant in the Tokyo International Conducting Competition, she placed 8th out of 194 international participants. Her placement afforded her the opportunity to conduct the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

Judith conducted the first American orchestra to tour Moscow in 1987 on invite from the Russian government. A standing ovation was received and the performance was carried by Moscow Radio.

For the past two years she has been one of 12 conductors selected internationally to work with Kurt Masur and the American Symphony Orchestra League in New York.

Wendy Fang Chen, pianist and composer born in Brooklyn of Taiwanese descent earned her B.M. and M.M. from the Juilliard School. Chen has performed with such noted orchestras as the London Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Central Philharmonic of China, Taipei Municipal Symphony Orchestra and in such internationally renowned venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Tchaikovsky Grand Concert Hall and Kennedy Center. A faculty member at The Juilliard School, she has won numerous prizes for her piano performances and compositions. She made her theatrical debut in 1994 as the pianist Clara Schumann in the play, Virtuosa.

Paul Cohen, Saxophone Soloist Paul Cohen is active as a performer, teacher, historian, musicologist and author in all areas related to the saxophone. He is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and has appeared

as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, Richmond Symphony, New Jersey Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra.

He has recorded three albums with the Cleveland Orchestra. Dr. Cohen holds and MM and DMA degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. His teachers have included Galan Kral, Joe Allard, Henry Schuman and Sigord Rascher.

Sabin Pautza - Composer

Sabin Pautza has been widely recognized as a composer in his native Romania, Europe and the United States. He is listed in the International Who's Who in Music and Musicians, Cambridge, England.

He received his Master of Fine Arts in Music from the Bucharest Academy of Music in 1965 and studied composition at the Academia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy with Franco Donatoni. Among the awards he has received are the George Enesco Prize from the Romanian Academy and First Prize from the Composers Union, Salt Lake City.

Sabin Pautza holds an Honorary Doctorate in Music awarded by the London Institute for Applied Research, England. Mr. Pautza has been released on four compact discs by the Swift Records Co., in the Opera Omnia series which intends to contain his major works in ten volumes.

He made his American debut at Carnegie Hall in January 1985 with the New York University Orchestra, with his composition "Haiku" poems for Soprano and Orchestra.