Fine Music, Food, And More At Holiday Musical Gathering To Benefit Bay-Atlantic Symphony On December 5

Enjoy an evening of beautiful music, food, drink, and camaraderie at a holiday musical gathering benefiting the Bay-Atlantic Symphony on Sunday, December 5, from 4 to 6 p.m., at a spectacular home in Swainton (near Avalon), NJ.
The event will also feature music performed by the dazzling violinist Amy Beth Horman, accompanied at the piano by Bay-Atlantic Symphony Music Director Jed Gaylin. Also featured will be a fabulous silent auction.
A donation of $50 per person will reserve your seat. Seating is limited.
For more information on making reservations, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 575-5583 or visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org.
Horman won bravos for her earlier appearances with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.
Acclaimed by The Washington Post has “having the stuff of greatness:,” she has appeared with orchestras throughout the United States and abroad, including the Fairfax Symphony, Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Orchestre de Meudon, JCC Symphony, Northwest Indiana Symphony, Amadeus Orchestra, PanAmerican Symphony, and the New Mexico Symphony. Other appearances have been at the Kennedy Center and Constitution Hall in Washington, the Strathmore Hall for the Performing Arts in Bethesda, MD. She has also been featured on French-Swiss television and on American cable television and radio broadcasts.
Horman was a winner of the National Symphony Orchestra’s Young Soloists Competition in both the high school and college division and debut with that orchestra at age 16 at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.
Also a gifted teacher, she often leads master classes and coaching sessions in conjunction with her engagements.
Gaylin, now in his 14th season as Music Director of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is also the Principal Conductor of the Cape May Music Festival. He has been the Music Director of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and, since 2007, the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Film and Radio Philharmonic in Beijing, China.
A sought-after guest conductor, he has led orchestras including the Sibiu Philharmonic of Romania—where he served as Principal Guest Conductor, Shanghai (China) Conservatory Orchestra, Bucharest (Romania) Radio Orchestra, Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain), Lodz and Pomorska (Poland) Philharmonics, Gnessin Institute Orchestra and Moscow Chamber Symphony (Russia), Orquesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato (Mexico), Orvieto Festival Orchestra (Italy), and the Naples Philharmonic (Florida). He also maintains a close association with Baltimore’s Opera Vivente and Johns Hopkins University, where he has served as Music Director of the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993.
In much demand throughout Europe, he has appeared with such orchestras as the Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona, Spain, for repeat engagements, as well as the Bucharest (Romania) Radio Orchestra, Lodz (Poland) Philharmonic, and the Moscow (Russia) Chamber Symphony.
In addition to his work with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony this year, Gaylin’s schedule included recording session in March and April in the Xinjiang Province of northwest China and performances in late July with a pan-European Youth Orchestra as principal conductor for Spain’s Cervera Music Festival. In December he conducts the St. Petersburg Symphony in Russia.