Young Stars - Ellie Malonzo

Ellie Malonzo won 1st Prize in the American Music Talent Competition, 1st Prize in the Brisbane International Youth Music Festival, 1st Place in the Kings Peak International Music Competition, 1st Prize in the London International Music Competition, 1st prize in the May Classical Music International Youth Music Competition, 1st Prize in the 14th International Competition ‘Luigi Cerritelli’ and Grand Prize in the Red Maple International Music Competition in 2022 alone. Vivaldi’s Sinfonia RV 121 opens the performance and Dittersdorf’s 3rd Symphony provides the exciting finale.

The highly gifted Ellie Malonzo will play her own composition, Violin Concerto in A Major, composed this year and naturally a world premiere.  Ellie, now 12 years old, started violin at age 5, began composing at age 6, became WAYO Philarmonic’s concertmaster at 11 and has a truly inspiring list of prizes from around the world.

To end we have a Mozart contemporary,  Dittersdorf, who once performed in a quartet playing first violin, Haydn second violin, Mozart viola and Wanhal cello. Despite his compositions “greatly emphasizing sensuous Italo-Austrian melody” Dittersdorf is hardly known these days. Symphony No 3 is uplifting and beautiful, with the slow movement unusually one grand flute solo, exquisitely performed by Michael Howell.