New Sussex Symphony season-ending concert features Mark Yolleck

Newton — The New Sussex Symphony’s season finale concert on Sunday, June 6 will include Mark Yolleck as the featured soloist. Yolleck retired from a 30-year career as a public educator, but has continued his professional career, performing across the state as solo pianist and accompanist. He has composed works for chorus, orchestra, band, chamber ensembles, solo instruments and solo voice. He has performed as a solo pianist, accompanist and choir director and is currently active as a chamber musician and recitalist. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Sussex County Community College’s Performing Arts Center with Giuseppe Verdi’s Overture to Nabucco (an opera in four acts, which follows the plight of the Jews as they are assaulted, conquered and subsequently exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nabucco). Following the Verdi, Yolleck will be featured performing Johann Hummel’s Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 85. Organizers said for the last concert of the season Maestro Karen Pinoci developed a program “that was both accessible to newer audience members and enjoyable for more seasoned music aficionados.” Ticket prices are $5 for children, students and seniors, and $10 for adults, and can be purchased at the door. Advance purchases are strongly recommended. Tickets are available at Lou’s Music Center in Newton or by calling the orchestra’s business manager Melinda McCoy-Miller at 973-579-6465.