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6th Annual Montverde Fine Arts Planned for Saturday, February 25

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On February 25, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the 6th Annual Montverde Fine Arts Fest will take place inside the Sandra O. Stephens Fine Arts Auditorium, the new Performing and Media Arts building, and the green space between the fine arts building and the lower school. The event is sponsored in part by a grant from the South Lake County Community Foundation and presented by MVA Upper-school fine arts students (choir, orchestra, theatre, visual arts, media arts, T.V production), and MVA Lower-school/Middle-School theatre and visual arts. Parents, families and the community are all invited to attend, watch and participate. This year, the FAF will feature a one hour concert that begins at 1:00p.m. highlighting performances by soloists and actors from the MVA theatre department and guest choirs from Mineola High School, Windy Hill Middle School, and South Lake Middle School, as well as students from other regional theatre programs. The cost of the event is free and food and beverages will be sold from the portico of the new music and media arts building.

Aubrey Connelly, MVA Fine Arts Department Chair, informs Montverde.net, "The Fine Arts Fest is a chance for all of our Fine Arts students to mingle, show off their skills in performance and displays and learn from invited guest Master Artists. These guests include a caricature artist who will do free caricatures all day for our guests, local Orlando painter and sculptor Parker Sketch, animee artist Amy Lester, and several other artists. There will be live demonstrations of green screen effects and a "host a news cast" experiences as well as scenes and monologues, musical theatre pieces, theatre games, and a session on fight choreography." Invited area choirs will also be participating in morning clinics under the director of renowned, award-winning conductor Dr. John Sinclair. According to the Rollins College web site, "Dr. John V. Sinclair serves as Chair of the Department of Music and is the John M. Tiedtke Professor of Music at Rollins College. He is celebrating his 20th season as Artistic Director and Conductor of the renowned Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Florida, and is the conductor of the International Moravian Music Festivals. He earned his undergraduate degree from William Jewell College and his Master's and Doctoral degrees from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. Musically he is known for creative interpretations, expressive conducting style, and innovative programming. During the past fifteen years he has made over seven hundred appearances as conductor, clinician, or lecturer throughout the United States and many foreign countries. Dr. Sinclair is also a conductor of the Candlelight Processional at EPCOT and has conducted recordings for Warner Brothers, Walt Disney Corporation, Moravian Music Foundation, and numerous Bach Festival recordings."

Mr. Connolly is excited about this MVA arts occasion and praises the cooperation from participants in the planning of the upcoming event affirming, "This yearly event is a cooperative venture between all of MVA's fine arts faculty at all three levels, live theatre, demonstrations and displays of visual arts and hands on experiences from our new media arts department. Student art will be on display and several professional Orlando artists will be creating art on the spot. There will be theatre games, folk dancing, and a drumming circle, a concert with MVA students and other regional school choirs, scenes, monologues, and musical theatre performances from Montverde students. The events, including the concert, are all free and students, faculty, staff, and the community are invited."