Visualizer Orchestra

Let’s create a visual soundtrack to classical music!

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is teaming up with Dallas-based Lightware Labs to create a dynamic light and visuals show and orchestra concert. This technology uses light and image to “map” a light projection onto a surface, turning ordinary walls and surfaces into dynamic, animated works of art.

The VSO uses this technology to create visual stories to accompany an hour of intense, emotional orchestral music. Our 40-piece orchestra will perform:

“The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship” from Scheherazade – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Langkawi Overture– Su Lian Tan

Adagio for Strings – Samuel Barber

Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Felix Mendelssohn

“Prayer” from Sinfonietta of Dreams – Jeffrey Scott

Uhuru: Freedom’s Song – Mark Lomax, II

Antoine T. Clark - Conductor - April 29 & 30th (4 PM)

Matt LaRocca - Conductor - April 30th (7 PM)

Single tickets will be available via the Paramount Theatre. The box office is open 10am-5pm on Fridays and 10am – 3pm on Saturdays, at 36 Center Street in downtown Rutland. Call 802-775-0903 or visit their website at https://www.paramountvt.org. Main floor seats $25; balcony seats $20; student tickets $10. A $4 per ticket surcharge applies to all phone/internet orders.

To register for our Student Insiders Program for this concert, please click here.

ABOUT ANTOINE T. CLARK

An award-winning conductor known for his engaging stage presence and advocacy for arts education, Antoine T. Clark is the assistant conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and the founding artistic and music director of the McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra.

Clark guested with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, the Colour of Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, and engagements at the Gateways Music Festival. Recent performances include his 2021 debut with the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Richmond Symphony (VA). With McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra, he led a collaboration with musicians from the Columbus Jazz Orchestra in a concert tribute to John Coltrane. Clark is currently the conductor and music director of the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra and music director of the Ohio Wesleyan University Chamber Orchestra.

Clark served as the assistant conductor at the Gateways Music Festival in association with the Eastman School of Music since 2017. Prior posts include assistant conductor of the Chicago Sinfonietta, cover conductor with the Lancaster Festival Orchestra, music director of the Ohio Northern University Symphony, Ohio Northern University Wind Orchestra, and Wayne State College Orchestra, assistant conductor of The Ohio State University Orchestra, and artistic and music director of the Capital City Chamber Players. He also has served as a faculty member at Denison University, Wayne State College, and Randolph College.

Clark holds a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance from The Ohio State University, a Master of Music degree in clarinet performance from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Virginia Commonwealth University.

ABOUT MATT LAROCCA

Matt LaRocca is a composer, performer, and educator who you are just as likely to see playing with a band in a dive bar as conducting an orchestra. He is on the composition and theory faculty at the University of Vermont and is the Artistic Director of the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also the Executive Director of Music-COMP, an organization that teaches composition to students throughout the country by pairing them with professional composers as mentors. Committed to new music and innovation, LaRocca loves bringing classical music to new audiences and new spaces through his work as the curator of the VSO’s Jukebox concert series. 

As a musician growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, LaRocca feels equally at home in both the rock and classical worlds. His classical work has been commissioned by groups such as the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Youth Symphony and the Great Falls

Symphony Orchestra, and from 2007-2008 he was the Faculty Composer in Residence for the Montana State University Symphony. TV and film credits include music for PBS and the British Lung Foundation, and he also works as a writer and arranger for rock and electronic bands. Artistic residencies include an expedition to the high arctic through The Arctic Circle organization and composition/improvisation teaching residencies at schools throughout New England and California. LaRocca frequently performs as a violist and guitarist in classical, rock and improvisation ensembles. 

LaRocca lives in Duxbury with his wife Heather, and their children Jasper, Sawyer, and Macy. He holds degrees in chemistry and music from Middlebury College and a doctorate in music composition from Boston University.