Local Guitarist To Perform In Benefit Concert

Newtown resident Yossi Kohrman-Glaser, 14, is one of the talented musicians who will be featured during the Benefit Concert for Music for Youth on November 8 at Trinity Church in Southport. The benefit concert will showcase 16 young musicians from Fairfield County.

“This is an opportunity for the community to hear outstanding local talents perform exceptional music while supporting a very worthy cause,” stated Marianne Liberatore, executive director of Music for Youth. “Many of these young musicians, who range in age from 8 to 15, have been studying their instruments since nursery school!”

Funds raised by the benefit concert support Music for Youth’s series of free concerts for children, explained Ms Liberatore. The performers were discovered during Music for Youth Master Classes.

Tickets are $25 for students, $50 for adults, and include a supper party following the performances. Call 203-227-1611; Visa or MasterCard are accepted. Tickets also are on sale at Sally’s Place, 190 Main Street in Westport.

Yossi Kohrman-Glaser recently took first place in the Guitar Foundation of America’s International Youth Competition held in Ithaca, N.Y.

In November he will play Suite Espanola. Op. 47: Sevilla and Asturias written by Isaac Albeiz and transcribed for guitar by Manuel Barruecom.

Yossi has been studying guitar for nine years and was a finalist in Danbury Music Centre’s annual concerto competition in 2006 and took second place in 2007. That June  he was a soloist with Danbury Symphony Orchestra at its annual Pops concert, performing the Vivaldi Lute Concerto in C.

Kohrman-Glaser, a freshman at Newtown High School, has been composing his own music since age 5.