Celebrating the North Fork
featuring
Long Island Concert Orchestra
Music Director Enrico Fagone
at
The Suffolk
118 E Main St, Riverhead, NY 11901
Monday, June 16th, 2025, at 7:30 PM
featuring
Long Island Concert Orchestra
Music Director Enrico Fagone
at
The Suffolk
118 E Main St, Riverhead, NY 11901
Monday, June 16th, 2025, at 7:30 PM
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Program
Alexej Shor Waltz
Marco Taralli Dances of terroirs (world premiere)
WineMaker's Dance
Saltarello
Aaron Copland Old American Songs
Michaela Larsen, Mezzo Soprano
1The Boatmen's Dance
The Dodger
Long Time Ago
Simple Gifts
I Bought Me a Cat
Intermission
W. A. Mozart Sinfonia n. 29 in A Major, K. 201
Allegro moderato
Andante
Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio
Allegro con spirito
Long Island Concert Orchestra
Music Director Enrico Fagone
Alexej Shor Waltz
Marco Taralli Dances of terroirs (world premiere)
WineMaker's Dance
Saltarello
Aaron Copland Old American Songs
Michaela Larsen, Mezzo Soprano
1The Boatmen's Dance
The Dodger
Long Time Ago
Simple Gifts
I Bought Me a Cat
Intermission
W. A. Mozart Sinfonia n. 29 in A Major, K. 201
Allegro moderato
Andante
Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio
Allegro con spirito
Long Island Concert Orchestra
Music Director Enrico Fagone
This concert is presented by
Rites of Spring Music Festival
in collaboration with
The Suffolk
Rites of Spring Music Festival concerts are made possible in part with public funds from Suffolk County under the auspices of the Office of Cultural Affairs, legislator Katherine Stark;
This work is also supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Huntington Arts Council.
Rites of Spring Music Festival
in collaboration with
The Suffolk
Rites of Spring Music Festival concerts are made possible in part with public funds from Suffolk County under the auspices of the Office of Cultural Affairs, legislator Katherine Stark;
This work is also supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Huntington Arts Council.
Long Island Concert Orchestra (LICO)
Long Island Concert Orchestra (LICO), with Enrico Fagone artistic director, was established in September of 2016 by David Winkler Executive Director of its umbrella not-for-profit, Sea Cliff Chamber Players. The new orchestra’s continuing mission has been to meet the growing needs on Long Island and metropolitan New York City for a fully professional orchestra possessing a unique approach to repertoire, presentation and international reach.
Long Island Concert Orchestra (LICO)’s long term mission is to bring great orchestral music into the very communities where our audiences reside – throughout Long Island and metropolitan New York. To best reach the broadest possible range of audiences, the orchestra performs at a variety of venues throughout the region including Nassau and Suffolk Counties as well as New York City. LICO also provides a variety of vital and dynamic music education programs in our public schools as well free parks programs for large audiences.
On Long Island, LICO helps to meet the cultural needs of its three million residents with fully professional orchestra programs throughout the region. These programs include free parks concerts, in-school Arts-In- Education programs and other vital endeavors. In the just last several years LICO has established concert series in a variety of regional venues including the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, Morgan Park, the Patchogue Theater, the Suffolk Theater, East Islip Summer Series, Huntington Arts Summer Stage, and Krasnoff Hall along with New York City venues such as Merkin Hall and the famous landmark venues Good Shepherd Church, and Broadway Presbyterian at 114th Street, Manhattan.
Our Music Director, grammy nominated Enrico Fagone, is well known to the international music community leading major orchestras throughout the world. Maestro Fagone continues to create unique and powerful programs with LICO bringing internationally renowned concert soloists to LICO concerts both throughout Long Island and in our metropolitan New York events as well.
In addition to the above public concert events, LICO has already provided programs for young people including numerous student coaching and performance services in area public schools including activities at the Uniondale, Wheatley, Sewanhaka and Sachem School Districts, encompassing some 14 lower, middle and high schools.
Enrico Fagone, Music Director
Music Director and Artistic Director of the Long Island Concert Orchestra in New York, Maestro Enrico Fagone is regularly invited to conduct orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the RA National Symphony Orchestra of Turin, the Milan Symphony Orchestra, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, the Marche Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the Italian Virtuosi, the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Serbian National Theatre, the FOl Opera Orchestra Italian (Festival Verdi, Teatro Regio di Parma).
His debut in January 2019 at the helm of the RAl National Symphony Orchestra with the famous pianist Martha Argerich as a soloist received great acclaim from the public and critics and was broadcast on the National TV RAI5 (currently visible on RaiPlay). Also active in the operatic field, Maestro Fagone conducted Mozart’sopera “Così Fan Tutte” at the Kammeroper in Munich and in 2019 he was invited to conduct the Gala concert “Fuoco di Goia” at the Verdi Festival in Parma, sharing the stage with singers including M. Pertusi, F. Cedolins, A. Chiuri and
V. Stoyanov. In the 2024/25 season, debuts await him on the podiums of important musical venues such as the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa, the Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari, the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari, the Orchestra of Italian Switzerland, the Royal Opera Festival of Krakow and Belcanto Opera Festival Bad Wildbad.
After graduating in double bass studies, he dedicated himself to studying orchestral conducting at the “Claudio Abbado” Civic School in Milan and with Daniele Agiman at the Parma Academy for the operatic repertoire. He completed his training with the legendary Mo Jorma Panula in Helsinki, which inspired him to pursue his career. At the same time, he deepened his studies in composition with Jorge Bosso and Ivo Antognini.
During his studies he also had the opportunity to learn the technique of the great Russian conducting teacher ll’ja Musin through his students Alim Shack and Semyon Bychkov, whose performances he followed in Spain and the Czech Republic.
Always in search of “the new”, Maestro Fagone collaborates closely with composers creating new works and when proposing the great composers of the past, the Maestro seeks out composers who are rarely performed but whose work is of undisputed value such as Muzio Clementi, Giuseppe Martucci, Aldo Finzi and clearly Giovanni Bottesini, to whose work he is deeply attached given his role as Artistic Director of the Bottesini Competition. It is precisely through the study of Bottesini, the in-depth study of Verdi’s manuscripts and the assiduous attendance of the theaters of Busseto and Parma that he arrived at his orchestral conducting direction.
In the symphonic repertoire, Fagone pays particular attention to the practice of the various classical time periods in an attempt to get closer – whenever possible, to the concept of
“Historically informed” performance. This is particularly true in the classical and early romantic repertoire with composers such as J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms.
He has recorded for EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, Warner, Stradivarius, and Da Vinci, among others. For Musica Solis label, Maestro Fagone collaborated with clarinetist Seunghee Lee, composer and bandoneonist JP Jofre, and the London Symphony Orchestra on the album Aspire, which was nominated for a Grammy® in the Best Classical Compendium category.
About him:“Enrico Fagone is an extraordinary musician!”
Martha Argerich
” Enrico Fagone owns a natural ability to approach musically everything he conducts. His charismatic personality makes him an interesting conductor.”!
Jorma Panula
“at the baton, Fagone has become highly appreciated as a conductor”.
La Gazzetta di Parma
“What a joy it was to perform with fantastic Fagone! A true artist.”
Vadim Repin
“Fagone is a wonderful musician with big personality and charisma!”
Katia and Marielle Labeque
Michaela Larsen, mezzo soprano
Heralded by the Brooklyn Discovery, as “visually and vocally another bright ray,” Michaela Larsen has a voice that is “plangent [and] coupled with excellent stagecraft”. She has appeared as Adele in Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Eurydice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, and Vitellia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito. In the summer of 2019, Ms. Larsen was a Young Artist in Martina Arroyo’s "Prelude to Performance" production of Die Fledermaus in New York City, and in 2021, she performed with Chicago Summer Opera’s production of one of Mozart’s earliest operas, Lucio Silla. Her work as a concert soloist includes Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42, and Mozart’s Requiem.
In 2021, Ms. Larsen returned to New York to pursue a Master’s in Vocal Performance at Stony Brook University, where she pivoted from soprano to mezzo-soprano and has enjoyed many bold new roles and daring repertoire. She returned to Stony Brook in Fall of 2023 to pursue her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance. She has been awarded a competitive scholarship and coveted role as a Teaching Assistant and Undergraduate TA Voice Coordinator. Recent credits include: Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) with Sunnyside Opera in Tampa, Florida, Stony Brook Opera Theatre, Vienna Summer Music Festival; Hermia (Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) with Chicago Summer Opera; the title role in Gustav Holst’s Sāvitri; Lillas Pastia in Bizet/Brook’s La Tragédie de Carmen; Venus in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis; Nancy in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring with Stony Brook Opera Theatre.
An avid recitalist and chamber musician, Ms. Larsen traverses varying styles with technical ease and compelling artistry. In the 2022-2023 season, her chamber repertoire included György Kurtag’s Kafka Fragmente, Gioachino Scelsi’s avant garde masterwork Khoom, Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Monteverdi’s baroque jewel Lamento d’Arianna. Her devotion to new music is apparent in her creative partnerships with living composers–she has premiered three works by Michigan-based composer-flutist, Jeremy Makkonen (The Garden, To…, Wild Nights!), collaborated with violinist-composer Rachel Lee Zhao on her multi-media composition (Parabellum), and recently performed as part of the Watermill Center’s Annual Summer Benefit as a human vocal component in Dai Asano’s installation–Passages.
Ms. Larsen also appears frequently with the New York Philharmonic Chorus, where in the 2022-23 season, she sang the world premiere of Angélica Negron’s You Are the Prelude, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Adolphus Hailstork’s Done Made My Vow. In the 2023-24 season, she appeared in the New York Philharmonic’sUnited States premiere of Aaron Zigman’s oratorio Èmigré, as well as the bittersweet farewell to Music Director Jaap van Zweden–Mahler’s 2nd Symphony. Ms. Larsen made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the company’s acclaimed Verdi Requiem in September 2023, and will return in the 2024-25 season in Beethoven’s Fidelio.
Ms. Larsen is a student of Brenda Harris, to whom she extends eternal gratitude for their guidance and mentorship.
Her teaching experience ranges across age groups–from elementary to adult and is inclusive of private instruction in voice, classroom choral education, and music literacy. Her students have succeeded in competitions, in composing and performing their own works, and in finding their own voices to express themselves authentically.
At the heart of her teaching, Ms. Larsen believes in cultivating an affirming and supportive studio environment to foster community and creative freedom through the human voice.
Long Island Concert Orchestra (LICO), with Enrico Fagone artistic director, was established in September of 2016 by David Winkler Executive Director of its umbrella not-for-profit, Sea Cliff Chamber Players. The new orchestra’s continuing mission has been to meet the growing needs on Long Island and metropolitan New York City for a fully professional orchestra possessing a unique approach to repertoire, presentation and international reach.
Long Island Concert Orchestra (LICO)’s long term mission is to bring great orchestral music into the very communities where our audiences reside – throughout Long Island and metropolitan New York. To best reach the broadest possible range of audiences, the orchestra performs at a variety of venues throughout the region including Nassau and Suffolk Counties as well as New York City. LICO also provides a variety of vital and dynamic music education programs in our public schools as well free parks programs for large audiences.
On Long Island, LICO helps to meet the cultural needs of its three million residents with fully professional orchestra programs throughout the region. These programs include free parks concerts, in-school Arts-In- Education programs and other vital endeavors. In the just last several years LICO has established concert series in a variety of regional venues including the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, Morgan Park, the Patchogue Theater, the Suffolk Theater, East Islip Summer Series, Huntington Arts Summer Stage, and Krasnoff Hall along with New York City venues such as Merkin Hall and the famous landmark venues Good Shepherd Church, and Broadway Presbyterian at 114th Street, Manhattan.
Our Music Director, grammy nominated Enrico Fagone, is well known to the international music community leading major orchestras throughout the world. Maestro Fagone continues to create unique and powerful programs with LICO bringing internationally renowned concert soloists to LICO concerts both throughout Long Island and in our metropolitan New York events as well.
In addition to the above public concert events, LICO has already provided programs for young people including numerous student coaching and performance services in area public schools including activities at the Uniondale, Wheatley, Sewanhaka and Sachem School Districts, encompassing some 14 lower, middle and high schools.
Enrico Fagone, Music Director
Music Director and Artistic Director of the Long Island Concert Orchestra in New York, Maestro Enrico Fagone is regularly invited to conduct orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the RA National Symphony Orchestra of Turin, the Milan Symphony Orchestra, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, the Marche Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the Italian Virtuosi, the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Serbian National Theatre, the FOl Opera Orchestra Italian (Festival Verdi, Teatro Regio di Parma).
His debut in January 2019 at the helm of the RAl National Symphony Orchestra with the famous pianist Martha Argerich as a soloist received great acclaim from the public and critics and was broadcast on the National TV RAI5 (currently visible on RaiPlay). Also active in the operatic field, Maestro Fagone conducted Mozart’sopera “Così Fan Tutte” at the Kammeroper in Munich and in 2019 he was invited to conduct the Gala concert “Fuoco di Goia” at the Verdi Festival in Parma, sharing the stage with singers including M. Pertusi, F. Cedolins, A. Chiuri and
V. Stoyanov. In the 2024/25 season, debuts await him on the podiums of important musical venues such as the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa, the Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari, the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari, the Orchestra of Italian Switzerland, the Royal Opera Festival of Krakow and Belcanto Opera Festival Bad Wildbad.
After graduating in double bass studies, he dedicated himself to studying orchestral conducting at the “Claudio Abbado” Civic School in Milan and with Daniele Agiman at the Parma Academy for the operatic repertoire. He completed his training with the legendary Mo Jorma Panula in Helsinki, which inspired him to pursue his career. At the same time, he deepened his studies in composition with Jorge Bosso and Ivo Antognini.
During his studies he also had the opportunity to learn the technique of the great Russian conducting teacher ll’ja Musin through his students Alim Shack and Semyon Bychkov, whose performances he followed in Spain and the Czech Republic.
Always in search of “the new”, Maestro Fagone collaborates closely with composers creating new works and when proposing the great composers of the past, the Maestro seeks out composers who are rarely performed but whose work is of undisputed value such as Muzio Clementi, Giuseppe Martucci, Aldo Finzi and clearly Giovanni Bottesini, to whose work he is deeply attached given his role as Artistic Director of the Bottesini Competition. It is precisely through the study of Bottesini, the in-depth study of Verdi’s manuscripts and the assiduous attendance of the theaters of Busseto and Parma that he arrived at his orchestral conducting direction.
In the symphonic repertoire, Fagone pays particular attention to the practice of the various classical time periods in an attempt to get closer – whenever possible, to the concept of
“Historically informed” performance. This is particularly true in the classical and early romantic repertoire with composers such as J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms.
He has recorded for EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, Warner, Stradivarius, and Da Vinci, among others. For Musica Solis label, Maestro Fagone collaborated with clarinetist Seunghee Lee, composer and bandoneonist JP Jofre, and the London Symphony Orchestra on the album Aspire, which was nominated for a Grammy® in the Best Classical Compendium category.
About him:“Enrico Fagone is an extraordinary musician!”
Martha Argerich
” Enrico Fagone owns a natural ability to approach musically everything he conducts. His charismatic personality makes him an interesting conductor.”!
Jorma Panula
“at the baton, Fagone has become highly appreciated as a conductor”.
La Gazzetta di Parma
“What a joy it was to perform with fantastic Fagone! A true artist.”
Vadim Repin
“Fagone is a wonderful musician with big personality and charisma!”
Katia and Marielle Labeque
Michaela Larsen, mezzo soprano
Heralded by the Brooklyn Discovery, as “visually and vocally another bright ray,” Michaela Larsen has a voice that is “plangent [and] coupled with excellent stagecraft”. She has appeared as Adele in Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Eurydice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, and Vitellia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito. In the summer of 2019, Ms. Larsen was a Young Artist in Martina Arroyo’s "Prelude to Performance" production of Die Fledermaus in New York City, and in 2021, she performed with Chicago Summer Opera’s production of one of Mozart’s earliest operas, Lucio Silla. Her work as a concert soloist includes Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42, and Mozart’s Requiem.
In 2021, Ms. Larsen returned to New York to pursue a Master’s in Vocal Performance at Stony Brook University, where she pivoted from soprano to mezzo-soprano and has enjoyed many bold new roles and daring repertoire. She returned to Stony Brook in Fall of 2023 to pursue her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance. She has been awarded a competitive scholarship and coveted role as a Teaching Assistant and Undergraduate TA Voice Coordinator. Recent credits include: Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) with Sunnyside Opera in Tampa, Florida, Stony Brook Opera Theatre, Vienna Summer Music Festival; Hermia (Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) with Chicago Summer Opera; the title role in Gustav Holst’s Sāvitri; Lillas Pastia in Bizet/Brook’s La Tragédie de Carmen; Venus in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis; Nancy in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring with Stony Brook Opera Theatre.
An avid recitalist and chamber musician, Ms. Larsen traverses varying styles with technical ease and compelling artistry. In the 2022-2023 season, her chamber repertoire included György Kurtag’s Kafka Fragmente, Gioachino Scelsi’s avant garde masterwork Khoom, Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Monteverdi’s baroque jewel Lamento d’Arianna. Her devotion to new music is apparent in her creative partnerships with living composers–she has premiered three works by Michigan-based composer-flutist, Jeremy Makkonen (The Garden, To…, Wild Nights!), collaborated with violinist-composer Rachel Lee Zhao on her multi-media composition (Parabellum), and recently performed as part of the Watermill Center’s Annual Summer Benefit as a human vocal component in Dai Asano’s installation–Passages.
Ms. Larsen also appears frequently with the New York Philharmonic Chorus, where in the 2022-23 season, she sang the world premiere of Angélica Negron’s You Are the Prelude, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Adolphus Hailstork’s Done Made My Vow. In the 2023-24 season, she appeared in the New York Philharmonic’sUnited States premiere of Aaron Zigman’s oratorio Èmigré, as well as the bittersweet farewell to Music Director Jaap van Zweden–Mahler’s 2nd Symphony. Ms. Larsen made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the company’s acclaimed Verdi Requiem in September 2023, and will return in the 2024-25 season in Beethoven’s Fidelio.
Ms. Larsen is a student of Brenda Harris, to whom she extends eternal gratitude for their guidance and mentorship.
Her teaching experience ranges across age groups–from elementary to adult and is inclusive of private instruction in voice, classroom choral education, and music literacy. Her students have succeeded in competitions, in composing and performing their own works, and in finding their own voices to express themselves authentically.
At the heart of her teaching, Ms. Larsen believes in cultivating an affirming and supportive studio environment to foster community and creative freedom through the human voice.
