The University of Findlay’s 2010-2011 Concert and Lecture Series will begin at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17, in Winebrenner Theological Seminary with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra’s (TSO) Evening of Symphony. The orchestra is in its 67th season.  

Jeffrey Pollock, conductor

Carol Dusdieker, vocalist

Jeffrey Pollock will conduct the performance, with Carol Dusdieker as featured vocalist. The audience will recognize pieces such as “Guys and Dolls,” “I Got Rhythm,” “Porgy and Bess Selections,” “Over the Rainbow” and “Sing Sing Sing.”  

The concert is made possible, in part, through the generosity of Whitson Properties, Fifth Third Bank, Gene Stevens and Charles and Mariann Younger.  

Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for senior citizens and $10 for students. Admission for UF undergraduate and graduate students is free, but a ticket is required. UF faculty and staff may purchase tickets for $15. Tickets are available by calling the Box Office at 419-434-5335 or e-mail boxoffice@findlay.edu.  

Pollock, TSO’s new resident conductor, is known for the musicality of his performances, his innovative concert programming and his ability to make connections with audiences. In 2001, the American Symphony Orchestra League named Pollock as the featured conductor for its prestigious National Conductor Preview. Since then, he has served on the staffs of the Fort Worth, Tex., York, Ont., and North Carolina symphony orchestras, and has worked with opera companies in Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina.

Pollock holds degrees in music from the University of California-Berkeley and the Peabody Institute.   

Dusdieker brings an impressive background to opera with a long list of roles performed and oratorio and concert appearances as a soloist. Her classical concerts feature selections from Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms and Gorecki, and her Broadway repertoire includes among others, selections from Bernstein, Gershwin and Sondheim. She continues to perform with Opera Cleveland, Des Moines Metro Opera, Glimmerglass and Cincinnati Opera.

Dusdieker holds a bachelor’s degree in music and a master’s degree in music in vocal performance.    

Future performances in the Concert and Lecture Series include a TSO classics concert of waltzes Jan. 28, 2010; a lecture by Julius Coles, UF’s Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, in February; and a TSO classics concert March 25 featuring a piano concerto.