Community Music Initiative: Sixteen Year-Old Makes Cleveland Orchestra Debut

Margret Erlendsdottir, a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra made her Cleveland Orchestra debut today during a Cleveland Orchestra/Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra "Side By Side" concert attended by 1,400 high school students from 14 schools in Northeast Ohio.

Supported by her parents, teachers, and the entire upper school from Hawken School in Gates Mills, Miss Erlendsdottir debuted with the first movement of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto. The Principal Keyboardist of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Miss Erlendsdottir also participates in the orchestra in the violin section.

Three Cleveland television stations - WKYC, WEWS, and FOX 8 came to film the special event. Read details here.