CORPORATE OFFICES: World Doctors Orchestra, Inc. 9415 West Street Manassas, Virginia 20110 Phone 571 229 9899 Fax 703 552 0896 www.wdousa.org
World Doctors Orchestra e.V. Luisenstr. 57 10117 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 30 450529034 Fax +49 30 450529902 [email protected] For Immediate Release: www.world-doctors-orchestra.org
World Doctors Orchestra – California Contact Dr. Thomas DaSilva, 4801 Proctor Avenue, Oakland, California 94618, 510 828 9385, [email protected]
INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED TROMBONIST RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO ROOTS TO JOIN FORCES WITH WORLD DOCTORS ORCHESTRA TO BENEFIT CHILDREN WITH LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES Saturday, October 8, 2016, 8:00 PM; Sunday October 9, 2016, 7:00 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, California 94102
San Francisco, California, August 31, 2016 – The San Francisco community is invited to attend a special charitable concert featuring acclaimed trombone soloist, Joseph Alessi, and World Doctors Orchestra. The concerts will be held on October 8 and 9 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Hume Hall. Tickets are available at cityboxoffice.com or by calling (415) 392-4400.
Hometown music hero Joseph Alessi has made a name for himself as a sought after soloist and clinician throughout the world. In the spring of 1985 he was appointed Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic. Having begun his musical studies in his native California with his father, Joseph Alessi, Sr., as a high school student in San Rafael, California, Mr. Alessi was a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony before continuing his musical training at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. Prior to joining the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Alessi was second trombone of The Philadelphia Orchestra for four seasons, and principal trombone of L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal for one season. Heralded by the American Record Guide as having produced “One of the best trombone recordings ever made … superb tone quality at all dynamic registers” and by the New York Times as having given “a stunningly virtuosic performance” Mr. Alessi is one of the most exciting and sought-after trombone virtuosos in the world.
His talent is matched only by his charitable spirit which makes Mr. Alessi well-suited for this partnership with the all-volunteer musicians of World Doctors Orchestra (“WDO”). Comprised of over 1,000 accomplished physician/musicians from fifty nations, WDO is an organization laser-focused on its mission to use music as a means to end barriers to access to healthcare.
Mr. Alessi and WDO are excited to come together to benefit George Mark Children’s House in San Leandro, California. As the first freestanding pediatric palliative care center in the United States, George Mark Children’s House is a leader and model in the relief of the pain, symptoms, and stress of illness, regardless of prognosis, and is compatible with treatments that are meant to cure. By promoting and raising money to benefit this remarkable organization, WDO is taking yet anothher step to raise globally the idea of healthcare as a basic human right and a precondition for human development.
Mr. Alessi, WDO, and George Mark Children’s House look forward to sharing the evenings of October 8 and 9, 2016, with the San Francisco area. Because the organizers are anticipating sold out houses, interested patrons are encouraged to visit https://www.cityboxoffice.com/ordertickets.asp?p=8458 immediately. For more information about this event, including information on becoming a corporate sponsor or scheduling interviews, please contact Dr. Thomas DaSilva, 510-828-9385, [email protected].
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ABOUT WORLD DOCTORS ORCHESTRA Two to three times a year, WDO’s members exchange their white coats for evening attire and perform benefit concerts that, since the organization’s inception in 2007, have raised almost half a million dollars for health related charities. WDO and its sister organization based in Germany have had significant musical triumphs in North America including performances of Brahm’s First Symphony at Severance Hall in Cleveland, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony at Strathmore Hall in Bethesda on the occasion of a memorial tribute to the victims of September 11, 2001, and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony in Seattle and Vancouver. WDO’s greatest triumph, however, has been the tangible support it has provided to patients without insurance at the Free Clinic in Cleveland, to caregivers assisting people living with HIV/AIDS in Washington, D.C., and to the children, seniors, and families of the Puget Sound region and Vancouver, B.C., lifted up by the Seattle Times Fund for the Needy and the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. For a complete list of WDO’s charitable beneficiaries and to learn more about World Doctors Orchestra, Inc. and World Doctors Orchestra, e.V., visit www.wdousa.org and http://www.world-doctors-orchestra.org.