Sunday, May 22, 2022 - 3:00pm

1901 23rd St, Vero Beach, FL 32960


TCHAIKOVSKY  Sleeping Beauty Suite
MASSENET Le Cid Ballet Music
PISZCZEK Pangean Dances (WORLD PREMIERE)
GLIERE Russian Sailor's Dance from Red Poppy Suite
STRAVINSKY  The Firebird Suite
KHACHATURIAN Adagio from Spartacus
DE FALLA  Danza ritual del fuego
COPLAND Simple Gifts from Appalachian Spring
PRYOR  Blue Bells of Scotland
SARASATE Playera
GINASTERA  Malambo from Estancia
SARASATE Playera

Alexis Regazzi, trombone
Jose Guedez, violin
Mark Piszczek, guest composer
Space Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra
Concerto Competition Winner

Twelve seasons and hundreds of requests have led to Fan Favorites: The Great Ballets, a concert chock-full of music selected by you!  This program features a whirlwind tour of some of history’s greatest ballets, by great composers such as Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian, Ginastera, Stravinsky, Copland and more!  SCSO Principal Trombonist, Alexis Regazzi joins the orchestra to perform the virtuosic showpiece, Blue Bells of Scotland.  SCSO violinist, Jose Guedez will also be featured as he performs Pablo Sarasate's demanding romp, Playera. The program will also feature the World Premiere of Mark Piszczek's thrilling Pangean Dances. Members of the Space Coast Symphony Youth Orchestras will perform side-by-side with their professional SCSO counterparts in this inspiring program.

Artist Information


Becoming a musical force of nature, Alexis Regazzi has been playing trombone professionally since 1999. Alex was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1981 and was the first child of Giancarlo and Nilsa Regazzi. After moving to Orlando, Florida from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 1987, Alex grew up in the heart of Central Florida. Attending Dr. Phillips High School’s Visual Performing Art Magnet, he was exposed to many different facets of music including music theory, band, orchestra, jazz band, and chorus.  After graduating, Alex attended The Manhattan School of Music and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance in 2003.  Since then, Mr. Regazzi has performed with The Hartford Symphony, The Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, The Chelsea Symphony, The Huntsville Symphony, The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, The Bach Festival Society Orchestra, The Villages Philharmonic, Hollywood Festival Orchestra, and Space Coast Symphony Orchestra. He has performed in such places as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Mexico’s Bellas Artes, and Tokyo’s Bunkamura Hall. He is a Sony Classical recording artist with The Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas “Mi Alma Mexicana.” He has performed in the Latin Grammy Orchestra featuring Gloria Estefan, Patty Label, Santana, and John Legend. In addition to performing, Alex is a low brass instructor and clinician throughout Central Florida.

Mark Piszczek (b. 1957) is a native of central Florida where his parents worked in the fledgling space program. A professional performer on both oboe and saxophone, Piszczek has a deep background in both jazz and classical music. He has led his own groups and worked as a studio musician for over thirty years. Piszczek's father was a devout fan of classical music and it played daily on the family phonograph. This early exposure to concert music and the presence of highly competent music teachers, instilled a love of music that later turned into a lifelong passion. The composer cites the music of Karel Husa, Bela Bartok, Hindemith, Miles Davis, Chick Corea and Ralph Towner as key influences in his early musical development.

Piszczek studied oboe at the University of South Florida and The University of Wisconsin, Platteville. After years of performing and recording professionally as a jazz artist, he decided to return to his classical roots and received a master’s degree in composition at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, where he studied with composers, Elliott Schwartz and Dan Sonenberg.

He has written hundreds of jazz compositions, a flute sonata, two woodwind quintets, a string quartet, four works for chamber orchestra, a brass quintet, a trio for clarinet, viola and piano, a symphony for winds and percussion, a major work for symphony orchestra, Songs from the Gulf of Sorrows, which was premiered by The Brevard Symphony Orchestra in 2016, a trio for flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano based on native American folk songs, a trio for woodwinds and a new orchestral work dedicated to Lalo Schifrin, Walter Scharf and Elmer Bernstein.

He now resides in Melbourne FL. and performs with his Orlando based, progressive jazz group, Strange Angels as well as musical collaborations with lifelong friend, composer and multi-instrumentalist, Larry Williams.

Violinist, Jose Antonio Guedez was born in San Felipe, Yaracuy and began his violin studies at the age of eight, under the tutelage of maestro Samuel Parra at the “Blanca Estrella de Mescoli” Music School. His training continued under the preparation and guidance of maestros Raúl Rodríguez, Jesus Sira, Geronimo Isturiz, Rhio Sánchez, Francisco Diaz and Sergio Celis.  He participated in various courses organized by the “Academia Latinoamericana De Violín“ in Venezuela, where he had the opportunity to work with Alvaro Lares, Victor Vivas, Pablo Vasquez, Roberto Valdés, Ana Beatriz Manzanilla, Rhio Sánchez, Alejandro Mendoza, Francisco Diaz, Alexis Cárdenas and Jose Francisco Del Castillo.

Guedez was an active member of the Chair of Chamber Music of Professor Evelyn Soteldo at the “Vicente Emilio Sojo” Conservatory of Music in the City of Barquisimeto, Venezuela.  Alternating instrumental performance with teaching, he obtained the title of professor in music education at the “Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador, "UPEL"”.

Guedez was extremely active at a young age performing in orchestras, including the Yaracuy State Children's and Youth Symphony Orchestra, Yaracuy State Symphony Orchestra, Lara State Youth Symphony, Lara State Symphony Orchestra, Venezuela National Children's Symphony Orchestra and the Youth Orchestra Of The Americas (YOA).  In 2005 and 2006, Guedez served as principal Second Violin in their international tours of Europe and South America.

He was also an integral member of the world-renowned Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the legendary Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, participating in concerts and international tours in Sweden, Russia, Norway, Greece, Spain, Colombia, Brazil,  Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Austria, England, Turkey, Switzerland, the United States, the Netherlands, the Dominican Republic, the United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, France and Italy.

He currently resides in the Florida and performs with the Exodus String Quartet, Space Coast Symphony Orchestra, Villages Philharmonic Orchestra, Miami Dade College Symphony Orchestra, Kameristika Chamber Orchestra, and the Bolívar Phil Orchestra.  He also serves as an orchestral trainer for the string section at the International School of Music.

Recently he was awarded as "Emmy Award Recipient" for his participation in the tribute and recording of  the works of The Jackie Gleason Show with the Miami Dade College Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Alberto Bade.  Guedez plays on a 1943 Hermann Petzold violin made in Berlín, Germany.