Manhattan School of Music News

From : "AGBU Press Office 2" Date : Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:31:33 PST AGBU Press Office 55 East 59th Street New York, NY 10022-1112 Phone: 212.319.6383, x118 Fax: 212.319.6507 Email: press@agbu.org Website: www.agbu.org PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, November 11, 2009 NYSEC Showcases Young Performing Artists at Carnegie Hall, Raises Close to $40,000 for ...

The Lorelei Piano Trio will perform works of Beethoven, Martinu, and Mendelssohn in Avon, this Sunday at 3 p.m. The trio met as classmates at the Manhattan School of Music and continues to be based in New York City.

"It's, like, overwhelming," David Kalwa said, looking around the gilded East Room.

Violinist Olivia De Prato performed Oct. 11 at Fitzgerald's 1928 of Glen Ridge. Cellist Jody Redhage helped fill the Herman Street eatery with the sounds of Eastern European chamber music.

For almost 46 years the Pro-Mozart Society of Atlanta has been hosting classical concerts free of charge as a showcase for their scholarship program for promising young musicians to study at the Mozarteum in Austria.

With two concerts and a series of workshops for young musicians, the White House put a big spotlight on classical music Wednesday and sent a strong message that it's not just for stuffed shirts."Nothing mixes old and new like classical music," first lady Michelle Obama told students who spent the morning in music workshops and then attended an ...

John "Squirrel" Mosley, a local jazz musican, plays the trumpet at the Union Baptist Church in Swissvale.

Special to The Star GILBERTOWN, Ala. - Amy Gustafson will perform a piano concert Sunday, Nov.

The young students coached by Isaac Stern during his visit to China in 1979 have all developed successful careers in performing or teaching.

Justin Walter is the trumpeter in Ann Arbor-based band Nomo and a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Manhattan School of Music.

S oprano Katrina Saporsantos will perform at the Secaucus Public Library Panasonic Room Sunday at 2 p.m. Saporsantos will sing arias by composers including Amy Beach, Augusto Espino, Richard Wagner, Alfredo Catalani, Giacomo Puccini and Jules Massenet.

Raise your hand if you're the next Regina Spektor. Tonight, head to the Upper West Side's Manhattan School of Music to catch the student-run concert series "Jazz CafA©." Enter at the main entrance on West 122nd Street, and follow some stairs down to the cafeteria, also known as the Mitzi Newhouse Pavilion.

Brett Sroka is a native of Lexington, Massachusetts and began playing the trombone at age ten.

The town's main streets, a quaint cluster of earthy boutiques and cafes, are closed to traffic, allowing the teenagers of the Catskills to take part in an annual tradition known as the Shaving Cream Rave.

Classical Guitar Festival on the Allan Hancock college campus in Santa Maria Sept.

Trina Leonard, a theater student from Grayson College, takes part in a clown workshop as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival on Thursday at Midwestern State University.

The seeds of the Marian Anderson String Quartet were proudly planted more than 20 years ago by Diedra Lawrence and Marianne Henry.

Jazz drummer and Houston native Eric Harland returns to town Saturday to perform.

Linda Oh, center, watches the world go buy with her bandmates, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and drummer Obed Calvaire.

See Doom Bird with Touchez, San Kazakgascar and DJ Gourmet on Friday, October 16, 8:30 p.m.; $5. Luigi's Fun Garden, 1050 20th Street.