Fall 2014 Concert Series
For those who seek inspiring live music, Studio 59 is proud to announce the Fall 2014 Concert Series.
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John DelVento
in Concert:
Fresh & Modern
featuring
John DelVento, euphonium
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
Saturday
September 27, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
John DelVento is a multi-genre musician and composer with a wide-ranging musical output spanning a variety of mediums and genres. He has performed and composed music for both the big screen and the concert hall and continues to create fresh and exciting new music for the modern world.
At a young age John began studying the euphonium, a relatively unknown brass instrument, not knowing that it would eventually take him all over the world. As a performer he has been lucky to grace the timeless stages of Carnegie Hall, The Musikverein, Symphony Hall, The Bushnell Theatre, and countless others.
John went on to take his musical training to The Hartt School of Music, Dance, and Theatre as a double music major, where his music composition career was born. Throughout his college years, John balanced a busy teaching and performing schedule, all while slowly dabbling in the art of electronic music composition.
After a brief stint as an urban music producer John quickly found a new home in the world of media music. Comfortable writing in many musical styles, his diverse musical output became very popular with advertisement agencies and music libraries, leading to placements with The Science Channel, Food Network, Nike, Toyota, Covergirl, Pepsi, Visa, and many other independent ventures.
In addition to performing and teaching music he now composes and produces music for a variety of films, video games, advertisement campaigns, and similar projects on a regular basis.
Artist website: www.johndelvento.net
in Concert:
Fresh & Modern
featuring
John DelVento, euphonium
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
Saturday
September 27, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
John DelVento is a multi-genre musician and composer with a wide-ranging musical output spanning a variety of mediums and genres. He has performed and composed music for both the big screen and the concert hall and continues to create fresh and exciting new music for the modern world.
At a young age John began studying the euphonium, a relatively unknown brass instrument, not knowing that it would eventually take him all over the world. As a performer he has been lucky to grace the timeless stages of Carnegie Hall, The Musikverein, Symphony Hall, The Bushnell Theatre, and countless others.
John went on to take his musical training to The Hartt School of Music, Dance, and Theatre as a double music major, where his music composition career was born. Throughout his college years, John balanced a busy teaching and performing schedule, all while slowly dabbling in the art of electronic music composition.
After a brief stint as an urban music producer John quickly found a new home in the world of media music. Comfortable writing in many musical styles, his diverse musical output became very popular with advertisement agencies and music libraries, leading to placements with The Science Channel, Food Network, Nike, Toyota, Covergirl, Pepsi, Visa, and many other independent ventures.
In addition to performing and teaching music he now composes and produces music for a variety of films, video games, advertisement campaigns, and similar projects on a regular basis.
Artist website: www.johndelvento.net
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OCTOBER
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OCTOBER
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A Masque-Theatre production
Love Is...
featuring
Larry Hunt
actor, director, mask-maker,
and educator
Saturday
October 18, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
“Love Is…” includes three talking characters who offer us perspectives on life in relationship to love and what it reflects on a daily basis.
A one person tour de farce exploring, explaining, and exemplifying concepts of the disturbing subject of LOVE.
Tools used to explore are: Poetry, music, masks, songs, and movement.
“Love Is…” will include several non-verbal pieces that reflect “atmospheres of various perspectives on love.”
Not Realism, not Naturalism, not TV. Something quite different, entertaining, and surprising.
Larry Hunt is an actor, director, mask-maker, and educator. During the past 30 years, he has performed throughout most of the United States, Canada, and many other countries including China, Japan, Australia, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Bulgaria, Serbia and England.
Larry has produced and performed original theater works under the auspices of MASQUE, an international touring company which he founded in 1980. Larry has evolved a distinctive version of mask performance which combines historical traditions with performance approaches influenced
by ZeAmi to Peter Brook.
In addition to solo performances incorporating original masks and puppets, he has collaborated extensively with other performing artists in several countries. His productions are vignette style as well as full length plays.
http://www.masque-theatre.com/
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Love Is...
featuring
Larry Hunt
actor, director, mask-maker,
and educator
Saturday
October 18, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
“Love Is…” includes three talking characters who offer us perspectives on life in relationship to love and what it reflects on a daily basis.
A one person tour de farce exploring, explaining, and exemplifying concepts of the disturbing subject of LOVE.
Tools used to explore are: Poetry, music, masks, songs, and movement.
“Love Is…” will include several non-verbal pieces that reflect “atmospheres of various perspectives on love.”
Not Realism, not Naturalism, not TV. Something quite different, entertaining, and surprising.
Larry Hunt is an actor, director, mask-maker, and educator. During the past 30 years, he has performed throughout most of the United States, Canada, and many other countries including China, Japan, Australia, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Bulgaria, Serbia and England.
Larry has produced and performed original theater works under the auspices of MASQUE, an international touring company which he founded in 1980. Larry has evolved a distinctive version of mask performance which combines historical traditions with performance approaches influenced
by ZeAmi to Peter Brook.
In addition to solo performances incorporating original masks and puppets, he has collaborated extensively with other performing artists in several countries. His productions are vignette style as well as full length plays.
http://www.masque-theatre.com/
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Jazz Macabre
A Dark Evening
with the Grim String Quartet
"Familiar themes from Halloween, played in the style of Gypsy swing."
featuring
Kip Beacco Jonathan Talbott
Joe Salamone Preston Parish
Thursday
October 30, 2014
7:30pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
The Grim String Quartet performs familiar themes associated with the Halloween season in the style of French Gypsy Jazz. Classic compositions like Chopin's "Funeral March", or Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" are interpreted and performed as jazz standards with an air of holiday mischief. The group consists of talented regional musicians who bring years of improvisational experience to a unique musical program that is sure to raise your spirits.
A Dark Evening
with the Grim String Quartet
"Familiar themes from Halloween, played in the style of Gypsy swing."
featuring
Kip Beacco Jonathan Talbott
Joe Salamone Preston Parish
Thursday
October 30, 2014
7:30pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
The Grim String Quartet performs familiar themes associated with the Halloween season in the style of French Gypsy Jazz. Classic compositions like Chopin's "Funeral March", or Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" are interpreted and performed as jazz standards with an air of holiday mischief. The group consists of talented regional musicians who bring years of improvisational experience to a unique musical program that is sure to raise your spirits.
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NOVEMBER
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NOVEMBER
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Francesco Barone
in Concert
Classical Guitarist
Saturday
November 8, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
in Concert
Classical Guitarist
Saturday
November 8, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
Award winning guitarist Francesco Barone has performed throughout the Northeast United States and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. He has been presented on concert series including Concerts@Capital, Assumption College and the New England Guitar Society. Mr. Barone was also featured on a La Bella Strings sponsored concert in which he was a featured artist. He has also performed with Performance 20/20, the Hartt School of Music’s honors chamber ensemble and has had his music broadcasted on National Public Radio.
Mr. Barone was a prizewinner in the 2009 Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society Guitar Competition.
He received his Master of Music from and is a current DMA candidate at The Hartt School where he studies with noted pedagogue Richard Provost. In addition, he holds a Bachelor of Music from Temple University in Guitar Performance where he studied with Allen Krantz. He has performed in numerous masterclasses with world-renowned guitarists including Manuel Barrueco, Oscar Ghiglia, Scott Tennant, Jason Vieaux, Ana Vidovic. Elena Papadreou and Antigoni Goni.
Mr. Barone resides in Hartford, Connecticut and maintains studios at Capital Community College, Capital Preparatory Magnet School and the Hartt Community Division at the Hartt School.
Press Quotes
"Francesco Barone is emerging as one of the new breed of classical guitarist. His concerts bring a strong sense of communication, artistry, and musical depth to the audience. His commentary concerning the music being performed enhances the audiences appreciation and understanding of the performance."
--Richard Provost, Professor of Guitar at the Hartt School
"Francesco Barone played with deep sensitivity, commitment and espressivity. He has a special gift for attention to musical color and subtle details
in the score..."
--Andrea Clearfield, Composer and 'Andrea's Music Salon' coordinator
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Both audio and video recordings can be seen at the artist's website listed below:
http://francescobarone.weebly.com/
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Mr. Barone was a prizewinner in the 2009 Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society Guitar Competition.
He received his Master of Music from and is a current DMA candidate at The Hartt School where he studies with noted pedagogue Richard Provost. In addition, he holds a Bachelor of Music from Temple University in Guitar Performance where he studied with Allen Krantz. He has performed in numerous masterclasses with world-renowned guitarists including Manuel Barrueco, Oscar Ghiglia, Scott Tennant, Jason Vieaux, Ana Vidovic. Elena Papadreou and Antigoni Goni.
Mr. Barone resides in Hartford, Connecticut and maintains studios at Capital Community College, Capital Preparatory Magnet School and the Hartt Community Division at the Hartt School.
Press Quotes
"Francesco Barone is emerging as one of the new breed of classical guitarist. His concerts bring a strong sense of communication, artistry, and musical depth to the audience. His commentary concerning the music being performed enhances the audiences appreciation and understanding of the performance."
--Richard Provost, Professor of Guitar at the Hartt School
"Francesco Barone played with deep sensitivity, commitment and espressivity. He has a special gift for attention to musical color and subtle details
in the score..."
--Andrea Clearfield, Composer and 'Andrea's Music Salon' coordinator
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Both audio and video recordings can be seen at the artist's website listed below:
http://francescobarone.weebly.com/
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Franz Liszt
~ The Legend ~
featuring
pianist:
Timothy Alexandre Wallace
and special guest artist:
emerging opera singer
Katie Kat
Saturday
November 22, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary.
Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age, and in the 1840s he was considered by some to be perhaps the greatest pianist of all time. Liszt was also a well-known and influential composer, piano teacher and conductor. He was a benefactor to other composers, including Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saens, Edvard Grieg and Alexander Borodin.
As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the "Neudeutshe Schule" ("New German School"). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated some 20th-century ideas and trends. Some of his most notable contributions were the invention of the symphonic poem, developing the concept of thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form and making radical departures in harmony. He also played an important role in popularizing a wide array of music by transcribing it for piano.
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~ The Legend ~
featuring
pianist:
Timothy Alexandre Wallace
and special guest artist:
emerging opera singer
Katie Kat
Saturday
November 22, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary.
Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age, and in the 1840s he was considered by some to be perhaps the greatest pianist of all time. Liszt was also a well-known and influential composer, piano teacher and conductor. He was a benefactor to other composers, including Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saens, Edvard Grieg and Alexander Borodin.
As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the "Neudeutshe Schule" ("New German School"). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated some 20th-century ideas and trends. Some of his most notable contributions were the invention of the symphonic poem, developing the concept of thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form and making radical departures in harmony. He also played an important role in popularizing a wide array of music by transcribing it for piano.
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Katie Kat is an emerging opera singer and self made ‘Opera-preneure’. She was a NYFA Entrepreneur Bootcamp Scholar in 2012 for her work producing operatic recital performances for arts venues and private events. She has performed at The NYU Skirball Center, Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium, The Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto, Italy, and is currently a featured performer with the off-Broadway show Speakeasy Dollhouse. A voice teacher and researcher; she recently gave a TEDx Speech on the necessity of singing, and makes it her mission to make opera accessible to all audiences.
Recent roles include such operas as Dvorak’s Rusalka (Rusalka) Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Marcellina, Countess), Cosi Fan Tutte (Despina), Weil’s Street Scene (Anna Maurrant), Menotti’s The Telephone (Lucy), Purcell’s Dido and Aneas (Belinda)and The Fairy Queen (Night, The Plaint).
Recent roles include such operas as Dvorak’s Rusalka (Rusalka) Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Marcellina, Countess), Cosi Fan Tutte (Despina), Weil’s Street Scene (Anna Maurrant), Menotti’s The Telephone (Lucy), Purcell’s Dido and Aneas (Belinda)and The Fairy Queen (Night, The Plaint).
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DECEMBER
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DECEMBER
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Annual
Winter Solstice Concert
Year of the Horse
Saturday - December 20 - 8:00pm
featuring
The Alchemists
Bonita Weisman, dancer
RJ Avallone, trumpet
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS: Adults - $20 Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
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The music for tonight's concert will portray the characteristics of people born in the Year of the Horse according to Chinese astrology:
The spirit of the horse is recognized to be the Chinese people's ethos – making unremitting efforts to improve themselves. It is energetic, bright, warm-hearted, intelligent and able. Ancient people liked to designate an able person as 'Qianli Ma', a horse that covers a thousand li a day (one li equals 500 meters).
Strengths
People born in the year of the horse have ingenious communicating techniques and in their community they always want to be in the limelight. They are clever, kind to others, and like to join in a venture career. Although they sometimes talk
too much, they are cheerful, perceptive, talented,
earthy but stubborn.
They are popular among friends, active at work and refuse to be reconciled to failure, although their endeavor cannot last indefinitely.
Weaknesses
They cannot bear too much constraint. They are usually impatient and hot blooded about everything other than their daily work. They are independent and rarely listen to advice. Failure may result in pessimism. They usually have strong endurance but with bad temper. Flamboyant by nature, they are wasteful since they are not good with matters of finance. They tend to interfere in many things and frequently fail to finish projects of their own.
Horse people are active and energetic. The horse is very quick-witted and is right in there with you before you have had the chance to finish what you are saying: he's onto the thought in your mind even before you've expressed it.
Being born a Horse, there are many contradictions in their character. Horses are proud yet sweet-natured, arrogant yet oddly modest in their approach to love, envious but tolerant, conceited yet humble. They want to belong, yet hey are burdened by their need for independence. They need love and crave intimacy yet often feel cornered, pressured. But the truth is, the Horse is an individual, who depends only on their own labour to get what they want.
Winter Solstice Concert
Year of the Horse
Saturday - December 20 - 8:00pm
featuring
The Alchemists
Bonita Weisman, dancer
RJ Avallone, trumpet
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS: Adults - $20 Students/Seniors - $12
Group rates available!
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The music for tonight's concert will portray the characteristics of people born in the Year of the Horse according to Chinese astrology:
The spirit of the horse is recognized to be the Chinese people's ethos – making unremitting efforts to improve themselves. It is energetic, bright, warm-hearted, intelligent and able. Ancient people liked to designate an able person as 'Qianli Ma', a horse that covers a thousand li a day (one li equals 500 meters).
Strengths
People born in the year of the horse have ingenious communicating techniques and in their community they always want to be in the limelight. They are clever, kind to others, and like to join in a venture career. Although they sometimes talk
too much, they are cheerful, perceptive, talented,
earthy but stubborn.
They are popular among friends, active at work and refuse to be reconciled to failure, although their endeavor cannot last indefinitely.
Weaknesses
They cannot bear too much constraint. They are usually impatient and hot blooded about everything other than their daily work. They are independent and rarely listen to advice. Failure may result in pessimism. They usually have strong endurance but with bad temper. Flamboyant by nature, they are wasteful since they are not good with matters of finance. They tend to interfere in many things and frequently fail to finish projects of their own.
Horse people are active and energetic. The horse is very quick-witted and is right in there with you before you have had the chance to finish what you are saying: he's onto the thought in your mind even before you've expressed it.
Being born a Horse, there are many contradictions in their character. Horses are proud yet sweet-natured, arrogant yet oddly modest in their approach to love, envious but tolerant, conceited yet humble. They want to belong, yet hey are burdened by their need for independence. They need love and crave intimacy yet often feel cornered, pressured. But the truth is, the Horse is an individual, who depends only on their own labour to get what they want.
Bonita Weisman
has been teaching, performing and choreographing in Hartford since 1983. Growing up in Manhattan enabled Bonita to
study with such notables as Bonnie Bird, Mary Anthony, June Lewis, Louis Falco,
James Truitt, Carol Fried and Simone Forti.
Although she danced at SUNY Purchase, she received her BA in literature.
In addition to dance technique, Bonita’s training includes studies in dance
therapy, expressive therapy, Laban Movement work and folk and social dance
styles.
In the Hartford area, she has taught at Connecticut College, Trinity College, the Performing Arts Academy and the Hartford Conservatory. Currently Bonita is an adjunct professor at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford. Bonita’s main focus is improvisation and creative process. She has been facilitating a movement jam called, “Don’t Come Prepared” for 25 years. In recent years she has found herself playing freelance rubboard with several zydeco bands. When she is not dancing or playing she is busy helping others on their path to wellness as the owner of West Hartford Massage Therapy. |
RJ Avallone - Musician, composer, painter, and educator, RJ Avallone was born September 23, 1980 in Torrington, Connecticut. He came up through the Torrington Public School’s music program and was the first student in town to study at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. He was a full scholarship student at Berklee College of Music in Boston where he performed with the school’s most prestigious ensembles, including the faculty big band. As a freelance trumpet player, RJ has performed with Patti Austin, Michael Buble, Natalie Cole, Bobby Short, Charnette Moffett, WDR Radio Big Band, Joe Lovano, and a host of others. He has performed all over the world in venues such as Lincoln Center, Newport Jazz Festival, Litchfield Jazz Festival, Tanglewood, MGM Grand (Las Vegas), Birdland, The Waldorf-Astoria, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and more. RJ spent 3 years studying extensively with jazz legend and Pulitzer Prize-winning multi-instrumentalist Ornette Coleman. His recording credits include: Charnette Moffett’s Art of The Improviser, Gilad Ronen’s Project Grand Slam, and Mike Roots’ Unity Riddim Sessions Vol. 1. He co-leads the group Search, whose debut release Today Is Tomorrow has received very positive international reviews and radio play throughout the US.
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Timothy Alexandre Wallace
Mr. Wallace has enjoyed a rich and rewarding career as a pianist and composer. He has concertized nationally as a soloist, and has performed , composed and arranged music for ballet companies, theatres, schools and churches. Additionally, Mr. Wallace is a private piano instructor, with over 30 years experience teaching students of all ages. He is honored to have students who have continued more intensive study at universities and conservatories in the United States and Europe. In the fall of 2008, he founded the Alexandre School of Piano, dedicated to excellence in the teaching and performance of piano, and only piano. Mr. Wallace is a member of the American Guild of Organists and a performing member of the improvisational group Improvelocity. He is additionally on the Baldwin Roster of Artists. ______________________________________________________________ 
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