Winter 2014 Concert Series
For those who seek inspiring live music, Studio 59 is proud to announce the Winter 2014 Concert Series.
JANUARY
A great of evening of blues ranging from old standards to newly improvised ones.
...and featuring RJ Avallone from New York City on trumpet and Timothy Alexandre Wallace on piano.
...and featuring RJ Avallone from New York City on trumpet and Timothy Alexandre Wallace on piano.
January i.blues
featuring
RJ Avallone, trumpet
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
Saturday - January 25, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
"The blues takes many forms... It is variously a feeling, a mood, a nameless threat, a person, a lover, a boss man, a mob, and, of course, the Devil himself. It is often experienced as both cause and effect, action and reaction, and it can be used as both hex and counter-hex, poison and antidote, pain and relief. Most importantly, the blues is both the cause of song, and song itself..." Edward Comentale, Sweet Air: American Popular Song
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featuring
RJ Avallone, trumpet
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
Saturday - January 25, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
"The blues takes many forms... It is variously a feeling, a mood, a nameless threat, a person, a lover, a boss man, a mob, and, of course, the Devil himself. It is often experienced as both cause and effect, action and reaction, and it can be used as both hex and counter-hex, poison and antidote, pain and relief. Most importantly, the blues is both the cause of song, and song itself..." Edward Comentale, Sweet Air: American Popular Song
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FEBRUARY
...if passion is romantic...if mystery is romantic...if sheer musical abandon is romantic...if your heart longs for these things,
then plan on attending this very special concert -- Rachmaninoff the Romantic
then plan on attending this very special concert -- Rachmaninoff the Romantic
Rachmaninoff the Romantic
featuring
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
Saturday - February 15, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
This concert will be repeated on
March 8 due to the snow on
Feb. 15. Some folks were able to come, but many could not.
Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output, and through his own skills as a performer he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument. He was possessed of a keyboard technique marked by precision, clarity, and a singular legato sense. Indeed, the pianist's hands became the stuff of legend. He had an enormous span and his playing had a characteristic power, which pianists have described as "cosmic" and "overwhelming." He is, for example, credited with the uncanny ability to discern, and articulate profound, mysterious movements in a musical composition which usually remain undetected by the superficial perception of rhythmic structures.
featuring
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
Saturday - February 15, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
This concert will be repeated on
March 8 due to the snow on
Feb. 15. Some folks were able to come, but many could not.
Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output, and through his own skills as a performer he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument. He was possessed of a keyboard technique marked by precision, clarity, and a singular legato sense. Indeed, the pianist's hands became the stuff of legend. He had an enormous span and his playing had a characteristic power, which pianists have described as "cosmic" and "overwhelming." He is, for example, credited with the uncanny ability to discern, and articulate profound, mysterious movements in a musical composition which usually remain undetected by the superficial perception of rhythmic structures.
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Jazz & Champagne
featuring
The Jerrod Cattey Jazz Trio
Thursday - February 20, 2014
7:30 pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
Relax, sip on a glass of complimentary champagne and hear some great jazz! ...what a great way to wind down the week.
Jazz & Champagne
featuring
The Jerrod Cattey Jazz Trio
Thursday - February 20, 2014
7:30 pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
Relax, sip on a glass of complimentary champagne and hear some great jazz! ...what a great way to wind down the week.
MARCH
An evening of Art & Ideas and Music
For those who seek intriguing artwork and inspiring music delivered in an uniquely eclectic environment, this is an evening not to be missed.
**Special Note: A percentage of all Richard Budman's Artwork that is sold at this event will be donated to the animal shelter of choice.
For those who seek intriguing artwork and inspiring music delivered in an uniquely eclectic environment, this is an evening not to be missed.
**Special Note: A percentage of all Richard Budman's Artwork that is sold at this event will be donated to the animal shelter of choice.
> NEW SERIES
Arts Talk @ Studio 59
CubeRism
The Art & Ideas of Richard R. Budman
Images from my mind
painted with acrylics on canvas.
Saturday - March 1, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
An exploration of the Art & Ideas of Richard R. Budman by interview and audience participation. Select art will provide the inspiration for live piano improvisations by Timothy Alexandre Wallace.
Arts Talk @ Studio 59
CubeRism
The Art & Ideas of Richard R. Budman
Images from my mind
painted with acrylics on canvas.
Saturday - March 1, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
An exploration of the Art & Ideas of Richard R. Budman by interview and audience participation. Select art will provide the inspiration for live piano improvisations by Timothy Alexandre Wallace.
Rachmaninoff the Romantic TICKETS:
featuring Adults - $20
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano Students - $12
Group rates available.
Saturday - March 8, 2014
8:00pm RSVP: 860-482-6801
This concert is a repeat of the performance on Feb. 15, listed above with details.
Even with the snow on that Saturday, some folks were able to come, but many could not.
So as a service to those who could not make it and for others who are interested, this performance is being presented again.
featuring Adults - $20
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano Students - $12
Group rates available.
Saturday - March 8, 2014
8:00pm RSVP: 860-482-6801
This concert is a repeat of the performance on Feb. 15, listed above with details.
Even with the snow on that Saturday, some folks were able to come, but many could not.
So as a service to those who could not make it and for others who are interested, this performance is being presented again.
JAY ROBERTS:
"Up Close and Personal"
Saturday - March 15, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
"Up Close and Personal"
Saturday - March 15, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
Jazz & Champagne
featuring
NO CHORDTET
DAVE SANTORO GEORGE SOVAK
PETER MCEACHERN HAMIR ATWAL
Thursday - March 20, 2014
7:30 pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
Relax, sip on a glass of complimentary champagne and hear some great jazz! ...what a great way to wind down the week.
As the name suggests, the group explores the jazz idiom without the employment of a chordal instrument. The bass and horns provide the melodic as well as harmonic underpinnings.
featuring
NO CHORDTET
DAVE SANTORO GEORGE SOVAK
PETER MCEACHERN HAMIR ATWAL
Thursday - March 20, 2014
7:30 pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
Relax, sip on a glass of complimentary champagne and hear some great jazz! ...what a great way to wind down the week.
As the name suggests, the group explores the jazz idiom without the employment of a chordal instrument. The bass and horns provide the melodic as well as harmonic underpinnings.
Tango Fantasy
...the scintillating rhythm of provocative
featuring
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
Saturday - March 29, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
Music will include: 'Tango Rhapsody', 'Cafe 1930', & 'Oblivion' (from the film Henry IV) by Astor Piazzolla
'Cafetim de Buenos Aires' (Tango) by Mariano Mores; 'Adios Corazon' (Tango) by Lalo Etchegoncelay; 'Ritual Fire Dance' by Manuel de Falla;
'Alma Brasileira' (Choros No. 5) by Heitor Villa-Lobos; 'La Soiree dans Grenade' by Claude Debussy; and more (including original tangos)
"The tango is a duel for dominance. Partner against partner, man against woman, machismo leading female, using weapons and lures of sexuality."
—Gretchen Elizabeth Smith, The History of the Tango Dancing in very close embrace – this intimacy is what defines tango as a "three-minute love affair"
"Tango. The word conjures images of dancers with smoldering eyes and simmering sensuality gliding to the melancholy sound of Astor Piazzola's accordion-like bandoneon. The men are manly and the women are, well, wrapping their legs quite conspicuously around them.
—Dina O'Meara, It takes two to tango
...the scintillating rhythm of provocative
featuring
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano
Saturday - March 29, 2014
8:00pm
RSVP: 860-482-6801
TICKETS:
Adults - $20
Students (ages 7 - 18) - $12
Group rates available!
Music will include: 'Tango Rhapsody', 'Cafe 1930', & 'Oblivion' (from the film Henry IV) by Astor Piazzolla
'Cafetim de Buenos Aires' (Tango) by Mariano Mores; 'Adios Corazon' (Tango) by Lalo Etchegoncelay; 'Ritual Fire Dance' by Manuel de Falla;
'Alma Brasileira' (Choros No. 5) by Heitor Villa-Lobos; 'La Soiree dans Grenade' by Claude Debussy; and more (including original tangos)
"The tango is a duel for dominance. Partner against partner, man against woman, machismo leading female, using weapons and lures of sexuality."
—Gretchen Elizabeth Smith, The History of the Tango Dancing in very close embrace – this intimacy is what defines tango as a "three-minute love affair"
"Tango. The word conjures images of dancers with smoldering eyes and simmering sensuality gliding to the melancholy sound of Astor Piazzola's accordion-like bandoneon. The men are manly and the women are, well, wrapping their legs quite conspicuously around them.
—Dina O'Meara, It takes two to tango
Guest Artists for Winter 2014 Season
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. ______________________________________________________________ 
Richard R. Budman
I consider myself a
novelist who uses images instead of words.
The need to communicate is my prime motivation and if any of my
paintings have to be explained in words then I missed the mark I paint my images from within. Over the years I have accumulated enough
images to last several lifetimes.
CubeRism is based on the principles of Cubism but with my interpretation. I strive for movement in the third dimension to define it. Besides being influenced by painters ranging from Rembrandt to Picasso, I also pay homage to pianist/composer Thelonious Monk, as well as novelists Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow. It's evident that my work was never meant to hang quietly on the walls of bank lobbies. Instead, I create my images to intrude and invade, appearing to be in a stare down with the essence of our era - sight and sound , loud and clear. I had my first one man show in 1955. In 1984 I exhibited at the World's Fair in New Orleans at the Rivergate. In 1987 I was awarded a one man show at Temple University for my "FigureScape" collection. CubeRism is my first new collection in over 20 years. ______________________________________________________________ 
Preston Parish
Guitarist, bassist and electronic music producer. Mr. Parish is known for his extraordinarily deep, rich tone quality and elegant phrasing. He also performs unaccompanied acoustic jazz and gypsy jazz. "I'm an acoustic music enthusiast and the proud parent of a paranormal 9-string bass." ______________________________________________________________ Dave Santoro
Full Professor Berklee College of Music Has appeared on over 50 jazz CD's. 6 CD's as leader or co-leader. Current member: Jerry Bergonzi Trio and quartet, Dick Oatts Jerry Bergonzi Quartet, Jim Odgren Quartet. Have played, toured or recorded with: Red Rodney Quintet, Mulgrew Miller, Joe Magnarelli, Phil Grenadier,Tom Harrell, Bob Berg, Pepper Adams, Bruce Barth, Kenny Baron, Victor Lewis, John Abercrombie, John Scofield, Joe DiOrio, Mick Goodrick,Adam Nussbaum, Jim Odgren, Nick Brignola, Dizzy Reece, Junior Cook, Houston Person, Terrel Staford, Village Vanguard Orchestra any many others. ______________________________________________________________
Peter
McEachern, trombone
Peter McEachern, a Connecticut native, has toured and recorded three CDs for Polygram with Blues legend Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown; has worked and recorded with minimalist composer Lamonte Young, and is featured on several important CDs: "Insomnia" with the Thomas Chapin Trio on Knitting Factory Works and "Song for Septet" with the Mario Pavone Septet on the New World Countercurrents label. Song for Septet was chosen one of the "Top Ten Jazz CDs of 1995" by The New York Times. In addition he recorded the Wendy Chambers piece, "A Mass for Mass Trombones" on the Centaur label. He received a fellowship for music composition from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts in 2001. He is a member of The Ct Composing Improvisers Project which includes Stephen Haynes, Mario Pavone, and 2010 Grammy winner David Darling. The group has an unreleased recording. Currently he is the Chairman of the Music Department at Salisbury School, and is a busy freelance artist in the tri-state area. Peter has been a teaching artist at the Litchfield Jazz Camp since 1998. He has released 2 CD's in the past year "No Chordtet" featuring Dave Santoro, George Sovak and Hamir Atwal as well as "Shockwave" featuring the late Thomas Chapin, Steve Johns, Mario Pavone and Jamie Finegan. ______________________________________________________________ George Sovak
Sunrise, Florida resident M.M. in Music Performance, Catholic University. Tenor, alto and soprano saxophone as well as clarinet, flute and piano. Composer and arranger Worked in Ct. for over 30 years as an educator and musician Performed with the New England Jazz Ensemble, Hartford Jazz Orchestra(Formerly the Cic Cichetti Band), Mario Pavone, Dave Santoro Also performed in Paris with the Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Big Band. Recordings with Mario Pavone, and Peter McEachern. ______________________________________________________________ 
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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 Bublé, 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 U.S. ______________________________________________________________ 
Peter Ferreira Critically acclaimed concert violinist, recording artist, composer and author, Peter Ferreira (born: Pedro Ferreira), has been a very active violinist since the age of 6, inspired by his grandfather, also a violinist. He entered the Conservatorio De Musica in Coimbra, Portugal, where he studied with teacher Dario Peixoto.
Peter Ferreira is described in Comunidades USA Magazine as one of the most celebrated Portuguese-born violinist of the modern era... Since a very young age, Peter spent his formative years training as a classical musician, surrounded by many of the violin masters of the ages... From J.S. Bach to Piazzolla, Peter's astounding energy and infectious passion along with his seasoned golden tone performances have an abundant hot Mediterranean influence, sure to captivate the audience! Although classically trained, Peter is equally comfortable performing classical music as he is playing rock, jazz, tango, world music or his own Portuguese folk idiom and is a rare musician who defies definition. A kind of universal musician so rarely encountered in our time. As a soloist, Mr. Ferreira has been repeatedly praised for the beauty of is tone, the depth and flair of his musicianship, and his rare balance of virtuosity and sensitivity. He has performed as soloist with orchestras and ensembles in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. He founded the Dresden String Quartet in 1998, and performed as its first violinist through 2002. ______________________________________________________________ Tom Melito
Tom has been a mainstay on the New York City jazz scene for many years. His drumming has been heard behind such varied artists as John and Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Wess, Harry Allen, "Sweets" Edison, Lew Tabackin, and Bill Watrus. Tom's talents have been in demand internationally, including numerous tours of Japan, China, Europe, and South America. His various television appearances include the CBS Early Show, Entertainment Tonight, and CNN World Beat. Currently Tom is playing with pianists Pete Malinverni, and Larry Ham while doing Jazz clinics at various schools in the area. Active in jazz education, he also plays on Jerry Bergonzi’s CD play along method, and is recording a series of jazz educational CDs for “Windplayer” magazine. Some of Tom's recording credits include "Saxology" with Jerry Bergonzi, two of Ken Peplowski's endeavors for Concord Jazz, The Dave Santoro standards band, and with the Michael Moore trio on two disks entitled “The History of Jazz.” ______________________________________________________________ The Jarred Cattey Jazz Trio
The JC Trio is thrilled to be back at Studio 59 for the premier of "Jazz and Champagne"! The trio formed while studying at Western Ct State University in the Fall of 2005. Since then, the group has performed at venues both small and large in a variety of contexts ranging from weddings to restaurants, theaters and jazz clubs. The JC trio's musical repertoire is vast and is sure to delight music fans of any kind. Listeners can expect to hear swinging standards, beautiful ballads, uptempo Brazilian grooves, and original compositions drawing from a range of influence. All three musicians are music educators who teach at various institutions in CT. Bandleader Jerrod Cattey is on the faculty at Sacred Heart University, Northwestern Regional High School, Forman school, and Southbury Music Studio. Students and young people interested in this great American art form are encouraged to attend as it should prove to be an inspiring and enjoyable experience. ______________________________________________________________ 
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