Name: New Beginnings
Start: 2023-03-03T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-03-03T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Bloomingdale School of Music

New Beginnings

Bloomingdale School of Music

The music in this concert explores, through imagery and metaphor, the way universal themes of nature, inventiveness and past experience of all kinds create new beginnings. P﻿erformersLisa Pike, french horn Karen Demsey, flute Elizabeth Rodgers, pianoP﻿rogram Les Confidences d'un Jouer de clarinette Op. 141 by Charles KoechlinNo. 4 L'appel du MatinNo. 7 RéveilNo. Sonnerie de Waldhorn à la fète d'Eckerswir avant le bal The Great Train Race by Ian ClarkeScènes de la foret by Melanie Bonis iii. Invocation iv. Pour Artêmis Sheltering Suite (2020) by Wendy Griffiths My Corona Jumping Bean Climbing the Walls Dream Song Lamentation Dance Messianique 2-Bit Contraptions by Jan Bach"Being a Collection of Diverse and Sundry Musical Amusements for a contaminated Rainy Afternoon"Second Lieutenant CalliopeGramaphonePinwheel Water Music by Gary Schockeri. Waves ii. Sun

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Lisa Pike holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music (B.M.), The Juilliard School (M.M.) and SUNY Stony Brook (D.M.A.). She performs with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, NYC Ballet, ABT, Long Island Philharmonic, NY Pops, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Center for Contemporary Opera, Little Orchestra Society, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater, North/South Consonance, New Jersey Symphony and original instrument groups American Classical Orchestra, Rebel, New York Collegium and Concert Royal. She was a featured performer at the 1999 International Horn Society Symposium. Her festival appearances include Spoleto USA/Italy (soloist), Connecticut Early Music Festival (soloist), Caramoor, Vermont Mozart Festival (soloist), Bard Festival and Yale at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Lisa is the solo horn on the Grammy Award-winning recording of Samuel Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra (New World Records) and served as solo horn on Orchestra New England’s Grammy nominated recording of The Orchestral Music of Charles Ives. She has worked with popular artists Sir Elton John, Billy Joel, Andrea Bocelli, Brian Wilson, The Moody Blues, Tony Bennett, Rod Stewart, Mannheim Steamroller, Ray Charles, Patti Lupone, The Three Irish Tenors, and Chita Rivera. Currently she teaches at William Paterson University, Kean University, Teachers College Columbia University, Felician College, Bloomingdale School of Music and is a teaching artist/ consultant at the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art &amp; the Performing Arts and Frank Sinatra School of the Arts. Dr. Pike who possess New York State certification for Music (k-12) also serves as a New York State adjudicator for the NYSSMA Music Festival.Karen Demsey has premiered numerous works nationally and internationally. She has performed as a soloist throughout China, and on concert tours of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, and Turkey. Her solo album, “Recollections of the Inland Sea,” internationally distributed on Capstone Records, features music for flute and marimba. She is Co-Director of the Artists International Award-winning chamber group, UpTown Flutes, and is featured on their four albums including the most recent, Streaming Dreams. She is Professor Emerita of Music at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Collaborative pianist Elizabeth Rodgers holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music. She is in demand as a recitalist with singers and instrumentalists, including the distinguished soprano Judith Raskin, and in chamber music, orchestral, choral, and operatic repertoire. She performs regularly with Downtown Music, Music Under Construction, American Chamber Opera, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, American Landmark Festivals, and Libero Canto. Teaching experience includes Manhattan School of Music, Bard and William Paterson. A strong advocate of performing the works of living composers, she has premiered music by Miriam Gideon, Marc-Antonio Consoli, Wendy Griffiths, Tom Addison, Carolyn Lord, Joelle Wallach, Robert Dennis, Justine Chen, and Melissa Shifflet. She has recorded with Opus 1, Grenadilla, CRI, Musical Heritage, New World, and Albany.

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