"East of the River" Concert, Featuring Renowned Early Music Specialists
Performance is free and open to the public
Some of New York's finest early music specialists, recorder players, Nina Stern and Daphna Mor, Uri Sharlin, accordion, Omer Avital, bass and oud, and Tomer Tzur, percussion, will be featured in a concert of traditional folk music from Eastern Europe on Friday, March 23, 2007, at 7:30 p.m., at Lighthouse International, 111 East 59th Street, New York City (between Park and Lexington Avenues).
The performance, part of the Catherine Kramer Concert Series features the quintet of professional musicians who will perform traditional pieces hailing from Armenia, Greece, Macedonia and Bulgaria.
Nina Stern is one of North America's leading performers of the recorder and classical clarinet. In recent years, she has also been hailed as an innovator in teaching school-age children to be fine young musicians. She serves as Director of Education for the New York Collegium, where she is co-founder of a successful hands-on music-teaching project in inner city public school classrooms. The Washington Post applauded this program as a model in its "innovation in the classroom" series. For this important work, Ms. Stern was awarded an Endicott Fellowship in 2003, and was honored in 2005 with the "Early Music Brings History Alive" Award, bestowed by Early Music America. Recently, Ms. Stern developed a classroom teacher-training course for the Amherst Early Music Festival and initiated a pilot recorder course for children who are visually impaired at Lighthouse International in the fall/winter of 2006.
A highlight of the program will be the participation and collaboration of select students of the two New York City schools Ms. Stern has been affiliated with: The Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School of Lighthouse International, a community school of the arts, which inspires people of all ages who are visually impaired to pursue excellence in music; and the Ella Baker School, a pre-K through 8th grade elementary school housed in Manhattan's Julia Richman Educational Complex. The New York Collegium's Music Education Program has been in residence at Ella Baker School over the past five years.
Founded in 1913, the Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School of Lighthouse International is a community school of the arts dedicated to helping individuals of all ages pursue their interest and study of music while overcoming the challenges presented by vision loss. Students are children and young people enrolled in public and private schools, professional musicians, college-bound students and people who wish to enrich their lives through life-long learning in music. The School offers music instruction in voice and a wide range of instruments, cutting-edge music technology and various ensemble experiences. In addition, the School has an extensive collection of musical scores in braille, large-print and audio formats. It is a member of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts and the NYC Coalition of Community Schools of the Arts.
This concert is part of the Catherine Kramer Concert Series. It is open to the public, free of charge and held in The Lighthouse Theater. For more information, please contact the Music School at (212) 821-9660 or visit our Web site at www.lighthouse.org
Founded in 1905, Lighthouse International is a leading non-profit organization dedicated to preserving vision and to providing critically needed health care services to help people of all ages overcome the challenges of vision loss. Through services, education, research and advocacy, the Lighthouse enables people with low vision and blindness to enjoy safe, independent and productive lives. For more information about vision loss, its causes and what you can do about it, contact Lighthouse International at 1-800-829-0500 or visit www.lighthouse.org
Information:
Leslie Gottlieb 212.821 9760