Symphony Space

presents

“An Afternoon of Song”

A Benefit Concert to help Cure Autism

September 15, 2007

2pm

Directors Concert Director/Founder Tiffany Du Mouchelle Assistant Director Stephen Solook Producer Emma Petievich Host Bruce Adolphe Public Relations Rubenstein Communications Additional PR Adam Du Mouchelle Jackie Winther Cover Art Stephen Solook

Tiffany Du Mouchelle Program Stephen Solook

Autism Speaks Personnel NYC Chapter President Mark Spellman Director of Special Events Sam Levitt Senior Events Manager Emma Petievich

About this event

The idea of this concert came around about a year and a half ago, when I received the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation at my graduation ceremony from Mannes. As a recipient of the grant, it was requested of me to take part in a benefit concert. While I often perform in support of local non-profit organizations, I decided that this was a good opportunity to make a larger stand for a cause that I felt particularly close to. A flood of ideas came to mind, but the one that continued to come to the foreground was autism.

It was about ten years ago when I first learned about autism. I was living on Cape Cod, and was asked if I would be interested in helping out a mother of two autistic boys as she was visiting her parents for the summer. I took the job, and since then have continued to work with autistic children and offer support to their families. Currently, I help take care of an 11 year old boy here in the city. When I began working with him, almost two years ago, he was doing very well. His mother has done a wonderful job creating a warm network of “extended family”, comprised primarily of babysitters and therapists working together to help her son. Her son is a very sweet boy who loves ‘tickles’, Elmo, and playing in the sprinklers at the Dinosaur Playground. Unfortunately this past year he has begun to have some serious problems, and so far the doctors have been unable to help. He has had at least 5 hospital stays already this year, and unfortunately he is in the hospital for yet another stay at this present time. The issues he has endured during this past year have only made it more obvious that we are in desperate need of some answers. There are too many children and families suffering from what we do not know about autism, it is time for an answer.

The only way that we are going to find an answer is to continue funding programs for research through such organizations as Autism Speaks/Cure Autism Now. I hope that everyone attending this concert today will continue their support, by spreading the word, offering a donation, or participating with many of the fundraisers for autism.

I would like to thank Mark Spellman, Emma Petievich, Sam Levitt, and all of this afternoon’s performers for their dedication and hard work in helping to put together this concert. I would also like to offer a special thank you to Stephen Solook, my partner in organizing this concert, without which none of this would have been possible.

-Tiffany Du Mouchelle Concert Director/Founder

Program

“A Bouquet of Encores” Wait ‘til the Sun Shines, Nellie Harry von Tilzer Two Little Flowers Charles Ives The Cage Ah! May the Red Rose Live Always Stephen Foster I am Rose Ned Rorem A Word on my Ear Flanders & Swann

Lucy Shelton, Soprano & Bruce Adolphe, Piano Cello Suite 4 BWV 1010 J.S. Bach Prelude Sarabande Bouree

James Preiss, Marimba Three Romances Robert Schumann Nicht schnell Einfach, innig Night schnell

Laurie Smuckler, Violin & Julie McBride, Piano “A little Bit of Silly” The Serpent Lee Hoiby The Waltz Da Boo Bruce Adolphe

Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Soprano; Javier Oviedo, Saxophone; Stephen Solook, Percussion and Marimba & Julie McBride, Piano

“1940’s Revisited” Dancing Tambourine W.C. Polla

James Preiss, Marimba; Stephen Solook, 1890 Tambourine; Julie McBride, Piano

Intermission “A Tour of the World” Misra Bodhran Solo with Overtone Singing Tuppin

Glen Velez, Master Drummer; Lori Cotler, Rhythm Vocalist; Lew Soloff, Trumpet

“Three Songs” John Musto maggie and millie and molly and may Penelope¹s Song Viva Sweet Love

Amy Burton, Soprano & John Musto, Piano Sonata for Soprano Saxophone & Piano Steve Cohen Allegro Assai Blues (In memory of Ralph Burns) Allegro giocoso

Javier Oviedo, Saxophone & Jon Liechty, Piano “A Thousand Years of Love” Bruce Adolphe Lunar Joe Lean your cheek Valley Girl

Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Soprano & Bruce Adolphe, Piano

Bios Bruce Adolphe (Event Host, Piano, Composer)

A composer, author, educator, and performer, Bruce Adolphe is the artistic and education advisor for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, founding creative director of PollyRhythm Productions, and the comic keyboard quiz-master of Piano Puzzlers, heard weekly in over 200 cities nationwide.

Co-hosted with Fred Child, Piano Puzzlers features Adolphe at the piano, playing folk tunes and popular songs in the styles of famous classical composers for call-in contestants. In a style that is a cross between Car Talk and Will Shortz' Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzlers, Bruce Adolphe and Fred Child informally talk about the musical issues raised by Adolphe's comic compositions.

Formerly on the faculties of the Juilliard School and New York University and a visiting lecturer at Yale, Adolphe has been the lecturer of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1992, and has been featured in nationally broadcast Live from Lincoln Center television programs.

Adolphe has written three books on music: The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination; What to Listen for in the World; and Of Mozart, Parrots and Cherry Blossoms in the Wind: A Composer Explores Mysteries of the Musical Mind. His books are used in college and conservatories throughout the United States, and excerpts have been read as short features on NPR.

As a composer, Adolphe has written works for many of the world's most renowned artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Sylvia McNair, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Caramoor Festival, St. Luke's Orchestra, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Brentano String Quartet, the Miami Quartet, David Finckel and Wu Han, and many others. His many compositions include four operas and several theater pieces, all of which have been produced throughout the United States. He has been composer-in-residence at many festivals and institutions, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Music from Angel Fire, Bravo! Colorado, the Grand Canyon Festival, the Moab Festival, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C., the Perlman Music Program, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Virginia, the Oklahoma Mozart Festival, and SummerFest La Jolla. Adolphe is the distinguished composer-in-residence at the Mannes College of Music for the 2003-04 term.

With Julian Fifer, Bruce Adolphe co-founded PollyRhythm Productions, a company devoted to the creation of music, books, scripts, and games linking musical concepts to science, art, history, and daily life. The company is named after Adolphe's opera-and-jazz-singing parrot, Polly Rhythm. Recent commissions include What Dreams May Come?, a work celebrating Adolphe's 50th Birthday in 2005 for the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, music director, and The Tiger's Ear: Listening to Abstract Paintings, written for the Armstrong Chamber Concerts. Adolphe's music has been recorded on the Telarc, Naxos, CRI, Delos, Koch, Summit, and PollyRhythm labels. His film scores include the permanent documentary at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. www.bruceadolphe.com

Amy Burton (Soprano) Soprano Amy Burton is known for her keen musicianship, musical

versatility and commanding stage presence. Her varied musical life encompasses opera, chamber music, orchestral repertoire, recitals and cabaret.

Among the many organizations with whom she has appeared are the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Washington Opera, San Diego Opera, Dallas Opera, Tokyo Philharmonic, Bern (Switz.) Philharmonic, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Opernhaus Zürich, L’Opéra de Nice, Scottish Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Scottish Chamber Symphony, Orchestra of St. Lukes, Utah Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque, Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, Seattle Symphony, Trio Solisti and the Tokyo String Quartet.

She appears frequently in recital with her husband, composer/pianist John Musto, and has been heard in recitals at the 92nd Street Y, The Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, Joe’s Pub, France Musique, with New York Festival of Song and at Caramoor. Among her many awards are New York City Opera’s Diva Award (2005), Christopher Keene Award (2000) and Kolosvar Award (1997), Opera America’s Inaugural Artist Advocate Award (2006), Silver Medalist in the 1995 Marian Anderson International Vocal Competition, and major prizes from the Gerda Lissner and George London and Sullivan Foundations.

Ms. Burton has recorded for Angel/EMI, Albany, CRI and Harbinger Records. Her recent recording, Souvenir de Printemps (2005) has received rave reviews both in the US and in France. An upcoming recording of vocal music by John Musto has been recorded for Bridge Records, and will be released later this season.

In addition to her singing career, Amy Burton has been on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music since the 2001-2002 academic year. She has been a visiting teacher/lecturer at Glimmerglass Opera (YAAP Program), Vassar College, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn Conservatory, University of Colorado and University of Missouri at Kansas City. www.amyburton.com Lori Cotler (Rhythm Vocalist)

Part nomad, part jazz chanteuse and part rhythm singer, critically acclaimed vocalist Lori Cotler is thrilling audiences around the World. Lori's stunning rhythmic adeptness and genre-bending dexterity puts her in a class all her own among contemporary vocalists. Lori is a fearless vocalist, who can soar through complex rhythmic syncopation's, while at a moments notice, flows into tender velvety-toned melisma.

Drawing from the highly sophisticated South Indian rare art form known as Konnakol (slang name: Indian beatboxing), she can execute with the human voice, vocal maneuvers which do not seem possible in their rhythmic speed and clarity. Within the past year, over fifty-five thousand Youtube viewers have been captivated by video clips posted of Lori's rhythm singing. Hers was the first Konnakol video to be posted in that venue, it created such a buzz and many viewers were introduced to a vocal style they had never heard before.

Lori holds a Bachelor Degree of Music from Berklee College of Music and a Masters Degree in Music Therapy from New York University. She has been invited to present her unique approach to the voice at such universities and organizations as The Julliard School, Mannes College of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Royal Academy of Music (Stockholm, Sweden), Berklee College of Music, New School University, SESC (São Paolo, Brazil), Confederation House (Jerusalem, Israel) and The Academy — A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and The Weill Music Institute. Among Lori's live performances have been radio concerts broadcasted on Spanish National Radio 4 (Barcelona, Spain), Italian National Radio 3 (Rome, Italy) and National Public Radio. Another fascinating facet to Lori's musical endeavors is her long-term interest in psychology and the psychology of music. After earning her graduate degree in Music Therapy, she worked extensively as a certified

music therapist in hospitals and clinics in the New York area, with such populations as Autism, adolescent/adult psychiatry, AIDS, brain injured, cerebral palsy, learning disabled, foster children and at-risk teens. From 2001-2006, Lori was a professor of Music Therapy at New School University, NYC. Lori currently teaches students from the Antioch University McGregor Program. Lori is also active in the commercial music field, recording for film and TV using her wide knowledge of composition and vocal stylings and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). She is also a member of International Women in Jazz and the American Music Therapy Association. Lori is currently recording a new CD in collaboration with three-time Grammy Award winner Glen Velez and Oscar winning music producer, Leo Sidran. Selections from their new recording are available on iTunes. For more info: www.LoriCotler.com

Tiffany DuMouchelle (Concert Director/Founder, Soprano) Soprano, Tiffany DuMouchelle, grand prize winner of the 2006

Mannes Concerto Competition and recipient of the prestigious Richard F. Gold Career Grant, is well known for her musical versatility and her championship of new music. This past November under the baton of Maestro David Hayes, Ms. DuMouchelle made her Lincoln Center debut as a soloist at Alice Tully Hall, performing Joseph Schwantner's Shadowinnower and Black Anemones with the Mannes Orchestra.

A specialist in new music, Ms. DuMouchelle has co-founded two contemporary music ensembles: Tonal Center Trio, with percussionist Stephen Solook and clarinetist Adam Berkowitz; and Aurora Borealis, a duo with Mr. Solook. Ms. DuMouchelle frequently commissions and premiers new works by American composers. In the past three years alone, she has sung more then 30 premiers by such composers as: Adolphe, Cohen, Loeb, Russell, Tcimpidis, and Zannoni. Her performance repertoire includes: Arnold Schoenberg's, Pierrot Lunaire; George Crumb's, Apparition and Night of the Four Moons; Luciano Berio's, Circle's; Joseph Schwantner's, Two Poems of Agueda Pizzaro, and Sparrows; and Alejandro Viñao's, Hildegard's Dream.

As a concert artist, Ms. DuMouchelle frequently performs in such prestigious venues as: The New York Historical Society, The Center for Jewish History, The Polish Consulate, The Bruno Walter Auditorium, and The Ukrainian Institute. She is a performing member of the New York Composers’ Circle the Areté Ensemble, and has appeared as a guest artist with the American Composers Alliance, Downtown Chamber Music

Productions, Ensemble 212, Yale University's Norfolk Contemporary Ensemble, the Mannes Contemporary Music Festival, and CIRCE.

On the operatic stage, she has performed with the Center for Contemporary Opera, American Lyric Theater, Cape Cod Opera, Operafest! of NH, and Mannes Opera. Ms. DuMouchelle will receive her Master of Music degree from the Mannes College of Music this May, where she also received her Bachelor of Music degree. www.tiffanydumouchelle.com Jon Liechty (Piano)

Jon Liechty has appeared at An Die Musik Live! in Baltimore, at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, at the SummerKeys festival in Maine, at the Lotus World Music and Dance Festival in Indiana, at the American Composers Alliance festival in New York City, and on Azerbaijani National Television. Recently he gave the world premiere performance of Andrew Nishikawa's Piano Concerto No. 1, written especially for him, at the Boston Conservatory. Julie McBride (Piano)

Julie McBride hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, where she began piano studies at the age of seven. After receiving a Bachelor of Music Degree in piano performance from the University of Cincinnati College-conservatory of Music, Julie Moved to New York City to further pursue her musical career. She attended the Mannes College of Music where she received a Master of Music in Collaborative Piano with an emphasis in vocal accompanying. Her professional endeavors have included solo performance, chamber music, vocal coaching and accompanying, and music directing, at places such as New York city Opera, The Renata Scotto Opera Academy, Centro Studi Lirica in Italy, the El Portal Theater in Los Angeles, the Granbury Opera House, and the Cincinnati Ballet. Julie currently resides in Manhattan where she plays in the Lion King orchestra, and is a member of the music faculty at the Marymount School of New York, as well as the Music Advancement Program at the Juilliard School. John Musto (Piano, Composer)

Composer and pianist John Musto is regarded as one of the most versatile musicians before the public today. Mr. Musto was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his orchestral song cycle Dove Sta Amore. In 2000 he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at Bellagio, Italy, and he has recently been chosen for a 2006 Lakond Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also garnered two Mid-Atlantic Emmys and two CINE Awards for his scores written for public

television. Mr. Musto has been featured on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center in 1995 and the Composer Portrait series at Columbia’s Miller Theater in 2001.

Mr. Musto recently completed his first operatic work, the comedy Volpone, with librettist Mark Campbell. Hailed as a masterpiece by the Washington Post, Volpone was premiered by the Wolftrap Opera in March of 2004, and was re-mounted by that company in 2007 in a new production. He appeared as soloist in his Piano Concerto No. 2 in 2006 at the Miller Theater with conductor George Steel and the Gotham City Sinfonietta. Last season he served as composer-in-residence at the Caramoor Festival for the during which he premiered his Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s under the direction of maestro Michael Barrett. A new chamber music recording by Michael Boriskin and Music from Copland House was released this spring on the Koch label. Other new pieces include Later the Same Evening, a music-theater piece commissioned by the National Gallery and University of Maryland, to be performed in November, 2007, a string quartet for the Caramoor Festival, and an opera for Opera Theater of St. Louis and Wolf Trap Opera companies.

Other recent commissions have included Carnegie Hall, the Dallas Symphony, the Miller Theater, the Caramoor Music Festival, the Vail Valley Music Festival, Chanticleer, the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and the Wolftrap Foundation. In addition to the Caramoor Festival, Mr. Musto has served as composer-in-residence at the Moab Music Festival, New York Festival of Song, and the Vail Valley Music Festival. Mr. Musto has also written music for television, including several specials for HBO. He has also won two Emmy Awards for his work on documentaries for New Jersey Public Television.

John Musto earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, pursuing piano studies with Seymour Lipkin and Paul Jacobs. He has been a visiting professor at Brooklyn College and is a frequent guest lecturer at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music. As a pianist, Mr. Musto has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Nonesuch, The Milken Archive, Harbinger, CRI and EMI, and his compositions have been recorded for Hyperion, Harmonia Mundi, MusicMasters, Innova, Channel Classics, Albany Records and New World Records. Javier Oviedo (Saxophone)

Saxophonist Javier Oviedo is a highly sought after teacher and musician and has performed all over the United States with orchestras such as The San Antonio Symphony, The Austin Symphony, and The New

Jersey Symphony under conductors such as Mitch Miller and Zdenek Macal. In New York he has been heard in Alice Tully Hall, Steinway Hall, Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at The United Nations, Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, and many other places throughout the five boroughs.

Mr. Oviedo is also active as a chamber musician, performing in such eclectic venues as The New York Society for Ethical Culture, The Queen Sophia Spanish Institute, The Art Under Construction Studios, and The Maverick Festival Hall with Sequitur Chamber Ensemble in Woodstock, NY.

Mr. Oviedo is also a founding member and Managing Director of The F.R.E.D. Chamber Players and performs on all of their concerts. In May 2007, he toured in China with the Elision Saxophone Quartet and upon his return, made his New York solo recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. James Preiss (Marimba)

James Preiss is principal percussionist of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, the Westchester Philharmonic, and the Riverside Symphony and also performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the American Symphony Orchestra. A founding member of the Parnassus Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, he has been a member of the Steve Reich Ensemble since 1971. He has recorded on many labels, including the Deutsche Grammophon, ECM, and Nonesuch.

Mr. Preiss holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Preiss taught at Manhattan School of Music faculty from 1970 –2006, and he continues to teach at Mannes College of Music. Lucy Shelton (Soprano)

Winner of two Walter W. Naumburg Awards—as chamber musician as well as solo recitalist - soprano Lucy Shelton continues to enjoy an international career bringing her dramatic vocalism and brilliant interpretive skills to repertoire of all periods. Notable among her numerous world premieres are song cycles by Elliott Carter, Oliver Knussen, Louis Karchin and James Yannatos; chamber works by Carter, Joseph Schwantner, Mario Davidovsky, Augusta Read Thomas, Bruce Adolphe, Alexander Goehr, Poul Ruders, Anne Le Baron, Thomas Flaherty, Warren Benson, Stephen Albert, Lewis Spratlan and Charles Wuorinen; orchestral works by Knussen, Albert, Schwantner, David Del Tredici, Gerard Grisey, Ezra

Laderman, Sally Beamish, Virko Baley and Ned Rorem; and an opera by Robert Zuidam. An avid chamber musician, Shelton has been a guest artist with ensembles such as the Emerson, Mendelssohn and Guarnieri string quartets, the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, 21st Century Consort, Speculum Musicae, Da Capo Chamber Players, Sospeso, New York New Music Ensemble, Musica Viva, Da Camera of Houston, eighth blackbird, the Nash Ensemble, Klangform Wien, Schoenberg-Asko, Ensemble Moderne and Ensemble Intercontemporain. Shelton has participated in numerous festivals including those of Aspen, Santa Fe, Tanglewood, Chamber Music Northwest, BBC Proms, Aldeburgh, Caen, Kuhmo, Togo and Salzburg. Shelton has appeared with leading conductors such as Barenboim, Boulez, Gilbert, Knussen, Rattle, Rostropovich and Slatkin with major orchestras worldwide. Her extensive discography is on the Deutsche Grammophon, Koch International, Nonesuch, NMC, Bridge, Albany and Innova labels. She has taught at the Third Street Settlement School in Manhattan, Eastman School, New England Conservatory, Britten-Pears School and the Cleveland Institute. She joined the resident artist faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center in 1996. In the fall of 2007 she joins the Manhattan School of Music faculty for a new degree program in the performance of contemporary music. Highlights of recent seasons include her Zankel Hall debut with the Met Chamber Orchestra and James Levine in Carter’s A Mirror On Which To Dwell, numerous performances of Pierrot Lunaire; A Cabaret Opera in collaboration with the eighth blackbird ensemble and Blair Thomas Puppets, participation in various composers’ birthday celebrations (Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' 70th in Turin, Italy; James Primosch's 50th in Philadelphia; Oliver Knussen's 50th in London; George Perle's 90th and Milton Babbitt's in 90th in Princeton and New York), and 5 recording projects soon to be released of works by Anne Le Baron, Virko Baley, Louis Karchin, Chinary Ung and Charles Wuorinen. Among the many activities in Shelton's 2007-2008 season are a return to Turin Italy to celebrate Elliott Carter’s 100th year, performances of Pierrot Lunaire in St. Petersburg and Moscow (with Da Capo Chamber Players), an engagement with the Atlanta Symphony in Knussen's Where The Wild Things Are, a recital of Baudelaire settings (including a Carter premiere) at Brown University, a return to Da Camera of Houston for works of Stephen Albert and Pascal Dusapin, a return to the Guggenheim's “Works and Process” in repertoire of Kurt Weill, a reprise of her Naumburg recital premiere of Schwantner’s Two Poems of Agueda

Pizzarro with Margo Garrett at Juilliard School, a premiere based on poems of Pablo Neruda by Gabriella Lena Frank with the Adorno Ensemble, a return to the Ussachevsky Electronic Music Festival to premiere an interactive electronic work by Thomas Flaherty, and performances and a recording of Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 3 with the Enso Quartet for the Naxos Label.

Laurie Smuckler (Violin) Admired for her intensity and the beauty of her sound, Laurie

Smukler is an active performer as soloist and recitalist and has established a reputation as one of the finest chamber musicians in the country. In New York she performs regularly with the Festival Chamber Music Society at Merkin Hall, the Bard Music Festival at Tully Hall, and on the Collection in Concert series at the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Dedicated to teaching as well as to performing, she is professor of violin and head of the string area at the SUNY Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, as well as a member of the faculty at Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes College of Music. Ms. Smukler also teaches and performs at the prestigious Kneisel Hall Festival in Blue Hill, Maine, in the summer. She has been an invited guest at summer festivals across the country, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chambermusic Northwest, the Bard Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Skaneateles Festival, and the Mount Desert Island Festival.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Smukler was the founding first violinist of the Mendelssohn String Quartet. She has collaborated with many of the great artists of our time, including Rudolf Serkin, Menahem Pressler, Richard Goode, Leon Fleischer, Rudolf Firkusny, Dawn Upshaw, Benita Valente, Evelyn Lear, Oscar Shumsky, Robert Mann, Richard Stoltzman, Charles Neidich, Michael Tree, and the Vermeer and Emerson String Quartets. She is currently the first violinist of the Bard Festival String Quartet.

Ms. Smukler's wide musical interests include contemporary music and she has premiered works by many composers including Ned Rorem, Morton Subotnik, Steven Paulus, Shulamit Ran, and Bruce Adolphe. She is active as co-artistic director and performer in an exciting concert series entitled “The Collection in Concert” at the Pierpont Morgan Library and is also artistic director of the Faculty and Friends concerts at the Performing Arts Center of Purchase College. Ms. Smukler plays a Petrus Guarnerius violin made in 1738.

Lew Soloff (Trumpet) Lew Soloff was born in New York City and graduated to the New

York scene during the Sixties, playing club dates and concerts at Radio City Music Hall. A brilliant high-note trumpeter long in great demand for big bands and session work, Lew Soloff is also a distinctive soloist and an expert with the plunger mute.

After studying at Julliard, Soloff played jazz trumpet with several leaders, notably Maynard Ferguson and Gil Evans and the Latin groups of Machito, Tito Puente, and Chuck Mangione. He first came to prominence in 1968 with the Grammy Award winning jazz/rock band Blood Sweat & Tears where he remained for five years. Soloff's extensive performances have included gigs with Ornette Coleman, Frank Sinatra, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band, Machito, Marianne Faithfull, Barbra Streisand, Carla Bley, Dizzy Gillespie and numerous others.

These days Soloff is busy with a number of other projects, recording 16 albums with the Manhattan Jazz Quintet (he's a charter member of the group formed in 1984), US'N (featuring George Young, Will Lee, Steve Gadd, Rob Mounsey, and Sammy Figueroa), Pocket Brass Band (led by trombonist Ray Anderson), and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra. He recently finished recording a new album with his regular working ensemble The Food Group, comprised of Lou Marini, Joe Beck, Mark Egan, and Danny Gottlieb. He is also a featured member of Carla Bley's 4+4 group. Soloff is known as a virtuoso with tremendous range and superior technical command, yet he exudes a wisdom for quietness and melody. Soloff’s expertise includes trumpet, flugelhorn, harmon mute, plunger mute and he is particularly recognized for his work on piccolo trumpet. Lew demonstrates his versatility by playing classical music. A fiery, gutsy player, Soloff's broad repertoire has caused some jazz fans to overlook his work. He is a musician of considerable depth, integrity and flair.

In addition to Lew's active performance schedule, he has been on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music for nearly 20 years and is an adjunct faculty member at Julliard School and New School University. For more info: www.lewsoloff.com

Lew Soloff Plays Selmer Instruments Exclusively. Stephen Solook (Assistant Director, Percussion, Marimba)

Percussionist Stephen Solook is an active classical, world, and solo musician in New York City. Currently, Steve is the Principal Percussionist/Timpanist with NY Repertory Orchestra and Ensemble 212 Orchestra, and works as a freelance percussionist for several orchestras. As a chamber musician Steve is a member of the Arete Ensemble, NY

Composers Circle, the trio Tonal Center, and the duo Aurora Borealis. He has also been recorded with Cantori NY, under the baton of Mark Shapiro, with the Klezmer group, Klezmer Battery, and the Brass Band, Imperial Brass with Joseph Alessi as guest soloist. Recently, Mr. Solook has been working with the internationally renown Jose Limon Dance Company, having performed with them in Dallas, Atlanta, and New York City on the major revival, Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Steve has performed in concerts with such artists as Judy Collins, Lauren Flanigen, Glen Velez, Bob Becker, and under such conductors as John Rutter, JoAnn Falletta, Paul Nadler, and Edwin Outwater.

As a soloist, Mr. Solook has worked consistently with rising composer Davide Zannoni. Under the baton of Yoon Jae Lee, with Ensemble 212 Orchestra, Steve gave the NY premiere of the Zannoni’s Concertino del’ Incenso for solo marimba and orchestra, and has recorded the concerto with the Mannes College of Music Orchestra, with David Hayes conducting. His duo Aurora Borealis gave the NY premiere of Zannoni’s Three Rossetti Songs, for vibes and soprano. Mr. Solook’s recording of Six Fleeting Moods for solo marimba can be found on Davide’s website at www.davidezannoni.com. Currently, Zannoni is writing the new work, Archers of Solitude, for Tonal Center and the Mannes Percussion Ensemble, commissioned by James Preiss, to be premiered in April.

As an active commissioner of new music Steve has worked with such composers as Bruce Adolphe, Raphael Fusco, David Loeb, James Maxson, Osnat Netzer, Seth Rozanoff, Richard Russell, Jorge Sosa, Michaela Straub, and David Tcimpidis. Both his duo Aurora Borealis and trio Tonal Center have been featured in concerts sponsored by the Mannes Composition Department consisting of works specifically written for each group, by Mannes faculty, alumni, and students.

Steve received his bachelor degrees in performance and music education at Ithaca College; where he studied with Gordon Stout, and his Master of Music and Professional Studies Diploma at Mannes College of Music studying under Jim Preiss and Glen Velez. Glen Velez (Master Drummer, Composer)

Three-time Grammy Award winning master drummer, composer and educator. The name Glen Velez is synonymous with the words frame drum.

Glen is also regarded as one of the most influential percussionists and world music composers of our time. He is responsible for increasing the popularity of Frame Drums in the US and around the World. His

performances inspired the Remo Drum Co. in 1983 to develop a line of frame drums called the Glen Velez Signature Series. The Cooperman Drum Co. introduced a hand made Signature Series Glen Velez Tambourine and Frame Drum line in 1999.

Glen has gained international recognition as a solo artist and is known for his 15 year recording and performing collaborations with composer Steve Reich as well as the Paul Winter Consort. Even twentieth century composer, John Cage acknowledged Velez' mastery when he wrote a solo frame drum piece especially for him in 1989.

Other collaborations include: Tan Dun, Israel Philharmonia, Brooklyn Philharmonia, Opera Orchestra of New York, Suzanne Vega, Pat Metheny, Zakir Hussain, New York City Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Orpheus Chamber Ensemble. His own compositions have been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and John Schaefer's New Sounds and have been commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and Reader's Digest. He has written music for theater and dance and recorded hundreds of albums on ECM, CBS, RCA, GRP, Warner Brothers, Deutsche Gramophone, Geffen, Nonesuch, Capital, and Sony.

Glen has several instructional videos, 5 instructional books and over a dozen recordings of his own music on CMP, Music of the World, Sounds True, Interworld, Ellipsis Arts and DafTof Records. Glen is a master teacher who conducts workshops worldwide and has published numerous books and articles on the subject. Velez developed his own teaching approach called “The Handance Method.” It incorporates voice and body movement into the process of learning to play the frame drum and has been presented in hundreds of universities worldwide. He currently teaches frame drums at the Mannes School of Music, as well as series of master classes at The Julliard School and Manhattan School of Music.

Glen is also an expert in Central Asian Overtone Singing (split-tone/harmonic singing). In addition to singing this style in performance, Glen engages and delight his audiences with a crash course in overtone singing, which as a result, turns into a glorious interactive overtone choir.

Glen Velez regularly performs and records with Coleman Barkes, world renown scholar/translator of the poetry of Rumi. He is also active with his own Glen Velez Ensemble, along with his duo performances with vocalist/rhythm singer Lori Cotler. Selections from their new recording are available on iTunes. For more info: www.GlenVelez.com

Sponsorship for this event has been provided by

Cure Autism Now Autism Speaks

Shoshana Foundation

Thank you to the following people for their support on this project Bruce Adolphe

David Ames Scott Askildsen Eric Bestman

Adam Du Mouchelle Tiffany Du Mouchelle

Sam Levitt Leo Mordis

Emma Petievich Lucy Shelton

Stephen Solook Mark Spellman

Alex Wang Julia Wargaski Jackie Winther

Thank you to all of the performers for their talents, support, and time, and

thank you to all of the people who continue to work to find a cure for autism.