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An Evening of Jazz – Hope for the Future

Posted: February 26, 2023

 

 

An Evening of Jazz – Hope for the Future
Benefit Concert for CWB

featuring
Bert Seager’s Heart of Hearing

Bert Seager’s Heart of Hearing is a jazz quartet made up of piano, tenor-saxophone, upright-bass, and drums whose aim is to bring listeners into the heart of improvised jazz. The joyful expression of this musical intimacy, the shimmering energy of the sound, and the sense that these musicians are as much involved in listening as in playing makes for compelling and memorable performances.

They will play two sets of music.  For the second set, the band will be joined by vocalist Lili Shires.

Saturday, March 18, 2023, 7:30 pm
(Doors open at 7:00 pm. Concert starts at 7:30 pm.)

The First Church in Belmont, Unitarian Universalist
404 Concord Ave
Belmont, MA

Tickets: Adults $30, Students $15

All proceeds benefit Communities Without Borders, which supports education for at-risk children in Zambia.
We thank the musicians who are donating their time and considerable talents, and we thank the church for donating its space.

 


Bert Seager, pianist, composer, recording artist, and educator, is a member of the faculty at the New England Conservatory. Bert has led performances in international jazz festivals in Canada, Peru, Bulgaria, Jordan, Ecuador, Israel, China and Japan. As a composer, he is a three-time recipient of the prestigious MacDowell Colony fellowship, an artists residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has recorded 18 compact discs which have all been released internationally to critical acclaim. Cadence Magazine says Bert’s music is filled with “effervescent optimism.” And the Boston Globe wrote that his “kind of exuberance makes the jazz world go round.” Learn more.


Gregory George Groover Jr earned a full tuition scholarship to Berklee College of Music where he received both his Bachelors and Masters in Music Performance Studies through the Global Jazz Institute, headed by world-renowned artistic director, pianist, and UNESCO Artist for Peace Danilo Perez.As a performer, Gregory has shared stages with Philip Bailey, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Brian Blade, and Esperanza Spalding. As a bandleader and a sideman, he has performed in music festivals in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Africa.Currently, Gregory serves as the co-chair of music at his alma mater, the Boston Arts Academy where he provides instruction in Jazz studies to the next generation of artists and scholars. Learn more.


Max Ridley is a bass player from and based in Boston. He started playing bass through a love of punk rock and fell in love with jazz in high school at the Boston Arts Academy. He was awarded full-tuition scholarships to study at Berklee College of Music for both an undergraduate and graduate degree. He earned his graduate degree from Berklee’s Global Jazz Institute under the direction of master pianist and educator Danilo Perez. He has shared the stage with renowned musicians such as Kenny Werner, Jeff Coffin, Terri Lyne Carrington, Donny McCaslin, Tia Fuller, and Jerry Bergonzi. He has performed in venues such as the Blue Note, Boston Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Umbria Jazz Festival. Learn more.


Dor Herskovits is an Israeli drummer and composer based in Boston. Following his passion for jazz and improvised music, Herskovits received his Bachelor’s degree from the Berklee College of music and his Master’s degree in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory. During these formative years, the drummer also began his journey as a composer and bandleader. Today, Herskovits performs and records as a sideman and a bandleader around the world. His current projects include – Earprint, Tetraptych, Bert Seager, Elan Mehler trio, TJ and the Revenge, Max Ridley’s Basement Orchestra, Xiongguan Zhang, and many others. He has shared the stage with great musicians such as Jason Palmer, Steve Cardenas, Jon Cowherd, Daniel Rotem and George Garzone. Learn more.


Lili Shires, vocalist, has been singing on stages since she was six years old.  Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, she attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts from grades 4 to 12.  Bert Seager met her last year at the New England Conservatory where she studied with Dominique Eade. Lili won the National Foundation for the Advancement of Artists’ YoungArts Jazz scholarship competition in 2020.



 

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Benefit Concert

Posted: November 8, 2019

Sunday, April 26, 2020 – CANCELED
Benefit Concert for CWB
featuring acclaimed chamber musicians
Ron Lowry, cello and Lois Shapiro, piano.
First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton

We plan to reschedule this concert for next spring.

Lois Shapiro, Ron Lowry

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All-Mozart Concerts to Benefit CWB

Posted: January 21, 2018

 

Celebrating the Radiance, Wit and Humanity of Mozart’s Music

Benefit Concerts for CWB featuring
The Triple Helix Piano Trio
and special guest violist, Min Choi

Ann Moss, soprano
Orchestra Without Borders, Luca Antonucci, conductor

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music. No one has made me weep, has made me tremble with rapture, from the consciousness of my nearness to that something which we call Truth, as he has done.           – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

MOZART Piano Trio in C Major, K.548 (1788)
    Triple Helix Piano Trio
Bayla Keyes, violin; Rhonda Rider, cello; Lois Shapiro, piano
MOZART “Ch’io me scordi di te?”, K.505 (1786)
    Ann Moss, soprano; Lois Shapiro, piano; and orchestra
MOZART Salzburg Symphony No. 1, K.136 (1772)
    Orchestra Without Borders
MOZART Piano Quartet in g minor, K.478 (1785)
    Triple Helix Piano Trio and special guest violist, Min Choi

Program notes are available HERE.

Two performances:

Ticket holders are invited to a talk by the musicians one hour prior to the concert.

Saturday, April 7, 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge
11 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA

Sunday, April 8, 3 pm
First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton
1326 Washington Street
Newton, MA

Tickets: Adults $30, Students $15

All proceeds benefit Communities Without Borders, which supports orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia.
We thank all the musicians for donating their time and considerable talents, and we thank both churches for donating their space.

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When the award-winning and internationally known Triple Helix Piano Trio musicians—violinist Bayla Keyes, cellist Rhonda Rider, and pianist Lois Shapiro—joined together in 1995, The Boston Globe described the results of their union as “the livest live music in town,” with “wildly imaginative, emotionally charged, virtuoso playing” that was “sophisticated in musical detail, wholeheartedly interactive, uninhibited in emotion, and touched by a special grace.” Subsequently, the ensemble has become known as one of the best piano trios on today’s musical landscape.


Soprano Ann Moss is an acclaimed recording artist and champion of contemporary vocal music who performs and collaborates with a dynamic array of living composers. Her high, silvery, flexible voice has been singled out by Opera News for “beautifully pure floated high notes” and by San Francisco Classical Voice for “powerful expression” and “exquisite phrasing.” A native of Boston and a graduate of Hampshire College, the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and San Francisco Conservatory, Ann Moss currently resides and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, violist Justin Ouellet. Ann is a Reiki practitioner, enthusiastic Yogi, and pursues a lifelong interest in Traditional Chinese Medicine.


Conductor, trumpeter, and singer Luca Antonucci brings dynamism and incisive musicianship to performances throughout New England. A native of Watertown, MA, Antonucci holds an M.M. in Orchestral Conducting from the Hartt School, where he studied with Edward Cumming and Glen Adsit. Luca is the recipient of a B.A. from Amherst College, where he graduated summa cum Laude in 2014, Luca spent the 2014-15 academic year as a Fulbright Fellow in Vienna, Austria, where he published work on Arnold Schönberg in the Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center. His article, “Schönberg Conducts Mahler: Exploring A Performance from Schönberg’s East Coast Year” can be found in the Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center. Equally at home on the podium or in the opera pit, Luca has appeared alongside faculty, students, and guest artists with the Hartt Orchestra, Foot in the Door Contemporary Ensemble, the Hartt Opera Theater, and the Hartt Brass Ensemble. He has also served as Assistant Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony, and Conductor and Music Director of the Pioneer Valley Symphony Youth Orchestra. Luca has appeared throughout the US and Europe in conducting masterclasses with faculty including Benjamin Zander, Paul Vermel, Donald Portnoy, Peter Jaffe, Diane Wittry, Neil Varon. ​An enthusiastic advocate of choral music, Luca founded the Brookline Chamber Singers in 2016, which raised almost $500 in its inaugural year for the Womens’ Lunch Place of Greater Boston. Luca has also served as the Assistant Music Director at the Church of St Mark the Evangelist in West Hartford, CT, and is serving as Conducting Intern for the Zamir Chorale of Boston for the 2017/18 season. Luca maintains an active schedule as a performer on the trumpet, performing solo and in chamber settings, as well as a member of jazz bands, orchestras, and wind ensembles throughout the Boston area. He is especially interested in free improvisation and the traditional brass band literature of Eastern Europe. In 2014/15, Luca was recognized as Official Musical Ambassador of the Musikverein Leopoldau, an award-winning wind band in Vienna, Austria. Luca is a member of the faculty of the Rivers Summer Music program in Weston, MA, where he teaches music theory and directs the Wind Ensemble. He also maintains a private trumpet studio and directs the Band at the Brimmer & May School in Chestnut Hill, MA.


 

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Youth Coffee House 2017

Posted: March 3, 2017

The youth group at FUSN has planned a benefit event for Communities Without Borders, featuring many talented young performers from Newton and beyond. Please join us on Saturday, March 4, at 6:30 PM, at FUSN in West Newton.

poster by Rachel Shereda

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Concerts by the Belmont Festival Orchestra and the Triple Helix Piano Trio

Posted: December 10, 2016

helix

Benefit Concerts for Communities Without Borders featuring
Triple Helix Piano Trio
Belmont Festival Orchestra,
Nathaniel Meyer, conductor

Beethoven, Triple Concerto
Mendelssohn, “Reformation” Symphony

Two performances:

Friday, January 27, 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge
11 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA

Sunday, January 29, 3 pm
First Unitarian Society in Newton
1326 Washington Street
Newton, MA

Tickets: Adults $30, Students $15

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When the award-winning and internationally known Triple Helix Piano Trio musicians—violinist Bayla Keyes, cellist Rhonda Rider, and pianist Lois Shapiro—joined together in 1995, The Boston Globe described the results of their union as “the livest live music in town,” with “wildly imaginative, emotionally charged, virtuoso playing” that was “sophisticated in musical detail, wholeheartedly interactive, uninhibited in emotion, and touched by a special grace.” Subsequently, the ensemble has become known as one of the best piano trios on today’s musical landscape.

The Belmont Music Festival and the Belmont Festival Orchestra were established in 2010 to bring free orchestral concerts directly to the citizens of Belmont and nearby communities, seeking to cultivate new audiences with exciting performances of the most beloved works of the classical repertoire. Since then, the Belmont Festival Orchestra has developed a passionate local following, performing for packed audiences at their home in Belmont’s Beech St. Center and now in other venues around the Boston area. A group of friends, the all-volunteer orchestra includes professional, amateur and conservatory players, united by their belief in the transformative power of music and grass-roots community-building through the arts.

Conductor Nathaniel Meyer is currently working as the musical assistant to his teacher and mentor, Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic. Nathaniel recently returned from a seven-week tour of Europe, in which he assisted Maestro Zander in engagements throughout Spain, Estonia, England, Israel and Sweden. In addition to his musical education, Nathaniel studied German and philosophy while a student at Yale and in Heidelberg, Germany. He received his Masters degree in Orchestral Conducting from Indiana’s Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, where his teachers were David Effron and Arthur Fagen. There, he began to study opera conducting, with a special focus on the music of Richard Wagner. Nathaniel has also studied in masterclasses in Europe with renowned Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi and Jorma Panula of Finland. Before an embouchure injury led him to take up conducting, Nathaniel was an award winning trumpeter, performing frequently as a soloist and taking first place at the National Trumpet Competition and the International Trumpet Guild in 2007. Since then, he has been the winner of Yale’s Wrexham Prize in Music, the Artistic Excellence Award from Indiana University, and the LaGuardia Conducting Competition.

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