Party in the Park with The Bronx Arts Ensemble Woodwind Quintet

Party time explores the themes of celebrating and having fun through music. Works include folk songs, dances, and tangos, drinking songs and more. Bring a snack and a blanket and join us at the Van Cortlandt House Museum yard for a laid-back afternoon of music!

PROGRAM

Miniatures for Woodwind Quintet – William Grant Still
I Ride On Old Paint
Aldorido
Jesus is a Rock in the Weary Land
Yaravi
A Frog Went A-Courtin’

Danza de Meliodia – Arturo Marquez

Tangoescente  – Adriana Verdie

Chansons à boire – Ana Sokolović
Donesi vina krmarice (bring wine, waiter)
U ranu zoru (in the early dawn)
Ja sam ja, Jeremija (I am me, Jeremija)
krcmarice jos vina natoci (the waiter pours more wine)

Summer Music – Samuel Barber

La Nouvelle Orleans–  Lalo Schifrin

THERESA NORRIS, flutist, is a “Motown” girl who performed with Michigan Opera Theatre and the Detroit Symphony before coming to New York. She has been an Artist Member of the Bronx Arts Ensemble for more than 30 years, while enjoying a busy orchestral and chamber music career playing with many groups in New York City and the surrounding area.  Theresa has performed with St. Bart’s Music Festival, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Berkshire Opera, Philip Glass Ensemble and many others, as well as on Broadway. When not performing or teaching, Theresa can be found tending her garden or cooking and entertaining friends.  On that rare night off, she’s with her husband Charley, bowling and groovin’ to the music at the Brooklyn Bowl.

A native of Moscow, oboist BORIS BAEV left Russia at the age of 16 to study music performance at Germany’s Stuttgart Conservatory. He performed with the International Bach Academy, Stuttgart State Opera, and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, and was principal oboe for Israel’s Haifa Symphony Orchestra. Since moving to the United States, he has performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, American Ballet Theatre, American Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Westchester Philharmonic, Northeastern Philharmonic, Harrisburg Symphony, Albany Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, and in numerous Broadway shows. Boris is on the oboe faculty at Adelphi University on Long Island.

Bronx–born clarinetist MITCHELL KRIEGLER graduated from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Charles Russo, Conrad Kuchay and Robert Renino.  He performs at Lincoln Center with the New York City Ballet Orchestra and at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops.  He is an Artist Member of the Bronx Arts Ensemble and Linden Quintet, and performs with the New York City Opera Orchestra.

BLAIR HAMRICK, an alumnus of the Manhattan School of Music Professional Studies degree, is a freelance horn performer in New York City. While teaching and pursuing her Doctorate at Stony Brook University, she performs with groups including the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, and School of American Ballet Orchestra. Blair has taken part in artist residencies at Rutgers University and the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival. Blair premiered the solo horn piece, Fólkvangr by Jason Mulligan at the International Horn Society conference in Belgium, and plans to bring more solo horn repertoire to the forefront.

Bassoonist ATSUKO SATO is a graduate of the Toho School of Music in Japan and Juilliard School of Music in New York.  A former member of the Detroit Symphony, she is a member of the Queens Symphony.  Active as a freelancer in the Tri-State area, Atsuko is an original member of the orchestra for The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway’s longest running production.  Her playing can be heard on the Emmy Award-winning television show Wonder Pets.  A notable chamber music musician, she performs with a variety of groups including Grammy-nominated Englewinds and Double Entendre, as well as with the Bronx Arts Ensemble as Artist Member.