News For Dance Students!

Master Classes with Guest Artist Kurt Douglas

Kurt Douglas, Limon Dance Company

The Dance Department is pleased to announce guest artist, Kurt Douglas, Principle dancer with the Limon company will be giving two master classes for our D,E&F Students today, Friday 4pm – 6pm and Saturday 10:30am – 12 noon.  All Students are required to attend unless they are attending the Majissimo rehearsal.


Kurt Douglas, Limon Dance Company

Parent Information Meetings:
Saturday September 19th 10-11am children and youth in Hartford
Saturday September 26th 9:30 -10:30am children and youth in Simsbury

Bring a Friend Weeks - September 21 to October 3rd.  Bring a friend to class for free for Discovery through Foundation 1 students.

Rehearsal Schedules:

Saturday, 9/19
2pm – 4pm  Petite Ensemble & New Ensemble & Nutcracker dancers
3pm – 4:30pm, Majissimo

5:30pm Majissimo dancers call for performance.

Tuesday 9/22 
7:30 to 8:30pm Nutcracker- Rebecca Cornett, Katie Manger, Nolan Seda, Xavier Nunez

Thursday 9/24
6:45 to 7:45pm Nutcracker – Haley Rose, Katie Manger, Kailah King, Phoebe Manga, Emily Goodman, Naomi Lemire, Brian Taylor, Xavier Nunez, Paul Branco, Darion Flores, Antonio Cruz- Uribe

7:45 to 8:45pm, Nutcracker -  Rebecca Cornett, Katie Manger, Nolan Seda, Xavier Nunez

Friday, 9/25
6pm – 7:30pm,  Nutcracker -   Kalaih King, Mar Irene, Rickey Flagg, Jamal Shuriah

Saturday, 9/26

2pm – 4pm Grande Ensemble (All)
2pm – 4pm  Petite Ensemble & New Ensemble & Nutcracker dancers

Revised Suzuki String Group Class Schedule 

Suzuki String Students:
CLICK HERE FOR THE REVISED
SUZUKI STRING GROUP CLASS SCHEDULE!

Thank you!

Hartt Suzuki String News!

Save the dates!

Halloween Play Out, October 31

More info coming soon!

Fall Group Class Concert, December 12
 
     Guitars, 12:00
     Violins, Violas, Cellos, Basses 3:00

Suzuki Orchestra Concert, December 19

      2:00 pm
      Dress rehearsal schedule TBA

FREE Early Music Workshops Start Next Week!


The first workshop in the series, entitled Henry Purcell and English Country Dance,   will be held Thursday, September 24th at 6pm.

Designed as an introduction to Early Music & Dance, the Hartt Community Division will be offering a series of free workshops throughout the year.  Workshops will take the form of a music reading session or ‘sing/play along’ and will be offered periodically on Saturday afternoons throughout the year.  Topics include the following:

1. Henry Purcell and English Country Dance, Thursday, September 24, 2009; 6:00-7:30 PM
2. Sacred Voices of the Renaissance, Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 7-8:30 PM (Instructor, Noah Glynn)
3. Renaissance Christmas for strings and choir, Saturday, December 12, 2009; 12:45 – 2:15 PM
4. Recorder Consort (ensemble for recorders), Thursday, January 7, 2010; 5:30-7:00 PM
5. Viol Consort, Saturday, January 9, 2010, 3:00-4:30 PM (Instructor, Laura Mazza-Dixon)
6. The Renaissance Guitar, Saturday, March 27, 2010, 12:45 – 2:15 PM
7. Bach and More! For Strings, Sunday, March 28, 2010; 4:30-6:00 PM (Instructor, Emlyn Ngai)

Notable Hartt Alums, including Dionne Warwick, to perform
with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra

Dionne Warwick, Sean Burton, Salvatore Macchia, Kryzsztof Gadawski & Hartt Faculty Member Mickey Reisman

Dionne Warwick

Hartt alumnus Sean Burton ’00 guest conducts the Springfield Symphony Orchestra in the opening “Pops Programming” segment on Saturday, October 17, at 8:00 PM at Springfield Symphony Hall, Springfield MA. The Symphony opens for acclaimed vocalist and fellow Hartt Alumna, Dionne Warwick ‘63.  Burton has chosen a variety of arrangements, ranging from selections from FAME to Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson songs.

Hartt faculty member Mickey Reisman, violin, will perform with the Symphony, along with Hartt Alumni Salvatore Macchia, bass, and Krzysztof Gadawski, violin. 

Seats are available at all pricing levels, ranging from $13.25 to $48.50. This is a 25% discount over regular seat prices.  This is a Limited time offer so be sure to call the SSO Box Office from October 5th through 9th and mention the discount code HARTT. This discount can only be redeemed by contacting the SSO Box Office by phone at 413-733-2291. For more information visit www.springfieldsymphony.org.

Photo credit: http://www.springfieldsymphony.org./boxoffice/Pops1.shtml

West End String Quartet in Concert

Thursday, September 24th, 2009, 7:00pm  
An Evening of New Music at Capital Community College
Centinel Hill Hall Auditorium
950 Main Street, Hartford
Admission: Free

(Note: Free and secure parking will be available during the concert in the Columbus Boulevard Parking Lot.)

WESQ will perform two pieces on this local composers' concert:
A Muse by David Macbride
Selected movements of String Quartet #1 by Arthur Hernandez

The West End String Quartet welcomes our new violist John Biatowas for this concert!
For more information, visit our website at www.westendstringquartet.com

Connecticut Dance Alliance
2009 Distinguished Achievement Awards

Celebrating Three Remarkable CT Dancers!

Awards Ceremony and Performance
Saturday, September 19, 2009 5:30PM – 7:30PM
Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center

35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford, CT 06112
CDA Members/special guests & students: no charge/
Non-members: $20
Directions: www.ctdanceall.com
Questions: info@ctdanceall.com

The Board of Directors of the Connecticut Dance Alliance and the Hartt School Community Division, University of Hartford, are hosting the Connecticut Dance Alliance’s 2009 Distinguished Achievement Awards at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center at the University of Hartford. These awards are presented annually to remarkable members of the dance community who have given distinguished services to dance in our State. This year CDA honors three women in the Greater Hartford Region:

Kathy Borteck Gersten
Associate Artistic Director, Judy Dworin Performance Project & Coordinator,
Moving Matters! Residencies

Catherine J. Fellows
 Professor of Dance, Dance Program Director, Central CT State University

Olivia Sabulao Ilano-Davis
Artistic Director, Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble &
 Stretching for Life Dance Program, Hartford

The evening begins with a wine reception followed by a welcome from Dr. Mark George, Director of the Hartt School’s Community Division, and CDA President, Jill Henderson. This will be followed immediately by the presentation of the awards.  Kathy Borteck Gersten will be introduced by Judy Dworin, Artistic Director, Judy Dworin Performance Project;  Catherine Fellows will be introduced by Demetra Perrelli; and Olivia Sabulao Ilano-Davis by Steven Mitchell, Minister of Music & Arts at Asylum Hill Congregational Church.

An informal dance performance with distinguished guests – including a video presentation – will complete the event in the Roberts Theater at the Mort & Irma Handel Performing Arts Center. Guest dance artists include the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble, Full Force Dance Theater (University of Hartford’s Company-in-Residence), Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble, James Robey performing with Amy Piantaggini, and students of the Hartt School Community Division,

Upcoming Events at the Hartt School
Concerts, Recitals & Visiting Artists Chamber Music Series

Sunday, September 20
The Hartt School Presents the Faculty Recital Series 2009-2010

The Hartt School presents the Faculty Recital Series 2009-2010 on Sunday, September 20, at 3:00 p.m. in Berkman Recital Hall on the University of Hartford’s West Hartford campus.  Come meet Rita Porfiris, the newest member of the Hartt viola faculty!  This recital will include performances by many Hartt faculty members. Admission is free.  Please call the University Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587 or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt for more information.

RITA PORFIRIS
http://harttweb.hartford.edu/faculty/music/porfiris.aspx

Attn: French Horn Students!
Free HSO Concert featuring the history of the French Horn

Hartford Symphony Orchestra French Horn Quartet.
(Left to Right: Andrew Spearman, Hilary Ledebuhr, Emery Tapley, and Barbara Hill)

Hartford Symphony French Horn Quartet Opens 2009-2010 Musical Dialogues Series

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s innovative Musical Dialogues series will open its new season Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. at the Charter Oak Cultural Center with a program that follows the journey of the French Horn from the “Outside In.”

The HSO horn quartet, comprised of hornists Barbara Hill, Emery Tapley, Hilary Lebeduhr, and Andrew Spearman, will lead the audience through the unique story of the French horn: an instrument that began as an outdoor hunting call and gradually worked its way inside the concert hall to become one of the orchestra’s most distinguished instruments.  HSO hornist and Education Director Emery Tapley will narrate the story of the French Horn, inviting questions and discussion from the audience as the quartet plays works by composers including Tcherepnin, Bozza, Weber, and Liszt. 

“Musical Dialogues” is a free concert series designed to bring Classical Music to new segments of the Greater Hartford community and beyond. Staged in intimate, public settings, the performances feature an array of diverse musicians and conversations with the artists. 

This is Barbara Hill’s second season as Principal Horn with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.  She joined the HSO in October 2006 as Fifth Horn, and held the position of Acting Second Horn for the 2007-08 season.  Ms. Hill also has been a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra where she was Acting Principal and Second Horn, and has performed with numerous Canadian orchestras including the Calgary Philharmonic and Orchestra London Canada. 

A Connecticut native through and through, Emery Tapley has played French horn with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra since 1969.  Born and raised in the Hartford area, Mr. Tapley received his bachelor’s degree from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford, and his master’s degree from Central Connecticut State University. In addition, Mr. Tapley is the Symphony’s Director of Education and Community Programs.

French Hornist Hilary Ledebuhr appears regularly in many orchestra, opera, theater, and chamber groups throughout New England, and has performed with the Albany, New Hampshire, Portland and Vermont Symphony Orchestras, Connecticut Opera, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and at Mohegan Sun.  She and her trumpeter husband founded a brass quintet, Brass Venture, with which she recently recorded new works by Berklee composer Thomas Hojnacki. 

Connecticut native Andrew Spearman joined the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as an extra/substitute hornist in 1963 while still a student at the Hartt College.  He became a member of the basic orchestra in September 1971. As one of the most sought-after teachers in the area, Mr. Spearman has horn students at Wesleyan University, Hartt School, Hartford Conservatory, and Eastern Connecticut State University

HCD Ensemble Schedules

Please check your ensemble’s web calendar to any last minute changes or cancellations:  http://hcd.hartford.edu/music/instrumental_ensembles.htm

FYI and About our Newsletter

This Hartt Community Division Newsletter is distributed via e-mail to all faculty, staff, and families of the Community Division, who request the newsletter, weekly from September through June.  It is also posted on our website: www.hcd.hartford.edu   

Mark George, Director (george@hartford.edu ) – new program ideas, fundraising, general issues and concerns.

Alana Seddon, Associate Director (aseddon@hartford.edu ) – new program ideas, school-wide issues and concerns, current programming ideas or issues, and operational concerns.

Dawn Zumbroski, Deputy Registrar (zumbroski@hartford.edu ) -- registration issues, billing concerns and payments.

Jill Burnham, Administrative Secretary (jburnham@hartford.edu ) -- new student referrals and registration.
Judy Chestnut, Budget Administrator (chestnut@hartford.edu ) -- budget and payroll issues.

Jill Vasbinder, Assistant Director of Dance and Off-Campus Programs (jvasbinde@hartford.edu ) -- responsible for managing administrative details for the Simsbury Branch and the Dance Department.

Amanda Kilpatrick, Dance Administrator (kilpatric@hartford.edu ) -- dance department

Emmett Drake, Scheduling Coordinator (hcdevents@hartford.edu ) -- recital programs and room scheduling
Noah Glynn, Office Coordinator (glynn@hartford.edu ) – managing ensembles and coordinating special events

HCD Main Office Receptionists (harttcomm@hartford.edu ) - part-time receptionists at the main campus

HCD Simsbury Receptionists (simsmore@hartford.edu ) – part-time receptionists at the Simsbury location

HCD Dance Department Receptionists (dancedesk@hartford.edu ) – part-time receptionists at the Hartford Dance Center

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