Performer Profiles - Fall 2013 Season |
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Coming October 9, 2013:Susan Deer Cloud Poet |
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Coming October 16, 2013:Monk Rowe & Ann Carey Jazz Duo Jazz |
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Coming October 23, 2013Sar-Shalom Strong, piano; Anne McIntyre, violin The music of Louis Angelini |
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J.D. King has worked in graphics and illustration for decades, but his source of inspiration has been painting: Synthetic Cubism, Geometric Abstraction, Pop and Minimalism. Certain specific colors and shapes are repeated throughout his work as leitmotifs. Working digitally allows J.D to achieve flawlessly flat colors, exact grids and geometric shapes. Composing adds life, the archival paper enhances warmth. 
Beauty and the Beast Storytellers are the husband and wife team of Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton. They have been winning audiences and critical acclaim throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia since 1980. Renowned for their work in teaching the art of storytelling, they are also award winning authors and recording artists.
Paul Quigley began guitar studies with Tony Sano and Joel Brown before continuing his studies at Manhattan School of Music where he earned both B.M. and M.M. degrees under the tutelage of Norbert Kraft, Mark Delpriora, and David Starobin. While at Manhattan School, Paul performed for David Russell, Eliot Fisk, Nicholas Goluses, David Tanenbaum, Magnus Anderson, and Luis Zea. He was a finalist in the Artists International Auditions held in New York City and recently performed on board the Queen Elizabeth II World Cruise from Los Angeles to Auckland, New Zealand, the Queen Mary II from New York to Southampton, England, and the Crystal Symphony sailing from LA California to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. 
Julian Toha, multimedia performance artist and contemporary Pianist, is known for his passionate performances, poetic imagination, and technical command, American pianist Julian has acquired a reputation as an exciting young artist of the 21st century. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has inspired audiences throughout the United States, as well as abroad, with his highly emotional and original interpretations. With a gift as an engaging pianist who plays from the heart, his memorable concerts have received wide acclaim. When asked about his goal as a artist, Toha answered, "I just want the audience to fall in love." 
Susan Deer Cloud is a mixed lineage Catskill Indian of Mohawk/Blackfoot and some Seneca lineage. Although she grew up in mountain isolation in the old way, she has since traveled extensively and lived abroad. She has a B.A. and M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from Binghamton University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She has taught as a lecturer at Binghamton University, Broome Community College, and Holyoke Community College, was Writer-in-Residence at the Gloucester Writers Center and participated in the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in 2012. Deer Cloud has also received various awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (most recent one a 2011 NYFA Fellowship, a Chenango County Council for the Arts Literature Grant, First Prize in Allen Ginsberg Poetry Competition (twice), Prairie Schooner’s Readers’ Choice Award, and Native American Wordcraft Circle Editor’s Award for her multicultural anthology Confluence. 
Monk Rowe (piano) has carved an interesting niche for himself in the Central New York area, performing frequently as a solo pianist and as a saxophonist with a variety of ensembles. He is often found performing with The Roots of Rock & Roll or leading his own trio. Monk is a member of Hamilton College's adjunct faculty for saxophone instruction, and since 1995, has been Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive. Monk composed and recorded a series of tunes written for and dedicated to nine of the artists interviewed for the archive. The CD, entitled Jazz Life contains compositions recorded by Monk along with six respected jazz musicians: Wendell Brunious (trumpet and flugelhorn), Keter Betts (bass), Dennis Mackrel (drums), Rick Montalbano (piano), Jerome Richardson (alto sax), and Bill Watrous (trombone). 
entitled Out Standing in his Field consisting of original contemporary jazz compositions. 
Sar-Shalom Strong is well known to east coast audiences as both a soloist and a collaborative pianist. In a career spanning over 27 years, he has had the privilege of collaborating with international artists such as flutists Judith Mendenhall and Gary Shocker, trombonist Joseph Alessi, violinist Sarah Crocker, singers Helen Boatwright, Peter Vandergraaf, and Sanford Sylvan, as well as multitudes of fine musicians who live and perform throughout upstate New York. Locally he performs with the Society for New Music, where he has been involved in premiere of many new works, and also appears regularly on programs of Civic Morning musicals, the Skaneateles Festival, A Little Summer Music, The Oasis Center of Syracuse, Hamilton Copllege, and Utica College. He has performed orchestral keyboard with virtually all the orchestras in the area, most notably with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, and is a founding member of both the Jewell Piano Trio and the Southwick Trio. Recorded performances with the Society for New Music on Innova Records and with soprano Janet Brown on Russetbrush Records have met with considerable acclaim.
Anne McIntyre, violinist, began playing violin in a family string quartet while growing up in Ohio. Before moving to Central New York she attended the Tanglewood Music Institute and participated in both the Taos Chamber Music Festival and the Spoleto Festival. Ann currently lives in Camillus with her husband and two children. She graduated from Indiana University where she studied with Paul Biss and Josef Gingold. Ann has worked and recorded with Society for New Music since 2007, and performed in a concert broadcast of NPR-Performance Today. She also enjoys musical theater and has been the violinist for Merry-Go-Round Theater since 2005. In addition to teaching locally she was a member of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra violin section for ten years. Ann was also a founding member and first violinist of the Seneca String Quartet for 27 years, and currently enjoys performing a variety of chamber music.
J. Robert Lennon is the author of a story collection, Pieces For The Left Hand, and seven novels, including Mailman, Castle, and Familiar. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana, and has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. He has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and his story "The Rememberer" inspired the CBS detective series Unforgettable. He hosts the podcast Writers at Cornell, and co-hosts another, Lunch Box, with poet Ed Skoog. His book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, and he lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches writing at Cornell University.
Philip Fried is a New York-based poet and editor of The Manhattan Review. His most recent work is Early/Late: New and Selected Poems, published by Salmon in 2011. This work draws from previous books as well as presents new work in a section titled 'The Emanation Crunch.' As D. Nurkse wrote of Cohort, these new poems 'opens exciting territory where poems haven't dared to venture' the toxic side of the Information Age as it veers out of control.' Fried's poems have also been widely published in journals and have appeared in many anthologies, including 
David Kolb is a graduate of Hamilton College with double concentrations in music and mathematics, has taught math at Mohawk Valley Community College, and directed choirs for the Utica Maennerchor and Stone Presbyterian Church in Clinton. He is currently the Director of Music for First Presbyterian Church in Rome. David is also a frequent performer in local theatrical productions and sings with the local music ensemble Above Standards, David was a featured soloist in the production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors in Syracuse last December, and in the Masterworks Chorale’s performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams Fanstasy on Christmas Carols performed at Hamilton College. After several years’ hiatus, the Utica College Concert Choir was reconstituted in 2010 with David as its director. 
Alane Varga, piano accompanist, began her career at Utica College in fall 1983, as a counselor in the Academic Support Services. She was cofounder with Dr. Della Ferguson of the Womyn’s Resource Center at Utica College. In 2011, Alane was appointed Dean of Students at Utica College. She has been musically active as an accompanist in a range of venues, including community coffeehouses, musicals performed at Utica College reflecting her love of Broadway, and in the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Utica College Lunch Hour Series.
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