James Besser's 65th Birthday Concert
James Besser, New York composer-pianist, celebrates his 65th birthday with a concert of Jewish music. Composers include Mendelssohn, Bernstein, Copland, Ravel, the neglected 20th century Italian-American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and James himself. This is a concert in the Composers Now Festival (composersnow.org). Includes a reception in Revelation Gallery, showing the art of Jewish painter Anatoliy Fatakhov.
Free, but registration is helpful for catering purposes.
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Ilaria Loisa Hawley
Quando L'acqua riflette (When the Water Reflects)
Performed by Face The Music
Isabella Caurucci, flute
Yusei Hata, melodica
Oriana Hawley, viola
John Waller, triangle
Vasudevan Panicker, coach
Born in 2009, Ilaria Loisa Hawley is the recipient of a 2019 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the inaugural recipient of Claire Chase's Pnea Foundation Young Flutist Award. Ilaria's music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic and Face the Music, and she is a composition student of Mathew Fuerst and a flute student of Zara Lawler. She attends PS 314 Muscota New School and enjoys drawing, drama, reading, rock climbing, and making earrings.