BEAUTIFUL STRING MUSIC BY DVOŘÁK, MENDELSSOHN, AND OTHERS AT BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY’S CONCERTS ON JANUARY 28 AND 29

BRIDGETON, NJ—Elegant, melodic music for strings by Antonín Dvořák, Felix Mendelssohn, George Walker, and Sir Edward Elgar will make up the program for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s next concert series on January 28 and 29.

The concerts, continuing the orchestra’s popular, innovative mid-winter format and featuring the largest chamber ensemble forces to date, will take place on Saturday, January 28, at 8 p.m., at the Frank Guaracini, Jr. Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cumberland County College, Sherman Avenue and College Drive, Vineland, NJ; and Sunday, January 29, at 2 p.m., at the Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center, Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway Township, NJ.

Again for this season’s subscription concert series, a discounted ticket price of $25 will be for all seats in all venues, subsidized by a generous grant from the PNC Arts Alive grant program. PNC Arts Alive is a five-year, $5 million investment from The PNC Foundation that supports visual and performing arts groups with the goal of increasing arts access and engagement.

The concerts, conducted by Music Director Jed Gaylin, will include Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20—a work that is, in turn, folksy and elegant. Also featured will be Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 7 in D minor for String Orchestra—an early masterpiece filled with counterpoint, soaring melodic lines, and youthful spirit. The program will also Walker’s Lyric for Strings—the most celebrated work by this New Jersey composer—and Elgar’s beautiful Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22.

All Bay-Atlantic Symphony performances will be preceded one hour prior to starting time with a “Pre-Concert Conversation with the Maestro.”

Tickets may be ordered by calling the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center box office at (856) 692-8499, or the Stockton College Performing Arts Center box office at (609) 652-9000.

For more information, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, of visit them on Facebook.

Jed Gaylin, now in his 15th season as Music Director of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is also the Principal Conductor of the Cape May Music Festival. He has been the Music Director of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and, since 2007, the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Film and Radio Philharmonic in Beijing, China.

A sought-after guest conductor, he has led orchestras including the Sibiu Philharmonic of Romania—where he served as Principal Guest Conductor, Shanghai (China) Conservatory Orchestra, Bucharest (Romania) Radio Orchestra, Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain), Lodz and Pomorska (Poland) Philharmonics, Gnessin Institute Orchestra and Moscow (Russia) Chamber Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato (Mexico), Orvieto (Italy) Festival Orchestra, and the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic. He also maintains a close association with Baltimore’s Opera Vivente and Johns Hopkins University, where he has served as Music Director of the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993.

In addition to his work with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Gaylin’s schedule included recording sessions last year in the Xinjiang Province of northwest China and performances in July of 2010 with a pan-European Youth Orchestra as principal conductor for Spain’s Cervera Music Festival. In December of 2010, he conducted the St. Petersburg Symphony in Russia.

Now in its 28th season of providing classical music concerts, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs concerts and educational programs in Cumberland, Atlantic, Gloucester, and Cape May counties.

It is the resident orchestra of the Stockton College Performing Arts Center and the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center at Cumberland County College, as well as being the orchestra-in-residence at the Cape May Music Festival since 2003. Avalon is the summer home of the Symphony, which is orchestra-in-residence of the resort’s “Symphony by the Sea” series. The Symphony has received worldwide exposure through its appearances on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition and WWFM’s Celebrating our Musical Community.

Among world-renowned soloists collaborating with the orchestra have been Hilary Hahn, Eugenia Zukerman, the Eroica Trio, Stefan Jackiw, Awagadin Pratt, Shai Wosner, Chee-Yun, and Adam Neiman.

The Symphony’s first commercial label recording, of She Comes to Shore--concerto for improvised piano and orchestra by the contemporary Hong Kong-born, Canadian-based composer and pianist Lee Pui Ming, is available on the Innova label, distributed by Naxos.

“The PNC Foundation has a long history of providing grants to non-profit organizations that strengthen and enrich the lives of our neighbors,” said Bill Mills, president of PNC for Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. “We understand the valuable return that investing in the arts can deliver. Today more than ever, the businesses we attract, the jobs we create and the visitors who extend their stay are drawn by what the greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey region has to offer.”

For this prestigious grant award, only 26 arts organizations in the Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey region were selected for bold thinking around increasing arts access and engagement and the Bay-Atlantic Symphony was one. For more information on PNC Arts Alive and the grant recipients, visit www.PNCARTSALIVE.com.

These concerts are also made possible through funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

DISCOVER THE JOYS OF CHAMBER MUSIC AT JANUARY BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY MUSIC LECTURES

BRIDGETON, NJ—Discover the joys of chamber music at the January series of free music lectures by Paul M. Somers, sponsored by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony.

You will learn how social music—originally meant to be performed in the intimacy of the home—became serious and spread to a concert audience.

The lectures, which will take place in four counties, will occur on Tuesday, January 3, 2012, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Monroe Township Library in Williamstown, 713 Marsha Ave., Williamstown; Tuesday, January 10, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Ocean City Public Library, Room 110, 1735 Simpson Ave., Ocean City; Tuesday, January 17, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., in the Gant Room of the Millville Public Library, 210 Buck St., Millville and Thursday, January 19, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Margate Public Library, Bloom Pavilion, 8100 Atlantic Ave., Margate.

Subsequent lectures this season will explore improvisation in February, the effect of architecture and performing space on music in March, a question-and-answer session in April, and a Fresh Ears® experience in May.

Somers, Adult Education Director for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is a also a composer, performer, founder of Maurice River Music, was for 25 years the harpsichordist for the Virtuoso Strings of New York, and was a reviewer for the Star-Ledger.

The lectures are co-sponsored by the libraries in which they given.

For further information, call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, or Somers at Maurice River Music at (856) 506-0580. For the Gloucester County series, you can also call the Monroe Township Library in Williamstown at (856) 629-1212; for the Cape May County series, you can also call the Ocean City Public Library at (609) 399-2434; for the Cumberland County series, you can also call the Millville Public Library at (856) 825-7087; and for the Atlantic County series, you can also call the Margate Public Library at (609) 822-4700.

BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY NOMINATED FOR FOURTH YEAR
FOR “PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD”

BRIDGETON, NJ—The Bay-Atlantic Symphony has been nominated for the fourth consecutive year for the People’s Choice Award of Discover Jersey Arts

The Symphony, which was nominated by fellow arts organization members of Discover Jersey Arts, is asking the community to vote for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony as their favorite “Symphony/Orchestra” by going online at jerseyarts.com/peopleschoice.

Voters have an opportunity to cast votes in 14 arts categories. “Symphony/Orchestra” is the sixth category and the Bay-Atlantic Symphony is the fourth choice in that category. Voters are required to submit their name and e-mail address, as only one vote per e-mail/IP address is allowed. The deadline to vote is midnight, January 18, 2012.

“We are very proud and honored to be nominated consistently for this award,” said Bay-Atlantic Symphony Music Director Jed Gaylin. “The nomination is testimony to the esteem with which we are recognized among our peers in the arts community. We hope, with the help of all of our supporters who take a few minutes of time to do the simple, on-line voting, to go all the way this year.”

Supporters have every reason to be proud of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s impressive showing in this competition, according to Bay-Atlantic Symphony Executive Director Paul Herron. “For all but one of the years these awards have been offered, we have finished second only to the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, which has a budget of $13 million budget compared to our $480,000 budget.”

Five lucky voters will be selected at random to receive an item of their choice from the JerseyArts.com Online Store, which can be visited at www.cafepress.com/jerseyarts.

Discover Jersey Arts (DJA) is a co-sponsored project of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and ArtPride New Jersey Foundation, working in partnership with other cultural service organizations statewide including the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, South Jersey Cultural Alliance and New Jersey Division of Travel and Tourism. The project’s mission is to increase the awareness of and participation in the arts in New Jersey. JerseyArts.com supports that mission by providing a central clearinghouse of information on New Jersey’s cultural scene.
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Now in its 28th season of providing classical music concerts, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs concerts and educational programs in Cumberland, Atlantic, Gloucester, and Cape May counties.

It is the resident orchestra of the Stockton College Performing Arts Center and the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center at Cumberland County College, as well as being the orchestra-in-residence at the Cape May Music Festival since 2003. Avalon is the summer home of the Symphony, which is orchestra-in-residence of the resort’s “Symphony by the Sea” series. The Symphony has received worldwide exposure through its appearances on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition and WWFM’s Celebrating our Musical Community.

Among world-renowned soloists collaborating with the orchestra have been Hilary Hahn, Eugenia Zukerman, the Eroica Trio, Stefan Jackiw, Awagadin Pratt, Shai Wosner, Chee-Yun, and Adam Neiman.

The Symphony’s first commercial label recording, of She Comes to Shore--concerto for improvised piano and orchestra by the contemporary Hong Kong-born, Canadian-based composer and pianist Lee Pui Ming, is available on the Innova label, distributed by Naxos.

The Symphony’s next subscription concert series will take place on January 28 and 29, 2012. The program will include Sir Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20; Felix Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 7 in D minor for String Orchestra; George Walker’s Lyric for Strings; and Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22.

For more information on the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, please call (856) 451-1169, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

November 21, 2011

RENOWNED BASS-BARITONE ROBERT CANTRELL
TO GIVE FREE MASTER CLASS ON DECEMBER 6
AT RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE

BRIDGETON, NJ—The public is invited to attend a free master class by renowned bass-baritone Robert Cantrell for a selected group of voice students on Tuesday, December 6, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway Township, NJ.

The master class is sponsored by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and the Richard Stockton College Music Department and will take place in the College Center Theater.

“This will be a wonderful opportunity to see a great singer impart his knowledge to a future generation of singers,” said Bay-Atlantic Symphony Music Director Jed Gaylin. “It’s always exciting to see a master work with students and shape their approach to a song or aria.”

Described by the Washington Post as having “a warm supple voice that brought out the lyrical intentions of the composers, making them treasured moments,” Cantrell has appeared to rave reviews in many noted concert and operatic venues.

His engagements have included the role of Gubetta in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia starring Renée Fleming at Washington National Opera, the bass soloist in Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Baltimore Choral Arts, as the Bishop in Menotti’s Death of the Bishop of Brindisi, Amahl and the Night Visitors with Ann Arundel Community College, and the bass soloist in Duruflé’s Requiem with the Handel Choir of Baltimore. He sang with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus in the in the Metropolitan Opera’s 125th Anniversary Opera Gala.

Other solo appearances have included Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs with the Johns Hopkins Choral Society and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Columbia Presbyterian Church.

More recently Cantrell has performed in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Central Maryland Chorale, the Opera Gala with the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, and the role of Jim in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess with the Washington National Opera.

He is on the voice faculty at the Baltimore School for the Arts and is bass soloist at Grace United Methodist Church.

For more information on this and other Bay-Atlantic Symphony events, please call them at (856) 451-1169, visit their website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

FREE TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE TO TEACHERS, MUSIC EDUCATORS
FOR BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY’S 2012 EDUCATION CONCERTS

Teachers and music educators should plan now and reserve free tickets for the 2012 education concerts, sponsored by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony.

The 2012 Gus Cilento, MD Education Concerts, will take place on Friday, May 11, 2012, at 9:45 and 11:15 a.m., at the Frank Guaracini, Jr. Performing Arts Center, Cumberland County College, Sherman Avenue and College Drive, Vineland, and on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at 10:30 a.m., at the Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center, Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway Township. (Teachers and educations are advised that these are the only locations and times for the education concerts this year. Please plan accordingly.)

These 45-minute concerts, entitled “How Music Talks: Earthy, Elegant, and Electric,” will invoke the great variety of moods music can elicit by highlighting great music’s wildly contrasting impressions.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony and Music Director Jed Gaylin will illustrate this with selections by three works that illustrate these contrasts—Béla Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, Georges Bizet’s Symphony in C major, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Egmont Overture.

Bartók’s music is earthy—rustic folk dance music that speaks of the country and the soil with great rhythmic vitality and color. Bizet’s youthful symphony is elegant—rhythmically flashy with direct, simple, and beautiful melodies. The third movement, with its exotic harmonies of the third movement that speak of the country, contrasts with the fast-paced, exhilarating finale. Beethoven’s driving, bold, fierce, and dramatic overture is electric in its celebration of political heroism, resistance against evil, and the ultimate victory of spirit.

Tickets for these concerts are free because of the generous donations from the Dodge Foundation and Richard Stockton College. To reserve tickets, call (856) 451-1169 for the Cumberland County College concerts and (609) 652-4786 for the Stockton concert. A limited number of free bus vouchers are available on a first come, first served basis. Some of these concerts sell out early, so ticket reservations should be made now.

A thorough study guide, developed by Gaylin and conforming to New Jersey State Core Curriculum standards, will be available shortly on the Symphony’s website.

The “How Music Talks” education concerts, as narrated and conducted by Gaylin, have been performed for over 20,000 young listeners, capturing their imaginations and receiving accolades from students, teachers, parents, and grantors throughout the region.

Now in its 28th season of providing classical music concerts, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs concerts and educational programs in Cumberland, Atlantic, Gloucester, and Cape May counties.

Conducted by Gaylin since 1997, it is the resident orchestra of the Stockton College Performing Arts Center and the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center at Cumberland County College, as well as being the orchestra-in-residence at the Cape May Music Festival since 2003. Avalon is the summer home of the Symphony, which is orchestra-in-residence of the resort’s “Symphony by the Sea” series. The Symphony has received worldwide exposure through its appearances on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition and WWFM’s Celebrating our Musical Community.

Among world-renowned soloists collaborating with the orchestra have been Hilary Hahn, Eugenia Zukerman, the Eroica Trio, Stefan Jackiw, Awagadin Pratt, Shai Wosner, Chee-Yun, and Adam Neiman.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s extensive outreach initiatives includes music education programs for students and a four-county monthly adult music education lecture series. These initiatives have been strengthened through active membership in the South Jersey Cultural Alliance, Jersey Arts Communicators, League of American Orchestras, Art Pride New Jersey, Arts and Business Partnership of Southern New Jersey, as well as various local chambers of commerce, and community-based groups. Since 2008, the orchestra has worked during the summer with the Helen Diller Blind Camp in Avalon, New Jersey, bringing music to people who are visually impaired in a program that has received national recognition. Also, the orchestra partners with convalescent homes and Veteran's centers to bring people who have little access to music to the orchestra's concerts.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony has also established a working relationship with the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, NJ. This relationship, started in 2008 with a gala 25th anniversary concert there featuring Cirque de la Symphonie, continued in 2009 with a “Swing with the Symphony” concert—a tribute to Benny Goodman—featuring Dave Bennett and His Sextet and renowned pianist Jeffrey Biegel. “Classical Mystery Tour”—a gala celebration of The Beatles—followed in 2010 and, this year, “I Hear a Symphony—Motown’s Greatest Hits” brought another packed house in a tribute to that label’s great singers and groups.

The Symphony’s first commercial label recording, of She Comes to Shore--concerto for improvised piano and orchestra by the contemporary Hong Kong-born, Canadian-based composer and pianist Lee Pui Ming, is available on the Innova label, distributed by Naxos.

The orchestra’s first subscription concert series of the 2011-12 season will take place on November 5 and 6. The all-Mozart program will include selections from The Marriage of Figaro featuring soloists from Opera Vivente, and the Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425, “Linz.”

For more information, call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, visit their website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

EXPLORE IVES’S MUSICAL WORLD
AT NOVEMBER BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY MUSIC LECTURES

BRIDGETON, NJ—Explore the world of composer Charles Ives at the November series of free music lectures by Paul M. Somers, sponsored by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony.

You will see how Ives’s worlds—personal and musical—merge through his embracing of transcendentalism in this installment, the third of a four part series on four late-Romantic composers. Learn how the transcendentalist concept of the unity of the soul with nature and the divine became part of the philosophical and musical language of this fascinating American composer.

The lectures, which will take place in four counties, will occur on Tuesday, November 1, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Monroe Township Library in Williamstown, 713 Marsha Ave., Williamstown; Tuesday, November 8, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Ocean City Public Library, Room 110, 1735 Simpson Ave., Ocean City; Tuesday, November 15, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., in the Gant Room of the Millville Public Library, 210 Buck St., Millville; and Thursday, November 17, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Margate Public Library, Bloom Pavilion, 8100 Atlantic Ave., Margate.

This exploration of late-Romantic composers will conclude in December, as we see how Jean Sibelius’s worlds evolve and discover how, through the organic nature of his music, the flowers do not look like the roots.

Subsequent lectures this season will explore chamber music, improvisation, and the effect of architecture and performing space on music, along with a question-and-answer session in April and a Fresh Ears® experience in May.

Somers, Adult Education Director for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is a also a composer, performer, founder of Maurice River Music, was for 25 years the harpsichordist for the Virtuoso Strings of New York, and was a reviewer for the Star-Ledger.

The lectures are co-sponsored by the libraries in which they given.

For further information, call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, or Somers at Maurice River Music at (856) 506-0580. For the Gloucester County series, you can also call the Monroe Township Library in Williamstown at (856) 629-1212; for the Cape May County series, you can also call the Ocean City Public Library at (609) 399-2434; for the Cumberland County series, you can also call the Millville Public Library at (856) 825-7087; and for the Atlantic County series, you can also call the Margate Public Library at (609) 822-4700.

OPERATIC AND SYMPHONIC MUSIC BY MOZART HIGHLIGHT
BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY’S 2011-12 SEASON OPENING CONCERTS
ON NOVEMBER 5 AND 6

Seats are $25 in all venues again this season thanks to PNC Arts Alive grant

BRIDGETON, NJ—Beloved operatic music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and one of the master’s most famous symphonies herald the opening of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s 2010-11 season in concerts on November 5 and 6.

The concerts will take place on Saturday, November 5, at 8 p.m., at the Frank Guaracini, Jr. Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cumberland County College, Sherman Avenue and College Drive, Vineland, NJ; and Sunday, November 6, at 2 p.m., at the Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center, Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway Township, NJ.

Again for this season’s subscription concert series, a discounted ticket price of $25 will be for all seats in all venues, subsidized by a generous grant from the PNC Arts Alive grant program. PNC Arts Alive is a five-year, $5 million investment from The PNC Foundation that supports visual and performing arts groups with the goal of increasing arts access and engagement.

The concerts, conducted by Music Director Jed Gaylin, will include selections from Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro, performed by five soloists from Baltimore-based Opera Vivente. Considered by many to be one of the most perfect operas ever written, it was based on a play by Pierre Beaumarchais, who also inspired Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.

Also featured on the program will be Mozart’s most operatic symphonies, and one of his most opulent, the Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425, “Linz.”

All Bay-Atlantic Symphony performances will be preceded one hour prior to starting time with a “Pre-Concert Conversation with the Maestro.”

Tickets may be ordered by calling the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center box office at (856) 692-8499, or the Stockton College Performing Arts Center box office at (609) 652-9000.

For more information, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, of visit them on Facebook.

Opera Vivente returns to collaborate with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony followed their highly-acclaimed performances of selections from Verdi’s Rigoletto with the orchestra in 2006 and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor last season. Gaylin has had a long and close collaboration with this Baltimore-based company which specializes in English-language performances of operas.

Featured singers for these performances will be baritones Thomas Dooley and Nathan Wyatt, sopranos Shannon Kessler Dooley and Leah Inger Murphy, and mezzo-soprano Jessica Renfro. All have appeared to critical praise with opera companies and symphony orchestras throughout the country.

Jed Gaylin, now in his 15th season as Music Director of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is also the Principal Conductor of the Cape May Music Festival. He has been the Music Director of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and, since 2007, the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Film and Radio Philharmonic in Beijing, China.

A sought-after guest conductor, he has led orchestras including the Sibiu Philharmonic of Romania—where he served as Principal Guest Conductor, Shanghai (China) Conservatory Orchestra, Bucharest (Romania) Radio Orchestra, Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain), Lodz and Pomorska (Poland) Philharmonics, Gnessin Institute Orchestra and Moscow (Russia) Chamber Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato (Mexico), Orvieto (Italy) Festival Orchestra, and the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic. He also maintains a close association with Baltimore’s Opera Vivente and Johns Hopkins University, where he has served as Music Director of the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993.

In addition to his work with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Gaylin’s schedule included recording sessions last year in the Xinjiang Province of northwest China and performances in July of 2010 with a pan-European Youth Orchestra as principal conductor for Spain’s Cervera Music Festival. In December of 2010, he conducted the St. Petersburg Symphony in Russia.

Now entering its 28th season of providing classical music concerts, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs concerts and educational programs in Cumberland, Atlantic, Gloucester, and Cape May counties.

It is the resident orchestra of the Stockton College Performing Arts Center and the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center at Cumberland County College, as well as being the orchestra-in-residence at the Cape May Music Festival since 2003. Avalon is the summer home of the Symphony, which is orchestra-in-residence of the resort’s “Symphony by the Sea” series. The Symphony has received worldwide exposure through its appearances on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition and WWFM’s Celebrating our Musical Community.

Among world-renowned soloists collaborating with the orchestra have been Hilary Hahn, Eugenia Zukerman, the Eroica Trio, Stefan Jackiw, Awagadin Pratt, Shai Wosner, Chee-Yun, and Adam Neiman.

The Symphony’s first commercial label recording, of She Comes to Shore--concerto for improvised piano and orchestra by the contemporary Hong Kong-born, Canadian-based composer and pianist Lee Pui Ming, is available on the Innova label, distributed by Naxos.

“The PNC Foundation has a long history of providing grants to non-profit organizations that strengthen and enrich the lives of our neighbors,” said Bill Mills, president of PNC for Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. “We understand the valuable return that investing in the arts can deliver. Today more than ever, the businesses we attract, the jobs we create and the visitors who extend their stay are drawn by what the greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey region has to offer.”

For this prestigious grant award, only 26 arts organizations in the Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey region were selected for bold thinking around increasing arts access and engagement and the Bay-Atlantic Symphony was one. For more information on PNC Arts Alive and the grant recipients, visit www.PNCARTSALIVE.com.

These concerts are also made possible through funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY BRASS QUINTET TO PERFORM
BACH, BEATLES, JOPLIN, AND MORE
AT TWO ATLANTIC CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERTS
ON OCTOBER 14 AND 16

Rain location for October 14 concert is Dante Hall of the Arts

BRIDGETON, NJ—The spectacular Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet will perform two free daytime open-air concerts of light brass favorites, as part of the Atlantic City Music Festival, presented by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, on October 14 and 16, in Atlantic City, NJ.

The concerts will take place on Friday, October 14, from 12 to 1:30 p.m., at Kennedy Plaza, Mississippi Avenue and the Boardwalk, and on Sunday, October 16, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at Gardner’s Basis, Carson Avenue. The rain location for the October 14 concert will be Richard Stockton College -- Dante Hall of the Arts, 14 N. Mississippi Ave.

The ensemble, made up of trumpeters Bryan Appleby-Wineberg and Brian Cook, French hornist Jonathan Clark, trombonist Richard Linn, and tubist David Laird, will perform favorites by Bach, Gabrieli, Gershwin, The Beatles, and others.

Seating for the concert will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

For Festival event tickets or more information, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169 or (609) 432-9202, e-mail dantehall(at)stockton.edu, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

Appleby-Wineberg, principal trumpet of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony is Associate Professor of Trumpet and Head of Brass at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, where he teaches Studio Trumpet and Trumpet Methods, and plays with the Faculty Brass Quintet. A founding member of the professional trumpet quintet Tromba Mundi, he is also a member of the Bombastiq Brass Quintet in New York City, and principal cornet and assistant conductor of The Atlantic Brass Band.

He played solo cornet with the world famous Brighouse and Rastrick Band, as well as The Lindley Band in West Yorkshire, while on sabbatical in the United Kingdom during the 2009-10 academic year.


Cook, in addition to the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, has performed with numerous groups in the Philadelphia area, including Bel Canto Opera, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, the Academy of Vocal Arts, and many other ensembles. He has also been a music education teacher in the New Jersey public school system for 13 years.

Clark, in addition to the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, plays with the Warminster Symphony Orchestra and the Doylestown Wind Symphony. He has also played with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, the Riverside Symphonia, and the Boston Philharmonic.

Linn, principal trombone of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, holds positions in several other ensembles, including principal tenor trombone in Opera Delaware, and second trombone in the Delaware Symphony Orchestra and the Kennett Symphony of Chester County, PA. He has also played in the Ocean City Pops Orchestra, Reading Symphony Orchestra, Jubilate Deo Orchestra, and in Atlantic City casino showrooms in Atlantic City. He also records regularly for NFL Films in Mount Laurel, NJ.

As a graduate assistant at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, he played as an extra trombone in the Pittsburgh Symphony. Presently, he is an adjunct professor of Trombone and Music Education at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ.

Laird has been a member of the Bay Atlantic Symphony since 2004. He performs with the Academy Brass Quintet and is solo E-flat bass tubist with the Atlantic Brass Band. He was the recipient of the North American Brass Band Association’s Renold O. Schilke Memorial Award for Outstanding Soloist during the NABBA Championships in 1992. Also a fourth- and fifth-grade music teacher, he was honored with the 1994 Governor’s Award for Teacher of the Year.

The Atlantic City Music Festival is a three-day free musical extravaganza including classical, pop, ragtime, and much more, to take place from October 14 through 16, in Atlantic City, NJ. Member of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and other guest artists will perform. Among the other programs at the festival will be a concert by renowned pianist Richard Alston of extraordinary music by composers of African descent, a concert by award-winning singer/songwriter Doug James and Chris Mack, a “Build Your Own Instrument” educational workshop for children, and a concert by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Jed Gaylin.

The festival is made possible through generous support from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA).

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony will open its 2011-12 subscription season on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, at Cumberland County College’s Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center in Vineland and the Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center in Galloway Township. The all-Mozart program will feature singers from Opera Vivente in selections from The Marriage of Figaro.

ATLANTIC CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL
PRESENTS MEMBERS OF BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY
IN THREE-DAY FREE MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA
OCTOBER 14, 15, 16

BRIDGETON, NJ—Members of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony will present a three-day free musical extravaganza including classical, pop, ragtime, and much more at the Atlantic City Music Festival, to take place from October 14 through 16, in Atlantic City, NJ.

The festival will feature indoor and outdoor concerts taking place over three venues. From Bach and Beethoven to The Beatles, from Mozart’s beautiful Eine kleine Nachmusik to Vivaldi’s beloved The Four Seasons, from Scott Joplin and great African-American composers to popular singer/songwriter Doug James, this festival will present a kaleidoscope of music styles and influences will have something for everyone.

In addition to the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the Symphony’s Music Director Jed Gaylin and the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet, featured artists will include renowned African-American pianist Richard Alston and well-known popular singer/songwriter Doug James performing with his longtime collaborator, guitarist Keith Mack.

For more information on the festival, as well as all Bay-Atlantic Symphony concerts and programs, please call the their office at (856) 451-1169 or (609) 432-9202, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

A schedule of the festival concerts follows:

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet	Friday, October 14 12-1:30 p.m. (Kennedy Plaza, Mississippi Avenue and the Boardwalk )—The Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet will present an open-air concert of music by Bach, Beethoven, The Beatles, Scott Joplin, and others. tell me more... 7 p.m. (Richard Stockton College – Dante Hall Theater of the Arts, 14 N. Mississippi Ave.)—Renowned New Jersey pianist Richard Alston will perform “Classically Black”—a program of extraordinary music by composers of African descent, including works by Scott Joplin, Margaret Bonds, William Grant Still, George Wright, and others. Alston was a musical advisor and consultant to the PBS television documentary “Classically Black.” tell me more... A rain location has been designated for the Friday, October 14 open-air Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet concert, which is scheduled to take place at Kennedy Plaza as part of the Atlantic City Music Festival. The rain location is Richard Stockton College -- Dante Hall of the Arts, 14 N. Mississippi Ave., Atlantic City.	Richard Alston
click here for larger version	Saturday, October 15 11 a.m.-12 p.m. (Atlantic City Free Public Library meeting room, 1 N. Tennessee Ave.)—Bay-Atlantic Symphony flutist Beverly Pugh Corry will present a children’s workshop “Build Your Own Instrument.” Children ages 6 to 14 will learn about the instrument families and make musical instruments out of recycled materials. Supplies will be provided. This program has received national recognition as one of the Symphony’s outreach programs for sight-impaired children. For more information on the workshop call (609) 345-2269, ext. 3050. tell me more... 8 p.m. (Dante Hall)—The award-winning singer/songwriter Doug James will perform some of his best-known songs, such as song-of-the-year How Am I Supposed to Live Without You and I Fall All Over Again, as well as songs from his new CD All Roads Lead to You. Also featured will be the greatest guitarist Keith Mack and members of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony. James has written hits for such leading pop stars as Michael Bolton, Dionne Warwick, Joe Cocker, Barry Manilow, Dan Hill, Cher, Laura Branigan, Chaka Khan, Paul Young, Cissy Houston, Barbara Mandrell, The Spinners, The Manhattans, and others. tell me more...	Doug James
The Bay-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jed Gaylin	Sunday, October 16 2:00-3:30 p.m. (Gardner’s Basin, Carson Ave.)—The Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet will present an open-air concert of music by Bach, Beethoven, The Beatles, Scott Joplin, and others. tell me more... 7 p.m. (Dante Hall)—The Bay-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jed Gaylin, in “Celebrating the City,” featuring Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, featuring renowned violin soloist Jorge Avila; as well as Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), and African-American composer William Grant Still’s Panamanian Dances. tell me more...	Jorge Avila

All events will have open seating. For the Dante Hall programs, the doors will open one hour perform the performance begins.

The Atlantic City Music Festival is made possible through generous support from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA).

Jed Gaylin, entering his 15^th season as Music Director of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is also the Principal Conductor of the Cape May Music Festival. He has been the Music Director of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and, since 2007, the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Film and Radio Philharmonic in Beijing, China.

Now entering its 28^th season of providing classical music concerts, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs concerts and educational programs in Cumberland, Atlantic, Gloucester, and Cape May counties.

It is the resident orchestra of the Stockton College Performing Arts Center and the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center at Cumberland County College, as well as being the orchestra-in-residence at the Cape May Music Festival since 2003. Avalon is the summer home of the Symphony, which is orchestra-in-residence of the resort’s “Symphony by the Sea” series. The Symphony has received worldwide exposure through its appearances on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition and WWFM’s Celebrating our Musical Community.

Among world-renowned soloists collaborating with the orchestra have been Hilary Hahn, Eugenia Zukerman, the Eroica Trio, Stefan Jackiw, Awagadin Pratt, Shai Wosner, Chee-Yun, and Adam Neiman.

The Symphony’s first commercial label recording, of She Comes to Shore--concerto for improvised piano and orchestra by the contemporary Hong Kong-born, Canadian-based composer and pianist Lee Pui Ming, is available on the Innova label, distributed by Naxos.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony will open its 2011-12 subscription season on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, at Cumberland County College’s Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center in Vineland and the Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center in Galloway Township. The all-Mozart program will feature singers from Opera Vivente in selections from The Marriage of Figaro.

“BUILD YOUR OWN INSTRUMENT” CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP
AT BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY’S ATLANTIC CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL
ON OCTOBER 15

BRIDGETON, NJ—Children will have an opportunity to build their own musical instrument at a free workshop as part of the Atlantic City Music Festival, presented by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, on Saturday, October 15, at from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., in the meeting room of the Atlantic City Free Public Library, 1 N. Tennessee Ave., Atlantic City, NJ.

Bay-Atlantic Symphony flutist Beverly Pugh Corry will lead the workshop in which children will learn about the instrument families and will make their own instruments out of recycled materials. Supplies will be provided.

The program is suited for children of ages 6 to 14. Space is limited. For more information on the workshop, please call the Atlantic City Free Public Library at (609) 345-2269, ext. 3050

The “Build Your Instrument” workshop was originally conceived as a workshop for sight-impaired children and has received national recognition as one of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s outreach programs for that population. Corry presented the program under the Symphony’s auspices as an eight-week summer workshop at the Helen Diller Vacation Home for Blind Children, in Avalon, NJ. It received recognition as a WMGM TV-40 news segment and as part of an article in the League of American Orchestras’ magazine Symphony on the benefits of music on people with physical disabilities.

The Atlantic City Music Festival is a three-day free musical extravaganza including classical, pop, ragtime, and much more, to take place from October 14 through 16, in Atlantic City, NJ. Member of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and other guest artists will perform. Among the other programs at the festival will be two concerts by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet, a concert by award-winning singer/songwriter Doug James and Chris Mack, and a concert by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Jed Gaylin.

For more information on the festival, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169 or (609) 432-9202, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

The festival is made possible through generous support from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA).
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The Bay-Atlantic Symphony will open its 2011-12 subscription season on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, at Cumberland County College’s Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center in Vineland and the Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center in Galloway Township. The all-Mozart program will feature singers from Opera Vivente in selections from The Marriage of Figaro.

BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY BRASS QUINTET TO PERFORM
BACH, BEATLES, JOPLIN, AND MORE
AT TWO ATLANTIC CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERTS
ON OCTOBER 14 AND 16

BRIDGETON, NJ—The spectacular Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet will perform two free daytime open-air concerts of light brass favorites, as part of the Atlantic City Music Festival, presented by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, on October 14 and 16, in Atlantic City, NJ.

The concerts will take place on Friday, October 14, from 12 to 1:30 p.m., at Kennedy Plaza, Mississippi Avenue and the Boardwalk, and on Sunday, October 16, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at Gardner’s Basis, Carson Avenue.

The ensemble, made up of trumpeters Bryan Appleby-Wineberg and Brian Cook, French hornist Jonathan Clark, trombonist Richard Linn, and tubist David Laird, will perform favorites by Bach, Gabrieli, Gershwin, The Beatles, and others.

Seating for the concert will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169 or (609) 432-9202, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

Appleby-Wineberg, principal trumpet of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony is Associate Professor of Trumpet and Head of Brass at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, where he teaches Studio Trumpet and Trumpet Methods, and plays with the Faculty Brass Quintet. A founding member of the professional trumpet quintet Tromba Mundi, he is also a member of the Bombastiq Brass Quintet in New York City, and principal cornet and assistant conductor of The Atlantic Brass Band.

He played solo cornet with the world famous Brighouse and Rastrick Band, as well as The Lindley Band in West Yorkshire, while on sabbatical in the United Kingdom during the 2009-10 academic year.

Cook, in addition to the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, has performed with numerous groups in the Philadelphia area, including Bel Canto Opera, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, the Academy of Vocal Arts, and many other ensembles. He has also been a music education teacher in the New Jersey public school system for 13 years.
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Clark, in addition to the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, plays with the Warminster Symphony Orchestra and the Doylestown Wind Symphony. He has also played with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, the Riverside Symphonia, and the Boston Philharmonic.

Linn, principal trombone of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, holds positions in several other ensembles, including principal tenor trombone in Opera Delaware, and second trombone in the Delaware Symphony Orchestra and the Kennett Symphony of Chester County, PA. He has also played in the Ocean City Pops Orchestra, Reading Symphony Orchestra, Jubilate Deo Orchestra, and in Atlantic City casino showrooms in Atlantic City. He also records regularly for NFL Films in Mount Laurel, NJ.

As a graduate assistant at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, he played as an extra trombone in the Pittsburgh Symphony. Presently, he is an adjunct professor of Trombone and Music Education at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ.

Laird has been a member of the Bay Atlantic Symphony since 2004. He performs with the Academy Brass Quintet and is solo E-flat bass tubist with the Atlantic Brass Band. He was the recipient of the North American Brass Band Association’s Renold O. Schilke Memorial Award for Outstanding Soloist during the NABBA Championships in 1992. Also a fourth- and fifth-grade music teacher, he was honored with the 1994 Governor’s Award for Teacher of the Year.

The Atlantic City Music Festival is a three-day free musical extravaganza including classical, pop, ragtime, and much more, to take place from October 14 through 16, in Atlantic City, NJ. Member of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and other guest artists will perform. Among the other programs at the festival will be a concert by renowned pianist Richard Alston of extraordinary music by composers of African descent, a concert by award-winning singer/songwriter Doug James and Chris Mack, a “Build Your Own Instrument” educational workshop for children, and a concert by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Jed Gaylin.

The festival is made possible through generous support from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA).

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony will open its 2011-12 subscription season on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, at Cumberland County College’s Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center in Vineland and the Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center in Galloway Township. The all-Mozart program will feature singers from Opera Vivente in selections from The Marriage of Figaro.

AWARD-WINNING SINGER/SONGWRITER DOUG JAMES
TO PERFORM HIS BIGGEST HIT SONGS
AT BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY’S ATLANTIC CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL
ON OCTOBER 15

BRIDGETON, NJ—Award-winning singer/songwriter Doug James, who has written smash hit songs for some of the biggest names in the pop music business, will give a free concert of some of his best-known songs as part of the Atlantic City Music Festival, presented by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, on Saturday, October 15, at 8 p.m., at Richard Stockton College – Dante Hall Theater of the Arts, 14 N. Mississippi Ave., Atlantic City, NJ.

James, who will also perform songs from his new CD All Roads Lead to You, will be joined by guitarist and music producer Keith Mack—his life-long friend and collaborator, a founding member of the hit band Scandal, and co-producer with James of his new CD. They will be backed up by members of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony.

Copies of James’s new CD will be available for purchase or order in the lobby. Both James and Mack will meet with members of the audience and sign CDs after the concert.

Seating for the concert will be on a first-come, first-served basis and the hall will open one hour before concert time.

For more information, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169 or (609) 432-9202, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

“During the ‘80s and ‘90s it was easy to hear a Doug James song just by turning on the radio…As a writer for EMI Music, many of his greatest hits collections of various artists, and the walls of his Rehoboth Beach home are filled with gold records,” said The News Journal of James’s reputation as a writer of hit songs.

James’s songs have been performed and recorded by the leading pop artists of our time—Michael Bolton, Dionne Warwick, Joe Cocker, Barry Manilow, Dan Hill, Cher, Laura Branigan, Chaka Khan, Paul Young, Cissy Houston, Barbara Mandrell, The Spinners, The Manhattans, and many more.

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Among James’s hit songs have been After You; I Fall All Over Again; Don’t Tell Me, Tell Her; Break It to Me Gently; and the 1990 BMI Song of the Year, How Am I Supposed to Live Without You.

The Atlantic City Music Festival is a three-day free musical extravaganza including classical, pop, ragtime, and much more, to take place from October 14 through 16, in Atlantic City, NJ. Member of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and other guest artists will perform. Among the other programs at the festival will be two concerts by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet, a concert by renowned pianist Richard Alston of extraordinary music by composers of African descent, a “Build Your Own Instrument” educational workshop for children, and a concert by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Jed Gaylin.

The festival is made possible through generous support from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA).

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony will open its 2011-12 subscription season on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, at Cumberland County College’s Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center in Vineland and the Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center in Galloway Township. The all-Mozart program will feature singers from Opera Vivente in selections from The Marriage of Figaro.

BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
TO CELEBRATE DIVERSITY OF THE CITY
AT ATLANTIC CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT
ON OCTOBER 16

BRIDGETON, NJ—Members of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony will show the richness and diverse nature of the city through great orchestral music at a free concert—the finale of the Atlantic City Music Festival, presented by the Symphony, on Sunday, October 16, at 7 p.m., at Richard Stockton College – Dante Hall Theater of the Arts, 14 N. Mississippi Ave., Atlantic City, NJ.

Entitled “Celebrating the City,” the concert will include Antonio Vivaldi’s beloved The Four Seasons, featuring dynamic violinist Jorge Ávila; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), and William Grant Still’s Danzas de Panama (Panamanian Dances).

Vivaldi and his famous set of four violin concerti that comprise The Four Seasons epitomize the Italian influence in early classical music. Mozart’s beloved serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik has a ubiquitous presence throughout the world. Still is one of our most prominent African-American composers and his Panamanian Dances celebrates indigenous and Spanish-influenced Latin American folk music.

Seating for the concert will be on a first-come, first-served basis and the hall will open one hour before concert time.

For more information, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169 or (609) 432-9202, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

Ávila is one of today’s leading young Latin American violinists. He is making his second appearance with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and has performed with as a soloist with orchestras in Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. In the New York City area, he has performed with the Riverside Orchestra, Hofstra Symphony, New Amsterdam Symphony, City Island Chamber Orchestra, and The Bronx Arts Ensemble. He has also appeared as concertmaster and soloist with the New York Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.


A founding member of the Chalfonte Quartet and performs as a chamber musician with the Abaca String Band, Positive Music, Prism Ensemble, and Musicians’ Accord. He has been concertmaster of such ensembles as the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Orchestra, José Limón Dance Company, Bachanalia, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Greenwich Symphony, Grace Church Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, and the Mannes College of Music Orchestra.

Ávila has also performed in several Broadway productions, including the onstage violinist in The Music Man, and in the orchestras of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Aida, Annie Get Your Gun, and The Producers.

Jed Gaylin, entering his 15th season as Music Director of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is also the Principal Conductor of the Cape May Music Festival. He has been the Music Director of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and, since 2007, the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Film and Radio Philharmonic in Beijing, China.

Now entering its 28th season of providing classical music concerts, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs concerts and educational programs in Cumberland, Atlantic, Gloucester, and Cape May counties.

It is the resident orchestra of the Stockton College Performing Arts Center and the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center at Cumberland County College, as well as being the orchestra-in-residence at the Cape May Music Festival since 2003. Avalon is the summer home of the Symphony, which is orchestra-in-residence of the resort’s “Symphony by the Sea” series. The Symphony has received worldwide exposure through its appearances on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition and WWFM’s Celebrating our Musical Community.

Among world-renowned soloists collaborating with the orchestra have been Hilary Hahn, Eugenia Zukerman, the Eroica Trio, Stefan Jackiw, Awagadin Pratt, Shai Wosner, Chee-Yun, and Adam Neiman.

The Symphony’s first commercial label recording, of She Comes to Shore--concerto for improvised piano and orchestra by the contemporary Hong Kong-born, Canadian-based composer and pianist Lee Pui Ming, is available on the Innova label, distributed by Naxos.

The Atlantic City Music Festival is a three-day free musical extravaganza including classical, pop, ragtime, and much more, taking place from October 14 through 16, in Atlantic City, NJ. Member of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and other guest artists are performing. Among the other programs at the festival will be two concerts by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet, a concert by award-winning singer/songwriter Doug James and Chris Mack, and a “Build Your Own Instrument” educational workshop for children.

The festival is made possible through generous support from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA).

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony will open its 2011-12 subscription season on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, at Cumberland County College’s Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center in Vineland and the Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center in Galloway Township. The all-Mozart program will feature singers from Opera Vivente in selections from The Marriage of Figaro.

RENOWNED PIANIST RICHARD ALSTON TO PERFORM
CONCERT OF MUSIC BY COMPOSERS OF AFRICAN DESCENT
AT BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY’S ATLANTIC CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL
ON OCTOBER 14

BRIDGETON, NJ—Renowned pianist Richard Alston will present a free concert of music by composers of African descent, as part of the Atlantic City Music Festival, presented by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, on Friday, October 14, at 7 p.m., at Richard Stockton College – Dante Hall Theater of the Arts, 14 N. Mississippi Ave., Atlantic City, NJ.

The program, entitled “Classically Black,” will include extraordinary music by Scott Joplin, Margaret Bonds, William Grant Still, George Wright, and others. Alston was a musical advisor and consultant to the PBS television documentary “Classically Black” which contained much of this same music and was a guest artist with the New Jersey Symphony commemorating the birth of William Grant Still.

Seating for the concert will be on a first-come, first-served basis and the hall will open one hour before concert time.

For more information, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169 or (609) 432-9202, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

Alston has performed this program throughout the country to critical acclaim. He sees the concert as “a labor of love and a tribute to the contributions people of color have made to the classical music genre throughout history.” This contribution, he said, is long and the musical tradition is permeated with their history and culture.

“Composers of African descent go all the way back to Mozart,” Alston said. “Throughout history, they had to endure setbacks and roadblocks. The essence of music was buried so deep in their souls that, despite prejudice, they did not stop creating music. When one has something burning inside oneself and a passion so strong, you continue regardless.”

He attributes his love of works by American and European composers of African descent to his grandmother, Daisy Johnson. She sang and played their works while caring from him while he was an infant to her death when he was five. Johnson and his later music teachers, Dorothy Earley and Sylvia Rabinof helped form and refine his love of music and performing.

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After earning his bachelor’s degree from the Julliard School of Music in New York City, Alston was awarded the Maria Guerra Judelson Scholarship in piano. He then returned to Julliard and later received his master’s degree there.
Alston has since appeared in recitals and has performed as soloist with orchestras throughout the United States and Europe. A standing ovation following his performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at the Brevard Festival, led to his New York debut performing with the Symphony of the New World conducted by Everett Lee at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.

He has also performed at Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, and portrayed Jasbo Brown in the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in 1990 and in the New Jersey State Opera’s production in 2010.

His recording of music by Anton Arensky, with Paul Freeman conducting the Czech Philharmonic, is available on Centaur Records.

Alston is a faculty member of Rutgers University and the Juilliard School of Music. He is Coordinator of the Essex County College’s Music Department and serves on the Board of Music Advisors for the Westminster Choir College Education Opportunity Program.

Among his awards and honors has been recognition by the National Association of Negro Women, National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., and the New Jersey Education Association.

The Atlantic City Music Festival is a three-day free musical extravaganza including classical, pop, ragtime, and much more, to take place from October 14 through 16, in Atlantic City, NJ. Member of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and other guest artists will perform. Among the other programs at the festival will be two concerts by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Brass Quintet, a concert by award-winning singer/songwriter Doug James and Chris Mack, a “Build Your Own Instrument” educational workshop for children, and a concert by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Jed Gaylin.

The festival is made possible through generous support from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA).

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony will open its 2011-12 subscription season on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, at Cumberland County College’s Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center in Vineland and the Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center in Galloway Township. The all-Mozart program will feature singers from Opera Vivente in selections from The Marriage of Figaro.

BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY GALA
TO PRESENT MOTOWNS GREATEST HITS WITH I HEAR A SYMPHONY
LIVE AT BORGATA, SEPT. 25

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (8/16/2011) – Combine the best of the famous Motown of the 60s and 70s with the sound of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and what do you have? You have I Hear a Symphony—Motown’s Greatest Hits, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s fourth annual gala concert at the Music Box at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City on Sunday, September 25.

The concert begins at 3 p.m. and tickets ($65 and $50) are available for purchase by calling (866) 900-4849, online at www.theborgata.com, or in-person by visiting the Borgata Box Office. The ticket price is subsidized by a generous grant from the PNC Arts Alive grant program.

You will be dancin’ in the aisles as three top Broadway/R&B singers join the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and Music Director Jed Gaylin in such Motown hits as I Heard It Through the Grapevine; ABC; Signed, Sealed, Delivered; My Girl; Respect, and many more.

I Hear a Symphony—Motown’s Greatest Hits will allow to recall the artists and groups that made Motown a pioneer in R&B recordings—Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Jackson 5, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Temptations, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and others.

The three soloists joining the Bay-Atlantic Symphony—Derrick Baskin, Patricia Phillips, and Romona Keller—all have extensive performing experience on stages on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across the country, and abroad.

Baskin is currently starring in Memphis, winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best New Musical, originating the role of Gator. Other Broadway credits include the original cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Drama Desk Award, Broadway.com award) in the role of Mitch Mahoney and the original cast of Disney's The Little Mermaid as half of the evil duo Flotsam & Jetsam. Outside of Broadway, he was the co-creator of Words! which had its debut at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater in 2010.

Phillips is the first woman of African-American descent to perform the role of Carlotta in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. She was most recently seen on the HBO series The Sopranos. A member of the original cast of Baz Luhrmann’s Broadway production of Puccini’s La Bohème, she also appeared in the original Broadway casts of The Secret Garden and The Sound of Music. Other credits include the title role of Motherbone at The New Dramatists Guild, the national tour of Carousel, as Nettie. In regional theatre, her appearances include Aldonza in Man of La Mancha. Her concert work includes solo performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Virginia Symphony.

Keller is originally from Brooklyn, NY and recently appeared as the female lead in Handel's Messiah Rocks!. She made her Broadway debut in Smokey Joe's Cafe as the standby for the roles of BJ, Pattie, and Brenda and later toured Germany as BJ. She originated the roles of Radio 1 in Caroline, Or Change and Ms. Paradice in BKLYN the Musical on Broadway. Some of her regional credits include two productions of Dreamgirls, Lonestar Love, Beehive, Buddy Holly Story, and the musical revue In Time with Hugh Jackman in Las Vegas. She also had the honor of reviving her role as The Radio in Caroline, Or Change in London at the Royal National Theater.

PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE: PNC) is the presenting sponsor for this concert. The support is part of PNC Arts Alive, a five-year, $5 million investment from The PNC Foundation, to help area residents gain access to the arts, and help arts organizations expand and engage audiences.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony, which gives performances in three South Jersey counties, was established in 1983 as the Bridgeton Symphony with Russell Meyer as its Music Director. During this period, the orchestra achieved significant growth, attracting players from throughout the Delaware Valley region and renowned soloists in a wide and varied repertoire. The orchestra at this time also established outreach relationships with Cumberland County College, Rowan University, and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. It became the orchestra in residence at Stockton’s Performing Arts Center in 1993.

Under Jed Gaylin, the orchestra’s Music Director since 1997, the orchestra has grown to an impressive ensemble with national recognition. The orchestra changed its name in 1998 to the Bay-Atlantic Symphony to reflect this artistic growth and the regionalization of its stature.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony has been broadcast repeatedly on National Public Radio, including a segment on Weekend Edition 2004—a feature also broadcast by Voice of America in English and translated throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union. It has also received worldwide exposure through a concert broadcast on WWFM’s Celebrating our Musical Community.

The Symphony’s first commercial label recording, of She Comes to Shore--concerto for improvised piano and orchestra by the contemporary Hong Kong-born, Canadian-based composer and pianist Lee Pui Ming, is available on the Innova label, distributed by Naxos.

Among world-renowned soloists collaborating with the orchestra have been Hilary Hahn, Eugenia Zukerman, the Eroica Trio, Stefan Jackiw, Awagadin Pratt, Shai Wosner, Chee-Yun, and Adam Neiman, among others.

In addition to its continued relationship with Richard Stockton College, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony has been the resident orchestra of the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center at Cumberland County College since 1999, the orchestra-in-residence of the Cape May Music Festival since 2003, and the resident orchestra of Avalon’s “Symphony by the Sea” summer series.

This outreach also includes music education programs, nationally recognized programs for the sight-impaired, and four-county monthly lecture series. It has been further strengthened through active membership in the South Jersey Cultural Alliance, Jersey Arts Communicators, League of American Orchestras, Art Pride New Jersey, Arts and Business Partnership of Southern New Jersey, as well as various local chambers of commerce, and community-based groups.

Jed Gaylin, entering his 15th season as Music Director of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is also the Principal Conductor of the Cape May Music Festival. He has been the Music Director of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and, since 2007, the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Film and Radio Philharmonic in Beijing, China.

A sought-after guest conductor, he has led orchestras including the Sibiu Philharmonic of Romania—where he served as Principal Guest Conductor, Shanghai (China) Conservatory Orchestra, Bucharest (Romania) Radio Orchestra, Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain), Lodz and Pomorska (Poland) Philharmonics, Gnessin Institute Orchestra and Moscow (Russia) Chamber Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato (Mexico), Orvieto (Italy) Festival Orchestra, and the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic. He also maintains a close association with Baltimore’s Opera Vivente and Johns Hopkins University, where he has served as Music Director of the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993.

In addition to his work with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Gaylin’s schedule included recording sessions last year in the Xinjiang Province of northwest China and performances last July with a pan-European Youth Orchestra as principal conductor for Spain’s Cervera Music Festival. Last December, he conducted the St. Petersburg Symphony in Russia.

“The PNC Foundation has a long history of providing grants to non-profit organizations that strengthen and enrich the lives of our neighbors,” said Bill Mills, president of PNC for Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. “We understand the valuable return that investing in the arts can deliver. Today more than ever, the businesses we attract, the jobs we create and the visitors who extend their stay are drawn by what South Jersey has to offer.”

The PNC Foundation, which receives its principal funding from The PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE: PNC), actively supports organizations that provide services for the benefit of communities in which it has a significant presence. The foundation focuses its philanthropic mission on early childhood education and community and economic development,
including the arts and culture. Through its signature cause, Grow Up Great, PNC has created a 10-year, $100 million initiative to enhance early childhood education and school readiness.

For more information on the Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s exciting 2011-12 season, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY GALA
TO PRESENT MOTOWNS GREATEST HITS WITH I HEAR A SYMPHONY
LIVE AT BORGATA, SEPT. 25

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (8/16/2011) – Combine the best of the famous Motown of the 60s and 70s with the sound of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and what do you have? You have I Hear a Symphony—Motown’s Greatest Hits, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s fourth annual gala concert at the Music Box at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City on Sunday, September 25.

The concert begins at 3 p.m. and tickets ($65 and $50) are available for purchase by calling (866) 900-4849, online at www.theborgata.com, or in-person by visiting the Borgata Box Office. The ticket price is subsidized by a generous grant from the PNC Arts Alive grant program.

You will be dancin’ in the aisles as three top Broadway/R&B singers join the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and Music Director Jed Gaylin in such Motown hits as I Heard It Through the Grapevine; ABC; Signed, Sealed, Delivered; My Girl; Respect, and many more.

I Hear a Symphony—Motown’s Greatest Hits will allow to recall the artists and groups that made Motown a pioneer in R&B recordings—Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Jackson 5, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Temptations, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and others.

The three soloists joining the Bay-Atlantic Symphony—Derrick Baskin, Patricia Phillips, and Romona Keller—all have extensive performing experience on stages on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across the country, and abroad.

Baskin is currently starring in Memphis, winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best New Musical, originating the role of Gator. Other Broadway credits include the original cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Drama Desk Award, Broadway.com award) in the role of Mitch Mahoney and the original cast of Disney's The Little Mermaid as half of the evil duo Flotsam & Jetsam. Outside of Broadway, he was the co-creator of Words! which had its debut at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater in 2010.

Phillips is the first woman of African-American descent to perform the role of Carlotta in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. She was most recently seen on the HBO series The Sopranos. A member of the original cast of Baz Luhrmann’s Broadway production of Puccini’s La Bohème, she also appeared in the original Broadway casts of The Secret Garden and The Sound of Music. Other credits include the title role of Motherbone at The New Dramatists Guild, the national tour of Carousel, as Nettie. In regional theatre, her appearances include Aldonza in Man of La Mancha. Her concert work includes solo performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Virginia Symphony.

Keller is originally from Brooklyn, NY and recently appeared as the female lead in Handel's Messiah Rocks!. She made her Broadway debut in Smokey Joe's Cafe as the standby for the roles of BJ, Pattie, and Brenda and later toured Germany as BJ. She originated the roles of Radio 1 in Caroline, Or Change and Ms. Paradice in BKLYN the Musical on Broadway. Some of her regional credits include two productions of Dreamgirls, Lonestar Love, Beehive, Buddy Holly Story, and the musical revue In Time with Hugh Jackman in Las Vegas. She also had the honor of reviving her role as The Radio in Caroline, Or Change in London at the Royal National Theater.

PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE: PNC) is the presenting sponsor for this concert. The support is part of PNC Arts Alive, a five-year, $5 million investment from The PNC Foundation, to help area residents gain access to the arts, and help arts organizations expand and engage audiences.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony, which gives performances in three South Jersey counties, was established in 1983 as the Bridgeton Symphony with Russell Meyer as its Music Director. During this period, the orchestra achieved significant growth, attracting players from throughout the Delaware Valley region and renowned soloists in a wide and varied repertoire. The orchestra at this time also established outreach relationships with Cumberland County College, Rowan University, and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. It became the orchestra in residence at Stockton’s Performing Arts Center in 1993.

Under Jed Gaylin, the orchestra’s Music Director since 1997, the orchestra has grown to an impressive ensemble with national recognition. The orchestra changed its name in 1998 to the Bay-Atlantic Symphony to reflect this artistic growth and the regionalization of its stature.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony has been broadcast repeatedly on National Public Radio, including a segment on Weekend Edition 2004—a feature also broadcast by Voice of America in English and translated throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union. It has also received worldwide exposure through a concert broadcast on WWFM’s Celebrating our Musical Community.

The Symphony’s first commercial label recording, of She Comes to Shore--concerto for improvised piano and orchestra by the contemporary Hong Kong-born, Canadian-based composer and pianist Lee Pui Ming, is available on the Innova label, distributed by Naxos.

Among world-renowned soloists collaborating with the orchestra have been Hilary Hahn, Eugenia Zukerman, the Eroica Trio, Stefan Jackiw, Awagadin Pratt, Shai Wosner, Chee-Yun, and Adam Neiman, among others.

In addition to its continued relationship with Richard Stockton College, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony has been the resident orchestra of the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center at Cumberland County College since 1999, the orchestra-in-residence of the Cape May Music Festival since 2003, and the resident orchestra of Avalon’s “Symphony by the Sea” summer series.

This outreach also includes music education programs, nationally recognized programs for the sight-impaired, and four-county monthly lecture series. It has been further strengthened through active membership in the South Jersey Cultural Alliance, Jersey Arts Communicators, League of American Orchestras, Art Pride New Jersey, Arts and Business Partnership of Southern New Jersey, as well as various local chambers of commerce, and community-based groups.

Jed Gaylin, entering his 15th season as Music Director of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is also the Principal Conductor of the Cape May Music Festival. He has been the Music Director of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and, since 2007, the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Film and Radio Philharmonic in Beijing, China.

A sought-after guest conductor, he has led orchestras including the Sibiu Philharmonic of Romania—where he served as Principal Guest Conductor, Shanghai (China) Conservatory Orchestra, Bucharest (Romania) Radio Orchestra, Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain), Lodz and Pomorska (Poland) Philharmonics, Gnessin Institute Orchestra and Moscow (Russia) Chamber Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato (Mexico), Orvieto (Italy) Festival Orchestra, and the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic. He also maintains a close association with Baltimore’s Opera Vivente and Johns Hopkins University, where he has served as Music Director of the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993.

In addition to his work with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Gaylin’s schedule included recording sessions last year in the Xinjiang Province of northwest China and performances last July with a pan-European Youth Orchestra as principal conductor for Spain’s Cervera Music Festival. Last December, he conducted the St. Petersburg Symphony in Russia.

“The PNC Foundation has a long history of providing grants to non-profit organizations that strengthen and enrich the lives of our neighbors,” said Bill Mills, president of PNC for Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. “We understand the valuable return that investing in the arts can deliver. Today more than ever, the businesses we attract, the jobs we create and the visitors who extend their stay are drawn by what South Jersey has to offer.”

The PNC Foundation, which receives its principal funding from The PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE: PNC), actively supports organizations that provide services for the benefit of communities in which it has a significant presence. The foundation focuses its philanthropic mission on early childhood education and community and economic development,
including the arts and culture. Through its signature cause, Grow Up Great, PNC has created a 10-year, $100 million initiative to enhance early childhood education and school readiness.

For more information on the Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s exciting 2011-12 season, please call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

EXPLORE THE WORLDS OF WAGNER, MAHLER, IVES, AND SIBELIUS
AT FALL SERIES OF BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY MUSIC LECTURES

BRIDGETON, NJ—Explore the worlds of Wagner, Mahler, Ives, and Sibelius—four late-Romantic composers—and their followers, plus a lot more in a new season of free monthly music lectures by Paul M. Somers sponsored by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony which take place in four counties.

The lectures, which will start on September 6, will occur on the first Tuesday of the month, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Monroe Township Library in Williamstown, 713 Marsha Ave., Williamstown; the second Tuesday of the month (September 13), from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Ocean City Public Library, Room 110, 1735 Simpson Ave., Ocean City (note the new week, time, and location for the Cape May County lectures); the third Tuesday of the month (September 20), from 6:30 to 8 p.m., in the Gant Room of the Millville Public Library, 210 Buck St., Millville; and the third Thursday of the month (September 15), from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Margate Public Library, Bloom Pavilion, 8100 Atlantic Ave., Margate.

In September, learn about the watershed in music that resulted from Richard Wagner and his “Music of the Future.” In October, see how Gustav Mahler’s worlds collide through the autobiographical nature of his music. In November, see how Charles Ives’s worlds merge and how the fourth dimension appears in transcendental form. In December, see how Jean Sibelius’s worlds evolve and discover how, through the organic nature of his music, the flowers do not look like the roots.

Subsequent lectures this season will explore chamber music, improvisation, and the use of architecture and performing space on music, along with a question-and-answer session in April and a Fresh Ears® experience in May.

“The informal atmosphere that we maintain at these lectures provides a pleasant, relaxed environment for people to expand their musical knowledge,” Somers said.

Somers, Adult Education Director for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is a also a composer, performer, founder of Maurice River Music, was for 25 years the harpsichordist for the Virtuoso Strings of New York, and was a reviewer for the Star-Ledger.

The lectures are co-sponsored by the libraries in which they given.


For further information, call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, or Somers at Maurice River Music at (856) 506-0580. For the Gloucester County series, you can also call the Monroe Township Library in Williamstown at (856) 629-1212; for the Cape May County series, you can also call the Ocean City Public Library at (609) 399-2434; for the Cumberland County series, you can also call the Millville Public Library at (856) 825-7087; and for the Atlantic County series, you can also call the Margate Public Library at (609) 822-4700.

LEARN ABOUT COMPOSERS’ MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS OF FARAWAY PLACES
AT AUGUST MUSIC LECTURES
SPONSORED BY BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY

BRIDGETON, NJ - Learn about composers’ musical impressions of faraway places at the August installment of the summer series of free music lectures by Paul M. Somers, sponsored by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony. on Thursday, August 18, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Margate Public Library, Bloom Pavilion 8100 Atlantic Ave., Margate, NJ and on Thursday, August 25, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Avalon Public Library, 235 32nd St., Avalon.

Entitled “Composers on Vacation” the lectures will explore what happens when a composer leaves home for a very different place and how they reflect this musically. The lectures will serve as a pre-concert talk for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony concert on Saturday, August 27, at the Avalon Free Public Library.

The final lectures in the summer series, on Thursday, September 1, at 6:30 p.m., in Margate and Thursday, September 8, at 7 p.m. in Avalon, will explore how composers musically depict the seasons of the year.

This series is in addition to the monthly music lectures series, sponsored by the Symphony and given by Somers, which runs from September through May at the Monroe Township Library in Williamstown, Ocean City Public Library, Millville Public Library, and the Margate Public Library.

Somers, Adult Education Director for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is a also a composer, performer, founder of Maurice River Music, was for 25 years the harpsichordist for the Virtuoso Strings of New York, and was a reviewer for the Star-Ledger.

The lectures are co-sponsored by the libraries in which they given.

For further information, call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, or Somers at Maurice River Music at (856) 506-0580. For the Margate series, you can also call the Margate Public Library at (609) 822-4700. For the Avalon series, you can also call the Avalon Free Public Library at (609) 967-7155.

ALL-MENDELSSOHN CONCERT BY BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ON AUGUST 27
CLOSES AVALON “SYMPHONY BY THE SEA” SERIES;
ALSO AUGUST 25 CONCERT LECTURE

BRIDGETON, NJ - Enjoy an evening of the enchanting, sparkling music by Felix Mendelssohn as the Bay-Atlantic Symphony closes the 2011 “Symphony by the Sea” summer series of concerts sponsored by the Avalon Free Public Library on Saturday, August 27, at 7 p.m., at the Avalon Elementary School, 235 32nd St., Avalon, NJ.

The concert, conducted by the orchestra’s music director Jed Gaylin, will feature the return to Bay-Atlantic Symphony audiences of Spain-based violin virtuoso Kai Gleusteen in one of the all-time favorite violin concerti, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64.

The program, entitled “Sun, Splash, and Waves,” will begin with the Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, Op. 26. Also known as the Fingal’s Cave Overture, it is a beautiful musical depiction of the power and beauty a cave in Scotland and the nearby sea. The concert will also include the composer’s famous Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, “Italian.” - a sparkling work full of the sunshine of Italy’s countryside.

Tickets are free and available to the general public on Thursday, August 11 from the Avalon Free Public Library, 235 32nd St., Avalon.

A free lecture about the concert’s music will take place on Thursday, August 25, at 7 p.m., at the library. Entitled “Composers on Vacation,” it will be presented by Paul M. Somers, the Symphony’s Adult Education Director. Somers is also a composer, performer, founder of Maurice River Music, was for 25 years the harpsichordist for the Virtuoso Strings of New York, and was a reviewer for the Star-Ledger.

The lecture will also be given on Thursday, August 18, at 6:30 p.m., at the Margate Public Library, Bloom Pavilion, 8100 Atlantic Ave., Margate. The lectures are sponsored by the libraries in which they are given.

For more information on the “Symphony at the Sea” series, which concludes with an all-Mendelssohn concert by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony with internationally renowned violinist Kai Gleusteen on Saturday, August 27, call the Avalon Free Public Library at (609) 967-7155, or visit the library’s website at www.avalonfreelibrary.org. For more information on the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, call their office at (856) 451-1169, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.

Returning for his fourth appearance with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Kai Gleusteen has been called “a violinist of incandescent technical brilliance,” He has been critically acclaimed world-wide for the beauty of his performances and has performed in the United States, Canada, Australia, Egypt, and most of the European countries. His vast repertoire ranges from the great violin concerti to chamber music.

Born in Calgary, Canada, he began his musical studies at age 5 and, by age 10, he was under the tutelage of Ivan Galamian and David Cerone during summers spent at the Meadowmount School of Music in New York. He also studied with such renowned violinists and teachers as Nathan Milstein, Josef Gingold, Dorothy DeLay, and Zakhar Bron. He made his first concert tour of England at age 15 with his local youth orchestra.

The first prize winner in the Commonwealth Concerto Competition in Brisbane, Australia and in the National Soloist Auditions in Chicago, he was also a finalist in the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition in Denmark. A recipient of the prestigious Skene Award in Scotland, he also formed his first chamber orchestra, The Group of Twelve.

Further study with famed violinist Camela Wicks eventually led him to Paris where, in 1991, he became the concertmaster and guest soloist of the Ensemble Orchestral I’lle de France. A meeting with the great violin virtuoso Sandor Végh led him to spend a year at the Mozart Foundation in Prague devoting himself to chamber music.

In 2000, he became the concertmaster of the Orchestra “del Gran Teatre del Liceu” in Barcelona, Spain. Three years later, he created the Gran Teatre del Liceu Chamber Orchestra and was appointed professor at the Escuela Superior de Musica de Catalunya.

Since then, Gleusteen has maintained his world-wide career as a soloist and recitalist, while maintaining his bonds with these musical centers.

Jed Gaylin, entering his 15th season as Music Director of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is also the Principal Conductor of the Cape May Music Festival. He has been the Music Director of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and, since 2007, the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Film and Radio Philharmonic in Beijing, China.

A sought-after guest conductor, he has led orchestras including the Sibiu Philharmonic of Romania - where he served as Principal Guest Conductor, Shanghai (China) Conservatory Orchestra, Bucharest (Romania) Radio Orchestra, Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain), Lodz and Pomorska (Poland) Philharmonics, Gnessin Institute Orchestra and Moscow (Russia) Chamber Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato (Mexico), Orvieto (Italy) Festival Orchestra, and the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic. He also maintains a close association with Baltimore’s Opera Vivente and Johns Hopkins University, where he has served as Music Director of the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra since 1993.

In addition to his work with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Gaylin’s schedule included recording sessions last year in the Xinjiang Province of northwest China and performances last July with a pan-European Youth Orchestra as principal conductor for Spain’s Cervera Music Festival. Last December, he conducted the St. Petersburg Symphony in Russia.

Now entering its 28th season of providing classical music concerts, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs concerts and educational programs in Cumberland, Atlantic, Gloucester, and Cape May counties.

It is the resident orchestra of the Stockton College Performing Arts Center and the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center at Cumberland County College, as well as being the orchestra-in-residence at the Cape May Music Festival since 2003. Avalon is the summer home of the Symphony, which is orchestra-in-residence of the resort’s “Symphony by the Sea” series. The Symphony has received worldwide exposure through its appearances on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition and WWFM’s Celebrating our Musical Community.

Among world-renowned soloists collaborating with the orchestra have been Hilary Hahn, Eugenia Zukerman, the Eroica Trio, Stefan Jackiw, Awagadin Pratt, Shai Wosner, Chee-Yun, and Adam Neiman.

The Symphony’s first commercial label recording, of She Comes to Shore--concerto for improvised piano and orchestra by the contemporary Hong Kong-born, Canadian-based composer and pianist Lee Pui Ming, is available on the Innova label, distributed by Naxos.

The Symphony will open its 2011-12 season with “I Hear a Symphony - Motown’s Greatest Hits” - a gala symphonic tribute to the singers and groups that created the Motown Sound - on Sunday, September 25, at 3 p.m., at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, in Atlantic City.

BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY OUTREACH PROGRAMS FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED RECEIVE NATIONAL RECOGNITION
THROUGH LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS

BRIDGETON, NJ - The Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s outreach programs for the visually impaired have recently received national recognition through the League of American Orchestras.

The recognition came in an article surveying programs that various orchestras are implementing to bring the therapeutic effect of live music to people with medical ailments. In the article, which appeared in the summer issue of the League of American Orchestra’s magazine Symphony, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s two outreach programs for the visually impaired were cited as key examples - collaborations with the John D. Young Memorial Lions Blind Center of Absecon, NJ and the Helen Diller Vacation Home for Blind Children in Avalon, NJ.

“It is truly an honor that the League chose these programs to include with others across the country in its article,” said Paul D. Herron, Executive Director of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony. “Its magazine is read and respected throughout the American symphony orchestra industry and this gives our programs valuable exposure and shows the country the importance of what we’re doing.”

The League of American Orchestras, now in its 70th year, has a membership base of nearly 1,000 symphonic ensembles and links a national network of thousands of orchestra administration, staff, and personnel. It provides services, information, learning and leadership opportunities and grass-roots advocacy in order to encourage and support America’s orchestras while communicating to the public the importance of orchestras and the music they perform.

The John D. Young Memorial Lions Blind Center project was sponsored by the Ocean City Home Charitable Foundation and Richard Stockton College, took place during the 2007-08 season.

This program began with workshops at the Center run by the Symphony’s Director of Adult Education Paul M. Somers. These lectures were on the history and popular composers of classical music, how to enjoy a live symphony concert, as well as a live instrument demonstration by Symphony concertmaster Ruotao Mao with hands-on experience for the clients. The culmination of the experience took place when the clients experienced a performance by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at the Richard Stockton College.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony’s partnership with the Helen Diller Vacation Home for Blind Children is now in its fourth year. This eight-week summer program, which runs from mid-June to the second week in August, with a group of 20 to 25 children from the summer camp exploring the joy of music. The children, aged five to 12, learn music dynamics, and get to participate in creating an orchestra and performing.

Last summer, Symphony flutist Beverly Pugh Corry helped the campers create a “Hobo Band” or, as she preferred to call it, a “Recycled Orchestra.” Corry worked with the campers and counselors to create and try out instruments representing the four sections of the orchestra - strings, wind, brass, and percussion. This year, Corry is back - working with the campers on memory games through music and connecting with emotions through music.

Now entering its 28th season of providing classical music concerts, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs concerts and educational programs in Cumberland, Atlantic, Gloucester, and Cape May counties.

It is the resident orchestra of the Stockton College Performing Arts Center and the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center at Cumberland County College, as well as being the orchestra the orchestra-in-residence at the Cape May Music Festival since 2003. Avalon is the summer home of the Symphony, which is orchestra-in-residence of the resort’s “Symphony by the Sea” series. The Symphony has received worldwide exposure through its appearances on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition and WWFM’s Celebrating our Musical Community.

The Symphony’s first commercial label recording, of She Comes to Shore--concerto for improvised piano and orchestra by the contemporary Hong Kong-born, Canadian-based composer and pianist Lee Pui Ming, is available on the Innova label, distributed by Naxos.

The Symphony will open its 2011-12 season with “I Hear a Symphony - Motown’s Greatest Hits” - a gala symphonic tribute to the singers and groups that created the Motown Sound - on Sunday, September 25, at 3 p.m., at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, in Atlantic City.

For more information on the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, please call their office at (856) 451-1169, visit the Symphony’s website at www.bayatlanticsymphony.org, or visit them on Facebook.