Thursday, April 1 at 11, 12 & 1 pm
Aakash Mittal, saxophone, flute, clarinets
ShurmiLA Dhar, vocals
Joey Chang, piano
Kwami Coleman, piano
Vijay Iyer, piano
Thursday, April 1 at 4, 5 & 6 pm
Laquita Mitchell, soprano & Myra Huang, piano
Support Kaufman Music Center's Music Education & Performance Programs
Aakash Mittal, saxophone, flute, clarinets
ShurmiLA Dhar, vocals
Joey Chang, piano
Kwami Coleman, piano
Vijay Iyer, piano
Program
Improvised Music with Aakash Mittal
Set 1
Shurmila Dhar | Vocals
Joey Chang | Piano
Aakash Mittal | Saxophone, Flute and Clarinets
Set 2
Kwami Coleman | Piano
Aakash Mittal | Saxophone, Flute and Clarinets
Set 3
Vijay Iyer | Piano
Aakash Mittal | Saxophone, Flute and Clarinets
Laquita Mitchell, soprano & Myra Huang, piano
Program
AMY BEACH – The Year’s at the Spring
RICHARD STRAUSS – Allerseelen, Op.10
All mein Gedanken, Op.21
Cäcilie, Op. 27
FLORENCE PRICE – Song to the Dark Virgin
Night
Hold Fast to Dreams
My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord (Spiritual)
HAROLD ARLEN – “I Never Has Seen Snow” from House of Flowers
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz
CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Claire de Lune for piano
There is a Balm in Gilead – arr. Damien Sneed (living)
This Little Light of Mine – arr. Margaret Bonds
He’s Got the Whole World – arr. Margaret Bonds
MUSICAL STOREFRONTS
Runs through late April
Artists and programs will be announced at the storefront on the day of the performance.
This winter and spring, Kaufman Music Center brings live music back to NYC’s Upper West Side with a pop-up concert series with more than 100 performances featuring some of our city’s finest performers, including chamber musicians, soloists, Broadway stars from Hamilton, Tootsie and Company, and artists you’ll know from the Merkin Hall stage. Presented in partnership with the Alphadyne Foundation, Musical Storefronts provides work to artists severely impacted by the cancellation of live performances in a format that takes into account all necessary health and safety measures for both artists and audiences.
To limit crowd size and ensure social distancing, artists and programs will be announced at the storefront on the day of performances. We can’t reveal the UWS location, but it's not hard to find!
Special thanks to Jay Dweck, Milstein Properties, Steinway & Sons, the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District and Breads Bakery.
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Take a Class or Instrument Lesson at Lucy Moses School
Shurmila Dhar is a New York based vocalist. She began her classical vocal training in 2010 and continued her studies at the Peabody Conservatory where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music in classical voice performance in 2018. She has since branched out as a concert vocalist and improviser. Her improvising style features a wide range of techniques that focus primarily on the extremes of the voice and its vast timbral palette as well as pushing the limitations of the human voice.
Dhar has performed several leading operatic roles including, but not limited to: Girl 3 in the U.S. premiere of Errollyn Wallen’s ANON, Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Adina in Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore, and Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote. Her solo concert performances include Schubert’s Mignon Lieder, Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, and Satie’s Cabaret Songs.
