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Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019 4x4 Music off Road Featuring...Guitarists: Maoz Ezra, Jordan Dodson, Anna Mnich & Percussionist: Joshua Breslauer at The Howland Cultural Center Beacon, NY 5:30PM Sunday, January 19, 2020 4x4 Music off Road Featuring...Guitarists: Stelios Michas, Gerardo Miranda Martinez, Damien Kelly, Claudio Paciocco, & Actress: Julia Cavagna at The Red Stage at EzraGuitar Brooklyn, NY 4PM Sunday, March 22, 2020 4x4 Music off Road Featuring... Guitarists: Adam Bilchik, Nancy Goudinaki, Joseph Douglass, Percussionist: Ethan Fox, & Actress: Tamara Sevunts Beacon, NY Sunday, May 17, 2020 EzraGuitar Conservatory Track Student and Faculty Concert Featuring...Select upper level students and faculty: Guitarists: Anna Mnich, Maoz Ezra, Adam Bilchik, & Andy Mines Brooklyn, NY
2019/20 CONCERT CALENDAR
EZRAGUITAR 4X4 MUSIC OFF ROAD FACULTY & FRIENDS CONCERT SERIES Zarya Hussein - Guitar 7th grader, EzraGuitar student since 2014 Prelude No 4 by Heitor Villa-Lobos Anna Mnich - Guitar Gottingen of Barbara/Arr. by R. Dyens, Saudade No. 2 Hommage a Villa-Lobos by R. Dyens Maoz Ezra - Guitar Chaconne by Johann Sebastian Bach Joshua Breslauer and Maoz Ezra - Duet for Marimba and Guitar Northern Echoes: "The Outing" by Jim Skinger INTERMISSION Dylan Hughes - Guitar 11th grader, EzraGuitar student since 2010 Blackbird by The Beatles Liam Duffy - Guitar 11th grader, EzraGuitar student since 2010 Asturias by Isaac Albeniz Joshua Breslauer - Marimba Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints by Hovhaness With "computer orchestra" and special guests: Jordan Dodson, Anna Mnich, Maoz Ezra Jordan Dodson and Beomjae Kim - Duet Guitar and Flute Mountain Songs by Robert Beaser: Barbara Allen, The House Carpenter, He's Gone Away, Cindy, Quicksilver Finale Ensemble Fuga y Misterio by Astor Piazzolla Arr. for 3 Guitars & Marimba by Maoz Ezra
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JOSHUA BRESLAUER is an NYC based Drummer and Percussionist. Originally from the Hudson Valley, Joshua began studying percussion with the jazz vibraphonist Victor Catanzaro, drum set with Joe Carozza, and timpani with Sgt. Dave Smith of the West Point Band. In 2012 he graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia with a Bachelor of Music studying with the renowned drummer/percussionist Dr. Karolyn Stonefelt, and in 2016 he received his Master of Music in Orchestral Percussion from the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT in Weimar, Germany studying with Prof. Markus Leoson. Joshua has performed extensively throughout Germany and the United States as both a drum set player and classical percussionist. In 2016 he moved to NYC and quickly established himself as a percussionist comfortable playing styles ranging from Gospel to Classical to Cabaret. Today he can be seen as a regular fixture at Lighthouse Tabernacle SDA Church and at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on 42nd St.
ANNA MNICH, Classical guitarist Anna Mnich is an active performer based in Brooklyn. She has appeared in various New York City venues such as the New York Historical Society, the Long Island Guitar Festival, the Pilsudski Institute of America in New York, the 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony, Collabfest, Dance Now Joe's Pub Festival. In 2015 she was a guest artist at the Guitarfest in New Jersey. She also actively collaborates with other musicians and dance groups. Her recent work in collaboration with a choreographer and double bass player was shown at the 2018 NACHMO Festival in New York City. As a member of Silesian Guitar Octet, Mnich gave concerts in Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. She has also recorded with Polish Radio National Symphonic Orchestra of Katowice. Mnich is a laureate of the Andres Segovia Award from the Manhattan School of the Music, as well as several international guitar competitions ( the John Duarte Guitar Competition, the Sanok Guitar Meetings, the Kielce Guitar Competition). Originally from Poland, Mnich started playing guitar at the age of ten in the studio of Amadeusz Kokot. She holds degrees from the Academy of Music in Katowice, and the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Wanda Palacz and David Starobin respectively.
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JORDAN DODSON, One of the top young guitarists of his generation” (Performance Today), Jordan Dodson is an active soloist and chamber musician based in New York and Philadelphia. He has received prizes in numerous competitions, including the 2013 Astral Artists National Auditions, 2011 Lillian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition, 2010 Indiana International Guitar Competition, and 2008 American String Teachers Association Competition. In 2013, he was a Young Artist in Residence on American Public Media’s Performance Today. An advocate for contemporary music, Jordan has commissioned and premiered dozens of pieces internationally. He is a performer in several New York City ensembles, including Ensemble Moto Perpetuo, Ensemble sans maître, and Tempus Continuum. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Jordan started playing music at a young age. His past teachers were Clare Callahan, David Starobin, and Jason Vieaux. He has received degrees from the University of Cincinnati and the Manhattan School of Music. In the Fall of 2011, Jordan was one of two guitarists selected to inaugurate a new program in classical guitar at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music.
BEOMJAE KIM has appeared at the Seoul Arts Center, Lincoln Center, SubCulture, National Sawdust, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Trinity Wall Street, the Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Carnegie’s Zankel, Weill, and Stern halls. He was a fellow of Ensemble Connect (formerly Ensemble ACJW), a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and Weill Music Institute. He has been featured at Italy’s Alba Music Festival, the Artosphere Festival, the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, “Concerts at One” at Trinity Wall Street, and with the New York String Orchestra Seminar. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, and holds both a Master’s degree and an Artist Diploma from the Manhattan School of Music.
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MAOZ EZRA, was enchanted by the magic of the classical guitar at the age of 10. By 17 he found his calling as a guitarist and later on as an innovative guitar pedagogue. As an avid arranger, Maoz has explored a myriad of music from around the world, and premiered numerous pieces. His main contribution thus far has been in the field of education, where he has created a successful innovative guitar method called EzraGuitar, which has led to the employment of dozens of artists and taught thousands of students. As a performer, he was fortunate to perform numerous concerts in the U.S, France and Israel. In 2009, he won the “Artists international” competition which awarded him a solo recital in Carnegie Hall. Nylon Review described Maoz’s concert at the “92 street Y” as: “Ravishing presentation... fine and lyrical presentation...admirable job”. Music from his CD “East” was featured on the Israeli radio. Maoz’s most influential teachers were Yehuda Schrier, Atanas Ourlouzounov, Alberto Ponce & David Starobin. He holds a Masters in guitar performance; He studied at the Conservatoire de marie de Paris, Ecole Normale de musique de Paris, Manhattan School of Music, and Brooklyn College.
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