Concerts Around the Corner
Concerts Around the Corner is the classical and jazz chamber music series produced by the Cultural Arts Coalition under the guidance of Robert Zubrycki, Musical Artistic Director. The Coalition presents approximately 6 concerts each year. Most have been performed in the Studio Around The Corner, a acoustical intimate environment, and outdoors at the Space at Ryder Farm. Eventually, these concerts will be performed in the restored Old Town Hall Theater.
The concerts are funded through a variety of sources including ticket sales, grants, and general Coalition fundraising activities. Most critical to the viability of these series, however, are "Supporters of Concerts Around the Corner", who give annually at levels of Impresario, Soloist, Leader, and Ensemble. If you are interested in becoming a Supporter to ensure that the concerts continue into the future, please contribute here.
The 2022 sponsors are as follows:
Media Sponsor:
Brewster HamletHub
Impresario: $500 or More
Janis and Alan Menken
John and Sharon Riley
NYSEG
Soloist: $250 to $499
Tompkins Mahopac Bank
Catherine Croft
Robert Isley Violins
Lynne Eckardt and Paul Hondorf
Michael Stout and Stephen Shea
Leader: $100 to $249
Feehan Insurance Agency, Inc.
The Music Cottage
Lisa M. Denig
Cherie Ingraham and Ricky Feuerman
In Memory of Carol A. Conn
Ensemble: $40 to $99
Country Kitchen
Depot Wines and Liquors
Kim Papa, Piano Tuning and Repair
Kathleen and John Lord
Linda Dahl Vogl
Concerts Around the Corner Acknowledges:
Manhattan Concert Productions
Kim Papa, piano technician
Fabienne and Joanne Riccoboni, video
Robert Isley Violins
Brewster Carmel Garden Club
Brewster Flower Garden
Brewster Theater Company
The Village of Brewster Film Festival
The Bowl Company
The Music Cottage
Wilians Mendez
Southeast Museum
SevenStar School of Performing Arts
The Coalition’s Steinway L Series grand piano is on extended loan from Cheryl Palmer & Estate of Edward H. Vito, Sr., made possible by the generosity of Cheryl Palmer as well as Rob and Sefani Goselink.
Concerts Around the Corner is made possible in part by the NYS Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature. In Putnam County, this program is managed and monitored by the Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY.
Media Sponsor:
Brewster HamletHub
Impresario: $500 or More
Janis and Alan Menken
John and Sharon Riley
NYSEG
Soloist: $250 to $499
Tompkins Mahopac Bank
Catherine Croft
Robert Isley Violins
Lynne Eckardt and Paul Hondorf
Michael Stout and Stephen Shea
Leader: $100 to $249
Feehan Insurance Agency, Inc.
The Music Cottage
Lisa M. Denig
Cherie Ingraham and Ricky Feuerman
In Memory of Carol A. Conn
Ensemble: $40 to $99
Country Kitchen
Depot Wines and Liquors
Kim Papa, Piano Tuning and Repair
Kathleen and John Lord
Linda Dahl Vogl
Concerts Around the Corner Acknowledges:
Manhattan Concert Productions
Kim Papa, piano technician
Fabienne and Joanne Riccoboni, video
Robert Isley Violins
Brewster Carmel Garden Club
Brewster Flower Garden
Brewster Theater Company
The Village of Brewster Film Festival
The Bowl Company
The Music Cottage
Wilians Mendez
Southeast Museum
SevenStar School of Performing Arts
The Coalition’s Steinway L Series grand piano is on extended loan from Cheryl Palmer & Estate of Edward H. Vito, Sr., made possible by the generosity of Cheryl Palmer as well as Rob and Sefani Goselink.
Concerts Around the Corner is made possible in part by the NYS Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature. In Putnam County, this program is managed and monitored by the Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY.
PAST CONCERTS
Strings on the Streets
Concerts Around the Corner
At the Theater at Old Town Hall
Sunday, October 17, 3:00PM
Strings on the Streets and in the Salons
Our first Concerts Around the Corner event in the Theater at Old Town Hall! Join violinists Robert Zubrycki and Kristina Musser, violist Adria Benjamin, and cellists Katherine Cherbas and Sarah Hewitt-Roth.
Concerts Around the Corner presents professional musicians from or region’s finest ensembles. The program will feature Boccherini’s "La Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid", with Spanish dancer, Anna de la Paz, selections from the cello quintets of Schubert and Glazunov, a cello duet by Barriere, and the soaring melodies and filigreed lines of the 17th string quartet by the bel canto master, Gaetano Donizetti.
At the Theater at Old Town Hall
Sunday, October 17, 3:00PM
Strings on the Streets and in the Salons
Our first Concerts Around the Corner event in the Theater at Old Town Hall! Join violinists Robert Zubrycki and Kristina Musser, violist Adria Benjamin, and cellists Katherine Cherbas and Sarah Hewitt-Roth.
Concerts Around the Corner presents professional musicians from or region’s finest ensembles. The program will feature Boccherini’s "La Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid", with Spanish dancer, Anna de la Paz, selections from the cello quintets of Schubert and Glazunov, a cello duet by Barriere, and the soaring melodies and filigreed lines of the 17th string quartet by the bel canto master, Gaetano Donizetti.
Mike Fahn and Mary Ann McSweeney
Saturday, August 8, 2020, 6:30 pm, at the Garden Around the Corner
We welcome back the bassist, Mary Ann McSweeney! Audiences were delighted by her Urban Fado Quartet a few seasons ago at the Studio Around the Corner. This duo will feature her husband, Mike Fahn. The couple will have celebrated 24 years of marriage and music together on August 3rd, 2020. They met in the jazz scene while living in Los Angeles and both decided to move to New York in the early 1990’s. They both played in Jack Sheldon’s Big Band in L.A. and each had their own bands and gigs before coming to NYC. Mike plays valve trombone and is known for his improvisations. He has played with Michael Brecker, Andrew Hill and Kenny Wheeler along with leading his own groups performing at Jazz clubs throughout New York and beyond.
McSweeney has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Jane Monheit and Lee Konitz to name a few. She is a composer and leads her own groups while performing Broadway shows. She is currently writing her second Fado album. The couple will be presenting a tribute to Bob Brookmeyer and Jimmy Giuffre. This music is considered chamber jazz and was created in the late 1950’s. The couple is adding their own story to these great tunes and will be releasing an album in the next few months. www.maryanmcsweeney.com www.mikfahnmusic.com
We welcome back the bassist, Mary Ann McSweeney! Audiences were delighted by her Urban Fado Quartet a few seasons ago at the Studio Around the Corner. This duo will feature her husband, Mike Fahn. The couple will have celebrated 24 years of marriage and music together on August 3rd, 2020. They met in the jazz scene while living in Los Angeles and both decided to move to New York in the early 1990’s. They both played in Jack Sheldon’s Big Band in L.A. and each had their own bands and gigs before coming to NYC. Mike plays valve trombone and is known for his improvisations. He has played with Michael Brecker, Andrew Hill and Kenny Wheeler along with leading his own groups performing at Jazz clubs throughout New York and beyond.
McSweeney has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Jane Monheit and Lee Konitz to name a few. She is a composer and leads her own groups while performing Broadway shows. She is currently writing her second Fado album. The couple will be presenting a tribute to Bob Brookmeyer and Jimmy Giuffre. This music is considered chamber jazz and was created in the late 1950’s. The couple is adding their own story to these great tunes and will be releasing an album in the next few months. www.maryanmcsweeney.com www.mikfahnmusic.com
Rachel and Keve
Available online, Facebook and YouTube: Cultural Arts Coalition beginning Sunday, August 2nd at 7PM. From the live event, Saturday July 25th at 11AM, on the steps of Old Town Hall
Photos on display by Brian Alberghini
Available online, Facebook and YouTube: Cultural Arts Coalition beginning Sunday, August 2nd at 7PM. From the live event, Saturday July 25th at 11AM, on the steps of Old Town Hall
Photos on display by Brian Alberghini
We welcome back the amazing duo of Rachel and Keve! Concerts Around the Corner fans will recall their entertaining performances at the Studio and at SPACE on Ryder Farm. Friends since the age of 10, Rachel Handman (violin) and Keve Wilson (oboe) grew up dreaming of performing on Broadway someday. Spending every Saturday studying at Manhattan School of Music as teenagers, they would skip music theory and practice Irish jigs and reels instead. Having realized that dream, they wrapped up a seven-month run performing in the orchestra for the 2018 Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. Keve is in the 2020 Company revival, Rachel the 2020 West Side Story revival. Other Broadway shows they have played include Something Rotten!, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Dr. Zhivago. From Hyde Park, New York, Rachel and Keve have developed a concert showcasing their interest in music from around the world. Rachel spent a year playing violin in Bolivia while Keve toured Germany, and they enjoy coming together to create and share new tunes they can play without sheet music. They continue to transcend genres with unique and creative repertoire, and weave personal tales from their life-long friendship throughout their concerts. In NYC, Keve and Rachel played to packed houses at Feinstein’s/54 Below.
The photography of Brian Alberghini has also been featured at multiple events at the Studio. Brian hails from Vermont, and has lived in Southeast since 1991. A self-taught photographer, Brian specializes in nature and floral photography. While most of his work is in color, Brian also specializes in black and white digital photography. His work hangs in private homes and businesses throughout the USA. Brian has placed second in the Friends of the Great Swamp Juried Art show with his photograph of a Great Blue Heron. Brian has also been published alongside world re-known professional photographers in several e-books. Most recently, he has been featured in gallery exhibitions in Northern Ireland and the Netherlands, and was published in the Best Top Photographers Associations coffee table book featuring over 90 of the best photographers from around the world.
For more of Brian’s work please go to https://500px.com/alberghinib.
If interested in ordering prints please contact Brian at alberghinib@gmail.com
Concert for Peace, 2020
The Cultural Arts Coalition presents: New Year’s Day Concert for Peace, Wednesday, January 1st, 2:00pm, Studio Around the Corner, Brewster NY.
Start your new year at a peaceful gathering, with music, poetry readings and camaraderie at this popular event. As we celebrate all of our community this New Year, we are collecting canned or dry food items to assist those in need.
Three of our featured performers met and became fast friends in the pit - the Broadway orchestra for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, the winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical. Paul Staroba, piano and musical director; Robert Zubrycki, violin, and Shelagh Abate, french horn. They will be joined by the vocalist and violinist, Erica Spryes. The musical selections will include the Trio for Violin, French Horn and Piano by Johannes Brahms, Journey by L. Subramaniam, selections from J. S. Bach’s Goldberg variations will played in memory of Stefani Gosselink, works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, some Broadway favorites and a sing-a-long of Auld Lang Syne.
Works by the poet, Demetrios Trifiatis, Ph. D in Philosophy and retired professor from Duke University will be read by Judy Marano, Phyllis Polonkay and Alyson Denny.
Paul Staroba is currently the Associate Conductor of A Christmas Carol on Broadway. This dynamic performer has many Broadway credits, including: My Fair Lady, War Paint, A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder, Next to Normal, A Little Night Music, and Grey Gardens. Off-Broadway: The Mad Ones, Dear Evan Hansen, Far From Heaven, and Carrie. His next show will be Company starring Katrina Lenk and Patti Lupone on Broadway.
Erica Spyres is an actor, singer, and violinist who made her Broadway debut in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. For nearly two years, Erica toured the US, Canada, and Japan with the Once First National Tour. Then, she spent two months in Paris performing in Passion opposite Natalie Dessay at the Théâtre du Châtelet. She has been a soloist with The Boston Pops, Sondheim Unplugged at 54 Below and Springfield Regional Opera. For her work on stage, Erica has received an Elliot Norton Award for Tribes and IRNE Awards for Camelot, Avenue Q, and The Light in the Piazza.
Shelagh Abate is one of New York’s most sought-after musicians. Known for her simultaneously warm and assertive sound, her versatility and musical intuition has earned her a place in the lexicon of NYC’s busiest performers. Shelagh has opened more than one dozen Broadway productions. Among them are Mary Poppins, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, South Pacific, Honeymoon in Vegas, Evita, Fiddler on the Roof, Anastasia, and most currently Disney’s Frozen. Since arriving in New York in 2006, she has performed regularly with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Mostly Mozart Festival, The American Ballet Theater, The American Symphony Orchestra, and has been principal horn of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra since 1999. She is a founding member of the award-winning Triton Brass, and on the faculty with the Atlantic Brass Quintet International Summer Seminar.
Violinist, Robert Zubrycki, is the director of the Concerts Around the Corner series. He is currently Concertmaster for the New York City Chamber Orchestra, a member of the American Symphony Orchestra, and the Stamford Symphony. He has recently performed as Concertmaster for the New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall, Encores! at City Center, Opera Orchestra of New York and is the acting Concertmaster for the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. He also performs in the orchestra for American Ballet Theater at Lincoln Center, is Assistant Concertmaster for Orchestra Moderne and a regular performer at the 92nd St. Y’s Lyrics and Lyricists series. A veteran of dozens of Broadway shows, Robert was recently a member of the orchestras for Kiss Me, Kate, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, She Loves Me and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.
Duo Scorpio- Nov. 24
In 2010, harpists Kathryn Andrews and Kristi Shade began searching for music for their newly formed ensemble and found this area of harp repertoire yet to be fully explored in a contemporary setting. They are helping create a new body of work composed for the modern harp that highlights the versatility and uniqueness of the instrument. Coincidentally, Katie and Kristi were both born on November 5, 1982, making them both Scorpios. They met in New York City where they received their Master’s degrees at the Manhattan School of Music. They have embraced their Zodiac alignment by using their talent and passion to team up and form this unique duo.
Young Musicians of Putnam County
Hear our region’s best young artists as they prepare to take the next steps in their musical journeys! Featuring: Emma Lubbers, soprano, junior at Mahopac High School; Michael Shanny, trombonist, sophomore; Abigail Harrison, cellist, junior; Sophia Mederer, violin, junior - all from Carmel High School. Monika Dziubelski, flutist and Natalia Dziubelski, frenchhorn are both seniors at Carmel High School and will be attending Bard College to study music performance; Gabriel Harrison pianist, bassoonist and composition, just completed his first year at Boston College.The group will perform works by Mozart, Lalo, Saint-Saëns, among others. Accompanied by Christine Johannsen, piano.
This excellent concert will take place on Sunday, June 23 at 5:00PM at the Studio Around the Corner. A suggested donation of $10 for adults and $5 for students can be made at the door. Reservations are recommended, as seating is limited. RSVP by e-mailing info@culturalartsco.com
This excellent concert will take place on Sunday, June 23 at 5:00PM at the Studio Around the Corner. A suggested donation of $10 for adults and $5 for students can be made at the door. Reservations are recommended, as seating is limited. RSVP by e-mailing info@culturalartsco.com
