Concerts Around the Corner
Concerts Around the Corner is a classical and jazz chamber music series under the guidance of Musical Artistic Director Robert Zubrycki. Most have been performed in the Studio Around The Corner, an acoustically intimate environment. Our concerts feature world-class musicians associated with the
American Symphony Orchestra and Broadway.
Our concerts are funded through a variety of sources including ticket sales, grants, and other Cultural Arts Coalition fundraising activities.
Most critical to the viability of these series, however, are "Sponsors 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.
Impresario: $500 or More
Soloist: $250 to $499
Leader: $100 to $249
Ensemble: $40 to $99
www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1251774
We are also in gratitude to the Putnam Arts Council through which Concerts Around the Corner is made possible in part by the NYS Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the NYS Legislature. In Putnam County, this program is managed and monitored by the Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY.
Musical Artistic Director Robert Zubrycki
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.
-SOME PAST CONCERTS-
Concert for Peace, 2024
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Start your new year at a peaceful gathering with music, readings, and camaraderie. Join musicians, Robert Zubrycki, violinist; Paul Staroba, pianist; Erica Spyres, actor, singer; Philip Anderson, singer; and Drew Jackson, singer, guitarist, as they perform classical, Broadway and seasonal favorites, interspersed with peaceful and thoughtful readings.
The program will include works by Montgomery, Massenet, Poulenc, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Yiddish folk songs, the Kinks and more! Between them, our performers have appeared in dozens of Broadway shows and at major concert venues throughout the region. For full bios and more details, look for CulturalArtsCo social media posts! Suggested donation, $10 at door. Click here to make a reservation. Walk-ins are welcome as space allows. Afterwards, enjoy the Festival of Trees in the Old Town Hall Theater! |
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Mike Fahn and Mary Ann McSweeney at the Garden Around the Corner |
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Concert for Peace, 2020
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.
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.
