Visiting Artist Series
Hastings AMP coordinates local and regional music professionals to visit our schools and provide master classes, workshops or demonstrations to our students.
Upcoming guest artists:
TBD...
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Past guest artists:
Steve Addabbo - Record producer, songwriter and audio engineer whose clients include Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Bobby, McFerrin, Bob Dylan, Eric Andersen, Loudon Wainwright III and Olivia Newton-John.
Thalea String Quartet (the quartet-in-residence at Caramoor) Nov 19, 2019: Middle School wide performance and hands on workshop with MS/HS string/orchestra groups. (Thank you to the PTSA for their generous funding for this visit!)
Tim Armacost (critically acclaimed, Grammy nominated Jazz musician / composer) Nov 2019: Jazz Ensemble workshop
Jennifer Dunnington (award winning motion picture music editor) June 2019: MUSIC EDITING FOR FILM: an overview of the history of music in film and a walk through of the current process of using music in major motion pictures.
Thalea Quartet
The Thalea String Quartet is Caramoor's 2019/2020 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence. In addition to their performances througout the year at Caramoor, they also conduct workshops and perform at various schools as part of Caramoor's Student Strings program. Families can see them again at Caramoor on Sunday May 3rd at 3PM and students 18 and under can attend for free! More info HERE. They will also be back for another Caramoor concert in the summer (check back at caramoor.org for details)Thank you to the PTSA for their generous funding to help bring the Thalea Quartet to Hastings!
Thalea Quartet performing for all of 7th and 8th graders, plus HS music students
Thalea String Quartet
Christopher Whitley, violin
Kumiko Sakamoto, violin
Luis Bellorín, viola
Titilayo Ayangade, cello
Thalea Quartet working with the HS orchestra
Thalea Quartet working with the high school orchestra
Thalea Quartet working with the middle school orchestra
Thalea Quartet working with the high school orchestra
Tim Armacost
After a life of travel and discovery on three continents, Grammy nominated saxophonist Tim Armacost has established himself as one of the most important improvisers on the New York scene today. Armacost was born in Los Angeles, but came of age as a musician in Tokyo, New Delhi, and Amsterdam, where he burnished his reputation as an upcoming talent, with a big tenor sound and an impeccable rhythmic sense. He tours regularly around the world both as a sideman and a leader. He has worked with a phenomenal number of jazz greats, including Al Foster, Jimmy Cobb, Kenny Barron, Tom Harrell, Billy Hart, Victor Lewis, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Peter Erksine, Ray Drummond, Roy Hargrove, Don Friedman and Randy Brecker. Armacost has recorded eight critically acclaimed records as a leader, has performed on more than 50 as a sideman, and has composed for Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. He is a widely respected educator, teaching at the Jamey Aebersold and Stanford Summer Jazz Workshops, at Queens College in New York City and as a clinician at universities throughout the U.S., Japan, and Europe.Thank you to Tim for his generosity in working with our students for the evening on November 13th!
Do you work in the music industry?
Would you like to share your experience and skills with enthusiastic young people?
Email us with some information about yourself - we'd love to have you share your talents with our students!