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Jonathan Newell, pianist/composer
Pianist/composer Jonathan Newell will be joined by Tania Halko-Susi, violin, Ari Rudiakov, viola, and Brian Melick, percussion to premiere a new work for piano, violin, viola and hand percussion.
Jonathan Newell is a classical pianist, composer, rock guitarist, bassist, singer and Impresario. Since 1988 he has divided his time between teaching, performing, composing and hosting concerts. He performs over 100 times a year throughout the Northeastern United States in concert halls, colleges, clubs, coffee houses, corporate events, festivals and private gatherings.
He holds a BA from Ithaca College in Piano Performance and Art History and an MA in Piano Performance and Composition from Hunter College. He is a former member of the piano faculty of The Diller-Quaille School of Music in Manhattan, a lecturer of The World of Music and The History of Pop Music in America at The College of St. Joseph in Rutland, Vermont, and he taught piano, guitar and Music Industry at SUNY Adirondack in Glens Falls, New York. He served as pianist/composer with the Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater from 1993 - 2015. Mr. Newell gave his New York piano debut at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2009 and was recognized as a Whos Who Among Americas Teachers in 2006. He has studied piano with Edward Housman at Skidmore College, Phiroze Mehta at Ithaca College, Steven Graff at Hunter College and Dr. Julie Jordon at the Juilliard School. He performed in master classes with Andre Michel Schub, Paul Badura Skoda and numerous times with Mordeci Shehori.
As a guitarist he focuses on the music of the 1960s 1970s and has worked in successful party bands The Groove, artFarm and The Jonathan Newell Band in resort areas throughout the Northeastern US. He plays guitar in the Led Zeppelin tribute band Better Off Led and plays bass and piano in the Beatles tribute band Across The Pond and is the producer of the show Ballet Meets The Beatles.
As a composer, he is a 2010 recipient of a Strategic Opportunity Stipend from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a 2023, 2013, 2009 and 2002 recipient of Individual Artist Grants from The New York Council for the Arts. His String Quartet was performed at Columbia University for an international symposium on the poetry of William Bronk and heard on National Public Radio. He studied composition with Shafer Mahoney at Hunter College. Since 1990 he has released numerous recordings of original songs and piano music on his own True To Life Music label.
In 2010 he began The Hudson River Music Hall and in 2011 cofounded Hudson River Music Hall Productions Inc., a 501c3 not-for-profit dedicated to presenting the performing arts in Northeastern New York in order to foster community, creativity and economic development. He is Executive/Artistic Director of the historic Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls, NY.
Violist and conductor Ariel Rudiakov is co-founder and Artistic Director of Taconic Music, and is on the faculty of Bennington College as viola instructor. He is Music Director and Conductor of the Danbury Symphony Orchestra and Yonkers Philharmonic, and Assistant Conductor of the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra (CT).
Ari enjoys an active and diverse musical life, performing to critical acclaim throughout the U.S. and abroad; most recently, chamber music for the 2024 Pikes Falls Festival (VT). He is a former member of the New York Piano Quartet and Equinox String Quartet, and a founding member and past president of SONYC (String Orchestra of New York City). Ari was Artistic Director of the Manchester Music Festival (VT) from 2000 to 2016. Among his recordings are the complete string quartets by Camille Saint-Saëns and the piano quintet by Vittorio Giannini (MSR Classics), which Fanfare Magazine described as utterly superb. Composers Richard Lane, Philip Lasser, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson have dedicated works to Ari, who is active in commissioning and recording new music.
At the podium, Aris past resident and guest conducting positions have included the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, Metropolitan Symphony, Bergen and Yonkers Philharmonics, Antara Ensemble, Manchester Chamber Orchestra, Harlem Chamber Players, Sage City Symphony, and recording sessions with Dance Theater of Harlem. From 2017 to 2022, he was conductor of the University of Indianapolis (UIndy) Chamber Orchestra, and chamber music coach. He attended pre-college at Manhattan School of Music and went on to receive bachelors and masters degrees at SUNY Purchase Conservatory and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ari was a scholarship student at Yale Universitys masters program, where he studied viola with Jessie Levine and chamber music with members of the Tokyo String Quartet. He plays a viola made in 2000 by Geoffrey Ovington.
Tania Halko Susi
Following Tanias completion of her degrees of BM and MM at the Juilliard School, she has worked in various genres on both violin and viola.
Tanias performing credentials include chamber music performances at Barge Music in Brooklyn, The Apollo Theatre in Harlem, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, MOMAs Summer Garden series with the New Juilliard Ensemble and New York Universitys Microtonal Festival.
Ms. Halko Susi served as principal Violist of the Esopus Chamber Orchestra in the Hudson Valley from 2009-2013 . Her international appearances include a New York Symphonic Ensemble tour of the U.S. and Japan, performing in Suntory Hall, Tokyo and Carnegie Hall in NYC.
Tania's additional festival appearances include Schleswig Holstein Music Festival in Germany and Copenhagen with Mstislav Rostropovich, The Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, with Christoph Eschenbach and The Vienna Philharmonic, and additional music festival performances in Venezuela, Brazil and Slovakia.
Commercial music appearances include appearing on MTV with Bryan Adams, performing with the first ever tour of Trans-Siberian Orchestra in 1999-2000 and Natalie Merchants An evening of Songs with the Esopus Chamber Orchestra.
Tania is also passionate about nurturing a love for music. She has worked for Saratoga Performing Arts center as a musical ambassador visiting over 25 schools with a solo assembly program, and presented a pre-performance talk about the program at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert.
On her own endeavors, Tania created and performed her own childrens concert series at Saratoga Arts Center and formulated concert programs for Homeless Shelters in Albany, New York, VA Hospitals, Teen Treatment Centers and Food Shelters. Tania has been a dedicated instructor and has served on Faculty at the College of Saint Rose and as a sectionals coach at Empire State Youth Orchestra.
Brian Melick started my professional career in music at the age of 13, have developed a wide range of experience as a drummer, multi hand percussionist, and as an educator. Featured artist on over 450 commercially recorded works and have been produced by major as well as independent record companies. My drumming and percussion activities have included recording and performing along with several independent, as well as major, artists and producers. Some of my major credits are as follows:
TDK Tape, General Electric, American Seating, Metro Ford, Paula Deen "LIVE", Food Network's Farmhouse Rules, Roop Verma, George Jinda, Minu Cinelu, Jamey Haddad, Steve Gorn, Eugene Friesen, Artie and Happy Traum, Scott Petito, Vinnie Martucci, Mike DeMicco, Chuck Lamb, Richard Crooks, Warren Burnhart, Tony Markales, Bridget Ball, Chris Shaw, Mike Jerling, Larry Coryell, Matt Smith, Cindy Cashdollar, Larry Hoppin, Alex Peh, Josh Colow, Larry Packer, John Sebastian, Garth Hudson, Rory Block, Robbie Dupree, Nick Brignola, William Gallison, Amy Fraden and Leslie Ritter, Ed Wool, Livingston Taylor, Jorma Kaukonen, John Doyle, John Kirk, Diane Zeigler, Abby Newton, Ellen MclLwaine, Jerry Marotta, Bobby Previte, Layne Redmond, Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, Kim and Reggie Harris, Magpie, Pete Seeger, Ade Knowles, Larry Chernicoff, Ralph Gordon, Wycliff Gordon, Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, Laurel Masse, Eric Weissberg, Mike Marshall, Bela Fleck, Tony Levin, Pete Levin, Ken Lovelett, Gus Mancini, Cathie Ryan, Camille West, Four Bitchin Babes, Stuart Duncan, Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen, Priscilla Herdman, Nenad Bach, Hafez Modirzadeh, Aaron Hurwitz, Dan Duggan, Peggy Lynn, Edward Villella & The Miami City Ballet, Ringling Bros. & Barnum, Bailey Circus, Hartford Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Dayton Symphony, Greenwich Village Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Catskill Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Sloan Wainwright, Mark Dann, Ronny Simkins, Sally Van Meter, Debra Dobkin, Bob Malone, Hue Cox, Scott McPherson, Jody Grey, Paul Orpheno, Eddie Krammer, Paul Antonell, Joel Moss, Charlie Eble, Adam Rothberg, Jeff Townsend, John Platania, Mark MacKenna, Bruce Molsky, Jeff Tyzik, Stu Kuby, Gordon Elliott and many more.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council.
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LocationStrand Theatre Hudson Falls (View)
210 Main Street
Hudson Falls, NY 12839
United States
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