VIRTUAL HOLIDAY CONCERT 2020

BridgeMusik's Third Virtual Concert of 2020! Featuring artists from BridgeMusik, the New Life Tabernacle Choir, Halley Gilbert, Stacey Bone-Gleason, Jeremy Wall from Spyro Gyra and Bob McGrath from Sesame Street with special remarks by Pastor Donald Hoover and Pastor JP Ilarraza. A program of beloved holiday classics with 50% proceeds benefiting Helping Hands for the Homeless of Rockland and the remainder supporting programs by Tappan Reformed Church and BridgeMusik. Concert filmed on location at the historic Tappan Reformed Church, Tappan, NY.

Songs America Loves to Sing: VIRTUAL FALL 2020 CONCERT

An all-American program including music by Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, Amy Beach, Aaron Copland, Ella Fitzgerald and Van Alexander, Pete Seeger, John Williams, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, John Harbison, Charlie Smalls, Keith Jarrett and Traditional tunes. Featuring the world premiere of "Where are the Watchers?" by Philip Wharton. 🐦🕊🐦 Our stellar line-up of artists includes Shirley Crabbe, Jazz Vocalist and BridgeMusik Virtual Summer Festival 2020 Faculty and Special Guests from Mostly Mozart Musicians at Lincoln Center and New York City Ballet Orchestra Musicians.

VIRTUAL SUMMER FESTIVAL 2020

BridgeMusik has embarked on some exciting new adventures since the pandemic began this spring. Most recently, we held our first ever virtual summer festival with an incredible group of students and an inspiring faculty!

THE STORY OF TANGO:
a Virtual Concert of Music, Art and Storytelling

We were thrilled to present a feature-long Virtual Concert "The Story of Tango" on our YouTube and Vimeo Channels. The concert marked the return of Latin Grammy-winner Pedro Giraudo and his acclaimed Tango Trio. The Trio (with Rodolfo Marcelo Zanetti Vía bandoneon and Ahmed Alom Vega piano) was joined by BridgeMusik musicians from Lincoln Center and Broadway orchestras: Tanya Witek (flute), Krystof Witek and Kevin Marty Matson (violin), Desiree Elsevier (viola) and Fred Zlotkin (cello). The cast of over 80 participants, included many special guest performers such as Bob McGrath from Sesame Street , Juilliard faculty member Carol Wincenc (flute), Pao-Chieh Tseng (flute), Melissa Aleles (flute), Maia Schmidt (violin), Elizabeth Krause (violin), Wendy Law (cello), Erik Bjorkman (cello), John Bjorkman (electric bass), Halley Gilbert (voice), Keith Buterbaugh (voice) and talented students from our local schools.

The program traced the history of the TANGO through musical, visual and verbal storytelling. The footage was a combination of brand new recordings created by the artists from their quarantines around the world, as well as footage which was recorded live in 2019 in the beautiful acoustics of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Pearl River, NY.

The broadcast premiered free for anyone to enjoy on our YouTube and Video Channels. Please stay tuned, subscribe to our media channels to learn about future events.

BridgeMusik Holiday Concert 2019
Tappan Reformed Church

It takes a village...Our wonderful colleagues and friends (old and new) made it truly special so here’s a shout out to Bob McGrath Jeremy Wall, Halley Gilbert, Stacey Bone-Gleason, Tanya Witek, Melissa Aleles, Danny Mui, Krystof Witek, Kevin Marty Matson, Maia Schmidt, Fred Zlotkin, Andrew Trombley, Henry Sung Ho Yang, Majella Maltempi, Ceili Fitzpatrick and all wonderful instrumentalists and singers from NY and NJ schools. Also grateful for remarks by Pastor Donald Hoover and Carol LaValle, President of Tappantown Historical Society.
Heather Hurley and Allyson Sullivan put on the best post concert reception (the hot chocolate bar rocked!).
Thanks to Roost Restaurant, Madeleine's Petit Paris , IL Portico, The Old '76 House, Greek Village and Cassie's Restaurant of Orangeburg, NY : our awesome local restaurants for donating gift certificates!
Congrats to all winners and thanks to all our supporters. It was a successful drive for the BridgeMusik Bob McGrath Scholarship! Great turn out, we’ll do it again....

PLEASE JOIN US
DECEMBER 16, 7:30PM
at Tappan Reformed Church

We had a lovely CHOIR REHEARSAL for our upcoming HOLIDAY CONCERT 2019.
We look forward to our Concert at the historic Tappan Reformed Church. Program includes a selection of classical, traditional and jazz favorites featuring Jeremy Wall - the founding member, pianist and composer of the landmark jazz-fusion group Spyro Gyra! We hope you can join us!

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BridgeMusik visits Dowling Gardens and The Jewish Home at Rockleigh

BridgeMusik Fall Festival 2019 students gave two marvelous concerts at Dowling Gardens in Sparkill NY and The Jewish Home at Rockleigh, NJ. The students performed solo and full ensemble pieces and were greeted with warm hospitality and gratitude.

BridgeMusik welcomes the esteemed violinist and professor Peter Winograd!

Many thanks to Peter Winograd for a wonderful violin masterclass and congratulations to ALL BridgeMusik Fall Festival 2019 students! 
Read Peter's Full Biography

BridgeMusik presents: “Songs America Loves to Sing”

We presented “Songs America Loves to Sing”: all American program of works by Igor Stravinsky, George Gershwin, John Williams, Leonard Cohen, John Harbison, Paul Schoenfeld and more! Many thanks and congratulations to Keith Buterbaugh, Fred Zlotkin, Danny Mui, Henry Sung Ho Yang and Priscilla Peña-Carney with Tanya Witek and Krystof Witek. Bravo to our BridgeMusik Fall Festival students and SOMS choir singers with an awesome solo by Anna Carney. We had a full house at the beautiful Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Pearl River.
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BridgeMusik FALL FESTIVAL 2019 KICK OFF!

We kicked off BridgeMusik FallFest 2019 at Union Arts Center on October 14, 2019 with talented students from Rockland, Bergen and Westchester Counties.
On October 21, BridgeMusik welcomed an amazing flutist and esteemed Julliard School faculty member CAROL WINCENC.
Ms Wincenc gave a wonderful and inspiring masterclass. Congratulations to all of the students who played in Ms. Wincenc's class as well as in 2 other masterclasses by BridgeMusik's accomplished faculty: Madeleine Golz (cello) and Krystof Witek(violin).
We will have lots of fun over the next several weeks! Join us for FallFest concerts on October 27 at Good Shepherd in Pearl River and November 11 & 18 at Union Arts Center.

South Orangetown Day in Pearl River

Gershwin’s ‘Sweet and Low Down’ at South Orangetown Day with BridgeMusik’s flutist Tanya Witek and pianist Henry Sung Ho Yang. We’ll be playing this tune again on October 27 in Pearl River along with our talented Fall Festival students!

BridgeMusik 2nd Annual Summer Festival 2019