Lana Stafford, flute
Chris Spinelli, piano
This recital is part of our Outreach Series with free admission at The Nottingham.
CMM (Civic Morning Musicals) exists to support classically trained musicians and their audiences throughout the Central New York region. It is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization, which produces more than 30 concerts a year and sponsors activities for young musicians.
Guitarist Timothy Schmidt has performed in numerous solo and chamber concerts and has
appeared on recital series for the Rochester Guitar Society, the Auburn Chamber Symphony,
Utica College, LeMoyne College, the Truro Twilight Concerts on Cape Cod, and the American
Church in Paris, France. He has performed frequently in the Syracuse area for the Society for
New Music, Civic Morning Musicals and Arts Alive in Liverpool, Syracuse Opera and other
organizations. Schmidt has degrees from Hobart College, Ithaca College School of Music and
Manhattan School of Music where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. He taught at
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Nazareth College and at Onondaga Community College
from 1988 to 2013 where he retired as professor emeritus.
Schmidt will perform music of Dowland, J.S. Bach, Sor, Coulanges, and Ginastera.
This recital is part of our Outreach Series with free admission at The Nottingham.
CMM (Civic Morning Musicals) exists to support classically trained musicians and their audiences throughout the Central New York region. It is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization, which produces more than 30 concerts a year and sponsors activities for young musicians.
The Incredible Saxophone featuring Sarah Midgley-Scuderi, saxophone, and Robbie Padilla, piano.
Music of Purcell, Rascher, Husa, Bozza, and Quate.
Free and open to the public!
Sarah Midgley-Scuderi is an educator, performer, and clinician speaker who resides in Central New York. She holds degrees in Music Education from The State University of New York at Fredonia and in Saxophone Performance from Florida State University. She can be seen performing with her saxophone quartet, Cayuga Sax, as well as in many local community theaters. Sarah has taught in Cortland County for the past six years, and also runs a private studio for woodwind instruments. When not teaching and performing Sarah travels around the state giving presentations in adapting music education for Special Learners.
Robbie Padilla plays solo and collaborative piano through- out the Central New York Region and beyond. His keyboard experiences include both solo and collaborative recitals, large ensemble concerts, jazz ensembles, opera and musical theatre pits, and church organist.
Recent performances by Padilla include Little Shop of Horrors, The Addams Family, Singin’ in the Rain, and Die Fledermaus. Padilla played with with both Syracuse University and Fredonia Wind Ensembles and in a number of other groups. In 2017, Padilla premiered “Valzer tristi, nobili et sentimentali” by emerging composer Marco Giusto.
Padilla was the sole recipient of the 2016 Civic Morning Musicals Performance Award for “outstanding contribution to the Syracuse University music community”. He has been both a collaborator and solo artist in the Wednesday Recital Series presented by Civic Morning Musicals. Padilla has also served as a collaborative pianist in the CMM Competitions for Singers.
Padilla earned his Master of Music and studied Piano Performance with Ida Trebicka at Syracuse University. His undergraduate studies were in Music Education at SUNY Fredonia where he studied piano with Dr. Anne Kissel. Padilla maintains a private piano studio at his home in Liverpool, NY, and teaches elementary music in the Fulton City School District.
Winter Serenade featuring Ivy Walz, mezzo-soprano, and Margaret Reitz, piano.
Music of John Jacob Niles, Menotti, Milhaud and Mozart.
A touch of de Falla, Obradors and Granados.
A taste of Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof, Lost in the Stars, and more.
Free and open to the public!
Ivy Walz, DMA, an opera, concert and recital singer, has performed with Spoleto Festival, Cincinnati Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Syracuse Opera, and Tri-Cities Opera. As a concert soloist she has enjoyed performing a variety of alto/mezzo roles. Recently she has appeared with Akron Symphony, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Symphoria Syracuse, Binghamton Philharmonic and Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. As a recitalist and chamber musician, Ivy has collaborated with Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble, SongFest, Cincinnati Art Song Initiative, Denver Art Song Project and Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar. Ivy teaches a vibrant community of developing singer musicians at Ithaca College School of Music.
Margaret Reitz, pianist, earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in piano performance with accompanying emphasis from Boston University, the New England Conservatory, and Binghamton University. She studied piano with Jean Casadesus, Victor Rosenbaum, Seymour Fink and Walter Ponce and accompanying with Allen Rogers. She has accompanied throughout the United States, in England, South America, and at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Reitz has been on the faculty at Binghamton University since 1991 and Ithaca College School of Music since 1999. She maintains a private piano studio in Vestal, New York. A member of the Executive Board of the New York District MTNA organization, she is also past President of the local Southern Tier Music Teachers Association and is an active adjudicator for the National Piano Guild Organization.
Civic Morning Musicals and The Nottingham present Christopher Spinelli, piano in a free concert, open to the public on Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 at 7pm at The Nottingham.
2016 winner of the Robinson Award, Christopher Spinelli was a three-consecutive year winner of the CNY Association of Music Teachers Piano Competition, a finalist in the Syracuse Symphony Youth Concerto Competition, and 2016 graduate of Fayetteville-Manlius High School. He’s most recently created a debut jazz album with the Frank Gordon Experience. Formerly a student of John Spradling, he currently studies Piano Performance with Dr. Robert Auler at SUNY Oswego.
Program:
Sonata in Bb Major, K. 333 – Mozart
Allegro
Andante Cantabile
Allegretto grazioso
Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49 – Chopin
Alborada Del Gracioso – Ravel
Nocturne in Eb Major, Op. 9 No. 2 – Chopin
Etude Op. 40, No. 8. “Finale” – Kapustin
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” – Jarrett
CMM Community Outreach Concert Series continues:
Kaelem Michel, piano
The Nottingham
Friday, August 31, 2018
7:00 p.m.
Free
Civic Morning Musicals 2018-2019:
CMM Wednesday Recital Series presents
Kenneth Meyers, guitar
3 October, 2018 | 12:15 p.m.
St. David’s Episcopal Church | 14 Jamar Drive, Fayetteville, NY
FREE
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