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Sunday, November 23, 4:00 pm
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Judy Braude, flute
Jeffrey Brody, piano 
Currently Music Director of Longwood Opera and
Principal Accompanist of the Paul Madore Chorale, Jeffrey Brody is active
as composer, conductor, vocal coach, collaborative pianist and organist.
Appointed to the musical staff of Seattle Opera in 1986, he has done the musical
preparation of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, serving as Assistant Conductor and
Prompter. He has also done musical preparation for Sarah Caldwell’s Opera
Company of Boston, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera New England, MIT Chamber Opera and
the Princeton June Opera Festival.
He made his orchestral conducting debut with the
Richmond Festival orchestra in 1995 and most recently guest-conducted the Salem
Philharmonic Orchestra. His compositions include two operas as well as works for
orchestra, chorus, chamber music and organ. They have been performed in Boston’s
Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, the Phillips
Collection in Washington, DC, the Virginia Waterfront International Arts
Festival, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the festival “la citta, la musica e il sacro”
in Venice and on NPR. Recent commissions include “Beowulf”, a Musical Legend for
soloists, chorus and orchestra written for performance in the Vienna
Musikvereinsaal. He is the recipient of a most generous grant from the Brannen-Cooper
Fund to compose a 25-minute Concerto for Flute and Orchestra to be premiered by
the Salem Philharmonic in January of 2009.
A finalist in the 1999 European International
Composers Competition, he has been the recipient of numerous ASCAP Special
Awards. Several of his commissioned choral and organ works have been released on
compact disc on the AFKA and SPC labels. Mr. Brody is a member of the
International Siegfried Wagner Society; the American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers, the National Association of Teachers of Singing; and the
Boston Singers Resource, for which he has served as audition adjudicator. In
honor of the many years of his artistic affiliation with the late Boston
Symphony organist, Berj Zamkochian, the Gomidas Organ Fund presented Mr. Brody
with the baton used by Dr. Charles Munch, Music Director and Conductor of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1949-1962.
Since winning the N.J Masterworks Foundation
“Young Artist Competition”, flutist Judith Sherry Braude has pursued a
successful and multifaceted career as a soloist, chamber and orchestral
musician, recording artist, and teacher.
Ms. Braude made her debut in New Jersey as a
concerto soloist in the “Mozart D Major Flute Concerto” with the Livingston (NJ)
Symphony Orchestra. She then went on to perform as a recitalist, orchestral and
chamber musician throughout the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. As
a member of the New Jersey State Opera Orchestra she performed on national
network TV and at Carnegie Hall; and as a member of the Atlantic City Woodwind
Quintet she performed on public TV/radio and concertized through out the state.
After moving to Massachusetts, Judy continued to
perform as a concerto soloist and a recitalist appearing several times with the
Merrimack Valley Philharmonic, the Salem Philharmonic and the Reading Symphony
Orchestras and in recital at the Reading, Somerville, Andover Libraries and the
King’s Chapel Recital Series. She also served for over a decade on the flute
faculty of the Boston Conservatory in the Special Programs Division. “The
Thoreau Family Flute Duets” CD which Judy edited and performed on in
collaboration with the Boston Conservatory Faculty Composer Edward Sibilia was
recorded during her tenure at the Conservatory. In addition, during this time,
Judy continued to perform as a chamber musician through out New England as a
member of the Trio “Silverwood”.
Long a champion of new music, Judy can now be
heard along with several other flutists in a soon to be released CD produced by
the composer William Thomas McKinley. In January 2007 she appeared in the world
premiere of Boston composer Jeffrey Brody’s “Poem for Flute and Orchestra” which
she commissioned. Recently Ms. Braude, the Music Director of the Salem
Philharmonic Alan Hawryluk, and Jeffrey Brody applied for and received a
prestigious commission from the Brannen-Cooper Fund for a new Flute Concerto for
Judy. This concerto will have its world premiere this season on January 25, 2009
with the composer, Jeffrey Brody directing the Salem Philharmonic Orchestra.
Currently still active as a teacher, Judy is the
Music Director of the White Mountain Flute Conservatory (www.wmfc.net), a summer
flute camp for gifted senior and junior high school flute players. Judy received
her B.S in Music Education from Ithaca College and her M.M. in Flute Performance
from the University of Illinois. Her primary flute teachers have included Julius
Baker, Charles Delaney, David Berman, Maurice Sharp and Shaul-Ben-Meir. In
addition, Judy also studied with the legendary flute pedagogue Marcel Moyse in
his masterclasses in Brattleboro Vermont.
Suggested donation of $10 at the door.
Elegant reception follows the concert.
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