Sunday, November 23, 4:00 pm     Click for Poster       
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.
 

October Artist:
Tom Rogers               
     Tom Rogers, local J.P. artist will be showing works from various past series of works.
     The animal series is a group of paintings incorporating animal imagery and words. The juxtaposition of imagery and text is intentionally ambiguous, providing multiple interpretations. The landscape series was inspired by his move to J.P. and his proximity to Jamaica Pond. This series is a sidetrack from his more modernist tendencies to explore a more traditional approach to painting.
And last but not least are a select group of his photographs.