Midday Concerts Series - Marimba Recital

Corning Community College will host several Midday Concerts during the fall 2009 semester. Join us for an hour of beautiful music with a Marimba Recital featuring Ithaca College graduate students Anthony DiBartolo and Elayne Harris as they perform pieces by Sammitt, Stout, Burritt, and Reich on Thursday, November 19 at 12:30 p.m. in R004, Learning Center, Spencer Hill campus, Corning.

Additional events will be held on:

Thursday, December 3, 12:30 p.m., R004
Suites, Sonatas and Standards by Peter Bloom and Mark Leighton includes the dazzling Grand Duo for Flute and Guitar by Mauro Giuliani, a colleague of Beethoven and Rossini in Vienna's golden age and a leading guitar virtuoso in 19th Century Europe. Other selections include music of Francis Poulenc, Jacques Ibert, and Heitor Villa-Lobos, along with treasures from the Great American Songbook by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and George Shearing.

Peter H. Bloom is a soloist and ensemble flutist who tours internationally with classical and jazz ensembles and appears on 30 recordings from labels including Sony Classical, Newport Classic, Dorian, Leo Records and 9Winds. He has given recitals from Boston to Bangkok and performs with leading ensembles including Ensemble Chaconne, Olmsted Ensemble, and the New Mendelssohn Quintet Club. Winner of the American Musicological Society's coveted Noah Greenberg Award; he is an acclaimed classical artist and a noted jazz player, now celebrating his 32nd season with the internationally renowned Aardvark Jazz Orchestra. The Boston Globe called his playing "a revelation for unforced sweetness and strength," while Jazz Improv praised his "exquisite melody. Bloom serves as historical performance consultant for The American Museum in Britain, The New-York Historical Society, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where he has given numerous lecture-demonstrations and has recorded for the Museum's audio tour of musical instruments. He is a board member of The James Pappoutsakis Flute Competition.

Mark Leighton is a classical and jazz guitarist known for his wide-ranging repertoire. He has performed as a solo recitalist and ensemble player across New England, appearing at venues such as Colby College, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, and Boston's historic King's Chapel, the Post Office Square concert series in Boston, the Thomas Crane Library in Quincy, and many others. Leighton is a regular member of Copley Chamber Players. He serves on the Applied Music Faculty at Colby College, teaches at Eastern Nazarene College, and served previously as Artistic Director of First Night Quincy. A graduate
of the New England Conservatory of Music, Leighton studied with noted guitarists Robert Sullivan, David Leisner and Sharon Isbin, among others.

Thursday, December 10, 12:30 p.m., R004
"Celebrating 200 Years of Franz Joseph Haydn" - The performing ensembles of Corning Community College, under the direction of Loueda Bleiler and Melvin Williams, will present a concert of works featuring the music of Haydn. This performance will include excerpts from one of his choral masterworks, "The Creation".

Events are free and open to the public. For additional information, please contact Loueda Bleiler at (607) 962-9298.