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  • JCA

    Category: Music,

    Jirrell Abraham, also known as "JCA" (pronounced "jay-suh") is one half of "New City Franchise," a multimedia company co-founded by his uncle and Executive Producer, Travis P. Williamson, a.k.a. Rithem the Designer. JCA has been writing rhymes...

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  • Amy Ahlert

    Category: Music,

    I've been on the Teaching Artist Roster of ArtsWestchester for 18 years, teaching music and playwriting to a range of age groups and ability levels, including adults living with mental illness. In addition, I work with the elderly in senior...

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  • Sharisse Ashford

    Category: Music,

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  • BOB BALDWIN

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    BOB BALDWIN BIOGRAPHY NEW YORK - Mount Vernon, NY native Bob Baldwin is unquestionably an unsung hero when it comes to the Contemporary/Smooth Jazz genre. Why, you say? Every year brings excitement to the Baldwin Musical house, and this year is...

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  • Gregory Beise

    Category: Music, Visual,

    As a visual artist I attempt to tune myself into my world through the visual experiences of contemporary life.  This brings me to mutliple points of view and an ever shifting aesthetic in my personal work.  Painting is always at the core of my...

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  • Dennis Bell

    Category: Jazz, Music, Music-Pop, Voice,

    Dennis Bell is a gold and platinum award-winning pianist, producer, arranger, songwriter/composer, conductor and music educator. Dennis Bell was ArtsWestchester's 2012 Musical Artist Award Recipient.

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  • John Bertles

    Category: Music,

    John Bertles is a composer, instrument builder and educator. As a classically-trained composer (MA Columbia University) he has written music ranging from opera to symphony and from punk rock to circus music. As an instrument builder he has...

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  • Alisdair MacRae Birch

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    Alisdair MacRae-Birch is a professional musician. Originally from the UK now based in NY, USA, he has performed worldwide from big-band Jazz, through to quartets, trios, duos, and solo in music ranging from Jazz, to African Highlife, Jazz-Funk,...

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  • Leila Blackman

    Category: Dance, Music,

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  • Beth Blatt

    Category: Music,

    Beth Blatt is a writer and producer working in musical theatre, pop and world music. Her shows and songs have been performed at Lincoln Center, the United Nations, off-Broadway, in London and across Asia.

    Beth is the founder of Hope Sings, whose...

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  • Ray Blue

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    Saxophonist Ray Blue has a unique sound and style that are energetic, inspiring and sensitive. Ray has been performing for many years touring the U.S.A., Europe, China and Africa. Along with this he conducts workshops and clinics.

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  • Torrey Anne Bonington

    Category: Actor, Film, Literary, Music, Voice,

    Hello!  My name is Torrey and I'm an actor, published author, comedian and storyteller in a broad spectrum of artistic mediums, genres and subject matters. I'm an outgoing, witty, charming and highly dedicated young woman that thrives in both...

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  • Mike Bouteneff

    Category: Music,

    Mike writes, records, and promotes his unique style of home-grown alternative rock under the artist name GarageSpin.  Some of his music and writing can be heard and read at GarageSpin.com

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  • Matt Van Brink

    Category: Music,

    Composer, songwriter, educator, and performer Matt Van Brink is a musical pluralist. He has composed and arranged over eighty genre-crossing works including orchestra, chamber, and solo instrumental pieces, choral and vocal compositions, plus...

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  • Flor Bromley

    Category: Actor, Folk/Traditional, Music,

    I believe there is no better environment in which to teach while entertaining than theater and music.  It is what I have devoted my life to.  I use my talents and craft as an artist (actress, musician, songwriter/singer, puppeteer, storyteller)...

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  • Kaya Nicole

    Category: Jazz, Music, Music-Pop, Voice,

    Vocalist, activist and poet, Kaya Nicole, is a protest artist from Westchester County, New York.  Influenced by her proximity to Latin Jazz and Hip Hop in the city that never sleeps, Kaya is a lover of a groove with a rhythmic vocal style and a...

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  • Anita Brown

    Category: Music,

    Anita loves working with students of all levels in a wide array of settings.

    As a result of her passions in music composition and music education, she created original curricula to bring young students through the process of music composition...

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  • Clayton Bryant

    Category: Music, Voice,

    I am a Grammy, ASCAP & MTV  award winning singer-songwriter. To date, I have lent my 6-­octave range to recordings for Grammy Winner Kanye West’s “The Life Of Pablo," Ashford & Simpson’s “The Real Thing,” Darlene Love’s “Concert...

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  • Kathy Byers

    Category: Music,

    Celebrating ten years as a children's artist, Kathy Byers of Chatham, New Jersey has performed throughout the Northeast including venues such as Musikfest, International Child Art Foundation, Brooklyn Public Libraries, Kidzone TV and the...

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  • Patrick Cacciola

    Category: Music,

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  • Cornell " LORD JUDAH "Carelock

    Category: Film, Music, Music-Pop, Visual, Voice,

    As a teaching artist, I always seek to create a lively exchange of ideas among many different communities.  As an artist, I also embrace my role to introduce new modes of thinking and doing and serving creative people.  I always focus on...

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  • Nicolas Carter

    Category: Folk/Traditional, Music,

    From the heart, crossing cultural boundaries, sounds of joy, sounds of peace, bringing us home, to a place of oneness,  the strings of the harp reach deep into our souls

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  • Norine Castine

    Category: Music,

    Norine Castine is the music director at Trinity Lutheran Church, and is a vocal coach, teacher, accompanist and composer from Manhattan.  Ms. Castine and the community of Trinity Lutheran welcome this opportunity to build a strong youth chorus...

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  • Sarah Chalfy

    Category: Actor, Music,

    Sarah Chalfy (AEA, AGMA) is a singing actor with off-Broadway, regional, opera, classical, cabaret, TV and film credits, working as a performer and as a private voice teacher here in Westchester.  Sarah has a BM from Peabody Conservatory and an...

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  • Van Elliot "Cyph Low" Chambless

    Category: Music,

    It Is What It Is. Life is what u make it so make it sound good. Cyph Low is Ceo Of What It Is Entertainment, a company built on enlightening youth through outreach and performances. This Sound Of hip hop known to him as street soul has been his...

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  • Tom Chapin

    Category: Music,

    In a career that spans five decades, 24 recordings and three Grammy awards, the Hudson Valley troubadour has covered an incredible amount of creative ground. As a music-maker, the multi-talented singer-songwriter-guitarist has maintained two long...

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  • Stephanie Chou

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    Stephanie Chou is a saxophonist, singer, and composer based in New York City.  Her music combines classical and Chinese influences with jazz and pop harmonies and rhythms. Raised in Irvington, NY, Chou studied mathematics and music at Columbia...

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  • Alexis Cole

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    Called "one of the great voices of today," by Jonathan Schwartz, Alexis Cole has been compared to classic jazz singers such as Sarah Vaughan and Anita O'Day. She's performed with the Boston Pops and New York Philharmonic on stage at venues from...

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  • shadinc

    Category: Music,

    I am a musician who plays double reed horns from India, China, and Korea. I also play a wooden flute from Ghana and the Digeridoo. I am an improvisational player and lead a group called the Untempered Ensemble. I've been a professional musician...

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  • Brian Conway

    Category: Music,

    New York born fiddler Brian Conway is a leading exponent of the tastefully ornamented Sligo fiddling style made famous by the late Michael Coleman. The winner of two All- Ireland junior titles in 1973 and 1974 and the All-Ireland senior...

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  • Keesha Cotto

    Category: Music, Visual,

    I love music.  I breathe and I sing.  I also love to create new and exciting jewelry pieces, all one of a kind, all original!

    You can check out my YouTube page or my SoundCloud page for a glimpse of my...

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  • pleasantbud

    Category: Music, Music-Pop,

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  • Joan Crowe

    Category: Music,

    Biography of Joan Crowe New York Newsday called her "act as polished as a diamond." Joan Crowe is a versatile singer with an extensive repertoire of jazz, standards, pop, rock, blues and folk.  In addition, Joan's comic ability earned her most...

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  • Jesters of Jive

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    The magic of the Jive era comes alive, when Zoot Suits were the rage and Swing was King! Zoot Suit Boogie is a horn driven celebration of 1940's Jump-Jive and revival swing with hot vocals, killer horns, dancers, toe tappin' grooves & a smokin' 7...

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  • Little Lights Arts

    Category: Music,

    Our Mission is to bring Music, Visual Art, Dance and other creative arts into the lives of under served African - American and Latino children nationwide, including Washington DC, New York City, Philadelphia, PA, Chicago, Illinois and other...

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  • Peter Danish

    Category: Music,

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  • Rocco Dapice

    Category: Jazz, Music, Music-Pop,

    Rocco Dapice is a pianist, teacher, writer, and recent graduate of the Manhattan School of Music (M.M., Jazz Arts). He is on the faculty of the Manhattan School’s summer program (MSM Summer), is a teaching artist for MSM’s Distance Learning...

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  • Lydia Adams Davis

    Category: Music,

    Lydia has enjoyed recent tours in acoustic singer-songwriter venues with John Guth, master guitarist,as well as family festivals and concerts with Kathy Byers,recording artist,and producer. Lydia and Kathy are currently co-writing a reptile album...

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  • Damon Della Greca

    Category: Literary, Music, Visual,

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  • KJ Denhert

    Category: Music,

    "With frequent forays into the realms of jazz, funk and R&B, Denhert challenges the singer/songwriter barricade head on, budding a new genre she calls "urban folk and jazz."-Westchester Weekly.   KJ's been featured in the New York Times, opened...

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  • Jenn DeWald

    Category: Music, Visual,

    I make art. I make art and encourage others to make more art. I make art that solely reflects everything: you, me, my patients in the hospital, dead things, toys, war, space, feminism, love and crutches. From a laceration to the cross of an Ash...

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  • Rosie Dias

    Category: Music,

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  • Addie Diaz

    Category: Actor, Dance, Dance-Jazz, Jazz, Music, Music-Pop,

    Teaching kids and adults Latin, Hip-Hop and Party dances has been an enjoyable and rewarding experience.  Steps are broken down to provide good basic dance skills.  I do like to emphasize the fun in dancing.  While students are taught dance...

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  • Carlos Donan

    Category: Dance, Music,

    Artistic Director, FOLKTAP & LATIN SHINES

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  • Maxwell Kofi Donkor

    Category: Music,

    Maxwell Kofi Donkor is a musician from Ghana. He develops programs that will enhance the cultural and curriculum needs of each institution through an effective planning session; all his programs culminate in a final exhibition and/or performance...

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  • John Michael Donnelly

    Category: Music,

    Music is the communion of sound, spirit, soul and sequence.  From Classic to Swing, Blues to Baroque, and Sea-Chanty to Samba, music is my gift from and to the Universe.  I am grateful for the opportunity to share this gift with you.  Listen...

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  • Didelka

    Category: Music,

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  • Rachel Duval

    Category: Actor, Music, Music-Pop, Voice,

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  • Stephen Dydo

    Category: Music,

    Stephen Dydo is a composer, guitarist, and master of the Chinese qin.  He teaches those instruments, as well as violin, banjo, and ukulele in schools in Westchester and Manhattan.  Stephen has written for virtually all musical media.  His...

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  • Larry Edoff

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    Larry Edoff is an introspective and dynamic musician whose dedication to music has brought him originality and success as an accomplished bandleader, singer/songwriter, composer, and pianist. Larry has performed with great artists such as Tony...

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  • Richard Eisenberg, M.A.

    Category: Music,

    I have been composing, performing, and teaching professionally for over 40 years, and am currently offering live performances of PEACEWORKS, my collection of over 100 original jazz and jazz fusion songs of peace and healing, which are of a very...

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  • Doug Ferony

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    Doug Ferony is from the same school of singers that produced the talents from whom he took his performing lead: Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Bobby Darin. He is comfortable with a repertoire of tried and true standards & traditional pop,...

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  • Urban Fetch

    Category: Music,

    Urban Fetch is a young rock and roll band out of SUNY Purchase, with a great new CD titled Songs With No Names, made up of catchy piano riffs and sing-a-long melodies.

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  • Art Frick

    Category: Music, Visual,

    Art Frick is a musician in the greater New York City area that has more than 20 years of experience in performing and recording bass, guitar, and vocals. His style comes from a broad collection of musical influences, ranging from Aesop Rock to ZZ...

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  • Steve Frieder

    Category: Jazz, Music, Music-Pop,

    An all-around talent with a compelling voice in almost any genre, saxophonist and multi-wind player Steve Frieder captivates audiences in jazz, pop, funk, rock, club, avant-garde, and free improvisation. Steve has established himself as a...

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  • Mimi, Sakiko & Harumi Furuya

    Category: Music,

    The Furuya Sisters - Mimi, Sakiko & Harumi Furuya - are all graduates of the Juilliard School.  They inaugurated their own concert series in the Tri-State Area in Fall 2014, called The Furuya Sisters Concert Series, for which they do all...

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  • JeanMarie Garofolo

    Category: Actor, Music,

    JeanMarie Garofolo is a professional opera singer who can sing anything from Handel,Mozart, Puccini, Bellini, to contemporary classical music and broadway show tunes. She is availble to sing for any special events including: weddings, church...

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  • Rachel Ginsburg

    Category: Music,

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  • Armelle Gloaguen

    Category: Music,

    Our mission is to bring multicultural music and instruments as a  healing tool to children who live in underprivileged areas or who  have suffered from drastic life changing events.  Music and  languages open minds, and sounds heal...

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  • David S. Goldman

    Category: Folk/Traditional, Music, Voice,

    "Summer with Juliet is truly wonderful, full of that all-too-rare quality of vision meeting craft and giftedness head on. The world will always need music written with depth of soul, character and heart. David Goldman's voice is beautiful, his...

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  • Janet Grice

    Category: Music,

    Janet Grice, bassoonist, has performed internationally with Karl Berger, Butch Morris, the STX Ensemble, the Mingus Orchestra and her groups.  She recorded for Music Minus One and produced 4 CDs of Brazilian jazz and chamber music, and recorded...

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  • Music by Zev

    Category: Music,

    Zev's original music for children draws from many musical cultures and traditions to create songs about everyday childhood: family, silliness, whimsy, and animal sounds.  Best suited for families and children age 1-9, his shows are active and...

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  • Art Halperin

    Category: Music, Music-Pop,

    Built around the award-winning song writing, singing, and inspired guitar playing of Art 'Ski' Halperin, New York's, 'WORK of ART' is an ever-changing band playing uniquely styled rock, pop, reggae, good-feeling-music. Away from home, they've...

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  • Lawrence Harris

    Category: Music,

    FROM FOOTBALL TO OPERA   BARITONE LAWRENCE HARRIS has received critical acclaim for his From Football to Opera which has been presented to hundreds of children across America with its message of discipline in music and sports, respect for each...

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  • Jon Hatch

    Category: Music,

    Jon is a highly skilled media composer and performing musician based in New York. With a profound passion for music, he expertly combines the mesmerizing sounds of synthesizers, guitars, and orchestration to create captivating compositions....

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  • Relda N. Hill

    Category: Literary, Music, Visual,

    I have been an artist since I was a child; I took music lessons in classical piano.  However, my formal education took precedence.  However, I continued to draw in my 20's and 30's.  During high school and undergrad, I was in choirs for singers...

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  • Katarina Hoeger

    Category: Music, Visual,

    My artistic works examine relations that are inherently part of being oneself and embodying space. The relations themselves are common ones such as the relation between oneself and one’s thoughts juxtaposed with those of another or others or...

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  • Scoot Horton

    Category: Folk/Traditional, Music,

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  • Miss Patti aka Patti Hupp

    Category: Music,

    Patti Hupp has been teaching and entertaining children with The Feeling Groovy Band in NY & CT for more than 7 years. She created ARTSMART, a unique art & music program for children ages 3 to 6.  It teaches art history, technique and music...

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  • Donald Isler

    Category: Music,

    Phone: (914) 591-6298

    Email: kasprec2@verizon.net

    Websites: www.donaldisler.com, www.westchesterpianolessons.com, www.kasprecords.com

    Pianist Donald Isler is the founder of KASP Records (www.kasprecords.com), which has produced recordings of his...

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  • Robert Jackson

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    ASACP award winning CD charting rock act. Some describe sound as a cross between Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Smithereens, Warren Zevon, Sprinsteen meets The Cult ,Van Halen, Alice Cooper, go to www.robertjackson.net for sound clips.

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  • Damon Jackson

    Category: Music,

    Damon A. Jackson is a Remo HealthRHYTHMS trained facilitator, and a member of the Drum Circle Facilitators Guild. He introduces new musical experiences through rhythm based events at youth summer camps, school-based programs, and to senior...

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  • Marc Jacoby

    Category: Music,

    Education:     Cornell University, B.A. Liberal Arts,    Ithaca, NY       May 1982  

    Experience: September 1990-present: Marc the Music Man,   Children's Musical Enrichment    Specialist, Performer and Educator, greater NY metropolitan...

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  • Yolanda F. Johnson

    Category: Music, Voice,

    Yolanda F. Johnson has had an outstanding career as a performing artist, as an educator, and as a  supporter of the arts.  She has performed   nationally and internationally in several musical venues including opera,  concert, oratorio...

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  • Michael Keropian

    Category: Actor, Dance, Film, Music, Visual,

    Michael Keropian creates, designs and provides custom representational sculpture at any size for the home, garden, memorial and architectural site. He specializes in dynamic figures and animal compositions, busts and bronze plaques, monumental,...

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  • Susan King

    Category: Actor, Music,

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  • Ulla-Maija Kivimäki

    Category: Literary, Music, Visual,

    Ulla-Maija Kivimäki is a New York artist active in the fields design, photo, video, music, internet communication & marketing, and Yoga philosophy and practice.

    Her current projects include a book about her life experiences and a world music...

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  • Elyse Knobloch

    Category: Music,

    Flutist: Freelance, soloist, chamber musician, orchestra and band. Teaching: Private flute instructor, teaching artist affiliated with the Bronx Arts Ensemble, NYS certified music teacher. Instrument specialty: c flute, alto flute,...

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  • Stephen Kopp

    Category: Music,

    Classical pianist Stephen Kopp, a 2010 graduate of Mannes College of music with a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance, an Award Winner in Classical Piano received National Recognition as a talented teen artist among top 5% of Artistic...

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  • Sue Larsen

    Category: Music, Music-Pop, Voice,

    Sue Larsen is a veteran to the stage and ArtsWestchester as an entertainer, singer, songwriter and musician. Now recording her own songs for publication, she is in her 40+ year of performing, specializing in music that is familiar to all and...

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  • Jan Leder

    Category: Actor, Jazz, Music, Music-Pop,

    Jan Leder is a flutist, composer and lyricist who studied with Lennie Tristano while simultaneously compiling Women in Jazz: A Discography of Instrumentalists 1913-1968 (Greenwood Press 1985) as her undergraduate thesis at SUNY Purchase.  Her...

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  • Lonnie Leibowtz

    Category: Music,

    Many years experience as performing musician,composer, and music teacher. Published BMI composer with film and TV credits. 3 Cds released/reviewed in jazz field.

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  • Barbara Lewin

    Category: Music, Visual,

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  • Tara Linhardt

    Category: Music,

    Tara Linhardt is an award winning multi-instrumentalist who performs and teaches on mandolin and guitar as her main instruments. She has won many awards for my skills as an instrumentalist and songwriting. She has taken first place in such...

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  • Zachary Lipton

    Category: Music,

    Born in New Rochelle, New York, Zachary Lipton began playing the saxophone at eight. He was selected as a high school senior to the first NY Youth Symphony Jazz Orchestra, performing with Slide Hampton and Jimmy Heath. Seeking both a rigorous...

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  • Barry Mangione

    Category: Music,

    Hi. I’m Barry. I write stuff: music, lyrics, songs, blog posts, and coming soon… my first book!

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  • Marrow Arts

    Category: Actor, Dance, Music, Visual, Visual-Illustration,

    My work is a celebration of woman now and "then", it explores the relationship between inner beauty and what is considered visually beautiful. I'm inspired by human nature and the many ways it's expressed.  I dream of the Victorian era and...

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  • Deborah Mason

    Category: Music, Visual,

    Deborah Mason is a Composer and an Artist, and she is currently organizing a campaign to fund the World Premiere of her Opera-ballet, The Rape of the Lock (1714). It is a setting of an exquisite work of poetry by Augustan British Poet Laureate,...

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  • Rita Mathsen

    Category: Music,

    I am a performer and lover of all types of music.  This experience makes me wish to pass on my knowledge to others with the same fire in their souls.  I have been a voice teacher in Westchester for the past 7 yrs. at the Music School of...

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  • Nora McCarthy

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    NORA MCCARTHY has performed at the top jazz venues in New York and has been a steady fixture on the New York jazz music scene since her arrival in 1996.  A multi-faceted artist, she works in many capacities and formats.  The following are...

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  • Cristina Necula

    Category: Literary, Music,

    Romanian-born singer and poet Cristina Necula currently works as Director of Alumni Affairs for her alma mater, Purchase College, SUNY. She speaks and writes in 6 languages. Since 2001, she has been a regular contributor to Classical Singer...

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  • Ronnie Negro

    Category: Music,

    Ronnie Negro has been a performing drummer since 1988 and an educator since 1991.  Seen primarily with his longtime band Powderfinger, Ronnie is also a first-call freelancer for live and studio performances. Broadway experience includes ROCK OF...

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  • Oren Neiman

    Category: Music,

    Oren Neiman was born in Israel, and raised in Israel, as well as Toronto, Canada. He started playing guitar again at age 13, after a short first attempt at age 6 and has been playing ever since. In August 2001, Oren moved to NY, and got his BFA...

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  • Benjamin Niemczyk

    Category: Music,

    Benjamin Niemczyk, Conductor At work both in front of and behind the camera, Benjamin Niemczyk is an artist of uncommon range. Balancing his time between photography, graphic design, singing and conducting, he gave his debut as conductor of the...

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  • Daniel O'Sullivan

    Category: Folk/Traditional, Music, Visual,

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  • Takeshi Ogura

    Category: Music,

    Guitarist Takeshi Ogura has been in New York music scene for the past 10 years. His primaly style of music is jazz but he has explored many different genres to expand his musical vocabulary. He first studied jazz guitar with late be-bop guitar...

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  • Kazi Oliver

    Category: Dance, Music,

    Drumming is a fun way to strengthen concentration, heighten clarity, and sharpen listening, memory and social skills.  Drumming also relieves tension and builds stamina.  Spiritually, African drumming is a catalyst for personal power and...

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  • Meghan Orbek

    Category: Music, Visual,

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  • Iris Ornig

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    Iris Ornig is a gifted instrumentalist, a talented composer and a charismatic performer. Her compositions are swinging, stormy, melodic, sensitive, playful, angular and straight-ahead with plenty of twists and surprises. Iris is originally from...

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  • Cristina Ortiz

    Category: Folk/Traditional, Music, Visual,

    Cristina create works on paper, photography and original music that explore existential issues surrounding human physicality.

    Her work addresses the following topics:

    • Contrived vs. natural human existence
    • Contemporary and historic perspective of the...

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  • Brook Packard

    Category: Actor, Music,

    Brook Packard has pursued her passion for music and vocal studies at Sarah Lawrence, Westminster Choir College, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, and as faculty at Hoff Barthelson (outreach), The Guitar Workshop, and Concordia...

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  • Daniel Padmos

    Category: Dance, Music,

    Clarinetist Daniel Padmos completed a Master’s Degree in Music Performance at the University of Michigan, where he studied with Chad Burrow and Daniel Gilbert. Michigan presented him with the opportunity to play with the Detroit Civic Youth...

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  • Harry Edgar Palacio

    Category: Literary, Music, Visual, Visual-Illustration,

    Harry Edgar Palacio is an American singer-songwriter, writer and artist. He performed with Grammy winners and Grammy nominated artists including Ari Up; lead singer of The Slits 'Godmothers of Punk' former members of The Raincoats and La Gran...

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  • Thom Pernice

    Category: Music, Visual,

    I grew-up in Scarsdale, NY, attended The School of the Boston Museum of Fine Art where I majored in photo lithography. Also studied with Knox Martin at the Scarsdale Studio Workshop. In the early 70s was involved with the burgeoning underground...

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  • Roxy Perry

    Category: Music,

    Blues Hall Of Fame inductee, Roxy Perry has delivered highly acclaimed performances at clubs, concert halls, festivals throughout the U.S. and beyond for four decades. She has shared the bill with noted artists Rod Piazza, Shamekia Copeland, Leon...

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  • Alchemy

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    Alchemy is a Hudson Valley based Dance band comprised of some of the areas best and most versatile musicians. The band covers Pop, Top 40, R&B, Smooth Jazz, Funk, Soul, Rock, Country all in a dance format, featuring both classic and current...

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  • Zachariah Polk

    Category: Actor, Film, Jazz, Music, Visual, Visual-Illustration, Voice,

    Born in Yonkers, New York - Zachariah "ZAKAR F.I.X." Polk picked up a pen and paper, unmasking a writing talent that was beyond his time. He penned lyrical songs that reflected his intuitive vibe to change the world of music. At an early age,...

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  • Anna Povich de Mayor

    Category: Music,

    Anna Povich de Mayor, a member of Pablo Mayor-Folklore Urbano, as well as classical ensembles like the New York Harp Trio and Femmes Four flute quartet, has been actively performing and promoting Colombian music for the past eight years here in...

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  • Alex Rainer

    Category: Music,

    Musician, composer, arts lover. 

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  • Amy Reich

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    I am a composer, pianist and teacher

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  • Christopher Reising

    Category: Music,

    Christopher has been indoctrinated to the Artist Roster with ArtsWestchester, for his Music and Movement programs.  He created a Self-Esteem building Musical What About Me? A Dual Language Program in English and Spanish for Pre-K to G3 kids, and...

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  • Belle Ritter

    Category: Actor, Ballet, Dance, Music,

    Dance education involves a myriad of interrelated factors within the wider scope of national standards and teaching individual students. Theoretical understanding of how dance education can contribute to artistic, cultural and social development...

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  • Glen Roethel

    Category: Folk/Traditional, Music, Music-Pop, Voice,

    A pro entertainer since 1975, Glen delivers energy-charged performances. His knack for fun and improv recently excited JoJo Energy Drinks owner, Scott Ferrari, who invited Glen to perform at their promotional events to attract crowds to their...

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  • Arthur Rotfeld

    Category: Music,

    I am a multi-style guitarist and composer. I teach a wide range of students and perform mostly instrumental music, with a focus on jazz and related styles.

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  • Adam Rudin

    Category: Music,

    Acoustic guitars, smooth vocals and cool flute riffs: some call it 'world' or 'latin-american' music, but that's just too generic. Andinay is more than the sum of it's sounds. There's something immediately likeable about their finger-picked,...

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  • Linda Russell

    Category: Actor, Folk/Traditional, Music,

    I bring history to life through music.  Through the songs and stories of the past, I take my audiences on a journey through the joys and sorrows of our forefathers, so that we might better understand what it means to be an American.  For 16...

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  • Katerina tea Sama

    Category: Music, Voice,

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  • David Saphra

    Category: Music,

    David Saphra is a local Westchester children's songwriter who lives and works in Westchester County.

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  • Maciek Schejbal

    Category: Music,

    Maciek Schejbal performed with jazz, classical, and pop ensembles in Poland before relocating to South Africa where he became a part of local music and theater scene. A resident of the US for last 16 years he has been teaching at the...

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  • Eadie Scott

    Category: Actor, Music, Voice,

    I'm Eadie Scott. Professional singer, actor, voice teacher, director, producer and managing artistic director of Manhattan Cabaret Arts, a full service community for all things Cabaret! After decades of success in Manhattan, we are expanding and...

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  • Chip Shelton

    Category: Jazz, Music,

    Chip Shelton is a multi-instrumentalist who performs CELEBRATORY, FEEL-GOOD JAZZ on flutes, reeds, vocals, percussion, and more. He attended the Manhattan School of Music as a jazz flute major while studying classically with Julius Baker (aka...

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  • Jerry Silverman

    Category: Music,

    The many facets of Jerry Silverman's musical background and experience combine to make him one of this country's outstanding folksingers, guitar teachers and most prolific authors of music books. He has published over 200 books, which have sold...

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  • Julia Simpson

    Category: Actor, Jazz, Music, Voice,

    JULIA BREANETTA SIMPSON  is a professional actress/singer who has performed throughout the nation at Regional, Dinner and Stock Theatres in such productions as Death Of A Salesman, Ain't Misbehavin', Dreamgirls, For Colored Girls . . ., One Mo'...

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  • Pamela Sklar

    Category: Jazz, Music, Music-Pop,

    Described as "engaging...stimulating...piquant...delightful" by the New York TimesPamela Sklar has performed internationally and played with and for many well-known artists live and on recordings. In Westchester and elsewhere, she...

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  • Lin Snider

    Category: Actor, Music,

    LIN SNIDER is a professional singer/actress/director/musical director/teacher who has performed in cabaret, TV, film, and primarily on stage in regional theaters, Off-Broadway and in the National Tour of Anything Goes with Mitzi Gaynor.  She has...

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  • Tor Snyder

    Category: Folk/Traditional, Jazz, Music, Music-Pop, Voice,

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  • Jeff

    Category: Actor, Music,

    I create in different forms of entertainment.  I am a musician first, but I have worked in theater, animation, & as a stage technician.  Ultimately, if it works, and I'm inspired, I'm ready 4 the journey.  Check out the samples of me working...

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  • Katerina Tea

    Category: Music,

    Beautiful Music can change the world and provide healing. My music is beautiful Piano and vocals. An original compostion was performed at the innauguration for our military on capitol hill. Visit my site www.magicalmusic.vpweb.com

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  • MJ Territo

    Category: Music,

    Performance: MJ Territo is the founder of the Ladies Day Jazz Ensemble, a group of women musicians dedicated to discovering and performing the compositions of classic and contemporary jazz women.  With Ladies Day and other jazz groups, she is a...

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  • David Tobey

    Category: Music, Visual,

    Evolution is a life process. My artistic journey has taken me to a place of both "reductionism" - the hunt for the smallest building blocks of more complex organisms, and a "synthesis" of past artistic endeavors. Fewer colors and broader painted...

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  • Matt Turk

    Category: Music,

    Matt Turk is a seasoned recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, eternal idealist, and peace-loving realist.  He is a veteran performer who has engaged audiences around the world, both as a hard-rocking bandleader and an acoustic folk...

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  • M.C.

    Category: Literary, Music, Visual,

    My paintings and drawings are a poetic evolution and constant exploration of the human experience. Involved in the act of creation, with creativity. I paint and draw each piece as if it were my last. Taking my time to show intricate detail...

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  • Tim Veeder

    Category: Music,

    Tim Veeder is a professional saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist, composer, arranger and educator based in the New York, NY area.   Born and raised in the small upstate NY town of Gloversville, Tim Veeder picked up his first saxophone at the age...

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  • Mala Waldron

    Category: Music,

    You might think that being the daughter of 2 jazz pianists (most notably her father, Mal Waldron) and growing up completely immersed in jazz music and its culture might have made it a foregone conclusion that the youngster would choose a career...

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  • Debra Whitman Music

    Category: Music,

    Hi.  I’m Debra Whitman, a professional musician, teacher and author.  I have created an exciting music appreciation program that is currently being taught throughout Westchester County.  Because of this unique music program, I have recently...

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  • James John Wilson

    Category: Music, Voice,

    James Wilson is known for diverse, lyrically driven songs delivered in a soulful, emotional voice artfully lined with southern tonalities and notable diction. He is a singer/songwriter descendant of British vaudevillian performers and a dad who...

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