CONCORDIA CONSERVATORY HOCH CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT REACHES LARGEST AUDIENCE EVER
Bronxville, NY – Concordia Conservatory brought musical comfort to the community by broadcasting – for the first time – a Hoch Chamber Music Series concert. The Saturday, April 25 broadcast via the Conservatory’s YouTube channel and local cable TV channels surpassed expectations with a total audience of over 1,000 viewers, reaching 600 more than the Sommer Center at Concordia College would have accommodated.
The Concordia community came together virtually by hosting pre-concert Zoom parties and ordering take-out and delivery to support local restaurants.
A highlight of the evening was the announcement that Jim Hoch, the Series benefactor, has generously committed to supporting Concordia during this global pandemic by making a challenge donation to support the Conservatory faculty and programs, especially the early childhood, special needs and senior center music programs which have been cut at this time. The Conservatory is depending on good will like this, now more than ever, to continue its commitment to these neediest and most compromised of the community which we serve.
The broadcast, still available on YouTube (https://youtu.be/HX8eYcAi6Rg), opened with remarks from Concordia College’s President Dr. John Nunes and featured Grammy Award-winning violist Lawrence Dutton of the Emerson String Quartet and bassist John Patitucci at Concordia College’s Sommer Center, with Broadway’s Golden Couple soprano Marin Mazzie and tenor Jason Danieley, violinists Elizabeth Lim-Dutton and Jee Sun Lee, cellist Julia Lichten, the Chamber String Orchestra, and the John Patitucci Trio. This cherished 2012 concert featuring songs of the heart took place before Mazzie’s tragic death from cancer in 2018.
For information, please visit www.concordiaconservatory.org and www.concordiacollege-ny.edu or call 914-671-9620.
Concordia Conservatory’s mission is to inspire, instruct, and enrich lives through music by offering excellence in education and performance.
About Concordia Conservatory
Concordia Conservatory, a preeminent center for music education in Westchester County, is a welcoming community where children and adults find lifelong inspiration and joy through learning, performing, listening to, and participating with others in music. Concordia Conservatory offers top quality music programs for early childhood, youth, adults and seniors. The Conservatory’s mission is to inspire, instruct, and enrich lives through music, offering excellence in education and performance. Concordia Conservatory is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt educational institution. Since 1977, Concordia Conservatory has offered music programs for early childhood, youth, and adults. Financial aid and active community outreach partnerships provide access for all. Concordia Conservatory is governed by a 17-member board of directors.
The mission of Concordia Conservatory is to inspire, instruct, and enrich lives through music, offering excellence in education and performance. Concordia Conservatory, an accredited member of the National Guild of Community Arts Education, offers top-quality music programs for early childhood, youth and adults and seniors in Bronxville, New York. With a faculty of highly educated, working musicians and artists, Concordia Conservatory has developed a rich array of programming. Offerings include private instruction in all instruments including voice, group and chamber music instruction, music theory and composition, musical theatre classes, an annual tuition-free community musical production, early childhood music classes, concert series, and camps, music and literature series at public libraries, an honors music program, classes, and music private instruction. Concordia Conservatory’s student body of over 1,500 is drawn from diverse surrounding communities that cover the gamut economically, from affluent Bronxville to impoverished Yonkers. Conservatory’s financial aid and active community outreach partnerships provide access for all, and the diverse faculty and student population represent over 20 countries. Currently over 400 students receive financial aid or full scholarships.