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 Bronxville, NY - Concordia Conservatory presents its first concert Musical Adventures for Children concert for the 2009-10 season, “Schmutzinberry III”, on Saturday, November 7 at 11:00am in the Schoenfeld Campus Center at Concordia College, Bronxville.
This 45-minute family concert is designed to entertain and educate audiences.
With a book by Rami Vamos, the show features: Tom Cuffari, piano; Victor Constanzi, violin; Annette Espada, cello; Ken Dybisz, saxophone; and Conservatory Director Kathleen Suss is the narrator.
The show is about a time machine that is created to bring back the musical genius of W. A. Mozart. A glitch in the process brings back our old friend W. A. Schmutzinberry instead. Mr. Schmutzinberry learns about music written in the 20th century.
Rami Vamos shares the stage with other musicians and actors to bring original material to audiences of all ages. His prolific compositional output of children’s’ musical’s includes Monsterland, The Amazing Tale of Prince Pickles, Once Upon A Time Signature, Introducing: Wolfgang Amadeus Schmutzinberry, Egbert the Scaredy Cat, and Marsha the Martian. Mr. Vamos has also written music for theatrical productions, setting his own compositions to masterpieces from many periods, and composed several solo and chamber compositions over the past few years including a collaborative composition with guitarist Randall Avers called 12 Silly Songs for 12 Silly Strings. In the fall of 2006, Vamos was commissioned to write a musical entitled, The 12 Days of Christmas. The commission was through a grant from the New York State Music Fund with Concordia Conservatory. The musical was the subject of a three segment documentary featured on Kids Teen News.
Mr. Vamos has performed with renowned classical artists such as Pacifica String Quartet, members of the St. Louis Symphony, Marc Teicholz, Keith Underwood, Amy Oshiro, Mark Stewart, The Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo, and members of the Turtle Island String Quartet.
Rami currently resides in Brooklyn where he has recently completed a NYC Teaching Fellowship, which earned him a second master’s degree in education from Queens College. He holds a bachelor of music from Oberlin College Conservatory and a master’s from Yale University. He is on the faculty of the Colonial and Siwanoy Schools in Pelham, as well as Concordia Conservatory. In 2005, he started his association as a teaching artist with the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center.
Tickets are $20 adults and $10 children/seniors. To purchase tickets, call 395-4507 or visit www.concordiaconservatory.org.
Concordia Conservatory’s mission is to inspire, instruct, and enrich lives through music for all people regardless of age, ability, ethnic origin, or financial situation and to serve as a musical education resource for the southern Westchester County community.
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