Mid-Day Music

The March 23, 2016 Mid-Day Music program features Nora Krohn, viola and Jad Bernardo, piano. The concert starts at 12:05 p.m. and lasts approximately one-half hour. The recital is free but donations are gladly accepted. A light lunch follows for a $5 donation.

Nora Krohn has performed on 3 continents in a diverse range of venues and styles. She is the Assistant Principal violist of the Ridgefield Symphony, section violist in the Binghamton Philharmonic, and performs with other orchestral ensembles throughout the Northeast. Her recording credits include collaborations with Phil Dizack and Declan O'Rourke, commercial projects for Budweiser and Tiffany. She is featured in Amazon's web series "Mozart in the Jungle."

Founding member of viola duo Folie à Deux. An avid chamber musician. As a recitalist, she has performed on the St. John's Noontime Concert Series in Williamstown, MA, on the Turtle Bay Music School Artist Series, the Project 142 Series at The Concert Space at Beethoven Pianos, and for the inaugural Art of Practicing Institute fundraising concert. In October 2011 she was featured as a soloist in Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik with the Chelsea Symphony.

Nora is on the faculty of Turtle Bay Music School and The Art of Practicing Institute. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown. She earned a BA in Music and Spanish Literature and the recipient of the Buxtehude and Muriel Hassenfeld Mann Premiums in Music. She received her MM in Viola Performance from SUNY Purchase, where she studied with Ira Weller.

A frequent collaborator with singers of opera and musical theater, Jad Bernardo has performed with both the operatic and Broadway communities and divides his time as music director,collaborative pianist/coach, and teaching artist. Directing engagements include Songs for a New World and Carousel at Opera Breve, Guys And Dolls for Brooklyn Theater Arts, and Mary Poppins, HAIR and Spring Awakening for SOOP Theater Co., The Fantasticks for Millbrook Playhouse; Footloose and Ragtime for Regional Center for the Arts. Notables/favorites include Five Guys Named Moe(featuring Nathan Best) and EVITA for Knoxville's Bijou Theater; Ain’t Misbehavin' for Northern Stage; Sweeney Todd at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in NYC; The Johnny at NYC's 2008 Fringe Festival; seven productions for NYC's Vital Theatre Company including Extraordinary (Int'l Fringe Festival 2005 Winner of Best Music and Lyrics) and the Off-Broadway hit Pinkalicious! He holds degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Florida State University.

The concert will be held at St. Paul’s on the Green, 60 East Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06851.

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