An Evening With Shelter Music Boston

An Evening with Shelter Music Boston

March 31, 2021 at 7pm

Your support in the past year has been more important than ever. You have made it possible for Shelter Music Boston to continue delivering music that provides healing, hope, and inspiration to men, women, and children who are experiencing homelessness or struggling with substance misuse, made all the more difficult as a result of the pandemic.

To show our deep appreciation for your investment in SMB, we invite you to join us for an evening of music and community. Together we will enjoy a recent recorded concert - a cello quartet! - that all of our program partners received last fall. You will also have an opportunity to connect in conversation with our musicians and hear about their experiences with SMB. Founder and Artistic Director Julie Leven will also be present to answer questions and highlight how classical music can bring dignity to all.

Concert Program

Le Phenix for Four Cellos by Michel Corrette
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro

Lespwa for 4-part Cello Ensemble by Sydney Guillaume

Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (Queen of the Night Aria) from the Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arr. for cello quartet

Founder and Artistic Director

Julie Leven, Founder and Artistic Director, Shelter Music Boston founded Shelter Music Boston in 2010 to create a social service organization able to provide an immediate positive impact with classical music performances in environments of great need. Julie was named a Boston Neighborhood Fellow in April 2014, 2013 Social Innovation Forum Classical Music Innovator and is a 2012 graduate of the BU School of Management Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership. She is a member of the Handel + Haydn Society Orchestra and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. When not playing concerts or dreaming up new projects for SMB, she is passionate about organic farming and an avid Argentine tango dancer.

Musicians

Photo by www.SusanWilsonPhoto.com

Born in Puerto Rico, Javier Caballero received his Bachelor’s Degrees in Cello Performance and Music Education from the University of South Florida and a Master’s Degree and Graduate Performance Diploma from the Boston Conservatory. He is currently the Artistic Director of Project STEP and previously served as the Scholarship and Recruitment Manager at From the Top. He is on faculty at the Point Counterpoint (VT), Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Junior Strings Intensive (MA) and Apple Hill (NH) summer camps. Performances have taken Mr. Caballero from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and Jordan Hall to clubs such as Ryles Jazz Club and Makor (NYC). Equally at home performing musical theater at Boston Lyric Stage, early music with Florida Pro Musica, white water rafting with a string quartet in Utah, or performing in homeless shelters with Shelter Music Boston, he has also recorded several albums with Middle Eastern, New Age, Balkan and Indie Rock groups. Tours have included a trip to China and several visits to the Middle East as part of the Baroque Festival organized by the Al Kamandjati Music Center.

Sarah Freiberg is a tenured member of the Handel and Haydn Society. Cellist for Blue Hill Bach, the Kennebec Early Music Festival and Newton Baroque, she has also performed with many of the country’s most prestigious early music orchestras, including Boston Baroque, Philharmonia Baroque (San Francisco), Portland Baroque (Oregon), Seattle Baroque, and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. Sarah also plays in the duo Tutti Bassi with Colleen McGary-Smith, exploring the rich repertoire of baroque cello sonatas and duos, which anticipates its debut CD, “Have Cellos, Will Travel” later this year on the Centaur label. As corresponding editor for STRINGS magazine, she has contributed dozens of articles and reviews on a wide rage of subjects. Ms. Freiberg penned editions of long forgotten Guerini cello sonatas for both PRB Productions and Broude Brothers, and recorded both the Guerini and Laurenti cello sonatas for Centaur. As well as teaching in the Historical Performance department at Boston University, and is Co-Chair of Strings at the Powers Music School, and often teaches at the Amherst Early Music Festival. Sarah received D.M.A. and M.M. degrees from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, and holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory, Brown University (in American Civilization) and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. For upcoming performances, see her website: http://sarahfreiberg.com

Photo by Liz Linder

For over two decades, cellist Rhonda Rider was a member of the Naumburg Award-winning Lydian Quartet and Triple Helix Piano Trio. An advocate of contemporary music, Rider has premiered and recorded works by composers including John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Yu-Hui Chang and Elliott Carter. Her interest in bringing classical music to unusual places, has led her to artist residencies at Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest National Parks. She has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America and adjudicated at the Fischoff, Stulberg and Concert Artists Guild Competitions. Recently, she has performed with Shelter Music Boston, Castle of Our Skins and the New Gallery Series. During the summer, she performs and teaches at festivals including Green Mountain, Music from Salem, Tanglewood and the Asian Youth Orchestra (Hong Kong). Rider holds degrees from Oberlin and Yale and is Professor of Cello at Boston Conservatory at Berklee where she was twice awarded Outstanding Teacher of the Year/Best of Berklee. www.rhondarider.com

Nathaniel Taylor, an African-American/Filipino cellist, is establishing himself as a passionate and charismatic performer with a variety of solo, chamber, and orchestral music engagements across the United States. Nathaniel is the Grand Prize winner of the 2016 ASTA Masters Competition and winner of the 2017 Boston Conservatory Concerto Competition, and he has received fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Center and with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Nathaniel made his solo debut in 2016 with Jonathan McPhee and the Boston Conservatory Orchestra and has appeared as a soloist with multiple ensembles since. An active chamber musician, Nathaniel has been chosen numerous times to play in the Chamber Music Honors Concerts at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and has received chamber music coaching from Yo-Yo Ma, Emmanuel Ax, Pamela Frank, the Juilliard Quartet, Judith Eissenberg, and Norman Fischer. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. Nathaniel received his B.M., Graduate Performance Diploma, Professional Studies Certificate, and Artist Diploma from Boston Conservatory at Berklee where he studied with Rhonda Rider and Patrice Jackson. Nathaniel currently plays on a Kevin Kelly cello and a gold-mounted Salchow bow that was generously gifted to him by the Manganaro Family and Curme family.

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