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A Celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month

 

Thursday, October 9 at 5:30pm
Chelsea High School
299 Everett Avenue
Chelsea, MA 02150

 

Sponsored in part byChelsea Cultural Council logo

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1 - TITLE PAGE
2 - LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA
3 - GUEST ARTISTS

A Celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month

Boston Landmarks Orchestra
Christopher Wilkins, conductor
Edmar Colón, saxophone

El amor brujo: Introduction & Ritual Fire Dance Manuel de Falla
(1876-1946)
Danzas de Panama: Tamborito William Grant Still
(1895-1978)
Bamboula Louis Moreau Gottschalk
(1829-1869)
arr. David Kempers
Heart of Fire Lauren Bernofsky
(b. 1967)

Students of the Chelsea High School Orchestra
Oblivión Astor Piazzola
(1921-1992)

Edmar Colon, saxophone
Kote moun yo Traditional
arr. David Kempers
Soñando con Puerto Rico Bobby Capó
(1922-1989)

Edmar Colon, saxophone
En Memoria de Chano Pozo David Amram
(b. 1930)

Run Time

The total run time of this concert is approximately one hour with no intermission.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra

Boston Landmarks Orchestra LogoBoston Landmarks Orchestra builds community through great music. Landmarks produces free concerts and musical events across the greater Boston area. Increasing access to music for everyone is at the core of all its programming. Between 2018 and 2023, 70% of the repertoire Landmarks performed was written by composers of color or women. The orchestra intentionally promotes artists and targets audiences that have been historically excluded from orchestral music. Landmarks was founded in 2001 and began its signature summer concert series at the DCR Hatch Memorial in 2007. The orchestra also performs community concerts at local venues in neighborhoods such as Roxbury, Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain.

Headshot of Christopher Wilkins. He is smiling, wearing a gray and light blue shirt.CHRISTOPHER WILKINS was appointed Music Director of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra in the spring of 2011. Since then, he has expanded the orchestra’s mission of making great music accessible to the whole community. He has also helped develop the orchestra’s Breaking Down Barriers initiative, making accessibility a priority in all aspects of the orchestra’s activities.

Mr. Wilkins also serves as Music Director of the Akron Symphony. As a guest conductor, Mr. Wilkins has appeared with many of the leading orchestras of the United States, including those of Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. Previously, Mr. Wilkins served as Music Director of the Orlando Philharmonic, the San Antonio Symphony, and the Colorado Springs Symphony.

He has served as associate conductor of the Utah Symphony, assisting Joseph Silverstein; assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi; conducting assistant with the Oregon Symphony under James DePreist; and was a conducting fellow at Tanglewood. He was winner of the Seaver/NEA Award in 1992.

Born in Boston, Mr. Wilkins earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College in 1978. He received his master of music degree at Yale University in 1981, and in 1979 attended the Hochschule der Künste in West Berlin as a recipient of the John Knowles Paine traveling fellowship. As an oboist, he performed with many ensembles in the Boston area, including the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra at Tanglewood, and the Boston Philharmonic under Benjamin Zander.

First Violin

Gregory Vitale, Concertmaster

Christine Vitale

Stacey Alden

 

Second Violin

Rose Drucker, Acting Principal

Lisa Brooke

 

Viola

Kenneth Stalberg, Principal

Ashleigh Gordon

 

Cello

Aron Zelkowicz Principal

Melanie Dyball

 

Bass

Robert Lynam, Principal

 

Flute/Piccolo

Lisa Hennessy, Principal

 

Oboe

Andrew Price, Principal

Clarinet

Margo McGowan, Acting Principal

 

Bassoon

Gregory Newton, Acting Principal

 

Horn

Kevin Owen, Principal

 

Trumpet

Dana Oakes, Principal

 

Trombone

Hans Bohn, Acting Principal

 

Percussion

Craig McNutt, Acting Principal

Luis Herrera Albertazzi

 

Piano

David Coleman

 

Personnel Manager 

Christopher Ruigomez

Librarian

Andrés Almirall

Arranger

David Kempers

Guest Artists

Headshot of Edmar ColonPuerto Rican-born Edmar Colón was awarded the prestigious Presidential Scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music with a dual major in Performance and Classical Composition, as well as a Masters’s degree in Global Studies at the prestigious Global Jazz Institute.

Colón has performed throughout the world, including at the Detroit Jazz Festival, Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival, Toronto Jazz Festival, Panama Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, and Monterey Jazz Festival, among others. Recently, he performed at the Kennedy Center for the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival, as well as the Abbey Lincoln tribute tour with GRAMMY-award winners Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, Dianne Reeves, and Dee Dee Bridgewater.  Colón has performed with artists such as Bob “Rakalam” Moses, Joe Lovano, John Patitucci, Danilo Pérez, Danny Rivera, Hal Crook, Kenny Werner, Lionel Louke, John Michel Pilc, Patti Austin, Ledisi, Judith Hill, David Sanchez, Arturo Sandoval, George Garzone, Luis Enrique and Ivan Lins, among other notable artists.

In 2016, Colón was awarded the Latino 30 Under 30 Award New England from the El Mundo newspaper.  He was also awarded first prize at the “Keep An Eye” International Jazz Awards in Amsterdam as a part of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. In 2017, he was honored in the annual Patron Saint festivities of his hometown of Coamo, Puerto Rico.

As a composer, arranger, and orchestrator, the last few years have been very busy for Colón.  His work has included being the copyist for Wayne Shorter’s new opera, Iphigenia; being commissioned to write an orchestral piece for the Detroit Jazz Festival Symphony Orchestra honoring pianist Geri Allen; writing orchestrations for the title track of Esperanza Spalding’s Grammy Award-winning album, 12 Little Spells; copying/arranging for the Kennedy Center Honors Award ceremony honoring Wayne Shorter, and arranging/orchestrating for Terri Lyne Carrington’s acclaimed GRAMMY-nominated album Waiting Game.  In October of 2019, Edmar arranged and orchestrated a commission consisting of 16 orchestral pieces for the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center celebrating the centennial of Nat King Cole on a show entitled Nat King Cole at 100. Currently, Colón is working on original material for his debut album. Most recently, Edmar is working on a commission for the world-renowned Boston POPS.

Ambassador Program

Started in 2022, the Ambassador Program aims to seasonally employ enthusiastic, music-loving folks from a variety of backgrounds, representing the diversity of Boston’s neighborhoods. With 54% of our Ambassadors speaking more than one language—including Spanish, Portuguese, and French—they help spread the word of Boston Landmarks Orchestra to a vast number of Boston communities, including Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, East Boston and more. From promoting our concerts in their own neighborhoods, to helping patrons both new and familiar navigate the Esplanade, our Ambassadors are here to engage as many people as possible, promoting Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s mission of building community through great music.

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