for serious young dancers, ages 9-15

Simsmore Square, Simsbury
July 11-22, 2011
9:00 am-5:00 pm

Handel Performing Arts Center, Hartford
July 25-August 5, 2011
9:00 am-5:00 pm

Join us for our Summer Youth Dance Intensive,  designed to hone the skills of serious young dancers ages 9-15.  This intensive training program will provide a foundation in solid ballet technique as well as educate the student on a variety of dance forms and related skills necessary to make a well-rounded artist. 

Classes include ballet, pointe, pre-pointe, modern, jazz, and composition. Courses on nutrition, stretch, strengthening, dance history, and stage make-up will also be included to enhance the students' education. In addition, students will present an informal performance at the end of the camp. Students must attend both weeks of the camp to participate in the performance.

This year's program features interpretations of works by Agnes De Mille (Simsbury location) and Alvin Ailey (Hartford location). These works will be thoroughly explored in classes led by Hartt Community Division faculty.

West End String Quartet Seminar

If you have not yet attended a WESQ Seminar, join us tomorrow! It is fun for both performers and audience members and much is learned about chamber music in the process. This Friday marks the completion of the four part masterclass series that the WESQ began last fall. It has been a wonderful season, and we encourage you to come for the last class!  

Two HCD string chamber groups will be featured in this final WESQ Seminar on Friday, April 8  7:30-8:30pm in Room 410/12 at Hartt: 
 

"The Crescendo Experience" String Quartet
 Mobey Irizarry-Lambright, Eric Liu, violins
 Eric Burt, viola, Devon Chambers, cello
 coached by Carmen Irons

 String Trio No. 1 in C Major, Allegro moderato,
Gioia Gedicks, Aida Zhu, violins Nika Gilchenok, cello
coached by Susan Robison 

  

  

Please join us for a benefit concert for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.  The concert will feature Hartford Symphony Orchestra Members and Community Division faculty and will be held Saturday April 9th at 6pm, at the Unitarian Meeting House (50 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford).  All donations will go to the American Red Cross.  

Come out to see Community Division students perform in another benefit concert at the Sakura Garden Restaurant in Bishops Corner from 6:45-8pm on Saturday, April 9th.  Stop by after the concert listed above for a bite to eat and another opportunity to help our friends and neighbors in Japan.  Free will donations will be accepted and donations will go to the American Red Cross.  

  

Come see HCD Students Maya Irizarry Lambright and Abigail Lila Sunde play the first movement of Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor and HCD students Jonathan Ma and Jacob Caruk play the 2nd and 3rd movements.  Maya and Abigail are students of Teri Einfeldt; Jacob and Jonathan study violin with Mickey Reisman.  This concert also features HCD Piano Faculty Member Tamila Humphreys as soloist in Back's Concerto in D minor for piano and orchestra with the Beth El Temple Orchestra.

Sunday, April 10 at 7pm
Beth El Temple (East Wing)
West Harford, CT
Tickets $15 adults, $10 student, available in advance or at the door.
860.233.9696, www.bethelwesthartford.org
Children under 12 get in free! 

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HCD Alumni perform in Musical Club of Hartford Concert
The Musical Club of Harford presents a piano quartet performance featuring two HCD Alumni and past winners of the Musical Club's High School Competition Scholarship recipients - Lily Francis, viola (pictured) and Michael Haas, cello.  All four members of the piano quartet are graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philiadelphia. 
The other members of the quartet are Roman Rabinovich, piano, and Johannes Dickbauer, violin.

The group will be performing Brahms' Piano Quartet in C minor and Dvorak's Piano Quartet in E-Flat on Thursday, April 14th at 10am.  The concert will be held at the Westminster Presbyterian Church (2080 Boulevard, West Hartford).  Admission is $10 for adults and non-members.  Students and Musical Club members are free. 

  

Three Community Division chamber groups will join Hartt collegiate chamber groups and the Lions Gate Trio in a concert featuring the music of Brahms and Schumann.  The Lions Gate Trio features Violinist and Hartt Faculty Member Katie Lansdale, pianist Florence Millet, and cellist Marcy Rosen.  The Lions Gate Trio is an internationally acclaimed ensemble in both the U.S. and Europe that enjoys a combination of performing, recording, and working with young musicians in educational settings.

Schuman Piano Quintet

Andrew Sunde, Jacob Caruk, violins,
Ethan Tu, viola, Russell Jones, cello
Jonathan Joo, piano

coached by Jarek Lis
  

Schuman String Quartet in A minor

"Take Four" String Quartet

Anny Li, Tiana Piscitelli, violins

Elizabeth MacDonald, viola

Kaila Piscitelli, viola

coached by Teri Einfeldt and Carlynn Savot
  

Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor

The Honors Quartet

Matthew Hannau, violin

Luke Piscitelli, viola

David Olson, cello

Andrew Hannau, piano

coached by Eric Dahlin
 
The concert will be held Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 8:30pm in Berkman Auditorium at the University of Hartford.

  

 

Scholarship Audition for Full Force Dance Theatre Modern Dance Summer Intensive, Saturday April 9th

This year's audition for scholarships for students interested in attending the 8^th Annual Full Force Dance Theatre's Modern Dance Summer Intensive, July 11^th through July 22^nd will be held at the Mort & Irma Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford on Saturday, April 9^th from 12:30pm - 2:30pm in Studio 5.  Dancers need to be over 16yrs old to attend the program.  For more information on the audition or the program please contact katdanc@aol.com.

Junior Ensemble
Please note:  There will be No Rehearsal Saturday, April 9^th

April Vacation Dates for the Dance Department

The Dance Department's April vacation dates are:  Monday, April 18^th through Friday, April 22^nd  No classes will be held unless a faculty member has arranged for a makeup class during this week. Classes will be held as normally scheduled on Saturday, April 23^rd.

 

Dance Ensemble Concert, Saturday, April 30th

This year's concert will feature students from the Junior and Senior Performance Ensembles from the Intensive Division of the Dance Department alongside students from the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, The Hartt School's Collegiate Dance Division and members of Full Force Dance Theatre.  The performance will be on Saturday, April 30^th at 2pm at the Mandel Jewish Community Center (JCC), 335 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford.  Tickets for the event are $10 General Seating ($5.00 JCC Members).  Stop by the Dance Department to purchase your tickets or call (860) 768-6000 or email kilpatric@hartford.edu.

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