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EVENTS
SOUTHERN ARTS TOUR 2025
CONCERTS 2025-2024
2008 Featured Works:
John Coltrane Love Supreme
Bartok String Quartet No. 3
Mike Esnault Creole Dance for Conga and Strings
Dvorak Going Home
Guest Artists:
Ivana Radakovich – Cello Orchestra Di Sevilla
Kidd Jordan – Saxophone
Alvin Fielder – Drums
Peter Harris – Bass
Brian Quezerque – Bass
John Jones – Drums
Suzanne LeFevre – Viola Houston Grand Opera
Guest Composer:
Mike Esnault
In 2001 Music Alive Ensemble (MAE) formed a partnership withThe New Orleans Chapter of the Links, Inc. and The University of New Orleans. MAE presented the following concerts at the UNO Performing Arts Center with funding from the Links from 2001-2005.
2005 Featured works:
The works of Brazil, Argentina and Spain included Dancers and musicians performing representative works of each country.
Guest Artists:
Artist Karen Johnson – Voice
Featured Guest Arranger:
Darrell Lavigne – Piano
Featured Guest Artists:
Geraardo Perez – Bandoneon
Maria Calvalcanti – Piano
Adonis Rose – Drums
Jonathan Bloom – Percussion
Dancers:
Silvia Santos – Samba
Milena Rossi – Samba
Zabrina Jordan – Flamenco
Mia Zebouni – Flamenco
Rafael Jarpa – Tango
Christina Ve – Tango
2004 Featured works:
Concert was dedicated to New Orleans Pianist, Composer and Conductor Moses Hogan and featured New Orleanian Bass Baritone Alfred Walker Hogan arrangements were expanded for the octet. Alfred Walker was discovered by Hogan and was a member of the Moses Hogan Chorale. Stephanie Jordan was featured on the second half of the program singing jazz standards with the octet.
Guest Composer:
Alvin Batiste – Clarinet/Jazz Educator
Guest Artists:
Alfred Walker Bass Baritone Metropolitan Opera
David Rosen – Cello
Allen Nisbit – Cello
John Law – Violin
Scott Slapin – Viola
Tonya Solomon – Viola
Dane Evans – Piano
Sullivan Fortner – Piano
Brian Quezerque – Bass
Troy Davis – Drum
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2003 Featured works:
Quiet City, Aaron Copland Original Compositions for Trombone
and Strings by Steve Sutter
Guest Artists:
Rodney Mack – Principal Trumpeter, Virginia Symphony/ Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sutter – Trombonist LA Philharmonic/Bonerama
Karyn Walryn – Pianist/Educator
Allen Nisbet – Cellist
Helen Herb English – Horn
Rodney Mack – Trumpet
Featured Guest Composer & Arranger:
Steve Sutter
2002 Featured work:
Brahms Clarinet Quintet
Jet Whistle for flute and cello Villa-Lobos
Lullaby and Fugue Earl Stewart
Quartet in A Minor Schubert
Guest Artists:
Troy Stewart – Cello
Terrence Patterson – Clarinet
Lena Frankhausen – Viola
Jonathan Gerhardt – Cello
Marlon Jordan – Trumpet
Amy Thiaville- Violin
Rachel Jordan -Violin
2001 Featured work:
Brahms Piano Quintet
Jet Whistle -Villa-Lobos
Lullaby and Fugue Earl Stewart
Quartet in A Minor Schubert
Guest Artists:
Sandra Rivers – Pianist
Owen Young – Cellist Boston Symphony
Amadi Hummings – Viola
Rachel Jordan-Violin
Amy Thiaville-Violin
Due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and personal injury of Artistic Director Rachel Jordan, The Music Alive Ensemble did not present programs during 2006 and 2007. In 2008 MAE returned to the UNO Performing Arts Center with partial funding from The Jazz & Heritage Foundation.
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