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Marshall's Music
On Sunday, May 23 at 3:00 p.m., The Queen's Chamber Band concludes its series "Sundays In-the-Bowery with the Band" with new music by Marshall Coid, the Band's brilliant ountertenor/composer-in-residence. The concert, at historic St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue), NYC, includes world premieres of Coid's String Quartet and CityScape; along with Dance Sonata for Solo Violin (choreographed by Catherine Tharin, with dancer Joseph Mills from the Erick Hawkins Company), Tempest Songs and Vampire Cantata.
In addition to Mr. Coid, members of The Queen's Chamber Band performing at this concert are the director of the group, harpsichordist Elaine Comparone, flutist Karla Moe, violinists Robert Zubrycki and Lori Miller, violist Veronica Salas, and cellist Peter Seidenberg; along with double-bassist Logan Coale, flutist Judith Mendenhall, dancer Joseph Mills and choreographer Catherine Tharin as guest artists.
Tickets at $20 available at the door; in advance by calling 212-280-1086. Seniors (62 and over), students and musicians one-half price. For additional info: www.harpsichord.org.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Marshall Coid has been praised by The New York Times as "astonishingly versatile" for his multi-faceted career as composer, countertenor, violinist, actor, librettist and educator.
Marshall Coid's concert music has been performed by the New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Helios, Odyssey Chamber Players, Infusion, Rosewood Chamber Ensemble and Oak Ridge Symphony, as well as The Queen's Chamber Band. He appears annually on the Diller-Quaille School's "Rug Concerts" Series, and has been composer-in-residence and countertenor soloist with The Queen's Chamber Band since the group's inception in 1992. He currently performs as the onstage violin soloist for the Broadway production of "Chicago".
At Lincoln Center he was commissioned to create "In Deep" for the LC Out of Doors Festival and to arrange music for Lincoln Center Theatre's production of "The Philadelphia Story." Legendary Broadway director Tom O'Horgan staged his opera "The Bundle Man" (commissioned by Downtown Music Productions, with Ilse Gilbert, librettist) at Theatre for the New City in 1993; Coid won critical acclaim for his score and for his performance in the title role.
Coid's extensive theatrical experience includes scoring and/or serving as musical director for productions at Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Circle Rep, Jewish Rep, Intar, Oxford University, John Jay College and the International Performers Festival in Belgium. He has been composer/musical director of four Repertorio Espanol productions to date. His musical "Here On This Hill" (Edward M. Cohen, book/co-lyricist) premiered in concert at Emerging Artists Theatre, NYC in 2007 and won a presentation at the Chicago "Stages" Musical Theatre Festival in 2008.
Coid's dance scores include several collaborations with dancer/choreographer Catherine Tharin, drawing on their shared experiences with Erick Hawkins. In collaboration with the stilt ballet duo Friends in High Places, Coid created "The Tangoed Web," performed by Downtown Music Productions and Quintet of the Americas.
In addition to Mr. Coid, members of The Queen's Chamber Band performing at this concert are the director of the group, harpsichordist Elaine Comparone, flutist Karla Moe, violinists Robert Zubrycki and Lori Miller, violist Veronica Salas, and cellist Peter Seidenberg; along with double-bassist Logan Coale, flutist Judith Mendenhall, dancer Joseph Mills and choreographer Catherine Tharin as guest artists.
Tickets at $20 available at the door; in advance by calling 212-280-1086. Seniors (62 and over), students and musicians one-half price. For additional info: www.harpsichord.org.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Marshall Coid has been praised by The New York Times as "astonishingly versatile" for his multi-faceted career as composer, countertenor, violinist, actor, librettist and educator.
Marshall Coid's concert music has been performed by the New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Helios, Odyssey Chamber Players, Infusion, Rosewood Chamber Ensemble and Oak Ridge Symphony, as well as The Queen's Chamber Band. He appears annually on the Diller-Quaille School's "Rug Concerts" Series, and has been composer-in-residence and countertenor soloist with The Queen's Chamber Band since the group's inception in 1992. He currently performs as the onstage violin soloist for the Broadway production of "Chicago".
At Lincoln Center he was commissioned to create "In Deep" for the LC Out of Doors Festival and to arrange music for Lincoln Center Theatre's production of "The Philadelphia Story." Legendary Broadway director Tom O'Horgan staged his opera "The Bundle Man" (commissioned by Downtown Music Productions, with Ilse Gilbert, librettist) at Theatre for the New City in 1993; Coid won critical acclaim for his score and for his performance in the title role.
Coid's extensive theatrical experience includes scoring and/or serving as musical director for productions at Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Circle Rep, Jewish Rep, Intar, Oxford University, John Jay College and the International Performers Festival in Belgium. He has been composer/musical director of four Repertorio Espanol productions to date. His musical "Here On This Hill" (Edward M. Cohen, book/co-lyricist) premiered in concert at Emerging Artists Theatre, NYC in 2007 and won a presentation at the Chicago "Stages" Musical Theatre Festival in 2008.
Coid's dance scores include several collaborations with dancer/choreographer Catherine Tharin, drawing on their shared experiences with Erick Hawkins. In collaboration with the stilt ballet duo Friends in High Places, Coid created "The Tangoed Web," performed by Downtown Music Productions and Quintet of the Americas.
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