Blue Skies Concerts presents Grammy-Award Winner Jon Samson

Sheridan Music Studio's Blue Skies Concerts officially opens the Fall season with a virtual-only concert on IN.LIVE performed by Jon Samson, a native of South Africa, currently a resident of Brooklyn, New York. The Virtual Concert will be Livestreamed on Wednesday September 16th, 2020 at 12 Noon, CDT. The Concert can be accessed at this link: https://patch.com/illinois/highlandpark/blue-skies-concerts-presents-grammy-award-winner-jon-samson-nodx?utm_source=share-link&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=share

Founded by Steinway Artist Susan Merdinger, and now led with Co-Artistic Director, Dr. Svetlana Belsky, Sheridan Music Studio LLC is the product of collaboration between the two professional pianists and friends. They decided that their new downtown studio would be the perfect venue and host for concerts and opened their studio in the historic Fine Arts Building last November. The COVID-19 Pandemic changed all of that and closed them down. But with a new Pandemic-friendly model for concerts they have forged ahead with two series: Music with a View ( Classical) and Blue Skies Concerts (Non-Classical). Enabling socially-distant small audience concerts plus state-of-the-art Livestreaming with their livestream Sponsor, IN.LIVE, the concerts promise to offer the best quality live concerts for live and virtual audiences in Chicago and virtual audiences around the world! Dr. Ilya Levinson, a Grammy-nominated Composer based in CHicago is a Co-Host of the Series and a Composer-in-Residence at Sheridan Music Studio.

Sheridan Music Studio presented a selection of the Music with a View and Blue Skies Concert Artists in their first-ever outdoor music festival in Highland Park, SummerMusic. It was the cancellation of the Ravinia Music Festival that prompted Merdinger to find a suitable replacement for her fellow musicians and music-loving friends. The series was a huge success and now will continue with indoor and virtual concerts featuring a wide range of talented musicians and ensembles.

Jon Samson, MA MTBC is the first board certified music therapist in history to receive a Grammy®, and the first native South African to win for Best Children's Album! Jon resides in Brooklyn, NY and founded CoCreative Music® in 2005 where he offers a unique combination of music therapy, audio/video production, artistic mentoring and life coaching to inspire "The Child Archetype" in all ages.

CoCreative Music is Jon's contribution towards a sustainable world.

Music is like farming- it takes a community of people to get things growing and flowing from the ground up. As we literally nourish ourselves with the fruits of nature’s rhythms and harmony, we express symbolically through music and other forms of creativity. The human body seems to have been designed for this-

Singing, clapping, stomping, patting, snapping, tapping, clicking, beat-boxing, dancing...

Jon Samson MA MTBC, holds a Masters Degree in Music Therapy from New York University and a Bachelors of Arts in music composition from SUNY Purchase. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jon offers a unique combination of music therapy, education and studio recording to address the needs of the whole person. He runs a private practice in Brooklyn, offering an alternative approach to music education involving improvisation and recording for kids and creative consulting/life coaching for grown ups.

As a musical director, Jon ran two programs alongside the founders of Blue Man Group at the Blue School in lower NYC, and the summer program at Packer Collegiate in Brooklyn from 2006-2010.
As a Musical Therapist, Jon worked extensively through the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music for children on the autism spectrum. He's been guest lecturing at Columbia University and other higher education facilities on his approach to working with special needs and how it relates to the general population.

As a Performer/Producer, Jon’s award winning family music has been featured in Parenting Magazine, Time Out New York Kids, USA Today, and apparently other civilizations from other planets love Jon's music too. As an artist, Jon produced music for Sounds True audio programs by world renowned teachers Caroline Myss and Andrew Harvey. As an audio engineer, Jon's name can be found in the four time Oscar nominated film, Beasts Of The Southern Wild.

Jon is a public speaker and performing artist. If you'd like to contact Jon for music therapy, educational lectures, parties or sessions, email cocreativemusic@gmail.com

For VIRTUAL LIVESTREAMING TICKETS, please visit:

https://in.live/concertDetails/zErd3o7jdo