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Beginning on March 26, 2010, New York City’s celebrated skyline will play host to Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon, a landmark public art installation presented by Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art.

On the occasion of Event Horizon, thirty-one life-size sculptures of the artist will inhabit the pathways and sidewalks of historic Madison Square Park, as well as the rooftops of architectural treasures of New York’s vibrant Flatiron District and environs. New York City landmarks to participate in the installation include the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building, the New York Life Building, among others.

Adapted for the awe-inspiring skyline of New York from its London premiere commissioned by the Hayward Gallery in 2007, Event Horizon will introduce the American public to one of Britain’s most celebrated artists in dramatic fashion. Four of Gormley’s figures cast in iron will be placed at ground level tangibly interacting with the course of daily life adjacent to Madison Square Park, the center of the district-wide installation.

Ground-level locations include: Flatiron Triangle, Madison Square Park, 26th and Fifth Avenue, and Madison Avenue and 24th.

An additional twenty-seven works will be placed as high as 57 stories, encouraging viewers to look up and around the installation neighborhood at the heart of New York City.

Locations to host Event Horizon sculptures at elevated heights include: 1 Madison Avenue, 11 Madison Avenue, 41 Madison Avenue, 51 Madison Avenue, 60 Madison Avenue, 15 Madison Square, 1133 Broadway, 225 Fifth Avenue, 204 Fifth Avenue, the Flatiron Building, 304 Park Avenue, 230 Fifth Avenue, 162 Fifth Avenue, 184 Fifth Avenue, 220 East 23rd Street, 928 Broadway, 921 Broadway, 853 Broadway (Union Sq), 245 Fifth Avenue, 11 East 29th Street and the Empire State Building.

For more information on Event Horizon visit the project’s dedicated website launching February 25, 2010 at www.EventHorizonNewYork.org.

About Antony Gormley:
Over the last 25 years Antony Gormley has revitalized the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material.

Since 1990 he has expanded his concern with the human condition to explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other in large-scale installations like Allotment, Critical Mass, Another Place, Domain Field, and Inside Australia. His recent work increasingly engages with energy systems, fields and vectors, rather than mass and defined volume, evident in works like Clearing, Blind Light, Firmament and Another Singularity.

Antony Gormley’s work has been exhibited extensively, with solo shows throughout the UK in venues such as the Whitechapel, Tate and the Hayward Galleries, the British Museum and White Cube, and internationally at museums including the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Germany. Blind Light, a major solo exhibtion of his work, was held at the Hayward Gallery in 2007. He has participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta 8. His Field has toured America, Europe and Asia. Angel of the North and, more recently, Quantum Cloud on the Thames in Greenwich are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture. One of his key installations, Another Place, is to remain permanently on display at Crosby Beach, Merseyside. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and was made an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997. In 2007 he was awarded the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Trinity College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, and has been a Royal Academician since 2003.

About MAD. SQ. ART:
Mad. Sq. Art is the free gallery without walls presented by the Madison Square Park Conservancy in the historic 6.2-acre park located at 5th Avenue and 23rd Street. In 2009, Mad. Sq. Art has also exhibited The Park, a site-specific series of short films by Shannon Plumb, and Flooded Chambers Maid, a mixed media installation by Jessica Stockholder.

Major Support for Mad. Sq. Art is provided by Founding Partners Agnes Gund and Anonymous. Substantial support is provided by Ronald A. Pizzuti, Toby Devan Lewis and the Henry Luce Foundation. Support for Markers is generously provided by David Nolan Gallery, Gail Monaghan, Francis Williams, Raymond Learsy and Melva Bucksbaum, Wynn Kramarsky and Ted Poretz. This project is supported in part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Mad. Sq. Art is made possible by the leadership and generosity of the many friends of the Madison Square Park Conservancy.

Source: Madison Square Park & Fitz & Co Press Release

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Stradivarius on display Madrid’s Palacio Real

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, February 1 at 12:30pm
Violinist Erno Kallai and Pianist Larry Weng

These two talented musicians will perform works by Mozart, Bartok, Paganini, Sarasate, Liszt and Bazzini.

Winner of the Eleventh Carl Flesch International Violin Competition, Erno Kallai is establishing himself as one of the most exciting and charismatic young violinist today. In December 2008 he made his Carnegie Hall debut, performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.2 with the Juilliard Orchestra, under James DePreist. He performed chamber music concerts with Itzhak Perlman and members of the Perlman Music Program in venues such as Chicago Symphony Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the McCarter Theater. He has played for Hungarian radio and Television and appeared on the McGraw-Hill Company’s “Young Artists’ Showcase” with host Bob Sherman on WQXR. Erno’s regular recital partners include Rohan DeSilva and Janos Balazs, pianists and he has collaborated with Mattias Jacobsson, guitarist.

He has won numerous awards and prizes, including first prize at the Zathureczky Violin Competition in 2003, awards from the Semmering Music Festival in 2004 (which included the best interpretation of a work by Kodaly, and award for the best interpretation of a Viennese Classic work with his performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5), a Valerie Beth Schwartz Career Grant from Salone de Virtuosi in 2007, first prize at the Juilliard Concerto Competition in 2008, among others.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Erno Kallai began early violin training with his father. At age of twelve, he had been admitted to the Exceptionally Talented Children’s class of the Franz Liszt University of Music where he studied with Andras Csontha and Eszter Perenyi. In 2006 he moved to the United States to study with Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School, where he still continues his studies as a full scholarship student. Erno Kallai is playing a 1723 Petrus Guarnerius violin, a generous gift from the Juilliard Rare instrument Collection.

Larry Weng began his piano studies at the age of seven with Dorothy Shi. At the age of eleven, he enrolled in the New England Conservatory Preparatory School under the tutelage Sylvia Chambless. Larry Weng is a laureate of numerous competitions, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition and the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition for Young Musicians.

He has performed in many renowned concert halls, such as Symphony Hall, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Kaufman Center. He has also worked with numerous orchestras, including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 2005, he was admitted to the joint degree program between Columbia University and The Juilliard School.

In the past few years, Larry has continued to garner recognition in the music world, with top prizes from the New York Piano Competition and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin competition. Hailed by renowned professors and performers such as Arie Vardi and Paul Badura-Skoda as a “fine musician with a bright future,” Larry is dedicated to not only the artistic creation of music in the concert hall, but also to education and outreach in the broader community.

He firmly believes in the transformative powers of music, and the importance of immersing the youth in music in both an understandable and interesting manner. Larry has completed his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at Columbia University, and is currently finishing his Masters degree at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, February 8th @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Akiko Kobayashi and pianist Juliana Han

Monday, February 22nd @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Emily Smith and pianist Marnie Hauschildt

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Stradivarius on display Madrid’s Palacio Real

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, January 25th @ 12:30pm:
Cellist Clara Yang and Pianist Joseph Liccardo

These two talented artists will perform works by Beethoven, Bach and Britten.

Cellist Clara Yang has appeared in numerous solo, chamber music, and orchestral performances at major venues and festivals across the United States and internationally. She earned her Bachelors and Masters Degrees at the Juilliard School where she studied with Joel Krosnick, and earned her Professional Studies Diploma at the Mannes College of Music under Timothy Eddy. While at The Juilliard School, Ms. Yang was a recipient of the Grunin Prize in Cello, the Victor Herbert Prize and also received the Leonard Rose Scholarship.

s. Yang has appeared as a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra, Concord Orchestra, and Brockton Symphony. She has given her New York debut solo recital at Carnegie’s Weill Hall in 2008 and other performances at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fischer Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and at the United Nations General Assembly Hall. She has won prizes in the Boston Symphony Concerto Competition, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and the New England Conservatory Concerto Competition in the United States, and Ewha and Chosun Music Competition in South Korea.

As an active teacher and certified Suzuki instructor, Ms. Yang is currently on the cello faculty at Mozart Academy of John Jay College CUNY, Center for Preparatory Studies in Music at Queens College CUNY, Bloomingdale School of Music, and Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Center.

Joseph Liccardo, pianist, holds a B.M. in Performance from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Dr. Douglas Humpherys. Before college he studied for 12 years with Dr. Donald Pirone at the Center for Preparatory Studies in Music at Queens College. During his time at Eastman, Joseph distinguished himself as both a soloist and chamber musician.

He received the John Celentano Award for Excellence in Chamber Music and also received a top prize for piano accompanying in the Jessie Kneisel Lieder Competition. In March 2006, Joseph won first prize in the young artist division of the Music Teachers National Association Piano competition, for which he received a Steinway Model M grand piano.

Upon graduation from the Eastman school, Joseph moved back to the New York City area, where he works as a freelance musician. He teaches private piano lessons at the Lawrence Eisman Center for Preparatory Studies in Music. Joseph recently returned from a tour of China, where he performed with the renowned pipa player Zhang Hongyan. Following his trip to China, he traveled to Wakayama, Japan to give a collaborative recital.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

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From January 25-February 7, you can enjoy special three-course, prix-fixe meal at some of New York’s top participating restaurants. Many of them right here in our area! (Flatiron District)

The cost for lunch is $24.07. Dinner is $35.00. Please note that prices are per person and do not include beverage, tax or gratuity. Saturdays are excluded and Sunday participation is optional.

We’ve listed the participating restaurants in our area in alphabetical order. You can view the menus and make reservations online at NYC Restaurant Week’s page.

If you are having a meeting in the office and want to go out for a special lunch or early dinner, the receptionist will be more than happy to make reservations for you.

A Voce
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch

Allegretti
Cuisine: French
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Angelo and Maxie’s Steakhouse
Cuisine: Steakhouse
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Bar Stuzzichini
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Barbounia
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, & Sunday Dinner

Black Duck
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Blue Smoke
Cuisine: Barbecue
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Bocca Restaurant & Bar
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Brasserie Les Halles
Cuisine: French
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

The Breslin Bar & Dining Room
Cuisine: British
Valid for: Lunch

City Crab & Seafood Company
Cuisine: Seafood
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Country
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Craftbar
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch

Dos Caminos
Cuisine: Mexican
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Giorgio’s of Gramercy
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Hill Country Barbecue Market
Cuisine: Barbecue
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

i Trulli Restaurant
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

ilili
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Japonais
Cuisine: Japanese
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Kellari’s Parea Greek Bistro
Cuisine: Greek
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Olana
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Dinner

Periyali
Cuisine: Greek
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Pranna Restaurant
Cuisine: Asian Fusion
Valid for: Dinner

Primehouse NY
Cuisine: Steakhouse
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Resto
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

SD26
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch

SushiSamba
Cuisine: Japanese
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, & Sunday Dinner

Tabla and Bread Bar
Cuisine: Indian
Valid for: Lunch

Tamarind
Cuisine: Indian
Valid for: Lunch, Sunday Lunch

For a complete listing of all participating restaurants, please visit the official NYC Restaurant Week Page.

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Statue of Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, January 11th @ 12:30pm:
Duets with Violinists Leo Adamov and Eliot Lawson

These two talented violinists will perform works by Leclair, de Beriot and Prokofiev.

Leo Adamov, violinist, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Rotterdam Conservatory in The Netherlands. While living inAmsterdam,he enjoyed an active career as a freelance orchestra musician, performing and recording with the Netherlands Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Opera, and the Radio Chamber Philharmonic, among others.

At home in many of the world’s premiere venues, such as the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Boston Symphony Hall, Leo’s professional musical experience ranges from traditional classical concerts to tours with such artists as Duncan Sheik and Jill Scott, from Broadway to Shostakovich String Quartets to solo improvisation with a dancer.

In 2007 Leo moved to New York to perform as concertmaster and soloist with diverse ensembles and explore new music and new genres. In 2009, among other things, Leo performed as soloist with orchestras the Mozart, Bach, Corelli, and Vivaldi concerti, Sarasate Zigeunerweisen, Chaussone Poeme and Beethoven Romance in F in New York.

Leo is on the faculty at the Brooklyn Conservatory and has taught the past two summers at an International Masterclass in Dinant, Belgium. In early 2010 he will make his New York/Boston debut with the Adamov/ Lawson Violin Duo.

Born in Brussels in 1978, Eliot Lawson is of Belgian and Luso-American nationality. He started studying the violin in 1985, and was chosen by Yehudi Menuhin in 1989 to pursue his studies in London. It was, however, in Belgium, with Leon Souroujon, that he continued his studies, subsequently completing them with H. Krebbers, I. Oistrakh, I. Grubert, J.J. Kantorow, P. Vernikov and N. Shkolnikova.

He has master’s degrees in music, awarded “with greatest distinction” by the conservatories of Brussels and Rotterdam, as well as an “Artist Diploma” of Indiana University in Bloomington and a soloist’s diploma from the Fiesole Music School in Italy.

A laureate and finalist of several national and international competitions (including Brahms, de Beriot, Premio Jovens, Mozart, Proce Vitate, Vieuxtemps, Maasmond, Lantier, Krebbers, Premio Vittorio Gui, Tibor Varga, Cardona competitions), Eliot Lawson has given many concerts in Europe and the United States, appearing on numerous important stages and invited by many radio and television companies in Portugal and in Belgium.

He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Sofia Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie, Porto Symphony Orchestra, the Simfonieorkest van Vlaanderen, the Belgian National Orchestra, The Bonn Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation, The Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra in renowned concert halls. He performed during festivals such as Festival van Vlaanderen, Ars Musica, Festival de Wallonie, Festival de Bretagne, Festival Tibor Varga, Festival Roussel, Brugge cultural capital of Europe and played the opening concerts of halls such as AMUZ and Les Brigitinnes.

As a chamber musician, Eliot Lawson is a member of the ensembles Hermes, One-Off, Enigma and Joseph Jongen. He forms a regular duo with David Cohen (principal cellist of the Philharmonia Orchestra) and with his sister, the pianist Jill Lawson. He was concert master of the Rotterdam Young Philharmonic and the Prima la Musica Flanders chamber orchestra. He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Portugal and the United States.

Since September 2006 he is professor in the Amsterdam Conservatory. He recorded several CD’s for labels such as Cypres and Fuga Libera receiving excellent reviews in magazines such as the Strad, Diapason (5/5), Crescendo (Joker). He will be recording the complete Hindemith sonatas, de Castera sonatas, Victor Vreuls and complete solo works by L. Souroujon

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, January 25th @ 12:30:
Cellist Clara Yang and pianist Joseph Liccardo

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Who:
Pacific Northwestern ExPats & their friends

What:
Expacmus

Where:
Ace Hotel New York
20 west 29th street
New York, NY 10001

When:
Friday, December 18th from 8pm – 11pm

Why:
Northwest Drink Specials.
Guest DJ: Ariel

RSVP:
expac@acehotel.com

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Flatiron High and Low Exhibition at the Van Alen Institute has been extended through December 31, 2009. It’s open Monday – Friday from 12-5pm at 30 West 22nd Street

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Statue of Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, December 21 at 12:30pm

Violinists Paolo Alberghini and Bruno Peña, Violist Kristin Sawyer, Cellist Sokol Nikaj and Pianist Enika Gjokoreci

On Monday, December 21st at 12:30pm, violinists Paolo Alberghini & Bruno Peña, violist Kristin Sawyer, cellist Sokol NIkaj and pianist Enika Gjokoreci will perform a program featuring works by Elgar, Schumann and Beethoven.

Described by the New York Concert Review as “a fine, serious, conscientious violinist with a solid, disciplined technique, secure intonation and good facility”, Bruno Peña resides in New York, enjoying a diverse concertizing career. Performing in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Symphony Space, Mr. Peña has collaborated with the Harrisburg Symphony, Princeton Symphony, Dicapo Opera, Bachanalia, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Camerata of New York, New York Sinfonietta, New Philharmonic of New Jersey, among others. Since 2005, he has been a regularly featured soloist in concerts for the Permanent Representatives and Ambassadors of the United Nations, and in March 2006 was invited to perform a concert at Daj Hammarskjold Auditorium at the UN. Mr. Peña was a prize winner in the 2003 “Artist International Competition” in New York which rewarded him a debut recital at Merkin Hall in 2004. In 1999 he was awarded First Prize Performance in the “Amics de la Música” Competition, and a year later was finalist in the “Concurso Permanente de Juventudes Musicales” in Spain.

Born in Barcelona, Spain, he began his musical studies at the age of five with piano lessons and two years later started his violin studies with Wieslaw Rekucki at the Conservatory of Music “Eduardo Martinez Torner” in Oviedo. Soon after, Mr. Peña began his studies at the Superior Conservatory of Oviedo with his principal mentor, the violinist Alexei Michlin. He continued postgraduate studies at the Sweelinck Conservatorium of Amsterdam with Keiko Wataya and received his Master’s Degree from Mannes College of Music as a scholarship student of Nina Beilina and scholarship recipient of the financial institution Cajastur, in Spain. Bruno Peña has concertized in his native Spain, France, Portugal, Netherlands, United States and Mexico.

Violist, Kristin Sawyer is an active chamber musician, orchestral player and recitalist. She has performed throughout New York City’s finest concert halls, including Carnegie Hall’s Issac Stern Auditorium and Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Hall and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. In 2004 Ms. Sawyer toured as a chamber musician and soloist throughout Italy and Switzerland performing, among other works, Brahms’ Horn Trio and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Previously, she has performed with the New England Symphonic Ensemble, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and Charlottesville Virginia Consort.

In May 2009, Ms. Sawyer graduated with a Master’s Degree in Performance from Mannes College where she served as principal violist with the Mannes Orchestra & the Mannes Opera Orchestra. While she primarily performs music of the classical genre, Ms. Sawyer occasionally performs with popular artists, recently making television appearances on The View, The Late Show with David Letterman, Monique & BET’s Rising Icons. In addition to her performance schedule, Ms. Sawyer is on the faculty of the Great Neck Arts Center and also maintains a private studio. Her principle teachers include Ira Weller, Daniel Phillips and Linda Sinanian.

Sokol Nikaj, cellist, was born in Tirana, Albania, where he received his first cello lesson at age 7. A first prize recipient at the National Cello Competition in Albania, Mr. Nikaj has also participated at summer festivals in Athens, Greece. Nikaj studied under Prof. Gjovalin Lazri in Artistic Lyceum “Jordan Misja” and received his Bachelor’s Degree from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. It was in Germany that he performed in such venues as Eckelshausen Festival, Schott Verlag, Rathaus Mainz, and in Branderburger Tor and was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie.

Since arriving in New York, Mr. Nikaj has appeared in chamber music concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Flushing Town Hall, and the Colden Center for the Performing Arts. He has performed as a guest cellist with the Corona Trio and was Goliard Concerts’ 2007 Herman De Jong Memorial Scholarship winner. Earning his Master’s Degree from Queens College in 2007, Mr. Nikaj was the winner of the Concerto Competition, performing the Haydn Cello Concerto in C major with the Queens College Symphony Orchestra. His principal teachers include Julius Berger in Germany and Marcy Rosen in New York.

Enika Gjokoreci, pianist, has over 20 years of teaching experience. After graduating from the Academy of Arts in Tirana, Albania, she began teaching applied piano and piano class at the Artistic Lyceum, a very highly regarded music school in her country. It was here that she also served as the school’s primary accompanist-playing her way through much of the standard repertoire for strings. Her piano students have gained acceptance into some of the most prestigious music schools throughout Europe and North America. In addition to her busy teaching schedule, Enika is an active soloist, accompanist and chamber musician.

Recitals in New York have brought her to venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Flushing Town Hall, Colden Center for the Performing Arts and Bronx Community College. Ms.Gjokoreci has recorded several live performances for the Albanian National Television including some with well known violinist, Tedi Papavrami. Enika is on the piano faculty at the Great Neck Arts Center and maintains a private studio of talented young pianists.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, January 4th @ 12:30:
Violinist Magdalena Garbalinska

Monday, January 11th @ 12:30:
Violinists Leo Adamov and Eliot Lawson

Monday, January 25th @ 12:30:
Cellist Clara Yang and pianist Joseph Liccardo

More Details and Source: WMP Concert Hall

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Madison Square Park, Mel Kendrick’s Markers, and The Flatiron Building

Today’s the coldest day yet this winter in NYC.

After you finish your meeting at your very toasty New York Virtual Office, head over to Madison Square Park. It’s cold and the trees are bare, but the Park is stunning in every season.

Here are a few pictures, taken today, in the Park:

Madison Square Park, Mel Kendrick’s Markers, and The Flatiron Building

Mel Kendrick’s Markers in the Park, facing North West

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A&E’s hit show Paranormal State is ending their 11 city Paranormal State Tour right here in Madison Square Park, today.

They’re there till 5pm – so you still have some time to stop by, get your free Scream ringtone, meet the investigators, have your picture taken and share your experiences.

You can have your picture taken against a green screen and they’ll stick in a spooky ghost.

You can also share any paranormal experiences that you’ve had on video to appear on the ParanormalStateTour.com

A few more pictures – of the tour – on the coldest day in New York yet this winter at 30°F (feels Like 16°F):

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