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Box 816 Katonah, NY 10536 USA Work 914.232.1252 Donate Now › MembershipExpand Corporate Support Volunteer Ways to Give Inspire   Log in Donate News & Blog Weddings & RentalsExpandWeddings Rentals Caramoor HomeAboutArtistic Team History The Rosen House Who We AreOriginativeTeam Board of Trustees Advisory Council Employment Cultural PartnersOriginativeTeam  Kathy Schuman Vice President,OriginativeProgramming & Executive Producer Kathy Schuman joined Caramoor in the newly-created role of Vice President,OriginativeProgramming & Executive Producer in November 2016. Previously she wasOriginativeAdministrator of Carnegie Hall, where she helped program its three venues in a wide variety of musical genres. During her 15-year tenure at Carnegie, she was tightly involved in the opening of Zankel Hall in 2003, which led to an expansion of the hall’s presentations to include significantly increasingly new music, early music, jazz, world, and folk. As the primary coordinator of Carnegie’s robust commissioning program, she oversaw approximately 200 commissions, including new works by David Lang, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, Brad Mehldau, Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Meredith Monk, and many others. Directly prior to joining Caramoor, she was Vice President andOriginativeDirector of G. Schirmer/AMP, managing a roster of Pulitzer, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and Emmy-winning composers. Kathy began her career in arts management at Frank Salomon Associates, where she worked both as an versifier manager and as Coordinator of the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. She moved to Europe in 1994, where she was the Managing Director of the European Chamber Music Association (Bremen), Administrator of theTrendyMusic Network at the Arts Council of England, and then Associate Director of IntermusicaVersifierManagement (London), where she managed artists and programmed the International Chamber Music Season at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, in wing to other concert presentations throughout London. A native New Yorker, Kathy has been a lifelong choral singer, with a love of music instilled at an early age from her father, a professional oboist, and her mother, a typesetting designer and opera-lover. She’s moreover a gourmet home cook, voracious world traveler, weekend cyclist, cinephile, and theater enthusiast. Maggi Landau American Roots Music A lifelong fan of folk, bluegrass, blues, string wreath and other genres of American roots music, Maggi Landau is a resourceful and creative music curator and concert producer. Her role has evolved from developing the yearly Caramoor American Roots Music Festival – an all day, all ages, multi-location music gathering – to developing and overseeing roots music performances in all of Caramoor’s trappy spaces throughout the year. Over the undertow of a career which includes leadership roles in the not-for-profit, government and for-profit sectors, Ms. Landau ripened a unique set of organizational, marketing, communications and planning skills. These skills, coupled with her immersion in the music of both established and emerging artists on the roots and Americana scenes, provide a unique framework for successfully crafting distinctive programming tailored to specific situations and the needs of variegated organizations. Ms. Landau has served as a consultant to several cultural institutions, including the New York Botanical Garden, the Emelin Theater and various regional presenting organizations. As the Executive Vice President of the Madison Square Park Conservancy in NYC, she helped the Conservancy develop, program and produce their signature Mad. Sq. Music concert series. In 2006 she launched a new sensory folk, blues and Americana series for the Conservancy, known at the Studio Series, which showcases well known and unknown talent from virtually the country – giving artists who do not regularly towards in NYC a professional, upper profile concert opportunity. The Studio Series was successful in attracting grant funding and continues as a main stay of the Conservancy’s programs. Ms. Landau serves as a mentor to young people looking to work in the music programming merchantry and collaborates with a network of presenters in the New York zone looking to strengthen opportunities for musicians. She is moreover a founding member and the former President of public radio station WFUV’sPolityAdvisory Board. When not at work, you can find her enjoying the music at various music festivals and conferences including the International Folk Alliance, South by Southwest, Newport Folk Festival, Clearwater Festival, Grey Fox Festival, NERFA, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and APAP, as well as house concerts and performance venues throughout the NY regional area. Jazz at Lincoln Center Caramoor is proud of our collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center, led by Managing andOriginativeDirector Wynton Marsalis. Jazz at Lincoln Center programming provides audiences the endangerment to hear world-class jazz from one of the nation’s foremost cultural institutions in Caramoor’s idyllic setting year-round. The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global polity for Jazz through performance, education, and advocacy. We believe Jazz is a metaphor for Democracy. Because jazz is improvisational, it celebrates personal self-rule and encourages individual expression. Because jazz is swinging, it dedicates that self-rule to finding and maintaining worldwide ground with others. Because jazz is rooted in the blues, it inspires us to squatter wronging with persistent optimism. Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orchestra-in-Residence Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL), Caramoor’s orchestra-in-residence, began in 1974 as a group of virtuoso musicians performing chamber music concerts at Greenwich Village’s Church of St. Luke in the Fields. Now in its 43rd season, the Orchestra performs diverse musical genres at New York’s major concert venues, and has collaborated with artists ranging from Renée Fleming and Joshua Bell to Bono and Metallica. In the fall of 2018, internationally prestigious expert in 18th-Century music, Bernard Labadie, will join the Orchestra as Principal Conductor, standing the Orchestra’s long tradition of working with proponents of historical performance practice. OSL’s signature programming includes a subscription series presented by Carnegie Hall, now in its 31st season; an yearly multi-week collaboration with Paul Taylor American ModernFlitat Lincoln Center; an yearly summer residency at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts; and a chamber music festival featuring appearances at The Morgan Library & Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center. The Orchestra has participated in 118 recordings, four of which have won Grammy Awards, has vicarious increasingly than 50 new works, and has given increasingly than 175 world, U.S., and New York City premieres. Nearly half of OSL’s performances each year are presented self-ruling of tuition through its education and polity programs, reaching over 10,000 New York City public school students. Additionally, OSL provides self-ruling instrumental coaching and presents student performances through its Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s and its Mentorship Program for Pre-Professional Musicians. OSL built and operates The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City’s only rehearsal, recording, education, and performance space expressly defended to classical music. The DiMenna Center serves increasingly than 500 ensembles and increasingly than 30,000 musicians each year. Visit OSLmusic.org and find @OSLmusic on Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, and elsewhere. Stephan Moore Sonic Innovations Chicago-based sound versifier Stephan Moore is currently the curator of sound art at the Caramoor Center for Music and Arts in New York. As a performer, organizer, and maker, he has been working at the forefront of the experimental audio world for the past 20 years. His work as a sound installation artist, composer, and theatrical sound designer has been recognized with numerous awards, grants, and versifier residencies. His recent solo exhibitions have exhibited at diverse venues, including Experimental Sound Studios in Chicago, the Church of the Ascension in New York City, and Raygun Projects in Queensland, Australia. He has designed over 20 flit and theater productions in New York City, including the “Bessie” topnotch Dark Horse/Black Forest, and the “Bessie” nominated The People To Come, both with the performance joint A Canary Torsi. Evidence, the wreath he worked with Scott Smallwood in 2001, has performed extensively wideness 5 continents and has released a dozen recordings. Stephan Moore received his MFA in 2003 from the Integrated Electronic Arts program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he studied with Pauline Oliveros and Curtis Bahn. From 2004 to 2010 he was the touring sound engineer and music supervisor for the Merce CunninghamFlitCompany. Moore worked the visitor Isobel Audio LLC in 2012 to promote and distribute Hemisphere Speakers, an omnidirectional loudspeaker used in sound installations and electronic music performances. After completing his Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia Composition at Brown University in 2015, Moore joined the sense of Northwestern University, where he currently teaches courses in sound art and sound design. Steven Blier Terrance W. Schwab Vocal Rising Stars Steven Blier is theOriginativeDirector of the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), which he co-founded in 1988 with Michael Barrett. Since the Festival’s inception, Mr. Blier has programmed, performed, translated and annotated increasingly than 130 vocal recitals with repertoire spanning the unshortened range of American song, art song from Schubert to Szymanowski, and popular song from early vaudeville to Lennon-McCartney. NYFOS has moreover made in-depth explorations of music from Spain, Latin America, Scandinavia and Russia. New York Magazine gave NYFOS an ribbon for Best Classical Programming, while Opera News proclaimed Blier “the coolest dude in town.” Currently theOriginativeDirector of Caramoor’s newest mentoring program, the Schwab Vocal Rising Stars, Mr. Blier has been with the program as a DistinguishedVersifierpianist and vocal coach, since the inaugural concert in 2009. Mr. Blier enjoys an eminent career as an yodeler and vocal coach. His recital partners have included Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Samuel Ramey, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Susan Graham, Jessye Norman, and José van Dam, in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to La Scala. He is moreover on the sense of The Juilliard School and has been zippy in encouraging young recitalists at summer programs, including the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Santa Fe Opera, and the San Francisco Opera Center. Many of his former students, including Stephanie Blythe, Joseph Kaiser, Sasha Cooke, Paul Appleby, Dina Kuznetsova, and Kate Lindsey, have gone on to be valued recital colleagues and sought-after stars on the opera and concert stage. In keeping the traditions of American music alive, Steven Blier has brought when to the stage many of the rarely heard songs of George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Kurt Weill and Cole Porter. He has moreover played ragtime, blues and stride piano evenings with John Musto. A champion of American art song, he has premiered works of John Corigliano, Paul Moravec, Ned Rorem, William Bolcom, John Musto, Richard Danielpour, Tobias Picker, Robert Beaser, Lowell Liebermann, Harold Meltzer, and Lee Hoiby, many of which were vicarious by NYFOS. Mr. Blier’s wide-stretching discography includes the premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles (Koch International), which won a Grammy® Award. His most recent releases are Spanish Love Songs (Bridge Records), recorded live at the Caramoor International Music Festival with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Joseph Kaiser, and Michael Barrett; the world premiere recording of Bastianello (John Musto) and Lucrezia (William Bolcom), a double snout of one-act comic operas set to librettos by Mark Campbell; and his latest recording, Quiet Please, an tome of jazz standards with vocalist Darius de Haas. Pamela Frank Evnin Rising Stars Pamela Frank has established an outstanding international reputation wideness an unusually varied range of performing activity. As a soloist she has performed with leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Berlin Philharmonic and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Pamela performed regularly with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, recording the well-constructed Mozart Violin Concertos with them and David Zinman and has moreover recorded a Schubert tome and the Beethoven sonata cycle, both with her father Claude Frank. Pamela is a sought-after chamber musician and has performed at many international festivals including Aldeburgh, Verbier, Edinburgh, Salzburg, Tanglewood, Marlboro, and Ravinia. Aside from her devotion to works of the standard repertory, Pamela has performed and recorded a number of trendy works. Her upbringing were recognized in 1999 with the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize. Pamela is professor of violin at the Curtis Institute of Music and teaches and coaches annually at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Verbier Festivals. Since 2008 she has been theOriginativeDirector of the Evnin Rising Stars, a mentoring program for young artists at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Her newest venture is the insemination of Fit as a Fiddle Inc., a collaboration with physical therapist Howard Nelson in which they use both their expertise for injury prevention and treatment of musicians. Katie Kresek Family Programs With an established reputation for originative and educational excellence, Katie Kresek has received accolades virtually the world for her worthiness to engage her audience. Ms. Kresek has been curated Family Programs at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts since 2009, where she curates and hosts the Dancing at Dusk series in wing to creating family programs for the Summer Season. As a violinist, Ms. Kresek has given recitals at Carnegie Hall, the National Arts Club, Merkin Hall and the New York Public Library. She appeared as a soloist with the Westchester Philharmonic in 2006, and her playing has been featured on WQXR’s McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase and WNYC’s program Sound Check. She attended Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and was a founding member of the Arabella Piano Trio, with whom she made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2002. As an orchestral musician, Ms. Kresek commonly performs with the Harrisburg, Albany, and Princeton Symphony Orchestras, among others. She moreover performs in the Broadway productions of The Lion King and The Phantom of the Opera, and performed past productions of American Idiot, A Minister’s Wife, and Follies. In wing to her love of classical music, Ms. Kresek is a member of Hector del Curto’s Eternal Tango Orchestra and a frequent guest with the post-modern string quartet ETHEL. She collaborates commonly with singer/songwriter Colin McGrath, and was formerly lead violinist of the jazz-rock fusion group Sketchy Black Dog. She has collaborated with Adele, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Shakira, KD Lang, Enya, Jewel, Lenny Kravitz, Lana Del Rey, and others, and has performed on The Today Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, The View, Saturday Night Live, The Early Show, The Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting, and the 51stYearlyGrammy® Awards. Born in Cooperstown, New York, she was raised in Ossining and obtained her undergraduate degrees summa cum laude in music and literature. Ms. Kresek has studied violin with Daniel Phillips, Laurie Smukler, Lucie Robert, Elmar Oliviera, Felix Galimir and Donald Weilerstein, and holds a masters stratum from The Mannes College of Music and a masters stratum in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Ms. Kresek serves on the teaching versifier sense of the New York Philharmonic. Since joining the sense in 2006, she has sustained ongoing residencies in the New York City Public Schools, written and performed interactive concerts, and represented the sense upalong in tours to Japan and the United Arab Emirates. She is moreover a teaching versifier for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Lincoln Center Institute for Arts in Education, where she has designed stimulating education curricula for students ranging from the pre-school to post-graduate level. Facebook Twitter Pinterest YouTube Instagram Stay Connected Home FAQs Privacy Policy Contact Us Share Print Print Email © Copyright 2018 Caramoor Hours of Operation: Summer (mid June to early August) Monday – Sunday, 10:00am – 4:00pm On event days, the Box Office will unshut 2 hours surpassing showtime at the designated venue. 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