May Events at Elefante

Elefante Music & School for the Performing Arts is pleased to present two outstanding free concerts at our location in New Providence this month:

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An Evening of Classics

Tuesday, May 8th 2012 @ 7:00pm

Free of charge (donations for the performers appreciated)

featuring:

Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
Al Elefante, Clarinet
Farkhad Khudyev, Violin
Alex Wang, Violin
Marina Stefanovsky, Viola
Oliver Shapiro, Cello




Duo Fondamento
Farkhad Khudyev, Violin
Stephen Wale, Piano
performing works by Dvorak, Brahms, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky

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The Joe Elefante Big Band

with featured guest Ralph Bowen

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 @ 7:00pm

Free Admission!

Saxophonist Ralph Bowen has made his mark on the New York jazz scene for over three decades, while bringing his "casual perfectionism" to clubs, concert halls, and festivals worldwide. Bowen's discography of over 70 titles includes associations with Orrin Evans, Michel Camilo, Horace Silver, Renee Rosnes, Kenny Garrett, Steve Wilson, Kenny Davis, Michael Mossman, Ralph Peterson Jr., Anthony Branker and Jared Gold.

His seven solo CDs (Movin' On, A Morning View, Soul Proprietor, Keep the Change, Five, Dedicated, Due Reverence, and Power Play) feature a wide variety of top shelf musicians including trumpeters John Swana and Ryan Kisor, pianists Jim Beard and Orrin Evans, organist Sam Yahel, guitarists Peter Bernstien, Jon Herington and Adam Rogers bassists John Patitucci, Anthony Jackson, Charles Fambrough, Reuben Rogers and Kenny Davis and drummers Ben Perowski, Bill Stewart, Brian Blade, Antonio Sanchez, Gregory Hutchinson, Donald Edwards and Dana Hall. 

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Elefante Music & School for the Performing Arts

1790 Springfield  Ave.

New Providence, NJ

(908) 464-5928

www.elefantemusic.com