The X Ensemble is a featured Performer at this year’s Orange COunty NY Arts Council’s Gala, the ‘Art Affair”. an inventive soiree designed to bring awareness to the community and key stakeholders of the current state of the arts in our county. Featuring a coalition of selected artists commissioned to create unique work performed, presented, and developed for this event. This event also features the annual Orange County Art Awards and serves as the primary fundraiser for the Arts Council.
ENCORE: CELEBRATING THE ENDURING POWER OF THE ARTS
Saturday, November 7th | 6PM – Sugarloaf Performing Arts Center, Chester, NY
The X Ensemble will premiere “Shaker Song Variations” a set of 7 variations on ‘Simple Gifts’, the well known Shaker song made popular in Aaron Copeland’s “Appalachian Spring’. For this performance I will be joined by Brad Hubbard (Baritone Sax) and our newest member of the X Ensemble family, violinst Majid Kaliq, Welcome Majid!
Tickets are available trough the OCNYAC Website. Early bird discount tickets are $150 till October 1st, after which they are $175.n
