Community Artist Orchestra Plays Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff

Terrence Thornhill Conducts the Community Artist Orchestra featuring Pianist Daniel Baer. Proceeds go toward Notes for Change, Inc.

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

The Community Artist Orchestra is comprised of professional musicians, music educators, and students from Northern New Jersey and New York.  The program will support Notes for Change, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aims to increase access to music education by working in local communities with professional musicians, teachers, and music educators.  The event is sponsored by the Northern New Jersey Youth Orchestra.

Thornhill and Baer, both graduates of Columbia High School, will be returning to the school to perform together with other CHS Alumni who are professional musicians, among other performers.  The founder of the nonprofit Notes for Change, Inc., Elizabeth Moulthrop, is also a CHS grad.  This concert will be the first concert to take place in the newly renovated Columbia High School Auditorium.

Terrence Thornhill is currently completing his Masters Degree at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music.  

Piano Soloist, Daniel Baer, a graduate of Columbia High School, born in New York City, made his debut with the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra in 2007 and has given solo and collaborative recitals throughout the North Eastern United States including performances in Alice Tully Hall, Kilbourn Hall, Paul Hall, and Steinway Hall. This year, the Leschetizky Association invited him to perform as a guest artist for the Leschetizky Birthday Recital. The New York Times has described Daniel Baer as a pianist who plays with ‘fluidity, flair, and sparkle’ and one who ‘achieved the often elusive…goal of putting virtuosity at the service of bigger ideas’.  Daniel Baer won the 2009 Empire State Piano Competition, the 2008 New York MTNA competition, and was a semifinalist in the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in 2008 and 2010.  He has taken lessons with many artists including Richard Goode, Joseph Kalichstein, and Jerome Rose.   Daniel Baer has worked for numerous years with Seymour Bernstein and Maxine Giannini. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Douglas Humpherys.  In 2012, He was awarded a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal.  He is currently pursuing his Doctorate at the Eastman School of Music.

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