Three performances of
The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár
at the Amato Opera
















Saturday December 13, 2008 7:30 pm
Saturday December 20, 2008 7:30 pm
Friday January 2, 2009 7:30 pm

-I will be playing principal flute in three upcoming performances of Lehár's famed Operetta "The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe)", sung in English. Come and enjoy its beautiful arias and delight in the comedy!!

Die Lustige Witwe's original stars
Louis Treumman and Mitzi Gunther
with Franz Lehar

















Read about The Merry Widow and Franz Lehár on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merry_Widow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Leh%C3%A1r

Also read about Amato Opera on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Opera

Amato Opera
319 Bowery
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: 866-811-4111
Business Office: 212-228-8201
Email: info@amato.org

Two Concerts with
Stony Brook Baroque













Sunday November 16, 2008 3:00 pm
Recital Hall at the Staller Center for the Arts
Stony Brook, New York

Tuesday November 18, 2008 8:00 pm
Second Presbyterian Church
6 West 96th Street, New York City

-I am very happy to perform again with Stony Brook Baroque, winner of Early Music America's 2006-2007 Collegium Musicum Grant competition, at my beloved Alma Mater. Its distinguished director, renowned harpsichordist Arthur Haas, has nurtured countless young students into talented early music musicians. We will be giving two performances: first at the Staller Center Recital Hall at Stony Brook University on Sunday, November 16th at 3:00 pm and the second at the Second Presbyterian Church (96th and Central Park West) on Tuesday, November 18th at 8:00 pm. I will be performing in two pieces, Sonade from La Piémontoise, from "Les Nations" by François Couperin, and Benedictus from B minor Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach. To view the full program for both concerts:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=cf97312282&view=att&th=11d97b19464a1e2c&attid=0.1&disp=vah&realattid=f_fnhwbghe0&zw

Please come and enjoy the beautiful music and witness the flowering of many young musical talents.

For more information regarding Baroque Sundays at Three series, please visit the following link:
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/Music.nsf/pages/season10

Invitation to Musica Viva Concert
Music of Johann Sebastian Bach



Sunday October 26, 2008
5:00 pm

All Souls Unitarian Church
1157 Lexington Ave (80th Street)




Program
-Mass in A
-Orchestral Suite in B minor
featuring Sandra Miller (baroque flute soloist)
-Cantata BWV 150 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich
-Motet BWV 226 Der Geist Hilft

I would like to invite all my Baroque music lover friends to the "All Bach Concert" with Musica Viva Choir directed by Maestro Walter Klauss. The concert will also feature a wonderful flute soloist, Sandra Miller, my first baroque flute professor in New York. I feel privileged to play second flute for this occasion. Please come and rejoice all the heavenly music with us!!

Musica Viva Choir












Walter Klauss, Director
Sandra Miller











with Sandy











For more information contact:

Musica Viva of New York
info@musicaviva.org
1157 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10075
(212) 794-3646

Amato Opera Guild
Woodwind Quintet


Left to Right:

Sang Joon Park (flute)
Barbara Cohen (oboe)
Nancy J. Vizza (french horn)
Zachary Cummings (bassoon)
Fred Rosenberg (clarinet)

Upcoming Performances at the Amato Opera

Verdi and his Librettists

Sunday October 5, 2008 2:30 pm

Sally Amato Opera Guild Woodwind Quintet

-I will be leading the Opera Guild Woodwind Quintet with all Verdi program: Overture from La Traviata, Grand Quartet from Rigoletto, and two movements from his rarely performed String Quartet (arranged for woodwind quintet).


Three performances of
Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata


Saturday October 18, 2008
7:30 pm
Sunday November 2, 2008
2:30 pm
Saturday November 15, 2008
7:30 pm


-I will play principal flute in one of Verdi's most beloved operas, La Traviata (1853), based on the novel La Dame aux camélias (1848) by Alexandre Dumas, fils (Junior), which was adapted for the stage in 1852. Don't forget to bring your handkerchief!! (click on each picture to view full size)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Adelina Patti (1843-1919) as Violetta











Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895)
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
one of the greatest Camille on stage











Read on Wikipedia:

La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Adelina Patti
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Sarah Bernhardt
La Dame aux camélias

Three "Paris" Quartets at
Waltz Astoria Cafe

Saturday August 16, 2008 7:00 pm


















23-14 Ditmars Boulevard
Astoria, New York 11105
(718) 956-8742

- Waltz Astoria Classical will be presenting three"Paris" Quartets by Georg Phillip Telemann; D Major, A minor and B minor. Please join the performers Anna Eunjung Ryu (violin), Carlene Stober (viola da gamba), Gabe Shuford (harpsichord) and me, Sang Joon Park (traverso) and experience Telemann's most exquisite compositions.

Anna Eunjung Ryu
Carlene Stober











Gabe Shuford
Sang Joon Park

Picture with Gilbert Kaplan

Click on the photo to view the full size

















-This picture was taken after the concert in the Hamptons last month, by the lovely soprano soloist, Esther Heideman (click on her name to see her website). It was very special working under Gilbert Kaplan. There are many sites where you can read about him, but here are a few:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Kaplan
http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/Musicians/GuestArtists/kaplan.asp
http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/mahler_ad.html
http://www.musicweb-international.com/sandh/2003/Oct03/kaplan_interview.htm

Invitation to two concerts
The Choral Society of the Hamptons

Sunday July 13, 2008
4:00 pm & 7:30 pm









The Presbyterian Church
Main Street, Bridgehampton
2429 Montauk Highway
Bridgehampton, NY 11932-3038

Program: Bach Cantata BWV 11 "Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen"
Brahms "Rhapsody for Alto, Men's Chorus & Orchestra" and "Ave Maria"
Mahler "Resurrection Chorale" from Symphony No. 2.

Esther Heiderman (soprano)
Charlene Marcinko (mezzo soprano)
Thomas Bohlert (organ)
Gilbert Kaplan (conductor)
Mark Mangini (music director and conductor)












Tickets: Adult $30 Youth $10
For information and reservations
call (631) 204-9402

Upcoming Performance
with Baroque Band
Chicago's Period Instrument Orchestra

Wednesday June 11, 2008 7:30 pm

Symphony Center, Grainger Ballroom
220 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Il 60604-2596


















The Beguiling Flute












Bach: Suite in B minor for Flute and Orchestra, BMV 1067
Vivaldi: Il gardellino, Op.10, No. 3, RV 428
Albinoni: Concerto a Cinque Op. 2, No. 3 in A major

-I will be playing two great music written for the flute: Bach's Suite in B minor for Flute and Orchestra and Vivaldi's Flute concerto, Il gardellino. I am very happy to be invited to be a soloist with the Baroque Band Chicago's Inaugural Season's closing concert. Please read about the Band by clicking on the name, as well as Garry Clarke, its artistic director, conductor and violinist.

Garry Clarke
Click below for directions to the venue:
Symphony Center, Chicago

Contact Information:
Baroque Band
600 South Dearborn Street, Suite 1202
Chicago, IL. 60605
info@baroqueband.org
(312) 235-2368

Amato Opera Production of
Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte

Sunday June 8, 2008 2:30 pm


















-I will be playing flute in one of my very favorite operas, Cosi Fan Tutte. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Please come and enjoy the heavenly music!!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adriana Ferrarese del Bene
-first Fiordiligi










Anthony Amato
Artistic Director
319 Bowery
New York, NY10003
212-228-8200
Email: info@amato.org

DMA HARPSICHORD RECITAL
HSUAN-WEN CHEN










SUNY Stony Brook University
Staller Center Recital Hall

Tuesday April 29, 2008 8:00 pm

André Campra and Agostino Steffani








- Program will include two beautiful 17th Century Cantatas, "Arion" by André Campra and "Spezza, Amor" by Agostino Steffani as well as three contemporary pieces by Dawn Chambers, Robert Strizich, and Emma Lou Diemer. I will be playing in both Cantatas and Strizich's "Tombeau" (1982) written for Baroque Flute and Harpsichord.

Assisting Artists
Christine Free (mezzo soprano)
Sang Joon Park (baroque flute)
Stephanie Corwin (baroque basson)
Jason Priset (theorbo)
Faythe Volrath, Satono Norizuki, Bethany Cencer (harpsichords)

Upcoming Concert with
EMPIRE VIOLS











Friday April 25, 2008 8:00 pmSecond Presbyterian Church
6 west 96th Street, New York







EMPIRE VIOLS
Martha McGaughey & Carlene Stober (viols)Arthur Haas (harpsichord)
with
Sang Joon Park (flute)
Patricia Halverson (viol)

Second Presbyterian Church
4 West 96th Street at Central Park West
NewYork, NY 10025
(212) 749-1700
http://www.secondpresbyteriannyc.org

For More information contact:
carlenestober@usa.net

or visit the Empire Viols website:
http://www.grenser.org/empire/

Upcoming Performance with
Newton Baroque Soloists

Second Church of Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton, MA

Saturday April 19, 2008 7:30 pm


















Soloists:
Lisa Brooke - violin
Sarah Cantor - recorder
Sang Joon Park - traverso
Audrey Markowitz - oboe
Jim Mosher and James Baker - horns
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord/director

Lisa Brook
Sarah Cantor











Andrus Madsen








Sang Joon Park








-This concert features concerti with unusual scoring, including Bach's First Brandenburg Concerto, scored for violino piccolo, horns, oboes and strings. The concert will also include Concerto for Flute and Recorder by Telemann, Recorder Concerto by Vivaldi, and Harpsichord Concerto by Bach.


Second Church of Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton, MA
Contact Andrus Madsen
617-332-1446
Directions (click to view)

Suggested Donation $15

Bach Cantata Service at the
St. John's Episcopal Church
Cold Spring Harbor, New York

Sunday April 13, 2008 10:00 am


Cantata BWV 192
"Nun Danket alle Gott"
Johann Sebastian Bach

Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 6
in B-Flat Major
George Frederic Handel



Conductor: Steven Finch
Organist: Carol Weitner
Concertmaster: Claire Jolivet
1st flute: Sandra Miller
2nd flute: Sang Joon Park

St. John's Church
An Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Long Island

P.O. Box 266
1670 Route 25A
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. 11724

Phone: 516-692-6368
email: info@stjohnschurchcsh.com
Fax: 516-692-6374
Map / Directions

Two Performances
at the Amato Opera
Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore














Sunday April 6, 2008 2:30 pm
Saturday April 26, 2008 7:30 pm

-I will be playing principal flute in Verdi's great opera in 4 acts, Il Trovatore, based on the play by Antonio García Gutiérrez, set in the early 15th Century, Spain. Come and discover the dramatic subplots and Verdi's beautiful music!!!

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)











Adelina Patti (1843-1919) as Leonora
- She is generally considered
to be the greatest soprano
in operatic history
Legendary Italian tenor
Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969)
as Manrico











Great American contralto
Louise Homer (1871-1949) as Azucena
"King of Baritones" Mattia Battistini (1856-1928)
- not quite as Conti di Luna. I could not find the exact picture of him in the role. This is Battistini as Posa in Verdi's Don Carlos)











Read all about Verdi, Il Trovatore, Patti, Martinelli, Homer and Battistini on Wikipedia and other sources:

Giuseppe Verdi
Il Trovatore
Adelina Patti
Giovanni Martinelli
Louise Homer
Mattia Battistini

Anthony Amato
Artistic Director
319 Bowery
New York, NY 10003
(212) 228-8200
Email: info@amato.org