David Friend Recital Hall Concerts

October 2 - Carlo Aonzo and the New
England Mandolin Ensemble - Carlo
Aonzo is the winner of prestigious man-
. dolin competitions on both sides of the
Atlantic, including the “Vivaldi” prize
of the sixth annual Vittorio Pitzianti Na-
tional Mandolin Competition in Venice
as well as the 27th annual Walnut Valley
National Mandolin Contest in Winfield,
Kansas. Aonzo will perform with the
New England Mandolin Ensemble,
founded by Berklee faculty member
August Watters. NEME features some
of New England’s best mandolinists,
including classical mandolin icon Mari-
lynn Mair (Roger Williams University),
multistylist virtuoso Jim Dalton (Boston
Conservatory), and mandocello special-
ist Mitch Nelin.

October 3 — The Soul of Margaret Gar-
ner: A Personal Journey To Freedom- A
Discussion with Richard Danielpour

- Visiting artist and Grammy-winning
composer Richard Danielpour discusses
his opera Margaret Garner and music as
a humanitarian force. A concert of arias
from Margaret Garner will be performed
by Gabrielle Goodman, mezzo-soprano;
Philip Lima, baritone; Martha Banks,
soprano; and Jesse Turner, Jonathan
Nussman, baritone.

October 4 — Reunion — Concert of jazz
and Brazilian music, featuring vocalist
Lisa Thorson and pianist Doug Johnson.

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October 9 - 8 Shades of Blue - Led by
faculty guitarist Craig Hlady the concert
will feature originals and standards in a
blues based small group setting which
will also mix elements of jazz and funk.

October 10 — Sal Difusco Project — The
Sal Difusco Project will perform origi-
nal jazz rock fusion material. The band
consists of guitar, sax, drums, Keys,
bass, and percussion.

October 15 - Nicholl & Farquharson

- Wind Music - The third in a series
of concerts by Matthew Nicholl and
Michael Farquharson, Wind Music
features compositions for woodwind
quintet, rhythm section and saxophone
soloist. The ensemble includes Nicholl
on piano, Farquharson on fretted, fret-
less, and piccolo basses, Greg Badolato
on tenor sax, Steve Langone on drums,
and a woodwind quintet composed of
faculty and area professionals. Nicholl
and Farquharson each wrote half of the
program.

October 18 — Esterhazy Quartet - This
will be the 10 th year that the Esterhazy
String Quartet --Violin, Eva Szekely,
Susan Jensen, Viola, Leslie Perna,
Cello, Darry Dolezal-- will be a visiting
artist residency at Berklee. In the David
Freidn Recital Hall they will present a
concert of music for string quartet in-
cluding works by Haydn, Schubert and
American composer James Willey.