CHAPEL PERFORMANCES Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. MONDAY: St. Thomas’s Day School Orchestra TUESDAY: Yale Jashan Bhangra, cultural dance troupe celebrating the vibrant and energetic dance known as bhangra. WEDNESDAY: Aleks Romano ̀00, award winning and internationally recognized opera singer.
ALEKS ROMANO
THURSDAY: Paul Berry P ̀20, ̀25, singer, historian of chamber music and song, and professor at the Yale School of Music
FRIDAY: Anna PAUL Skula P ̀19, Yale BERRY School of Music trained oboist with many years of teaching students of all ages and ANNA SKULA levels. She will be performing with students Liana Tilton ̀13 and Eduardo Pagliaro-Haque.
WORKSHOP ARTISTS MAY BONOAN, artist, needlework and felt ERIC REYMOND P 2 ̀ 2, artist, map painting DWAYNE BETTS P 2 ̀ 0, 2 ̀ 3, American poet, memoirist, and teacher KARYL EVANS P 0 ̀ 6, six-time Emmy Award winning producer and director of documentaries ROBERT GREENBERG, New York City Art Director, Fine Artist, and Illustrator
Thank you to Jan Nichols and Andrew Myers for organizing Arts Week and to the many teachers who lent their time and talent!
A RTS W E E K P R O G R A M
A P R I L 2 9 - M AY 3
a weeklong celebration of the arts�
WE E K LONG MASTER CL ASSE S STEEL PANS Deborah Teason
VIDEOGRAPHY Hello Me Films
John Deptulski and his partner JJ share a passion for video and storytelling. They have banded together to create incredible videos through Hello Me Films.
Debby Teason is the director of the steel band programs at Neighborhood Music School, The Foote School and Choate-Rosemary Hall and is the founder of the steel band program at Highville Charter School and is the co-director of the St. Luke’s Steel Band Summer Camp.
PUPPETRY The StringPullers
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE Your Time to Shine Matt Oestreicher is a producer, arranger, performer, writer, band leader, and educator. YOUR TIME TO SHINE is an organization committed to healing cultural and economic divides through the joy and celebration of music. Its focus is teaching music and life skills to youth from in-need communities.
The Stringpullers, with Linda Wingerter, are explorers of all forms of puppetry and object performance. They build puppets, teach construction and manipulation, provide puppeteers and puppeteer training, and make shows for the stage and street with a special interest in public spectacle and participatory community events.
JEWELRY DESIGN Alexis Gage ̀00
Alexis Gage ̀00 has studied with master goldsmiths in San Francisco and New York. Today she is a successful local jewelry designer using primarily metals and gem stones, her works are inspired by nature and methods of fabrication used in antiquity.
IRISH DANCE Brennan-Lucey Irish Dance Academy
Stephen Brennan and Meghan Lucey, former dancers on the Riverdance tour, are cofounders of the academy where they share their love of dance and Irish culture with the youth and adults of today.
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER CLASS PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY, MAY 3 AT 1:30 P.M.
WE E K LONG MASTER CL ASSE S STEEL PANS Deborah Teason
VIDEOGRAPHY Hello Me Films
John Deptulski and his partner JJ share a passion for video and storytelling. They have banded together to create incredible videos through Hello Me Films.
Debby Teason is the director of the steel band programs at Neighborhood Music School, The Foote School and Choate-Rosemary Hall and is the founder of the steel band program at Highville Charter School and is the co-director of the St. Luke’s Steel Band Summer Camp.
PUPPETRY The StringPullers
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE Your Time to Shine Matt Oestreicher is a producer, arranger, performer, writer, band leader, and educator. YOUR TIME TO SHINE is an organization committed to healing cultural and economic divides through the joy and celebration of music. Its focus is teaching music and life skills to youth from in-need communities.
The Stringpullers, with Linda Wingerter, are explorers of all forms of puppetry and object performance. They build puppets, teach construction and manipulation, provide puppeteers and puppeteer training, and make shows for the stage and street with a special interest in public spectacle and participatory community events.
JEWELRY DESIGN Alexis Gage ̀00
Alexis Gage ̀00 has studied with master goldsmiths in San Francisco and New York. Today she is a successful local jewelry designer using primarily metals and gem stones, her works are inspired by nature and methods of fabrication used in antiquity.
IRISH DANCE Brennan-Lucey Irish Dance Academy
Stephen Brennan and Meghan Lucey, former dancers on the Riverdance tour, are cofounders of the academy where they share their love of dance and Irish culture with the youth and adults of today.
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER CLASS PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY, MAY 3 AT 1:30 P.M.
CHAPEL PERFORMANCES Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. MONDAY: St. Thomas’s Day School Orchestra TUESDAY: Yale Jashan Bhangra, cultural dance troupe celebrating the vibrant and energetic dance known as bhangra. WEDNESDAY: Aleks Romano ̀00, award winning and internationally recognized opera singer.
ALEKS ROMANO
THURSDAY: Paul Berry P ̀20, ̀25, singer, historian of chamber music and song, and professor at the Yale School of Music
FRIDAY: Anna PAUL Skula P ̀19, Yale BERRY School of Music trained oboist with many years of teaching students of all ages and ANNA SKULA levels. She will be performing with students Liana Tilton ̀13 and Eduardo Pagliaro-Haque.
WORKSHOP ARTISTS MAY BONOAN, artist, needlework and felt ERIC REYMOND P 2 ̀ 2, artist, map painting DWAYNE BETTS P 2 ̀ 0, 2 ̀ 3, American poet, memoirist, and teacher KARYL EVANS P 0 ̀ 6, six-time Emmy Award winning producer and director of documentaries ROBERT GREENBERG, New York City Art Director, Fine Artist, and Illustrator
Thank you to Jan Nichols and Andrew Myers for organizing Arts Week and to the many teachers who lent their time and talent!
A RTS W E E K P R O G R A M
A P R I L 2 9 - M AY 3
a weeklong celebration of the arts�