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Cool Breeze at Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh
December 5, 2009 from 11:30am to 12pm
Pittsburgh's all-girl jazz ensemble with Janice Coppola on clarinet, Reni Monteverde on keyboard and vocals and Deb Weible on percussion. Phil Salvato special guest on bass.
Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet at First Baptist Church
November 8, 2009 from 2pm to 5pm
Eastern Watershed’s Klezmer Quartet CD Release Party!!!
Sunday November 8, 2009 2 til 5 pm
First Baptist Church
159 Bellefield St,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
$5 admission or
$20 with EW CD, The Klez Dispensers
http://www.myspace.com/easternwatershed
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Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet at First Baptist Church
November 8, 2009 from 2pm to 5pm
Eastern Watershed’s Klezmer Quartet CD Release Party!!!
Sunday November 8, 2009 2 til 5 pm
First Baptist Church
159 Bellefield St,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
$5 admission or
$20 with EW CD, The Klez Dispensers
http://www.myspace.com/easternwatershed
ío…
Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet at Mellon Park, Shadyside
September 12, 2009 from 5pm to 6pm
live music
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- Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet on September 12, 2009 from 5pm to 6pm
- Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet on September 11, 2009 from 7pm to 8pm
It is like, hardly nothing, man. But there are a few kids trying hard to hold the marching band together. They have a clarinet, a trumpet, a sax, and a few other instruments, and a drum line. These kids are crying out. Meet Aug 27, 6:30 at school.
Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet with special guest Don Aliquo, Sr. at 3rd Street Art Gallery, 220 Third Street, Carnegie, PA 15106
August 16, 2009 from 1:30pm to 4pm
3rd Street Gallery presents
Eastern Watershed
Klezmer Quartet
Pittsburgh’s inimitable klezmer band, Eastern Watershed, performs dance music from Eastern Europe. Specializing in klezmer music, the traditional dance music of the Eastern European Jews…
Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet with special guest Don Aliquo, Sr. at 3rd Street Art Gallery, 220 Third Street, Carnegie, PA 15106
August 16, 2009 from 1:30pm to 4pm
3rd Street Gallery presents
Eastern Watershed
Klezmer Quartet
Pittsburgh’s inimitable klezmer band, Eastern Watershed, performs dance music from Eastern Europe. Specializing in klezmer music, the traditional dance music of the Eastern European Jews…
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- About Me:
- Janice Coppola, clarinet, has been performing as a klezmer, classical and jazz musician in the Pittsburgh area for the last twelve years. She co-founded Eastern Watershed in 2000 with Lynette Garlan, a band that extends into a larger group playing Balkan and other Eastern European music. Eastern Watershed’s first CD with the quintet is entitled “Reflections.” See easternwatershed.org and myspace.com/easternwatershed.
Janice holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Music Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she was the winner of that University’s Concerto Competition, performing Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto under the direction of Louis Lane. While still a student of Leon Russianoff, Janice was a Prizewinner in the Abraham and Phyllis Katz Young Artist’s Competition in Woodmere, New York. In 1996, Janice won the Grand Prize in Marvin Hamlisch’s “Search for a Star” competition, where she performed the Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops on four consecutive nights. Janice repeated the Shaw Clarinet Concerto as guest soloist with the Edgewood Symphony, where she has also performed the well-known Monti’s Czardas. In April of 2005, Janice appeared as a series soloist with the River City Brass Band, performing the music of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman. Traveling out to New Jersey in the spring of 2007, Janice soloed with the Baroque Orchestra of Northern New Jersey as a klezmer musician.
As a classical musician, Janice has performed as a recitalist in Ohio, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Janice has played principal clarinet with the Altoona Symphony on several occasions. A local composer, Ron Schulz, a student of David Stock wrote a piece for solo clarinet, Triptych, for her, which she performed at Duquesne University see Utube “sacradictus” or Janice Coppola.
She has recorded four CD’s, two with the Renaissance City Winds (Nancy Galbraith, Four Chamber Works, Elan Recordings and German Romantic Wind Music, Centaur Label), receiving rave reviews for her performance http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/sept06/German_w.... The other two CD’s are with Anne Feeney, If I Can’t Dance and Dump The Bosses Off Your Back.
Janice was a co-founder and member of The Hot Matzohs from 1997 until 2007, a Pittsburgh-based klezmer group that was invited to perform at Heinz Hall on several occasions, and which has been featured on radio and television broadcasts.
When Janice is not performing with Eastern Watershed at one of Pittsburgh’s many regional festival, concerts and private events, she enjoys arranging and creating educational programs for Odyssey, Eastern Watershed’s “sister” ensemble, to perform at area schools. Two of her programs are included in the Roster with Gateway to the Arts: “Bube Tells A Tale” with Barbara Russell telling an Eastern European folk tale while Janice accompanies her; and “City of Steel – An American Musical Melting Pot,” a program that chronologically combines a game with clues and music to help students learn about the immigrants who came to Pittsburgh region during the time of the steel mills.
Janice’s most recent project is the new Concert Series at the 3rd Street Art Gallery in Carnegie, PA.
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