Prep Winter Recital

The Prep classes performed for parents and friends with great success! Good job for a first time on stage---everyone smiled, sang, played instruments, and the grand finale was Jingle Bells!

Grade 1 Choir At Its Best

Congratulations to Grade 1 Choir! Your concert was beautiful and we are so proud of you! Students performed in English, Italian, German, and Spanish, accompanied by Esther Sofaer on piano and many percussion instruments. Have wonderful holidays!

Nursery and Kinder Shine

Kinder had its first appearance on stage last week in their Winter Recital-Open House on the Ambrit stage. Everyone was happy to appear and show what they do when they are in music class. Their happy smiles were great to see as they sang Feliz Navidad and other winter and Hannukah songs.

Nursery had their Open House concert in the music room. The room was packed with parents and many cameras and videocams to record their first performance. Everybody had a snack of Christmas treats afterwards.

Scuola Modugno Visits Ambrit

It was about time! Our friends from the Scuola Modugno have hosted our choir and ensemble tours to Puglia twice, and on Wednesday, December 11 they came all the way up from Monopoli to visit us and sing a most memorable concert. Three hundred and fifty Ambrit students were an excellent audience to the full-length concert offered by the singers who range from 8-18 years old. Under the direction of Angela Formica, the performance included clever arrangements of Italian and spiritual Christmas songs, followed by a selection of show tune hits. The students introduced the music themselves in English. Afterwards they mixed and mingled with the Ambrit students over panetone and pandoro in the atrium. In spite of the rainy weather, we had a wonderful time hosting them, and hope that their tour of Rome isn't too wet! Congratulations, Monopoli singers, and come back!

Piano and Friends Annual Concert

The Piano and Friends annual concert of primarily classical music was given in mid-November. The concert celebrated the first birthday of the beautiful grand piano and showed off our music teachers and music friends. The program included the Mozart Andante in C (Nicola Gilbert on flute), Mendelssohn Song Without Words (Rose Bruno on piano), Schubert allegro from Sonatina n. 2 (Damion Wallace on violin), Pete Sheppard played drums to Bach Gavotte and Gigue (Paige Short accompanying on piano), Esther Sofaer played the Etude Tableaux Op. 39, n. 9 by Rachmaninoff, Stan Adams performed his fabulous arrangements of Disney and Beatles on trombone, soprano Maria Infante sang "Don't Be Anything Else" and the Mozart Rondo from Kegelstatt Trio K.498 (Yvonne Fisher on clarinet, Ginger Izzo on viola). The Ambrit choir singers sang I Love A Piano to the four-hand accompaniment by Nicky and Rose. A great evening, especially because it raised over €1000 for the Suffyan Koroma sickle-cell anemia fund.
Our piano has lots of friends!

Grades 4 and 5 On Stage

Grades 4 and 5 performed at Ambrit December 2 to a full house! Parents heard music in several languages and were proud of the great singing and playing. Soloists featured Aurora, Stefan, Antoine and Sofia. So much talent packed into one concert!

Ambrit String Orchestra Hits Ambrit

The Ambrit String Orchestra played an impressive overture to the Grades 2 and 3 Winter Recital. Angels We Have Heard On High was brilliantly arranged by Damion Wallace, who is also the director of the dedicated and talented group. Students played to a full house and an appreciative audience, setting the mood for what became a successful musical performance. Congratulations to Billy, Giulia, Alessandro, Jacopo, Sofia, Catherine, Mattias, and Miss Ginger and Mr. Wallace. Strings rule!