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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Bravo Elise Henkleman

In late October, PAI’s very own Elise Henklemen will appear as a guest soloist with the Northeastern Pennsylvania’s Philharmonic under the baton of Lawrence Loh, one of PAI’s esteemed conductors. Elise will be playing the beautiful cello solos in John Williams’ Memoirs of a Geisha. Other works on the NEPA Philharmonic’s John Williams Tribute Concert features the music from the popular Harry Potter and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Mark it in your calendar to hear Elise perform:
Friday, October 21 at the Scranton Cultural Center @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, October 22 at the F. M. Kirby Center @ 8:00 PM

Best wishes Elise—you make all of us at PAI very proud!

Friday, October 07, 2011


Rich Thompson, PAI 2012 jazz band conductor for week 6, will be performing for a week at a famous jazz room called Marian's in Bern, Switzerland w/the Byron Stripling Quartet. Check out Marian's link at http://www.mariansjazzroom.ch/html/home_e.htm and Byron's link @ http://byronstripling.com/

Taisiya Pushkar Performs Milonga del Angel -- Astor Piazzolla


PAI Alum Taisiya Pushkar, who has a great career in New York, recently recorded Milonga del Angel by Piazzolla and uploaded it onto YouTube. Check out the brilliant recording.