Prelude 4:30 - 5:30 Conductor, Beth Maliszewski. Musicians in Prelude play at a beginning level, have a basic understanding of notes and rhythms, and are ready to begin playing in an ensemble. The repertoire includes arrangements of short classical pieces and fiddle tunes. Prelude is also great for people who are returning back to playing after a long break. Prelude 4:30 - 5:30 Conductor, Beth Maliszewski. Musicians in Prelude play at a beginning level, have a basic understanding of notes and rhythms and are ready to begin playing in an ensemble. The repertoire includes arrangements of short classical pieces and fiddle tunes. Prelude is also great for people who are returning back to playing after a long break. Prelude 4:30 - 5:30 Conductor, Beth Maliszewski. Musicians in Prelude play at a beginning level, have a basic understanding of notes and rhythms and are ready to begin playing in an ensemble. The repertoire includes arrangements of short classical pieces and fiddle tunes. Prelude is also great for people who are returning back to playing after a long break. Prelude 4:30 - 5:30 Conductor, Beth Maliszewski. Musicians in Prelude play at a beginning level, have a basic understanding of notes and rhythms and are ready to begin playing in an ensemble. The repertoire includes arrangements of short classical pieces and fiddle tunes. Prelude is also great for people who are returning back to playing after a long break. Prelude 4:30 - 5:30 Conductor, Beth Maliszewski. Musicians in Prelude play at a beginning level, have a basic understanding of notes and rhythms and are ready to begin playing in an ensemble. The repertoire includes arrangements of short classical pieces and fiddle tunes. Prelude is also great for people who are returning back to playing after a long break. Prelude 4:30 - 5:30 Conductor, Beth Maliszewski. Musicians in Prelude play at a beginning level, have a basic understanding of notes and rhythms and are ready to begin playing in an ensemble. The repertoire includes arrangements of short classical pieces and fiddle tunes. Prelude is also great for people who are returning back to playing after a long break. Prelude 4:30 - 5:30 Conductor, Beth Maliszewski. Musicians in Prelude play at a beginning level, have a basic understanding of notes and rhythms and are ready to begin playing in an ensemble. The repertoire includes arrangements of short classical pieces and fiddle tunes. Prelude is also great for people who are returning back to playing after a long break. Prelude 4:30 - 5:30 Conductor, Beth Maliszewski. Musicians in Prelude play at a beginning level, have a basic understanding of notes and rhythms and are ready to begin playing in an ensemble. The repertoire includes arrangements of short classical pieces and fiddle tunes. Prelude is also great for people who are returning back to playing after a long break. Prelude 4:30 - 5:30 Conductor, Beth Maliszewski. Musicians in Prelude play at a beginning level, have a basic understanding of notes and rhythms and are ready to begin playing in an ensemble. The repertoire includes arrangements of short classical pieces and fiddle tunes. Prelude is also great for people who are returning back to playing after a long break.

Korean violinist Semin Chun began learning the violin at the age of six. Her love for music began to grow as she performed at nursing homes and outreach concerts with the New York Classical Youth Orchestra. Semin has received top prizes at Rondo Vanguard International, Camerata Artists International, VIVO International Music, New York Artists International and National Artists Competitions. She made her concerto debut with the New York Classical Youth Orchestra in 2019, performing Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 at the DiMenna Center. She has also been featured at Carnegie Weill Hall and has performed as a member of the NJSMA Intermediate Orchestra in the 2021–22 season. Semin has principally studied with Dr. I-Hao Lee and Dr. Jiwon Kim. In the fall of 2022, Semin will start attending Juilliard pre-college under the tutelage of Dr. I-Hao Lee. In her spare time, Semin enjoys aerial yoga, kendo and swimming.

High school junior Chloe Lau is a passionate harpist. Since she started at the age of 4 after watching a Mickey Clubhouse episode with Minnie playing the harp, her love for music has only grown after twelve years. She has won several international harp competitions in the past, most notably winning fourth place in the American Harp Society National Competition Junior Division in 2017 and placing fourth in the 4th Hong Kong International Harp Competition in 2018. Besides, she was part of the Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2019 and earned a Distinction in the Trinity LTCL exam later that year. Since transferring to Blair Academy in 2020, she has remained highly involved in music by being the principal harpist of the school's Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, as well as joining the 2021-2022 New Jersey Regional and All-States Orchestra and Wind Ensemble.

Michelle Tolentino, Program Director Michelle has been the program director of NJIO since the summer of 2021. She has a BA in Music Therapy, with a concentration in piano from Montclair State University. She also has an MS in occupational therapy from Seton Hall University. She currently plays oboe, oboe d'amore, and English horn in the tri-state area.

Don't be late! Our March 13th concert starts at 3 pm. Remember to set your clocks for daylight savings time :)

Megan Sweet has been the NJIO Intermezzo cello coach since 2014. Megan has been actively involved in all aspects of the orchestra, from playing with the other ensembles, coaching chamber music, serving as Publicity Assistant for four years, and assisting with concerts and other programs behind the scenes. Megan additionally plays in the Plainfield Symphony and Freelance Ensemble Artists of NJ (FEA), performs for weddings and community theater pit orchestras, and participated for many years in the New Jersey Youth Symphony program, eventually becoming principal cellist of Youth Symphony and going on tour to Ireland and Vienna. Megan works at Rutgers School of Public Health in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy, and worked previously as the Nutrition Education Program Coordinator for Greater Newark Conservancy. She holds both Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, with a Minor in Music.

NJ Intergenerational Orchestra Announces Free Concert Sunday, November 11 at 3pm in Plainfield, NJ NJIO’s Symphony Orchestra will perform the US debut of a four-movement rendition of Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) as “Finished” by musicologist William Carragan. Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, composed in 1919, will be performed by Na Yoon Koh, one of our Young Artist (Rising Talent) Concerto Competition Winner. This piece was composed in 1919 and its elegiac and tragic character, with hints of nostalgia and unresolved grief, is said to be connected to Elgar's feelings at the end of the Great War. NJIO will also perform Banks of the Green Willow by George Butterworth, an English composer who died on the battlefield in WWI, appropriate for the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day marking the end of the War to End All Wars. Additionally, NJIO’s Intermezzo Orchestra will play Elgar’s Mina and Granados’s Spanish Dances. The Prelude Ensemble will open the event and intermission music will be provided by NJIO’s flute choir. NJIO’s Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Artistic Director Warren Cohen. The Intermezzo Orchestra is conducted by Brian McGowan. Members of both groups range in age from 11 to 80+. Details Sunday, November 11, 2018 at 3 pm Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church 716 Watchung Ave, Plainfield, NJ Free Admission Ample free, secure parking in the lot behind the church on 1st Place Visit our website at http://njio.org to learn more. About NJIO New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra, celebrating 25 years, has been recognized as a national leader in intergenerational excellence through its unique approach to teaching musical performance and as a model for intergenerational orchestras across the country. Not only do the intergenerational members play together, but they also mentor one another. In addition to providing free concerts and outreach to the community, NJIO has been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and at the United Nations, and was a finalist for the Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence. NJIO welcomes new members of all ages and abilities each concert period to one of its several orchestras. NJIO is committed to ensuring that all programs and concerts are accessible to everyone. For more information regarding the concert or to inquire about patron services, please contact Mary Beth Sweet at (908) 603-7691 or info@njio.org , or visit NJIO’s website athttp://njio.org .

Timpanist and Percussionist Adrienne Ostrander graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University School of Music. She has studied with George Gaber, Roland Kohloff, and Buster Bailey. As the timpanist/percussionist with Solid Brass, Adrienne has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico and has made numerous recordings. She has performed on Broadway In Nine, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park With George, Me and My Girl and Grand Hotel and in several productions at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ. She regularly performs with the Princeton Symphony, Westminster Choir College, Plainfield Symphony, Central Jersey Symphony and the Concert Pops of Long Island. Her festival performances have taken her to Greece, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Yugoslavia, France, and Cuba. Ms. Ostrander has coached the New Jersey Youth Symphony and is the percussion instructor at the Stokes Forest Music Camp. Adrienne performs educational concerts in New Jersey schools with Young Audiences of New Jersey, Solid Brass, the New Philharmonic of New Jersey, Arts Horizons, Arts Alive, and BRAVO! She is a member of the award winning Rampant Lion Pipe Band of Basking Ridge New Jersey.

Morristown – Audience goers will be moved by the romanticism of “Circle of Dvorak” at New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra’s winter concert on March 5 at 3:00 p.m. at the College of Saint Elizabeth. All four of NJIO’s groups (two full orchestras, a string ensemble, and a flute choir) will perform, each consisting of amateur and professional musicians from age 5 to 85. Admission is free. NJIO’s Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Artistic Director Maestro Warren Cohen, will begin with “Ballade in A minor” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a British composer who was the first classical composer of African descent to rise to prominence. “Ballade” was commissioned for the 1898 Three Choirs Festival at the suggestion of Edward Elgar, who saw promise in the then-little known composer. Symphony Orchestra will also perform Antonin Dvorak’s glorious Symphony No. 6, a pastoral symphony reminiscent of Brahms’s second symphony. Dvorak, a Czech composer known for weaving folk rhythms from his native Bohemia into his compositions, became internationally renowned because of this symphony. NJIO’s Intermezzo Orchestra, led by Brian McGowan, will also perform a work by Dvorak, his Slavonic Dance No. 4. This dance is one of sixteen that were originally composed for two pianos, and the work as a whole is one for which Dvorak is best known, embodying his lively folk rhythms. Intermezzo will then play a rendition of Swan Hennessy’s “Two Pieces for Orchestra,” arranged by NJIO’s own Graham Cohen, who also plays and coaches violin and viola in NJIO. Hennessy was an Irish-American composer of late-Romantic music, making this piece a fitting addition to a romantic concert. Be sure to arrive to the concert half an hour early to enjoy a short, but delightful serenade by NJIO’s Prelude Ensemble, led by conductor Robert Anderson, in the lobby. During Intermission, NJIO’s newly formed Flute Choir will perform selections.

Summit - The New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra will bring concertgoers back to a simpler time with its concert, “The Spirit of 1850,” on Sunday, May 6th at the Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School. The performance will begin at 3:00 pm, and will feature performances from all three of NJIO’s orchestral ensembles, as well as its Flute Choir. Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted. NJIO’s Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Artistic Director Warren Cohen, will be performing the monumental Symphony #1 by Camille Saint-Saens. While not as well known as his other works, including the Organ Symphony and The Carnival of the Animals, the piece includes trademark elements of the French composer’s dazzling musicality and breadth of scope. When written in 1853, the work captured the rising spirit of French nationalism and the military might of Napoleon III, with augmented percussion sections and military fanfares. The work earned him both numerous awards as well as recognition for his talent from composers such as Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt. NJIO’s Symphony will also perform the delightful Overture to Pique Dame by Franz Von Suppe and the melancholy Reverie for Horn by Alexander Glazunov, with Lisa Nettleship as horn soloist. Intermezzo Orchestra will be performing Les Indes Galantes by Rameau and Rhosymedre by Vaughan Williams. Be sure to arrive half an hour early to catch Prelude Ensemble’s performance in the lobby, and Flute Choir’s performance at intermission!

Beth Maliszewski is a violist, violinist and music educator originally from Chatham. She has been the conductor of the NJIO Prelude Ensemble since September 2019. She is currently the Orchestra Director at Herbert Hoover Middle School in Edison, where she coordinates an annual concert festival with 350 students. Beth graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University with a degree in Music Education, summa cum laude. She then received a Master’s degree, with a concentration in Music Education, from Ithaca College. Beth has been a guest lecturer at the NJ Music Educators State Convention and Summer Conference. Born to two New Jersey music educators, Beth has been actively involved in music her entire life. She is happy and excited to be back in the building where she spent her formative years as a young member of the New Jersey Youth Symphony.

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