Three major works by American Jewish composer Meira Warshauer, Ahavah (Love), Shacharit (Morning Service) and Like Streams in the Desert, will be performed in “Music of the Jewish Heart,” a concert by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Choir, soprano Jennifer Hines, mezzo soprano Stephanie Gregory and tenor Michael Hendrick, all under the direction of Maestro Kirk Trevor on Thursday, February 2 – 7:00 PM at The Concert Hall of Slovak Radio in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Three major works by American Jewish composer Meira Warshauer, Ahavah (Love), Shacharit (Morning Service) and Like Streams in the Desert, will be performed in “Music of the Jewish Heart,” a concert by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Choir, soprano Jennifer Hines, mezzo soprano Stephanie Gregory and tenor Michael Hendrick, all under the direction of Maestro Kirk Trevor on Thursday, February 2 – 7:00 PM at The Concert Hall of Slovak Radio in Bratislava, Slovakia. For more about these works, visit http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/#Compositions.

You can follow Ms. Warshauer’s trip to Bratislava online through her new blog at http://www.sequenza21.com/warshauer.html.
Ahavah and Shacharit both address a universal respect for life as human and spiritual values. “After the Holocaust, there is a great need for healing, reconciliation, and mutual understanding,” writes Ms. Warshauer. Ahavah communicates the message of love and justice essential for preserving life in the earth. Shacharit journeys through the prayers and chants of the synagogue morning service and ends with a prayer for universal peace. Like Streams in the Desert, was commissioned in honor of the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel, was inspired by Psalm 126, whose theme is the return of exiles to Zion.

For more about these works, visit http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/#Compositions. They are being performed in preparation for a CD recording by the same performers in the days immediately following the concert.
For more about Maestro Kirk Trevor, visit
http://www.musicinternational.us/conductor.htm.
For more about Jennifer Hines, please visit
http://www.jenniferhines.voxpage1.com/
and for more about Michael Hendrick, log on to
http://www.michaelhendrick.com/.
Stephanie Gregory has been soloist in a wide variety of works by Stravinsky, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Puccini, Verdi and many others She has been featured in concerts with symphonies including the Bridgeport Symphony and has presented recitals throughout the eastern and southern U.S. Ms. Gregory was the 2001 winner of the Jenny Lind competition, and was awarded an extensive recital tour of Sweden. More about the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra at
http://www.slovakradio.sk/sosr/index.php?page=orchestra_e&menu=menu_e&head=head_sosr_e&title=orchestra and more about the Slovak Philharmonic Choir at
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Slovak-Philharmonic-Chorus.htm.

Meira Warshauer’s compositions have been performed and recorded to critical acclaim throughout the United States and in Israel, Europe, and Asia. A graduate of Harvard, New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of South Carolina, Dr. Warshauer studied composition with Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, William Thomas McKinley, and Gordon Goodwin. She has received numerous awards from ASCAP as well as the America Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the South Carolina Arts Commission, which named her Artist Fellow in music composition in 1994 and 2006. In 2000, she received the first Art and Cultural Achievement Award from the Jewish Historical Society of S. Carolina.

Ms. Warshauer is an Associate Music Faculty member at Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina . Her CDs include the soundtrack to the documentary “Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina” and “Spirals of Light”, chamber music and poetry (by Ani Tuzman) on themes of enlightenment, on the Kol Meira label and “Revelation” for orchestra, included on the MMC CD “Robert Black Conducts”. Her music is published by Oxford University Press, MMB Music, World Music Press, and Kol Meira Publications. You can find much more about her at – http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/.  For more information about Meira Warshauer, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or [email protected].

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