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B U F F A L O P H I L H A R M O N I C O R C H E S T R A Arturo Sandoval trumpet Michael Morgan conductor Jose Feliciano vocal Miguel Del Aguila Commission Count Basie Big Band Wu Man, pipa UB Confucius Institute Ellis Hall, Tribute to Ray Charles 2014 Side by Side with Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts 2010-2016 African American Cultural Center Dance and Drum Performance Company Kathleen Battle and the Underground Railroad 2013 Donation to Michigan St. Corridor revitalization Duke Ellington Festival 2012 Communities of Giving Legacies Initiative Success Looks Like Me program Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Featuring guest artists Angela Brown, Michael Morgan, Tai Murray and Demarre McGill International Institute of Buffalo Burmese Community Choir Media: The Challenger, Criterion, Black WNY Magazine, WUFO AM, WBLK FM, Panorama Hispano News BPOlé summer concerts 2011, 2012, 2013 Local: • Critt’s Juke Joint • Karen Williams Saxon • Shane Depree Fry (break dancer) • Wendell Rivera • James, T.E.I.N., Levy Jr. (break dancer) • Xavier “Flywalker” Drayton (break dancer) Tribute to Michael Jackson 2011, 2014 Duke Ellington NAXOS recording 2013 Ben Vereen 2015 Kevin Deas vocal Joseph Young conductor training 2010-11 Tai Murray violin Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr Patricia Edwards 2014, 2016 Underground Railroad: String Quartet Church visits 2013 Eastern Hills Wesleyan Church, Bethel AME Church, First Shiloh Baptist Church, Antioch Holiness Church, Zion Dominion Church of God In Christ, Elim Christian Fellowship, St. John Baptist Church, Mount Olive Baptist Church, True Bethel Baptist Church Eric Jordan Young Sammy and Me 2016 Dee Daniels 2016 Side by Side with Muhammad School of Music 2009 Sphinx Organization (Black and Latino competition winners) Khari Joyner, Randal Goosby, Alexandra Alvarado Switala, Ade Williams, Lev Mamuya, Sterling Elliott, Hannah White New Beginnings Choir with Ella Robinson Thomas Wilkins conductor Diversity: Circles of Commitment Demarre McGill flute William Eddins, conductor Residency • West Side Connection was awarded the 2015 Yale Distinguished Music Partnership Award for its work with refugee and immigrant students in the Buffalo Public Schools. West Side Connection 2010-2016 Buffalo Public Schools (all 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th grades and 12 West Side Schools serving 15,000 students each year) Darren Stokes, vocal Master Class 2011 Roberto Sierra, composer residency for West Side 2011 Daniel Roumain, violin West Side Artist Colored Musicians Club Jazz Meets Orchestra 2016 Canegie Hall Link Up with local charter schools Latin American Institute of Buffalo and Hispanic Heritage Council Calvin Rice and Fanny Olaya Hispanic Heritage Month 2014 Radience: Women of Motown 2011 Rita Moreno Vocal Ella and Louis Tribute 2015 Salsa Meets Symphony with Cas Rodriguez Jr. 2014 Ed u c a t i on F e a t u r ed A r t i s t s C o m m u n i t y Ev en t s P a r t n e rs / C o ll a b o ra t o r s
