Inwood Art Works On Air

This Live N' Local episode features Inwood resident and the director of both Taikoza and East Winds Ensemble, Marco Lienhard . Marco lived and performed in Japan for 18 years as a member of the legendary Taiko group Ondekoza under director Tagayasu Den (who instigated the renaissance of Taiko).  In Ondekoza, he mastered the Taiko, the Shinobue, the Noh flute and the Shakuhachi under Katsuya Yokoya...

Since 2000, Inwood-based singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Way has been making and recording a mix of folk, lo-fi pop, classical guitar, ambient, & improvisational guitar works.  In 2009 he released "Needle Out" - a raw, melodic set of ten songs about growing up in Florida. 2010 saw a change in direction with the release of a collection of lo-fi, improvised and semi-improvised works entit...

We're turning our spotlight on Broadway music copyist and local Inwood historian, Don Rice. Don has made a distinguished career as a music copyist on and Off Broadway, and well beyond. His projects have included: Jelly’s Last Jam, Beauty and the Beast, The Producers, Frozen, and many other theater, film and television productions. In addition, Don is local historian for the Inwood community. He se...

On this Live N" Local podcast we welcome Louise Rogers and composer and pianist, Mark Kross of Jazz Wahi. Legendary jazz critic, Nat Hentoff, has praised Louise’s work as "the most joyously encouraging way of expanding the audience for jazz." Recently, Louise was named a 2021 “Jazz Hero” by the Jazz Journalists Association. Pianist, composer, educator, and bandleader Mark Kross has composed over 1...

Carlos Deschamps is an Uptown native who creates short films and does photography work under his brand Cinematic Heights Productions . His short films Distances and Horror in the Heights both were official selections at the Inwood Film Festival . Raised by a Dominican family in Washington Heights and Harlem, Carlos knows the importance of a community in a small neighborhood. He loves to eat all ki...

We turn our artist spotlight on theatrical wardrobe professional, Laurel Parrish. Laurel graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is proud member of IATSE Local 764, the theatrical wardrobe union, in New York City. Her career has spanned many companies and venues, from The Juilliard School to Ringling Brothers to Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project. She has been with the...

Hailed by Slide Hampton as “an important future voice in jazz trombone” and “modern, forward thinking, and powerfully melodic” by JazzEd, Nick Grinder is a versatile trombonist and low brass doubler in New York City. He has shared the stage or recording studio with artists such as Lorde, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patti Labelle, DMX, St Vincent, and many others. He has performed in two dozen Broadway pit...

With several years in the arts, Ellen Mullen is a theatrical badass. She received her MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University, worked in CAA’s theater department, and raised a joyful hell as the Flea Theater’s Audience Development Manager. You can find her during the day writing, editing, and playing with words all day as the Associate Creative Director of Situation ; where she dreams up conten...

On this Live N" Local podcast we welcome guitarist Ric Molina. Born and raised in NYC, he has played the road on Broadway national tours, such as Big River and The Who’s Tommy, and for the past 17 years he has been the guitar chair 1 and assistant conductor for the smash Broadway musical Wicked . Previous to Wicked, he played a different kind of “Popular” music by overseeing the musical direction...

We're turning our spotlight on professional actor and stuntman, Calvin Ahn . After graduating from Oberlin College, Calvin has immersed himself in studying stage combat, film combat and has trained in martial arts for over 20 years. He holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and has studied Kajukenbo, a traditional Northern Shaolin Kungfu and Jeet Kune Do. He currently is an instructor in JKD and Kungfu...

On this Live N" Local podcast we welcome trombonist and composer, Daniel Linden. After receiving a M.M. from the New England Conservatory in Trombone Performance, Daniel toured the U.S., Europe and Asia with orchestras, opera companies and rock bands. He has played regularly on Broadway, Off Broadway, and numerous festivals including: the Montreal Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Ban...

Since 2017, Amy Joy Robateau and Tim W. Brown have co-hosted the biweekly Art in the Basin open mic series in the NW Bronx. Amy Joy Is an artist, published poet, writer, and the creator, producer and director of several YouTube channels including: A. Joy Cloud, Where is Blaze?, Imagination Welcomed and Art In The Basin. She is also the founder and director of the Art In The Basin’s Virtual Open Mi...

Tatyana Kalko wants to soothe your heart and make you cry at the same time with sincere yet irreverent storytelling and uplifting old world melodies, Born in Belarus and currently residing in NYC, she admits to being influenced by the likes of Anton Chekhov, Leonard Cohen and The Beatles.  A classically trained singer and self-taught guitarist and piano player, Tatyana embraces contemporary sounds...

This episode's spotlight is on Broadway producer and general manager Carl Pasbjerg. Carl was the general manager for Memphis the Musical, Guys and Dolls, First Date, and The Illusionist, among many other Broadway shows. Most recently, he manages the musical sensation Come From Away , which won the 2017 Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, and Outsta...

Natasha Rivera is a NYC native Director/ Producer who got her start in the industry as an Assistant director working on shows such as the Emmy Award Winning Series: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, Ryan Murphy's “The Politician” for Netflix, and the indie darling “Random Acts of Flyness” (HBO). Seamus Boyle has a background in acting with credits Off-Broadway in productions such as the Obie winning "A...

Eva Nikolova is a Bulgarian‐born visual artist and long-time Inwood resident who works in drawing, painting, printmaking, hand‐drawn animation and cameraless photography. She holds a BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Southern Illinois University and MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University. Her work, which is in the permanent collections of Temple University, The Amity Art Foundation, Manhattan G...

Composer and cellist Paul Brantley is a five-time MacDowell colony fellow who has also received fellowships from the BAM Center and the Anderson Center. He has recently enjoyed performances of his music by The Knights, the Horszowski Trio, the Flux Quartet, and the Memphis Symphony. Brantley recently a composed cello concerto, the Royal Revolver, for Eric Jacobson of The Knights. He co-founded the...

Join Aaron Simms and Jonathon Bell as they welcome guitarist Juanma Trujillo and violist Leonór Falcon on this episode of Inwood Art Works On Air Live N' Local . Leonor was classically trained in her native Venezuela at the Emil Friedman Conservatory and the Mozarteum de Caracas. She went on to study performance at the Conservatory of Geneva and jazz at Queens College, which brought her to New Yor...

Sky Pape is an abstract artist known for using traditional materials like ink, graphite, and paper in new and unconventional ways to produce intricate canvases in large and small scales. Sky's work has been collected by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and The Brooklyn Museum of the Arts (among many others), and has twice graced the cover of the J...

Andrea Wittgens came to New York in 2006 from Nova Scotia, by way of Calgary and Seattle. In Seattle she trained in classical piano and modern dance, and, wielding a music degree from Queens College, fronted and wrote songs for the pop band Sugartown. Since moving to New York, her Bob Power-produced EP  Alibi, and its 12-song follow-up  In The Skyline , have been warmly reviewed. A visit to the St...

Please enjoy this 2020 Inwood Art Works On Air Live N' Local Sampler, featuring selections from the Live N' episodes of our first season of Inwood Art Works On Air! Selections: In the Heights Medley . Arranged by Dan Pardo and performed by Calliope Brass. Recorded September 13, 2020, at the 809 Restaurant and Lounge, 112 Dyckman St., New York City. Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse from Samson et Da...

As a child growing up in her native San Juan, mezzo-soprano Laura saw Carmen and announced immediately that that is what she wanted to do with her life. She began singing with the Coros De Niños de San Juan, and went on to study at the Peabody Conservatory at Johns-Hopkins University and at the Manhattan School of Music. She has since earned an international reputation for her nuanced portrayals o...

Lisa D'Apolito's celebrated documentary  Love, Gilda revealed the inner life of comic and Saturday Night Live founding cast member Gilda Radner. Lately she's been working on separate projects about the lives of two very different artists: maverick independent filmmaker Albert Pyun, and ventriloquist, comedian, and children's television icon Shari Lewis. Aaron talks to Lisa about her projects, abou...

Todays guests are pianist Candace Chien and violinist Nicholas Pappone , the Alighieri Duo . Nicholas was inspired to take up the violin when, as a child actor, he portrayed a musical prodigy. He’s now a sought-after soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher who has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Piano Trio, and the...

Dister Rondon has danced in movies, on VH1, and in national ads for Apple, Verizon, and the Gap, and you’ve seen his art all over upper Manhattan— inside George Washington High School , for example, or at 172nd and Amsterdam, where you'll find his mural thanking essential workers. In 2004 Dister created the I Love My Hood project to promote and preserve the Washington Heights he grew up in. I Love...