In Conversation With

Wycliffe Gordon

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Wycliffe Gordon enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger and educator, receiving high praise from audiences and critics alike. Gordon tours the world performing hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz for audiences ranging from heads of state to elementary school students. Gordon received the Jazz Journalists Association 2008, 2007, 2006, 2002 and 2001 Award for Trombonist of the Year, and the Jazz Journalists Association 2000 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Trombone.

In addition to a thriving solo career, he regularly leads the Wycliffe Gordon Quartet, headlining at legendary jazz venues throughout the world. Gordon is a former veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and has been a featured guest artist on Billy Taylor’s Jazz at the Kennedy Center Series. Gordon’s extensive performance experience includes work with many of the most renowned jazz performers of the past and present.

The April Jazz Weekend was great success! Click here to view a summary.

Dion Parson

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Dion Parson is one of New York’s finest young drummers. Born in St. Thomas, Parson’s musical foundation ranges from Reggae, Calypso and African to classical, jazz and pop music. Though his first musical instrument was the trombone, Parson began playing drums at the age of 15, and was selected to be the VI representative in the McDonald’s All-American High School Band. Parson later received his BM in Music Education from Rutgers University.

After graduation, Parson quickly joined the New York jazz scene, playing with world-renowned greats and eventually touring in Japan, Europe, Canada, the West Indies, Africa and the Middle East. In 2007, Parson started Dion Parson’s Unity, a program uniting musicians, people, influences and cultures through his music. Parson has played in The Color Purple on Broadway, led sessions at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and currently teaches at both Rutgers University and Juilliard.

The April Jazz Weekend was great success! Click here to view a summary.

W. Graham Arader III

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:02:14 +0000

W. Graham Arader III is a dealer of rare maps, prints and natural history watercolors within the United States. In 1974, Arader established his business by bringing a high-charged, trading floor mentality to the genteel and rather dusty print market. Starting out with antique maps, Arader created a market where formerly there was none, and brought the world of cartography to the collector–not just the purview of academics and librarians.

His success is founded upon a keen eye for quality as well as innovative sales techniques. In 1981, he established the Arader Grading System to establish the worth and importance of rare maps, prints and books, as defined by conceptual importance, aesthetic quality, condition and rarity. This system, combined with “original color” (as opposed to the modern hand-coloring of prints), has become Arader’s by-word for superiority.

Patrick Costigan

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:58:48 +0000

Take a world tour with Booze Guru and Rum Aficionado Patrick Costigan from Cru restaurant in New York. Patrick will explore non-traditional uses for Rum in cooking as well as matching delicious cocktails to accompany the meals.

Lee Zohlman / Matty Reed

admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:51:43 +0000

Join us to discover Our World of Sport Strength Training and Nutrition with Lee Zohlman and Matty Reed. Spend a long weekend with the President of the Premier Sports training facility and a World Champion Tri-athlete/2008 Beijing Olympian, both fathers and husbands.

Dr. Shane Hoffman

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:54:24 +0000

Learn how to create wellness by balancing fun, joy and laughter in all aspects of your life. Through age-old Eastern medicinal techniques and philosophies, Dr. Hoffman will introduce simple techniques for cultivating your own wellbeing.

Session one was a great success. Click Here to view stories from this great weekend.

Tommy Zung

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:02:31 +0000

In his discussion, “Aesthetics Meets Ecology,” Mr. Zung will explain simple solutions for combining elegant form with Green-conscious function. Mr. Zung will also provide private spatial consultations through the weekend.

Session one was a great success. Click Here to view stories from this great weekend.

Kristin Reitter

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:46:26 +0000

Through cabaret performances and intuitive private readings, Ms. Reitter will help you uncover the healing power of song and find the power to express it.

Session one was a great success. Click Here to view stories from this great weekend.

Mike Lada

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:44:17 +0000

Mike Lata is a self-taught chef whose passion for food and talent for cooking was inspired at an early age. During his childhood in Massachusetts, Lata developed an appreciation for homegrown, home-cooked food while helping tend his Polish grandparents’ garden. He officially began his culinary career traveling from restaurant to restaurant along the East Coast, working in various kitchens in Boston, Martha’s Vineyard and later, down South in Louisiana and Georgia.

Lata is a hard-working, passionate chef who strives to refine and improve his cuisine every night, strongly believing that high-quality, fresh and seasonal ingredients are paramount for creating dishes that are clean, simple and delicious.

Session one was a great success. Click Here to view stories from this great weekend.