One World Suite with Strings

Inwood Art Works presents

Featuring Combo Nuvo with String Orchestra

Composed by Rich Shemaria

Sunday, April 27, 2025 – 2:00pm

Good Shepherd Auditorium – 620 Isham Street

Minimum suggested donation of $25 Adults, $10 Children under 12, or pay-what-you-can online and at the door.

One World Suite is an orchestral work composed by Rich Shemaria and performed along with the group Combo Nuvo. The suite includes a collection of instrumental vignettes offering a positive message for our planet along with empowering spoken word interludes and a multi-media presentation conveying the beauty of our planet.

Bring your family and meet your friends to enjoy an afternoon community concert of classical music. All are welcome!

Reception with light snacks and beverages following the performance.

All proceeds benefit Good Shepherd School

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Inwood Art Works presenta

Presentando a Combo Nuvo y los orquesta de cuerdas

Compuesto por Rich Shemaria

Domingo, 27 de Abril de 2025 – 2:00 p.m.

Auditorio del Buen Pastor - 620 Isham Street

Donación mínima sugerida de $ 25 adultos y $10 niños, o pague lo que pueda en línea y en la puerta.

One World Suite es una obra orquestal compuesta por Rich Shemaria e interpretada junto con el grupo Combo Nuvo. La suite incluye una colección de viñetas instrumentales que ofrecen un mensaje positivo para nuestro planeta, junto con interludios de palabra hablada empoderadores y una presentación multimedia que transmite la belleza de nuestro planeta.

Traiga a su familia y reúnase con sus amigos con música interpretada. ¡Todos son bienvenidos!

Recepción con refrigerios y bebidas después de la actuación.

Todo lo recaudado será para beneficio de la Escuela Buen Pastor.

Combo Nuvo has been featured around the world with orchestras including the Costa Rica Sinfonica Nacional, Peru National Symphony, the United Arab Emirates Philharmonic in Abu Dhabi, the i Solisti dell Orchestra del Teatro Verdi in Florence, Italy, and the Morin Khuur Ensemble, the National Symphony of Mongolia. In 2010, Combo Nuvo performed before 100,000 people (broadcast to over a billion) at the 60th Gala Celebration for East China Normal University in Shanghai, China.

Dave Schroeder, multi-reed player Dave Schroeder has mastered a broad range of instruments, adding to Combo Nuvo’s sound palate including the Mongolian ever buree, chromatic harmonica, piccolo, bass flute, soprano and bass saxophones, and the blues harp. For decades, his main musical focus has been dedicated to Combo Nuvo, but he has also performed and/or recorded with such iconic jazz artists as Tony Bennett, Tom Scott, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga, Teo Macero, Toots Thielemans, Airto Moreira, Oscar Castro-Neves and Lenny White, to name a few. As Chair Emiratis of NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions and former Director of NYU Jazz Studies, Schroeder has now focused his attention on sharing the One World Suite with audiences around the world. As a music producer, he is the creator and host of the From the Minds of Jazz Musicians Interview Series on YouTube and is the author of From the Minds of Jazz Musicians, Conversations with the Creative and Inspired Vol. I & II.

Rich Shemaria, composer/pianist Rich Shemaria is a prolific composer and has orchestrated much of Combo Nuvo's music for the symphony, jazz orchestra and chamber groups. He has written music for Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga, John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Michael & Randy Brecker, Lenny Pickett, Teo Macero and Wayne Krantz, among others. Shemaria served as the director of the UMO Jazz Orchestra in Helsinki, Finland from 1994-96. He holds the position of Composer-in-Residence at NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies since 2003

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