Two Bridges is composed of Violinist Martha Muehleisen and Cellist Sarah Wilson – professional musicians based in Colorado Springs who take seriously the responsibility of using music to bridge the divide between performer and audience, between old music and new, and between concert hall and community. They also enjoy building bridges with other musicians and expanding their duo when the opportunity permits.

A fan favorite of Bach in the Subways- LA, Noir Quartet is a premiere So-Cal based saxophone quartet featuring modern works and standard repertoire for four saxophones.
Noir Quartet was formed in May of 2013. Cameron Domingues and Lee Raby teamed up together while at USC’s Thornton School of Music and have worked together in various musical capacities, including chamber ensembles, orchestras, wind ensembles, recording sessions, and new music performances. Nicholas Casillas, a graduate of UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, merged his talents with Cameron and Lee shortly after the group formed. The newest addition, Emma Reinhart, is a Senior at USC and will be graduating this coming May. Together, these four saxophonists and educators blend their artistry, creating a unique and captivating ensemble. There repertoire includes everything from Bach to Ellington, as well as standard repertoire and new music written for the saxophone quartet idiom.
This is the Noir Quartet’s 3rd year with Bach in the Subways.

From Noir Quartet’s visit with John Schneider, host of KPFK’s Thursday edition of The Global Village

3-19 Dance Art will be performing with Clover String Quartet
3-19 Dance Art – Where Magical Realism meets dance
Founded and Directed by Beatriz E. Vasquez uses and combines the language of Ballet, World Dance, Performance Art, Story telling, Music and Visual Art, to transport those around to a different place in time. Beatriz E. Vasquez creates works that draw from different disciplines and ethnicities bridging the gap between cultures, gender, and the lines that so often divide humanity.
3-19 Dance Art has been featured at the LA Day of the Dead at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery 2011-2016, The Echo Park Art Walks 2011-2012, Mi Alma Gardens, The Mix and Match Dance Festival, Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Plaza Mexico, The Mexican Cultural Center, Mercado La Paloma, Pomona Art Walk, UCLA, Highways Performance Art Space, USC School of Genetic Science, Grand Performances at CA Plaza, Festival De La Calle Ocho, Human Resources Art Gallery, Pico Rivera Sports Arena, Downey Performing Arts Center, San Pedro Arts Festival.
In 2015 3-19 Dance Art was the recipient of The Excellence Award by Festival De La Calle 8 for taking classical dance and performance to the Latin community of Los Angeles.
3-19 Dance Art members: Ernesto Mañacop, Claudia Paz, Karin Santiago, Rey Santiago, Delante McCreary, Alfredo Iraheta, Beatriz E Vasquez, with Guest Dancer: Izryel Mathis
I chose numbers to define my work as my work has no ethnicity, I swim in the waters of each culture as if it was my own. We live in a global world and I choose to be inclusive of everyone and everything as opposed to delineate boundaries.
-Beatriz Eugenia Vasquez
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3-19 Dance Art returns for its third consecutive year with Bach in the Subways – Los Angeles.

Benjamin Hoffman will be part of Kaleidoscope’s program from 1:00pm-1:50pm in the Waiting Hall.
American-Italian violinist Benjamin Hoffman has been heard across Asia, Europe, and the US, where he has given countless performances as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader. He has performed alongside artists such as Ani Kavafian, David Shifrin, Peter Frankl, Wolfram Christ, Jorja Fleezanis, and Gary Hoffman among others, in various chamber music formations at festivals such as Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Northwest, Aspen, and Music Academy of the West. In his Carnegie Hall debut, he performed Aaron Jay Kernis’s “Mozart en Route” and Hindemith’s “Kammermusik Nr. 1.” Recently, he had the honor of performing before UN Secretary Ban Ki Moon as a member of Sejong Soloists at the United Nations in New York.
Mr. Hoffman has served as a concertmaster from an early age, performing symphonic repertoire as well as chamber orchestra repertoire without conductor. Last year he led the Yale Philharmonia under the baton of John Adams at Avery Fisher Hall in New York to critical acclaim, and he has also served professionally as guest concertmaster with the New Haven Symphony, the Eastern Connecticut Symphony, and Symphony Song in Seoul, Korea. Since 2011, Benjamin has served as the concertmaster of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, and in a recent performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with that orchestra, he was praised for his “virtuosity and deep feeling…impeccable intonation… [and] a stirring, inspired performance.” Other appearances as a soloist have seen Hoffman featured performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chausson, Dvorak, Korngold, Lalo, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, and Vivaldi, as well as contemporary premieres with orchestra by J. Hoffman and R. Cadeu in venues such as the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing, China. Selected as a fellow for the New York Philharmonic’s Global Academy program, he performed with the Philharmonic and in chamber ensembles with its members.
Mr. Hoffman began studying the violin at age four in Florence, Italy under the tutelage of his mother; his further studies were mentored by Kurt Sassmannshaus, Gabriel Pegis, Latica Honda- Rosenberg at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany, Alexander Kerr at Indiana University Bloomington, and Ani Kavafian at Yale University, where he is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree.