Program Brochure for the event "An afternoon of Gavottes" - More details at http://www.facebook.com/musicforbraintree

1. On behalf of
Braintree school
and
The Shipley School, An Afternoon of
we thank you for your
generous support Gavottes
All funds raised will go
towards the
live-
live-able latrine project
The Shipley School Riely Theatre,
814 Yarrow Street, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

2. • Introduction and Welcome • Gavotte (From Opera Rosine)
Sunita Navile Composer: F. J. Gossec
Saakshi Navile
• Braintree School and Shipley Saine Hsu
Lori DiGuardi, Dr. Usha Balamore
• Learn to Dance—Gavotte
• Introduction to Baroque music and Dana Ragbirsing & Katie Frorer
dance forms
Dana Ragbirsing & Katie Frorer • Gavotte
Composer: J. Becker
• Gavotte
Saakshi Navile
Composer: J. B. Lully
Saine Hsu
Saakshi Navile
Saine Hsu
• Dance Form—Minuet
Dana Ragbirsingh & Katie Frorer
• Dance Form—Gavotte
Dana Ragbirsingh & Katie Frorer • Gavotte in G Minor (From Suite for Klavier)
Composer: J.S. Bach
• Gavotte from Mignon (From Opera Mignon) Saakshi Navile
Composer: A. Thomas Saine Hsu
Saakshi Navile
Saine Hsu • Gavotte (From Cello Suite VI)
Composer: J.S. Bach
• Gavotte Saakshi Navile
Composer: G. B. Martini
Saakshi Navile • Dance Form—Gigue
Saine Hsu Dana Ragbirsingh & Katie Frorer
• Gavotte in D Major (From Orchestral Suite)
• Dance Form—Musette
Composer: J.S. Bach
Dana Ragbirsingh & Katie Frorer
Saakshi Navile
Saine Hsu

3. Our Artists
Dana Ragbirsingh Saine Hsu
I have been dancing since I was three years old. I
play the viola, the piano and the guitar. Music has 3-
Ms. Hsu was a 3-year recipient of EMU Uniqueness Award,
always been a major part of my life. I think that it and Uof A ’s Strine Graduate Scholarship. As a performer she
is very important to encourage children to have a love represented EMU and Uof A by performing in symposiums,
recitals, high school workshops and master classes including those
and understanding of music at a young age. Music
of Andre Watts, Dorothy Taubman, Paul Maillet, Michael Gurt,
has greatly influenced my life and I always try to push Robert Roux, Francis Fanelli, and Susan Starr.
myself and do more. Also, service is very important to
me. It is an amazing thing when you can help someone Ms. Hsu has played for The Pennsylvania Ballet Company, The
out by doing what you love. Shirley Rock School, and the Dance Schools of Temple Univer-
sity and Uof A through out the 1990s, and performs
Katie Frorer mostly in the Philadelphia area in private venues and different
concert series. Notably were the Naudain Park summer music
I love dancing, acting, and singing. I have series in Farmington Hills, Michigan, The Latin American Guild
been all my life and I always like to expand my for the Arts of Philadelphia, John Kozar’s Grand piano Orches-
genres. I think participating in community ser- tra,The.Keyboard Wellness Seminar in Texas in the summers, and
performs benefit recitals to raise money for local tree farms to
vice is important whether locally internationally
plant trees in the city, and homeless animal rescue organizations.
and is a great way to give back for all the
things we have that others might not. I am ex- Currently, Ms. Hsu accompanies choruses and gives piano
cited to be helping Brain Tree and hope that lessons at the Shipley School and her private studio in Center City
what we raise can be put to good use for their Philadelphia.
school.

4. Artists—
Our Artists—Contd.
Shelley Beard Schleigh
Saakshi Navile
As an active chamber musician, Shelley Beard Schleigh was a for-
I am a 4th grader at Shipley. I have been playing violin since I mer and founding member of both the Tononi Quartet and the prize
was 3 years old. I also enjoy dancing, music, reading and writing. -winning Mühlenberg Piano Quartet. As a member of these en-
I am doing this to get Brain Tree, Flushable toilets. I have been sembles, Ms. Schleigh has performed at numerous concert venues
practicing for many weeks and I hope you enjoy it. including The Julliard School, The Curtis Institute of Music,
I am a Suzuki student at Music school of Delaware and also a Peabody Conservatory, Westminster Choir College, the Samuel
PRYSM—
PRYSM—Young Artist. Barber International Chamber Music Festival at Westchester
University, Temple University, Ramapo College, Wesley College,
Saakshi’s Violin Teachers An Die Musik (Baltimore), Ursinus College, and for the Potts-
town Symphony Chamber Music Series. Chamber music collabo-
Keitha Van Engen Herron rations include performances with members of the Minnesota and
Cleveland Orchestras, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and at
Keitha Van Engen Herron graduated from Oberlin College summer music festivals including Aspen Music Festival, Interna-
in 1960 with a major in history. She taught at American Festival-
tional Festival-Institute at Round Top, and Credo Chamber Mu-
sic Institute at Oberlin Conservatory. Ms. Schleigh is currently
Girls School in Istanbul Turkey for 3 years after college.
the Suzuki Academy Department Head and Master Faculty
When her 3 children were in high school, she got her second member at The Music School of Delaware. She has served as
BA at San Francisco State University with a Vice President of the Greater Philadelphia Suzuki Association
major in music. She taught the Suzuki method at several and President of the Philadelphia Viola Society. Ms. Schleigh
music schools when her family moved to suburban Philadel- is a graduate of the Peabody Institute (BM) and Indiana Uni-
phia, and finished her teaching career teaching at home. She versity School of Music (MM).
is now retired.