Edward W. Hardy News

The 8th annual AgriCulture Feast at Centennial Village Museum will be this Thursday, August 26.

Musicians of the Omnipresent Music Festival, Tiffany Weiss, Sasha Ono, Matthew Beaugé, Edward W. Hardy, Franklin Rankin, Elé Salif Howell, and Alice Tsui, will be performing a multi-musical-genre concert consisting of Classical, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Film, and Broadway music.

Founder and Artistic Director of the Omnipresent Music Festival, Edward W. Hardy (violin), will be performing a free concert of works by William Grant Still, Astor Piazzolla, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stevie Wonder, Carlos Gardel, John Williams, and more.

Musicians of the Omnipresent Music Festival, Edward W. Hardy (violin), Dr. Nicole Wright (viola), Daniel Constant (violin), and Dara Hankins (cello), will perform a free concert of works by Bruno Mars, Kendrick Lamar, H.E.R., Queen, Luis Fonsi, Lizzo, Beyoncé, Lil Nas, The Weekend, Post Malone, Rihanna, Billie Holiday, and many more.

OMF artists Franklin Rankin (guitar), Elé Salif Howell (drums), and Jason Maximo Clotter (bass) will be performing a free concert of works by Harry Basbasin, Oscar Pettiford, Stevie Wonder, Lead Belly, and original works by Franklin Rankin.

The first annual Omnipresent Music Festival will premiere at the Morris-Jumel Mansion between Monday, August 9 - Friday, August 13, 2021, at 4:00 PM EDT. All events are free, but space is limited, and reservations are only required for the final concert on August 13.

Tonight, the 2020 Gateways Music Festival Finale Livestream Concert will feature the Traveling Through Time string quartet with Edward W. Hardy, violin (composer of The Woodsman); Candace Rembert, violin; Drew Alexander Forde, viola (social media influencer, ThatViolaKid); and more.

The 2020 Gateways Music Festival Finale Livestream Concert will feature the Traveling Through Time string quartet with Edward W. Hardy, violin (composer of The Woodsman); Candace Rembert, violin; Drew Alexander Forde, viola (@ThatViolaKid); Thapelo Masita, cello; and the Gateways Brass Collective with Courtney Jones, trumpet; Herb Smith, trumpet; Eric Davis, French horn; Isrea Butler, trombone; Richard White, tuba.

Digital Theatre+, the digital education service focusing on the study of the Performing Arts and English Literature, has signed a landmark deal to be the exclusive educational partner of BroadwayHD, the premiere streaming service for theater fans.

This week's performance features NSO Violinist Benjamin Scott, Violinist Lauren Scott and and NSO Youth Fellowship Cellist Abigail Leidy. Featuring works by Prokofiev, Britten, Rossini and more! Hosted by Marissa Regni, NSO Principal Second Violin. The musicians of the National Symphony dedicate this performance to the memory of Irene Pollin.

A black string quartet consisting of violinists Edward W. Hardy (composer of The Woodsman) & Daniel Constant, cellist Thapelo Masita (The Metropolitan Museum), and violist Tia Allen (Jagged Little Pill) performed a beautifully heart-wrenching performance of Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit'. 'This song, which was written 83 years ago, reflects our current time.' - Edward W. Hardy

The critically-acclaimed 27-year old composer and virtuoso violinist and violist Edward W. Hardy will be releasing his new single 'Evolution' - Inspired by the Evolution of Black Music, along with its sheet music, via Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube and other digital stores on August 31, 2019. 'Evolution' is an original solo violin composition that explores a few different genres of music (spiritual, jazz, blues, hip hop and classical) and was commissioned and performed for the Black Caucus at Howard Theatre; part of the opening of the African American Smithsonian Museum.

Pianist/Composer Dr. Nnenna Ogwo returns to Joe's Pub for her annual Juneteenth Celebration, an event which takes its name from the announcement of the emancipation of slaves on June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas. Known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, Nnenna marks the occasion by reveling in the music of those that took their freedom and made art.

Nearly 15,000 New York City-area students in grades 3-5 travel to Carnegie Hall this week to participate in Link Up: The Orchestra Moves-an interactive program developed by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute that explores how composers use the orchestra to create musical movement.

If you have a heart, you will love this show. It's way too good to let it pass you by.

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond

Producer, acclaimed composer (Off-Broadway's THE WOODSMAN) and virtuoso violinist Edward W. Hardy brings another story to light with his original, and newly released, solo violin compositions inspired by the Japanese Legend of 'The Pearl Diver' - The Lovers Dance.

Edward W. Hardy, acclaimed composer and virtuoso violinist released a performance video of his latest Edgar Allan Poe inspired composition entitled 'Evil Eye'. Back in May of 2018, this piece was premiered, along with the other two Poe inspired pieces Nevermore and A Fantasy, at his EtM Con Edison Composer-in-Residence concert at the Turtle Bay Music School. Hardy's 'Evil Eye', and 'Nevermore' were produced by himself, Jim McElwaine and recorded and mixed by Jonathan Jetter at Right Angle Recording, New York, NY.

The BLUEBARN Theatre, founded in 1989 by graduates of the SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory, proudly announces a creative partnership with STRANGEMEN THEATRE COMPANY, a New York-based non-profit, originally founded in 2010 by graduates of that same conservatory. In celebration of BLUEBARN's 30th Anniversary and the shared origins of the two companies, we are honored to welcome STRANGEMEN to Omaha for the first time. Members of the original creative team of THE WOODSMAN will again bring this award-winning production to life here at the BLUEBARN, enlisting Omaha's incredible local talent. Based on the forgotten writings of L. Frank Baum, Strangemen Theatre Company's THE WOODSMAN gives this darkly beautiful, haunting, and heart-breaking story new life through original music, physical storytelling, and innovative puppetry. A re-imagined tale of the origin of Baum's 'The Tin Woodman of Oz' that is not to be missed this season!

This Today, May 31, 2018 at 7pm virtuoso violinist and EtM Con Edison Composer-in-Residence Edward W. Hardy will be performing a mixture of musical genres with original music inspired by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and L. Frank Baum along with other premieres and arrangements of Hardy's works all for free at the Turtle Bay Music School's Concert Hall. Hardy is one of the youngest composers to ever be accepted into the Exploring the Metropolis Con Edison Composer Residency and is one of the most prominent composer/ violinists of solo violin repertoire for theatrical productions in New York City.