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Sunday Concert- Boston Saxophone Quartet

Broadway and the Movies

Enjoy an afternoon of music from Broadway and the movies from the Boston Saxophone Quartet.

The Boston Saxophone Quartet is a unique blend of musicians combining a tremendous range of repertoire and individual experience in wind performance. Members of the BSQ have performed with the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony Orchestra and leading Broadway theaters throughout New England. 

This concert will feature favorites from Broadway and the movies, including West Side Story, Cabaret, and Mary Poppins.

Jim Repa is a saxophonist, flutist, composer, and teacher living in the Boston area.  He is an alumnus of the Berklee College of Music where he studied jazz composition.   Jim has recorded with several jazz and world music groups, and produced a CD of his original compositions and arrangements with his own “Destinations” ensemble. As a leader and sideman, he has performed in numerous venues around New England and the Midwest, as well as Paris, France; Cape Town, South Africa; and Ojai, California. Jim has been a jazz clinician and presenter at several jazz conferences and workshops, including workshops in New Orleans, Louisiana; Ojai, California; and Cape Town, South Africa. A prolific composer and arranger, Jim’s works have been performed by numerous professional and student ensembles. Most recently, one of his compositions was performed by the Jazz Flute Big Band at the 2021 virtual National Flute Association conference.

Lou Stamas, alto sax, is an active freelance performer, teacher and clinician. A former public school band director for twenty years, he has performed with the Boston Pops, the Cape Symphony, the Artie Shaw, Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo and Hal McIntyre Orchestras, the Capitol Jazz Orchestra, John Pizzarelli and Johnny Mathis. He regularly performs with several Greater Boston big bands, pit orchestras and concert/wind bands. Lou has been an adjudicator/clinician for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association and the Massachusetts Instrumental Conductors Association for the past thirty years. He is currently on the faculty of the Instrumental Music School of Concord-Carlisle.

Peter Cokkinias, sharing a dual performing career as an instrumentalist and conductor (and music educator,) has conducted the Boston Ballet, Boston Pops, Springfield Symphony (MA), and the Atlantic Sinfonietta (NY). He has performed with the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Ballet, and Cincinnati, Hartford, Pittsburgh, and Boston Symphony Orchestras. Since 1979-2021, Dr. Cokkinias had been Music Director/Conductor of the Metrowest Symphony Orchestra (MA), former Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston Conservatory, Tufts University, and a woodwind specialist (“doubler”) at the North Shore Music Theater - Beverly (MA); Opera House, Colonial and Wang Theaters - Boston (MA);  Providence Performing Arts Center- Providence (RI). Dr. Cokkinias is also the contact for the Boston Saxophone Quartet.

Robert Chadwick is a retired music educator, having taught the majority of his career as instrumental music instructor in the Auburn, MA public schools. He holds a Master of Music degree in Bassoon Performance from UMass Lowell. In addition to teaching, Bob has played principal Bassoon for the Thayer Symphony Orchestra since 1980 and been busy playing bassoon and doubling woodwinds for countless musical pit orchestras, free lance orchestras, and jazz ensembles. He has performed with a wide variety of notable artists, including Andrea Boccelli, Aretha Franklin, a broadway tour of "A Chorus Line”, and Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. He currently adjudicates district and all state festivals and has served as an adjudicator/clinician for Great East Festivals. In addition to his musical activities, Bob is an avid sailor and operates a woodwind repair shop out of his home.

The Sunday Concert Series is sponsored by the Friends of Memorial Hall Library.

The Sunday Concert Series is funded in part by a generous grant from the Mass Cultural Council.

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