Sound Beach Community Band Concert

GHS Student debuts with Sound Beach Community Band
(OLD GREENWICH, CT) Esther Lee, 18, a senior honor-roll student at Greenwich High School, will make her first solo appearance playing Concertino for Flute Solo with Band Accompaniment, Op. 107 by Chaminade with the Sound Beach Community Band (soundbeachband.org) at its August 26th concert.  The band, led by its conductor and music director Barbara Freedman, will also perform works by King, Beethoven, and Willson.  The free concert will be held in Roger Sherman Baldwin Park at 7 PM.  The audience is encouraged to bring a picnic dinner.
Esther studies Old Greenwich School teacher Mary Fike.  Esther has played in the pit with professional musicians for recent productions of the Wizard of Oz at Eastern Middle School and Beauty and the Beast and at Greenwich High School.
She’s the principal flautist of the Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic, founded in 1960 by former GHS Orchestra conductor Salvatore Princiotti, and the GHS Wind Ensemble, She’s the principal piccolo player of the Connecticut Music Educators Association Western Region Band.  She also performed with the Connecticut Music Educators Association All-State Band and the New England Music Festival Association Band.
About the SBCBKnown as the Sound Beach Volunteer Fire Department Band until 2007, the Sound Beach Community Band (SBCB) has been an Old Greenwich tradition since 1955, providing marching music for the department (soundbeachfire.org) at parades in Greenwich and other towns in Fairfield and Westchester counties, and performing free public concerts town-wide.  Music director Freedman (musicedtech.com) teaches Electronic Music & Audio Engineering at GHS. She's a professional timpanist and percussionist who works regularly with area symphony orchestras.
SBCB entertains throughout the year at community events and venues such as the fireworks in Binney Park, the Independence Day Ceremony at Town Hall, the Strawberry Social, the St. Catherine’s Carnival of Fun, and the Pumpkin Patch.  The band is always on hand for Santa's arrival at the Sound Beach firehouse during the Old Greenwich Merchants First Light Festival.
SBCB welcomes new members at any level to join its core of volunteer professional and semi-professional musicians -- so dust off that flute you played in junior high and join the fun!
SBCB, which depends on community support, is an American tax-exempt, nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charity.
For more information, contact personnel manager (& clarinetist extraordinaire) Eric Milkie at 203.653.4151 or band@soundbeachband.org.