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September 14, 2008
4pm, 1st Congregational Church in Essex, CT, Carolyn Greenleaf Memorial Scholarship Fund for the Centerbrook Music
School featuring, Megan Sesma and Patricia Schuman, Soprano http://www.shorelinearts.org/calendar.cfm September
26, 2008 8pm, University of Connecticut Faculty Recital Featuring Megan Sesma, Harp and Patricia Schuman, Soprano,
Aralia Duo & Elizabeth Detweiler Jackson, flute and Theodore Arm, viola . Free and open to the public.
September 28, 2008 3pm, Wesleyan University, The Russell House Millett Room, Featuring Instructor
of Harp at Wesleyan, Megan Sesma, and Patricia Schuman, Soprano, Aralia Duo & Elizabeth Detweiler Jackson, flute &
Theodore Arm, viola. Free and open to the public. October 23, 2008
10am, Hartford Musical Society, The Aralia Duo, Soprano Patricia Schuman and Harpist Megan Sesma October 25, 2008
5pm, 1st Congregational Church of Madison, On the Green, The Aralia Duo, Soprano Patricia Schuman and Harpist Megan
Sesma, tickets are $20 October 26, 2008 4pm, Westerly Land Trust, 14 High Street, Westerly, RI, Featuring the Aralia Duo.
All proceeds will benefit the Guatemala Harp Project, tickets are $20.
Worldwide performers Patricia
Schuman, soprano and Megan Sesma, harp, the Aralia
Duo have graced the stages of Carnegie Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, the Covent
Garden in London and the Salzburg Festival in Austria, to name a few. Residents of Essex and Madison, Schuman and Sesma are
the best of the shoreline.
A versatile performer in the mediums of orchestral and harp chamber music and as a
film session musician, Ms. Sesma is principal harpist of the United States Coast Guard Band and adjunct professor of harp
at the University of Connecticut and instructor of harp at Wesleyan University. She received her degrees from the Eastman
School of Music and New York University.
In addition to an international operatic career, Ms. Schuman has concertized
with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the St.
Paul Chamber Orchestra. She can be heard on recording in Handel’s Messiah (Koch), Florencia en el Amazonas, Tancredi,
and Bertoni’s Veni Creator (Erato). She can be seen on DVD in the title role of L’incoronazione di Poppea by
Monteverdi.
Upcoming performances of the duo include the Russell House Recital Series at Wesleyan University, University
of Connecticut Faculty recital, a notable performance in Westerly, RI for the benefit of the Guatemala Harp Project and many
others.
The Aralia Duo is committed to performing all genres and especially collaborating with 21st century composers.
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