All About the Birds:
Concert and Nature Walk
Sunday Sept 29, 2024, 1:00pm
Calvary Lutheran Church,
165 W. Crescent Allendale, NJ
Suggested Donation $25
Carol Shansky, Flute
Leo Leuci, Piano
Perform a concert of music inspired by bird song followed by a guided bird watching tour in the nearby Celery Farm..a nature preserve and noted bird-watching spot.
Concert is on rain or shine!
Concert Start time is 1pm. Guided bird watching walk will commence approx 2:15 at the Celery Farm, just down the street from the recital.
Recital: 1pm
Calvary Lutheran Church
165 W Crescent Ave, Allendale New Jersey
BirdWatching Walk: Celery Farm 2:15pm
Celery Farm meeting spot; Franklin Turnpike, just south of Pittis st. in Allendale NJ
$25 suggested donation for either or both.
All proceeds benefit Carter-Glennon Center for Arts and Nature.
We might just see this yellow warbler on our walk according to Mr Chelemer!
Marc Chelemer has been birding for more than five decades, and has donned binoculars to look for birds on every continent besides Antarctica. His peregrinations around the globe have resulted in a “Life List” of 3,032 species (there are about 10,700 in total). Since becoming a serious birder focusing on New Jersey ten years ago, he’s consistently been in the “top 5” birders in terms of species observed within the state each year, including being #1 in 2014 and #2 in 2022. He is co-captain of the World Series of Birding team “1000 Birds,” which won the event in 2018. The team was featured on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel in July of 2022. Marc also participated in the first-ever Kruger Challenge in South Africa in January of 2019 (raising money for a critically endangered South African species), and the Oland Birding Competition in Sweden long ago in 1987. Marc tries to do a little birding every day, and is on a "streak" of more than 850 days.
Marc’s real thrill, however, is helping OTHER people see and appreciate birds, wherever they occur: at a feeder, high in a tree, out on a lake. Watching someone’s face light up when they look through a 40-power spotting ‘scope and see, for the first time, a Blackburnian Warbler as it flits through the leaves, or a Pileated Woodpecker making short work of a dead tree limb, is the greatest joy Marc experiences. He looks forward to perhaps sharing such a moment today. You can see some of Marc’s photographs at his website: beeeaterbirding.com."
Dr. Carol Shanksy, has been heard in recital in Boston, Pttsburgh, San Jose, New York City and in other venues both on the west and east coasts. Her European Debut was at the European International Festival in Geneva, Switzerland as a prizewinner of the Concerts Atlantique Competition. Her music has brought her to concert halls at the British Arts Center of Yale University, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Tangelwood's Little Theatre and the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center. In addition Dr Shansky has performed at conventions of the National Flute Association, Midatlantic Flute Association and the International Music by Women Festival, Darkwater Festival of women composers, National Association of College Wind and Persussion Instructors, College Music Society National and Regional Conferences, New Jersey Flute Society, International Clarinet Association, and others. Carol Shansky has been a prizewinner in the Pearl Amster Concerto Competition, the JCC of Metro NJ Young Artists Competition and the Artists International. She was awarded a mini grant for her recital "Voices Lost: Composers Suppressed in the Holocaust" from the Center for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation at Bergen Community College (NJ).
A chamber musician and orchestral flutist, Carol Shansky plays with Synergy 78 (flutes and clarinets) Highwood Chamber Ensemble and is principal flute of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (NJ). Carol has been interviewed and performed live on New York Public Radio and North Jersey Public Radio. She is a frequent recitalist and pit musician for musicals in the greater New York City area.
Dr. Shansky is on the faculty of Kutztown University and Bergen NJ Community College where she teaches Applied Flute and Chamber Music and was previously the Applied Flute Faculty at New Jersey City University. She maintains a private studio in Tenafly, NJ and teaches at several music schools. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music form Boston University. where she studied under Leone Buyse, then of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and her Bachelor of Music degree from Ithaca College. She has performed in masterclasses with Paula Robison, Samuel Baron, Geoffrey Gilbert and Torkil Bye.