Sunday February 2, 3 PM

St. Mark’s Church, 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue)

Suggested contribution: $20 

For reservations: 212.674.6377  

Maestro Alan Aurelia and Tribecarts present “Black Voices,” with a cast of superb black artists focusing on the music of Eubie Blake, Scott Joplin, and music from opera, Broadway, jazz, spirituals, and more, Sunday February 2 at 3 PM, at St. Mark’s Church, Second Avenue & 10th Street.

The cast includes Jeannine Otis, Yvonne Curry, Rudy Mwangozi, Bim Strasberg, Rick Cordova, and Larry Marshall, who will perform excerpts from his show about the trailblazer and first real African American star on Broadway, Bert Williams, considered the King of Black Vaudeville.  

Alan Arthur Aurelia has spent his life in the arts.  He is the son of Maestro Alan Aurelia, creator of the Riverside Opera Company in 1996 and Richmond County Orchestra in 1998.  As a child, Alan studied music, but also greatly enjoyed behind-the-scenes work and was creating promotional materials and writing grants for the organizations by the age of fifteen.

He subsequently began to love music as a player and performer.  He got his first electric bass when he graduated from high school, and his first double bass shortly thereafter.   

Alan attended the College of Staten Island, where he received a BA in Music with a concentration on double bass performance.  He also studied at the Hartt School, the University of Connecticut, and the U. of South Carolina.  As a teacher, he has been on the faculties of Wagner College, the College of Staten Island, and BMCC.

Comfortable in many different music genres, Aurelia is music director of the Richmond County Orchestra, and the Riverside Opera Company.   He has guest conducted in Romania, Mexico, and Italy, where he was proud to show his son the village of Avellino, home of his ancestors before they emigrated to the U.S. in 1900.  Aurelia is also currently President of the Tribeca Music and Art in Manhattan.