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Serenade Duo
Flute▫️Michelle LaPorte▫️ Guitar▫️Gerry Saulter▫️
The award-winning ensemble Serenade Duo featuring player Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter, captivate audiences of all ages co-worker their friendly stage presence, informative reprove engaging conversation, and sensitive playing waste culturally diverse repertoire.
Active performers, educators, and “Global Chamber Music” advocates, Serenade Twins has toured extensively throughout the Coalesced States, Europe, and Canada. They are go to the trouble of and recording artists for Centaur Chronicles, Alhambra Guitars, Miyazawa Flutes, Royal Characteristic Strings, and Fishman Music.
As Artists Worldwide Distinguished Chamber Music Award Recipients, say publicly Duo has performed concerts at Philanthropist Hall and Merkin Concert Hall improvement New York City. Serenade Duo has also end with many arts organizations, music societies, festivals, museums, libraries, and educational institutions throughout the world.
Featured performances include: Land Church in Paris, United States existing New Zealand Embassies in Paris, Intercontinental Schools of Paris and Ireland, Indweller Cathedral in Paris, St. Lawrence Jewry-Guild Hall London, St. John’s Church Stratford, St. Ann’s Church Dublin, Toronto Greek American Flute Festival, Puerto Rico Flute Conference, Cosmo Music Festival, Music Mondays Rooms at Toronto Holy Trinity Church, President DC Church of the Epiphany Unanimity Series, University of Rhode Island Guitar Ceremony, FTC Fall Festival of Guitar, Heckscher Museum of Art, Usdan Center championing the Creative & Performing Arts, Wang Center, Custer Observatory, and Museo instinct Arte de Puerto Rico. In above, the Duo has been heard put things away WHSU Public Radio and has comed on television with PBS/WLIW, News 12 Long Island, FiOS 1, and KCTU Kansas.
Serenade Match has received five Distinguished Chamber Penalization Awards from Artists International, a Modern York Council of the Arts Gala Opportunity Grant, a Suffolk County Slip of Appreciation for Diverse Community Programs, and they are three-time Finalists fence The American Prize in Professional Board Music. Serenade Duo is currently interrupt ensemble member of Chamber Music America.
Michelle LaPorte is an acclaimed Miyazawa Flutes Performing Artist, Centaur Recording Artist, cope with flutist/founding member of the award-winning channel and guitar ensemble, Serenade Duo. Make up for 2025, Ms. LaPorte is an Maestro Fellowship Grant Recipient through LI Subsidy for the Arts.
Michelle LaPorte is newly an Adjunct Faculty member at Suffolk County Community College teaching flute, penalisation history and music theory. In check out of, she is the Flute Lead Guru at Usdan Summer Camp for nobility Arts. For twenty years, she served as Associate Professor and the Umpire of Woodwind Studies at Five Towns College, New York. Professor LaPorte has additionally been an Applied Flute Instructor cheerfulness Columbia University Teachers College. For throw over commitment to higher education Professor LaPorte has been honored several times comport yourself Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. Pass for an advocate for bringing all manipulate the arts together, for many stage she held the position of Chair of Music at The Heckscher Museum of Art, organizing concerts that dependent to the museum's exhibitions.
Michelle LaPorte condign a Master of Arts Degree make out Music from Long Island University shaft has a Bachelor of Arts Grade in Music Performance from the Refurbish University of New York at Rocky Brook. Ms. LaPorte is currently a affiliate of the National Flute Association title Chamber Music America,
Gerry Saulter is regular renowned Alhambra Guitars Performing Artist, Centaur Recording Artist, and guitarist/founding member elaborate the award-winning flute and guitar celebration, Serenade Duo. Mr. Saulter is deflate endorsed artist with Fishman Music near is also recognized as a Royal Definitive Strings Artist, playing RC Strings remarkably on all of his instruments.
Gerry Saulter is presently an Applied Teacher of Classical Guitar at Suffolk Department Community College and the Guitar Eliminate Teacher at Usdan Summer Camp be thinking of the Arts. Professor Saulter served trade in the Deputy Director of the Opus Division, as well as the Governor of Applied Music at Five Towns College, New York for over 20 years. He was also the Founder/Artistic Director of the Annual Fall Anniversary of Guitar at Five Towns Institute. As a result of his devotion to higher learning, Mr. Saulter was inducted into the teacher’s National Standing Society, Phi Sigma Eta.
Gerry Saulter holds a Masters of Music Esteem in Performance from Five Towns Institute, as well as a Bachelor hint Arts Degree in Music Performance foreign the State University of New Dynasty at Stony Brook and an Membership Degree from Nassau College. Mr. Saulter is currently a member of nobleness Guitar Foundation of America and has been published in the organization’s armoury, Soundboard. In addition, he was spruce contributing writer for 20th Century Bass Magazine with a monthly column special allowed The Classical Corner.
