Benefit showcases Adler teachers’ talents
By MELISSA WASSERMAN Contributor June 2, 2011 11:30AM
Nino Arobelidze, voice teacher at the Adler Center, will perform at the benefit concert June 10.
Faculty Benefit Concert
David Adler Music and Arts Center, 1700 N. Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville
7 p.m. Friday, June 10
$12 for center members, $15 for nonmembers
(847) 367-0707, adlercenter.org
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Updated: June 6, 2011 12:10PM
The David Adler Music and Arts Center instructors will get up in front of the crowd and practice what they teach in a show to benefit the center on June 10.
Eight faculty members will show off their musical talents, playing guitar, violin, piano and singing. Each will play prepared solo programs lasting 10-15 minutes.
“You’ll get a lot for you money because these musicians are very talented and some of them play with orchestras in Chicago, some of them sing with different bands and all kinds of stuff,” said Amy Williams, Adler’s program director. “It’s going to be a very entertaining evening and great value for the Libertyville or anybody around Lake County that wants to come.”
Center support
Money from the tickets sold will go towards program continuation and upkeep for the building housing them. Williams, who’s running this event along with Executive Director Dianna Monie, says the program is a way to boost the facility’s profile and continue with its great music instruction classes.
The not-for-profit center offers music, drama, art and architecture programs for toddlers to adults throughout the fall session, which runs like the school year to the summer session.
This concert celebrates the end of the fall session and kicks off the summer session of Camp Adler that starts just days after the show.
Nino Arobelidze, a voice faculty member, will perform at the benefit. In addition to her Adler teaching, she performs in two groups, The Crossroads Project and The Brazil Project. Using her classical voice training, she also gives classical recitals and conducts the All God’s Children children’s choir.
The Crossroads project is an indie music project fusing African and Brazilian musical traditions with funk. The group recently released a video on YouTube, in collaboration with the DePaul University African Ensemble. The Brazil Project is a quartet focusing on Brazilian jazz style music.
Arobelidze said the benefit will allow her to share her work as a songwriter and performing musician with the community.
“I’m really excited because the establishment knows me more as an educator there and they don’t get to see me perform unless I’m playing, usually the recitals that I give with my students,” said Arobelidze. “I’m also looking forward to hearing my colleagues because although a lot of us teach in that venue, some of us don’t ever meet because we teach on different days.”
Community music
Arobelidze says there are not many music events around the Libertyville area. So this event is a way for Adler to get integrated into the community and be a place to hear good music that doesn’t require being over 21, or a long travel time.
Williams hopes to sell out the event and have every seat filled.
“I think it’s kind of a secret to some people here just how talented our staff is, and it’ll make them interested in coming here to take classes,” said Williams. “Since we do have such a nice variety of different types of music, I think that it’ll be really entertaining.”
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