O.A.R. Benefit Concert - Sunday, November 9th at Federal Reserve Piano Lounge

A Fairfield CT native, Suzanne Bona began studying flute as a child. As a teenager, she had private music instruction in Manhattan and then earned a Bachelor of Music degree in performance from The University of Connecticut. She continued private musical studies with Thomas Nyfenger at Yale University, and has performed as a soloist as well as with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout Connecticut and New York.

Ms. Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a program she created in 1987 on WSHU in Fairfield, CT. The program is now broadcast from WGUC FM in Cincinnati and has aired all over the country since its syndication in 1998 by National Public Radio. She and her husband, Ron, live in Cincinnati.

Pianist and opera singer, Audrey Causilla is originally from the Washington D.C. area. She has studied and performed in several music festivals including the Opera Theater of Lucca, Italy, the American Institute in Fontainebleau, France, College International de Cannes, the Tanglewood Institute, Pianofest at the Hamptons, New York, and Aspen Music Festival. She has also performed in numerous solo, chamber music, and art song recitals locally and nationally.

Locally, Ms. Causilla works with opera singers as well as with young pianists and singers through her private piano studio, and as a vocal coach and accompanist at both the Cincinnati Music Academy and the Musical Arts Center. There, she was musical director of the Young Artists Preparatory Program for two years. As a member of Ohio Music Teacher’s Association, she participates in various events and co-chairs the Auditions Festival annually.

Ms. Causilla holds a BM in Piano Performance from Peabody Conservatory, and a MM in Vocal Accompanying from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Her former teachers include Julian Martin, Ken Griffiths, Richard Fields, and Leon Fleisher.

As a scholarship winner in 1987, Richard Goering was one of two American guitarists invited to join musicians from around the world at Musica en Compostela, a Spanish music festival founded by Andres Segovia. At the Yale School of Music he won the Harriet Gibbs Fox Memorial Prize and a Charles H. Ditson Scholarship.

Currently Mr. Goering specializes in eclectic guitar music of our century. His explorations include Latin, popular and classical. He has performed on concert series in New York, New England, the Midwest, Spain and Italy.

Mr. Goering feature works by American composers Lou Harrison, Robert Starer, John Major, and Ernesto Cordero, as well as works by Peter Maxwell Davies, Toru Takemitsu, and Joaquin Rodrigo. He also includes works by Duke Ellington, Luis Bonfa, and Eric Clapton.

Mr. Goering is a passionate exponent of today’s music for guitar and other instruments. Suites, Dreams, and a Fantasy, with flutist Sandra Seefeld, was a critically acclaimed world premiere CD of four major new works for flute and guitar by Australian composer Paul Svoboda. With flutist Evelien Woolard, he performs in the Windemere Duo. He frequently appears in chamber groups and with vocalists performing works by Astor Piazzolla, Sir William Walton, Manuel de Falla, Laurindo Almeida, and Robert Beaser.

Mr. Goering has had the honor to perform in concerts honoring Toru Takemitsu and Sir Michael Tippett, with the composers present. As concerto soloist he has performed with the Cordoba Symphonic (Spain), Rome Festival (Italy), and Huntington Chamber (West Virginia) Orchestras. He has appeared twice as soloist with the Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra with Carmon DeLeone, as well as having performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, under Michael Gielen, in Carnegie Hall. Presently, he resides in Northern Kentucky with his wife and two sons.

Naomi Lewin is a native of Princeton, NJ, but holds both graduate and undergraduate degrees from Yale. In the ten years she spent as a singer and actress in New York, she appeared in a variety of opera and musical theater productions around the country, including Anything Goes, 42nd Street, Baby, Noises Off, and The Pirates of Penzance. For OperaDelaware, Naomi created the title role in the Charles Strouse musical Charlotte's Web.

In 1990, Ms. Lewin moved to Bowling Green, KY to begin a new career in public radio as a program host and producer for WKYU. She broke new radio ground in September of 1997 when she produced and hosted the seven-hour, live Internet broadcast of "Webbed Feats presents BYTES of Bryant Park" -- a dance/theater/poetry performance event in New York City. She also taught both German and music appreciation at Western Kentucky University, and a Super Saturday Seminar in German for grades 3-5 at the W.K.U. Center for Gifted Studies. Through a Very Special Arts Kentucky Grant, she worked with students at Rich Pond Elementary to create a sound portrait of their school.

Since October 1998, she has been the midday music host at WGUC in Cincinnati, where she also writes and hosts the award-winning Classics for Kids, heard Saturday mornings and Sunday evenings. In her spare time, she produces feature stories for nationally syndicated public radio programs.

Ms. Lewin continues to perform regionally as well as internationally. She has appeared as concert soloist in the Mozart Requiem, the Vivaldi Gloria, and Handel's Messiah. Recent theater work includes leading roles in Cincinnati Music Theatre, the Public Theatre of Kentucky, and the Fountain Square Players. She also toured as a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Yale Alumni Chorus, which has traveled to China, Russia, England, and Wales.

The O'Bryonville Animal Rescue (http://www.theanimalrescue.com) is a 501©(3) non-profit, volunteer run organization. We promote non-lethal control for feral cat colonies and humane methods to reduce the population of feral cats. A feral cat is a domestic cat that has reverted to the wild state after being lost or abandoned, or a cat that has born outside to stray or abandoned cats. O.A.R. has made a difference in the lives of over 1,100 abandoned and unwanted cats and kittens in over 20 Cincinnati neighborhoods.

O.A.R. will be raffling a package from Argosy casino that includes 2 meals and admissions. It is valued at approximately $45.

Contact: Monique Maisenhalter (513)731-4843 or Monique@theanimalrescue.com

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