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Susquehanna Award-winning wind & string trio "soft, sweet, harmonious and eclectic ... a musical journey to a better place." R Fuller
A unique flute, viola & cello trio, Susquehanna's repertoire includes classical, jazz & popular songs & original music. Susquehanna provides chamber music to a wide audience, using unusual instrumentation and folk elements. Founded in the fall of 1993, this trio has received sterling reviews from recent performances. Their repertoire includes eclectic, original compositions mixed with standards from the classical, folk, jazz & other idioms.
The ensemble has performed at festivals, church concerts, private functions such as retirement centers & corporate functions, & wineries. They performed their award-winning original compositions in Boston as part of the Boston-Prague New Music Festival. Their 2001 CD release, Conversations, won an award in March 2003 for "Best Instrumental Album" in Just Plain Folks' 2002 Music Awards, the largest music awards program ever. It also debuted at #3 on International New Age Voice Top 100 Radio Airwaves charts. At times playful, other times soulful & serious, this music is designed to pique your imagination. Goethe likened the string quartet to a "conversation among four intelligent people." Each of the voices in Susquehanna is of equal importance. The combination of winds & strings gives a conversational flow of ideas that blend and dissolve, one into the other. Susquehanna takes the traditional roles of the string quartet or wind quintet to new heights, adding orchestral depth to a trio of players.
Recent Performances: Church of the Apostles, Moondancer Winery, Accomac Inn, Stone Mill Inn, Cameron Estates, Lancaster Summer Arts Festival...
Tom Reese, flute ~ Tish Brown, viola ~ Laurie Haines Reese, cello Thomas Grant Reese (flute, native American flute, pennywhistle). Tom's compositions are known for their beautiful melodies, innovative instrumentation & modern harmonies. His warm yet hard-driving flute sound has been heard throughout southcentral Pennsylvania in jazz, celtic & classical music. He has performed with a variety of artists such as Béla Fleck, Valery Ponomarev & Nick Brignola. Tom brings a warm timbre and special style to his music, from jazz to rock, popular, celtic, blues, & classical. He is a solo artist, jazz musician, & educator. Tom performs with Susquehanna, MuZette, The Reese Project & Wyndfall. (... more ...) Tish Brown (violin/viola). Tish earned a degree in Music Therapy from Slippery Rock in western Pennsylvania. After teaching elementary music and a full schedule of lessons including violin, viola, piano and guitar, she now enjoys being the keyboardist for a praise band, Glory Be and gigging with the Susquehanna Trio in venues including weddings, banquets, Renaissance feasts and local wineries. She began her second career in 1993 and works as an RN in the Lancaster Area for a Homecare agency, and is also a very busy mother of four. Laurie Haines Reese (cello). Laurie has performed extensively in Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle, Hawaii, New York & Europe. With a Master of Music Performance degree from USC in Los Angeles (classical all the way!), she loves the variety in performing jazz, celtic & new chamber music. She worked with jazz great Ira Sullivan while in Miami. The cellist for Wyndfall, The Reese Project, Susquehanna & MuZette, Laurie also teaches at the college level, teaches privately, and is a free-lance musician. (... more info...)
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