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Kaufman Connects Featuring Nikki Renée Daniels and Jeff Kready KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS Kaufman Connects Featuring Nikki Renée Daniels and Jeff Kready 2020-21 Kaufman Music Center presents A Virtual Concert and Wine Tasting Kaufman Connects Streamed Monday, December 14, 2020 at 6:30 pm ET with Nikki Renée Daniels and Jeff Kready Dan Pardo, piano; Keith Witty, bass Bret Patterson, sommelier Program Welcome and Introduction KATE SHEERAN, Executive Director BETHANY MILLARD, Vice President, Board of Trustees I. Wine Tasting: Rosé BRET PATTERSON, sommelier CHARLIE SMALLS Home from The Wiz CHARLOTTE MACLEOD, vocalist Lucy Moses School, Summer Musical Theater Workshop JIHWAN KIM, piano BILLY JOEL Scenes From an Italian Restaurant MATT DUBEY/HAROLD KARR How Does the Wine Taste? CAROLYN LEIGH/CY COLEMAN When In Rome (I Do As The Romans Do) PAUL RYAN I Will Drink the Wine NIKKI RENÉE DANIELS and JEFF KREADY, vocalists II. Wine Tasting: Côtes de Paso KaufmanMusicCenter.org|866-222-6330 FRANK LOESSER I Like Everybody from The Most Happy Fella FREDERICK LOEWE/ALAN JAY LERNER Almost Like Being in Love from Brigadoon GEORGE GERSHWIN/ Summertime from Porgy and Bess DUBOSE HEYWARD/IRA GERSHWIN III. Wine Tasting: Cabernet Sauvignon ERNESTO LECUONA Malagueña DAVE FRISHBERG Peel Me a Grape MITCH LEIGH/JOE DARION The Impossible Dream (The Quest) from Man of La Mancha HAROLD ARLEN/JOHNNY MERCER Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive HAROLD ARLEN/TED KOEHLER Get Happy IV. Wine Tasting: Libelle Sparkling Picpoul Blanc Event Sponsors Halter Ranch Vineyard Bethany and Robert B. Millard Kaufman Connects Benefactors Bethany and Robert B. Millard Cathy White O’Rourke Joy and Graham Wyatt All 2020-21 Kaufman Music Center performances are online, filmed in safe, socially distanced locations observing health and safety protocols, and streamed to the safety of your home. Steinway is the official piano of Merkin Hall KaufmanMusicCenter.org|866-222-6330 About the Artists Nikki Renée Daniels Nikki Renée Daniels will be in the upcoming Broadway revival of Company, playing Jenny. She recently completed the Chicago run of Hamilton as Angelica Schuyler. On Broadway Nikki has starred in The Book of Mormon and the 2012 Tony Award Winning Broadway Revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Other Broadway credits include Fantine in Les Misérables, Anything Goes, Aida, Nine, Little Shop of Horrors, Lestat, and The Look of Love. Ms. Daniels made her New York City Opera debut as Clara in Porgy and Bess. Other New York credits include Martha Jefferson in 1776 at City Center Encores! and Rose Lennox in The Secret Garden at David Geffen Hall. On television Nikki has been featured on Chappelle’s Show, Madam Secretary, and The Sound of Music: Live. She has performed as a soloist with numerous symphony orchestras across the country and Canada, and at Carnegie Hall. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. Her debut solo CD, Home, is available on iTunes and CDBaby.com. For more information please visit nikkireneedaniels.com. @nikkireneesings Jeff Kready Jeff Kready was most recently seen on Broadway standing by for the title role of Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in the 2019 Tony nominated musical Tootsie. Other Broadway credits include Monty Navarro in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Tony Elliot in Billy Elliot the Musical, Sunday in the Park with George (2008 revival), and Les Misérables (Jean Valjean understudy, 2006 revival). Regional credits include Tommy in Brigadoon (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Ted Hanover in Holiday Inn (Paper Mill Playhouse), Mr. Snow in Carousel (Connecticut Critics Circle award nomination, Goodspeed Opera House), Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Paper Mill), Crumpet the Elf in David Sedaris’s one-man-show Santaland Diaries (Hartford TheaterWorks), and In This House (World Premiere, Two River Theater). Off-Broadway: Attack of the Elvis Impersonators (Theater Row), and Tokio Confidential (Atlantic Theater Company). On television, Mr. Kready has been seen on The Code (CBS), The Good Fight (CBS All Access), Elementary (CBS), and Boardwalk Empire (HBO). He has performed as guest soloist with The Grand Teton Music Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Society, Allentown Symphony, and Topeka Symphony. Jeff can also be heard on the album The Broadway Tenors (Jay Records). A former elementary school music teacher, he is a graduate of Washburn University. Favorite roles: husband to Nikki, dad to Lena (7) and Louise (3). KaufmanMusicCenter.org|866-222-6330 Dan Pardo, piano Dan Pardo is a freelance music director, pianist, educator, and arranger based in New York City. He made his Broadway debut in 2015 as a keyboardist and assistant conductor for Amazing Grace at the Nederlander Theatre. Off-Broadway credits include: I Spy a Spy (St. Clement’s), The Office: A Musical Parody (Orbach), Rothschild and Sons (York), and Skippyjon Jones: Snow What? (Lucille Lortel). Other credits include workshop productions of Come From Away (NAMT) and Found (Atlantic Theatre Company). Dan performs regularly with the vocal jazz quintet Marquee Five, and with his group BariToned. Regional favorites include Company at the Barrington Stage, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Fun Home at the Weston Playhouse, and Alice at Yale School of Drama. Dan has also worked productions at Goodspeed Musicals, where he spent three seasons on the resident music staff. Last year, he music-directed his first TV project, the Emmy-nominated variety special John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch, for Netflix. As an educator, Dan teaches for Harlem School of the Arts, Shuffles Tap and Theatre School, and Rosie’s Theatre Kids. He would like to thank Nikki and Jeff for bringing him on board, Keith for his fine musicianship, and Kaufman Music Center for the wine, and for creating this terrific series. Keith Witty, bass A native of New York City, bassist and composer/producer Keith Witty has spent his career straddling the worlds of hip-hop, various popular music forms, and jazz’s avant garde. He has performed and recorded worldwide with an array of artists including vocalists Amel Larrieux and Nona Hendryx and instrumentalists David S. Ware, Anthony Braxton, Michael Gregory Jackson and Ulysses Owens Jr. Keith began playing with vocalist Somi as a regular member of her ensembles and appears on her album Live at the Jazz Standard. He has produced Somi’s major label debut, Lagos Music Salon (2014) and Petite Afrique (Outstanding Jazz Album at the 2017 NAACP Image Awards). Keith’s compositions and arrangements appear on Somi’s 2020 Grammy-nominated album Holy Room: Live at Alte Oper with Frankfurt Radio Big Band. Keith formed the electro-acoustic jazz trio Thiefs with French saxophonist Christophe Panzani and American drummer/vocalist Guillermo E. Brown. Their debut album received high praise in the US and in France, where the band has since toured extensively. Thief’s second album Graft, featuring pianist Aaron Parks and poet/mc’s Mike Ladd and Gaël Faye on the French label Jazz&People. Also an educator, Keith was composer-in-residence for the New York City Opera’s education program, and has taught as a visiting artist at Community Arts programs and schools around the United States and internationally. He received his BA from Wesleyan University and MA in music from the City College of New York. He has studied with master bassists Michael Moore, Mark Dresser, and John Patitucci. Charlotte MacLeod Charlotte MacLeod is a New York City-based actress and singer and is thrilled to be part of this Kaufman Connects event! She recently appeared in the narrative film short Margo & Perry, directed by Becca Roth, and the Merkin Hall series, Broadway Close Up: I Won’t Grow Up. She played Young Virginia Galilei in a staged reading of the musical Galileo at Vassar College Powerhouse Theater, and has performed as a soloist at many fundraising events. Charlotte played the character Kimmie on PBS Kids’ Cyberchase For Real. This past spring she was cast as Abby in Sarah Silverman’s musical The Bedwetter (postponed due to Covid-19). She has also appeared in several television commercials. Jihwan Kim Jihwan Kim is a New York City-based composer and pianist. With lyricist/bookwriter Sean Hartley, he wrote Cupid and Psyche, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Lyrics, and was produced Off-Broadway at the John Houseman Theatre. With lyricist/ bookwriter Eddie Sugarman, Jihwan wrote The Nutcracker Sings and Cinderella After The Ball, which premiered at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. He also wrote several songs with lyricist Adam Gwon for The Secret Silk, a production for Princess Cruises. The orchestra- tor of The Moon and The Son, which won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, Jihawn’s other orchestration projects include One World Symphony, Ureuk Symphony Orchestra, and Les Deux Timides film score live-to-picture at the Tribeca Film Festival. He received his B.A. at Harvard University, M.A. in Film Scoring at NYU, and a J.D. at Rutgers Law School. His credits as a pianist include: An American In Paris on Broadway, Sousatzka at the Elgin The- atre in Toronto, and A Chorus Line on its first National Tour. Bret Patterson, sommelier Bret Patterson is a certified sommelier and wine professional working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began his career in Napa Valley, working as a Cellar Worker at Groth Vineyards before discovering his passion for wine education and accepting a position as a Wine Educator at Joseph Phelps Vineyards. While working at Joseph Phelps, he was responsible for leading wine tastings for both small and large groups as well as hosting private events. In May of 2019, Bret relocated to San Francisco to work as an Account Manager for Kimberly Jones Selections and continue his work as a Wine Educator at West Coast Wine and Cheese.
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