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Hot Wrk Ensemble

Engaging and Interactive

Creating Community and Connections

Check out our FREE concerts below!
Cornwall and Washingtonville Libraries - part of our Chamber Music Club Tour
Hot Wrk is playing at the Savage Wonder festival in Beacon Oct. 11-13

THE LATEST NEWS!

Hot Wrk Ensemble was awarded a Community Arts Grant to perform FREE community concerts during 2024!

Our project, Chamber Music Club: A Mid-Hudson Valley Tour, is coming to a venue near you! Come join us for some truly unique chamber music. Ask your questions, share your ideas, listen to diverse music, join the club!

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

HOT WRK is:

J Brooks Marcus (J Why), percussion

Lois Hicks-Wozniak, saxophones

Brad Hubbard, baritone saxophone and woodwinds

Saxophone/woodwind and percussion trio founded in 2020 by award-winning musicians J Brooks Marcus (J Why), Lois Hicks-Wozniak and Brad Hubbard, Hot Wrk Ensemble is committed to creating community through diverse, genre-eclectic “chamber grooves” that include everything from Bossa Nova, Son Jalisciense, Scarlatti, contemporary classical and collaborative improvisation. Both questioning and answering, “what is chamber music?" Hot Wrk explores, deconstructs and wrks out concepts of traditional chamber music and the concert experience

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Upcoming Performances:

*October 5, 2024| 1pm

Cornwall Public Library at Munger Cottage

Cornwall, NY 

*November 2, 2024| 2pm

Moffat Public Library (Washingtonville)

Washingtonville, NY 

 

*These three concert are part of a series of concerts of our Community Arts Grant award  "Chamber Music Club: A Mid-Hudson Valley Tour". 

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

Savage Wonder Festival - Veterans Rep Theater

October 11, 2024| 3pm

October 12, 2024| 2pm

October 13, 2024| 2pm

139 Main Street Beacon, NY 12508

Get your FREE tickets here:https://savagewonder.com/the-savage-wonder-festival/   Click on the "Buy Tickets" button

October 27, 2024| 3pm

Beattie-Powers Place

Catskill, NY

Get to Know HWE!

the saxophone/woodwind and percussion trio founded in 2020 by award-winning musicians J Brooks Marcus (J Why), Lois Hicks-Wozniak and Brad Hubbard, is committed to creating community through diverse, genre-eclectic “chamber grooves” that include collaborative improvisation. Both questioning and answering, “what is chamber music Hot Wrk explores, deconstructs and wrks out concepts of traditional chamber music and the concert experience

Past Performances

September 2022 - Concerts Con Brio, Poughkeepsie, NY

November 2022 - Beacon Bonfire Fetsival

 

March 4, 2023  4:00pm - CRS                  Center for Remembrance & Sharing https://crsny.org/events/

May 20, 2023  8:00pm - EFW

Elysium Furnace Works  

St. Andrew & St. Luke Episcopal Church

Beacon, NY

Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5746316

June 24, 2023  6:00pm - 

Composers Concordance meets Hot Wrk Ensemble

Howland Cultural Center

Beacon NY

tickets here: 

https://www.onthestage.tickets/howland-cultural-center/individual-tickets

July 1, 2023 7:00pm - Players Theatre, NYC  Tickets here: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/11306588

 

March 17, 2024

Women's History Month Concert

Newburgh Free Library

124 Grand St. Newburgh, NY 125503:00pm

BOE Auditorium

May 31, 2024

6:30pm

Community "Pop-Up Concert Series"

East Fishkill Library, NY

sponsored by the Howland Chamber Music Circle and the Town of East Fishkill

August 3, 2024

3pm

Hot Wrk with guest artist composer and jazz violinist, Gwen Laster!

Wallkill River Center for the Arts

232 Ward St. at 17K

Montgomery, NY 12549

https://wallkill.art/event/08-03-24-hot-wrk-wind-ensemble-original-compositions/

​*September 21, 2024| 2pm

Port Jervis Free Library

Port Jervis, NY

September 25, 2024| 12-2pm

SUNY Schenectady

Performance and masterclass at SUNY Schenectady

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