SCC: Maestro Gregory Singer Presents Master Class in Music, Monday, 5.26th @ 2 PM

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Maestro Singer Conducts Opening Movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

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The Southampton Cultural Center is proud to present Maestro Gregory Singer’s “Master Class in Music” – a delightful and entertaining afternoon as he shares with us his passionate and even eccentric journey through music and through life. Appropriate for all ages, this event is not to be missed and will be long remembered. This one-time-only performance will be on Monday, May 26 @ 2 pm. Tickets are $23.02 for adults and $12.62 for children 21 and under. Go to: https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/southampton-cultural-center/680f935c9bdbf90f7dc2c088

Meet Gregory Singer. You’ve never met anyone like him. His father, Jacques Singer, was a world-renowned violinist who became one of the great orchestra conductors of the 20^th Century, founder and music director of the Oregon Symphony. Gregory landed in New York City at the age of 15 at Juilliard as a prodigy on the violin. He and his twin sister Lori were the two youngest students ever admitted to Juilliard. Lori was a prodigy on the cello but was also an actress and model. She starred opposite Kevin Bacon in “Footloose” and also starred on the hit TV show “Fame” as a virtuoso cellist.

Gregory could have been a renowned violinist, touring with symphonies and making recordings but he followed a more eclectic path. He went on international tour as featured violinist with the rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He played for years as featured violinist in the orchestra pit for innumerable Broadway shows. He became a dealer in fine violins, including holding a Stradivarius in his rent-stabilized Upper West Side apartment. He even took time away from music to be an auxiliary police officer for the NYPD. His love of music prompted him to tackle the impossible – he founded and became music director and conductor of his own symphony orchestra – The Manhattan Symphonie which, over the last decade, played acclaimed concerts around the world, especially in China, and played sold out concerts at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall.