Due to the recent surge in COVID, and out of an abundance of caution, HEARTS announces the Red Party is postponed to Friday, March 11, 2022.
This HEARTS tradition helps raise money for our mission to enhance, support, and promote the arts and arts experiences in our public school and the Port Washington community!
Join us, celebrate our honorees, and help support our cause!
Tickets available soon.
This HEARTS tradition helps raise money for our mission to enhance, support, and promote the arts and arts experiences in our public school and the Port Washington community!
Join us, celebrate our honorees, and help support our cause!
Tickets available soon.
Our Honorees
BACH TO ROCK
HONOREE
Bach To Rock of Port Washington opened on Jan 2, 2013, teaching a generation of local kids to love and play music. Owned by business partners Glenn Fleischman and Alan Goodstadt, and led by Site Director Elana Hayden, B2R has actively supported music arts in the community by providing a safe, fun place for students to learn how to play instruments, join bands, record & rehearse in our state-of-the-art recording studio and perform in public at events like HEARTS's annual PortFest celebration, Manhasset SCA Fair, Fall Festival Village Day at the Sands Point Preserve Conservancy and world class venues including The Landmark On Main Street in Port Washington, KJ Farrell’s in Bellmore, City Winery, and The Cutting Room in NYC. Thanks to our talented and dedicated team of pro-musician teachers and leaders, B2R provides all the benefits of learning music with the work ethic, comradery and performance of team sports, helping our students become confident learners, performers and friends.
The B2R team met Damon Gersh, Michele Posner and the HEARTS board when both were just starting and immediately realized that HEARTS was an organization we needed to support. So many folks in the community were clamoring for more music arts programs that becoming an early PortFest sponsor seemed like a worthy use of our resources. Over time B2R not only remained a sponsor and supporter of the amazing work done by HEARTS, but now also supports programs at the Port Washington Public Library, The Parent Resource Center, The Port Washington Children’s Center, Residents Forward, Long Island Together’s “Summer Together Program,” the Greater Port Washington Business Improvement District, The Port Washington Chamber of Commerce, The Port Washington PAL, The Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, and the John Philip Sousa Memorial Bandshell.
Approaching our 10th year serving the local community, Bach To Rock continues to provide music education and performance services to the community, supports our alumni who have gone on to top music programs and careers in music, and hopes to start meeting the children of our first students over the next ten years!
HONOREE
Bach To Rock of Port Washington opened on Jan 2, 2013, teaching a generation of local kids to love and play music. Owned by business partners Glenn Fleischman and Alan Goodstadt, and led by Site Director Elana Hayden, B2R has actively supported music arts in the community by providing a safe, fun place for students to learn how to play instruments, join bands, record & rehearse in our state-of-the-art recording studio and perform in public at events like HEARTS's annual PortFest celebration, Manhasset SCA Fair, Fall Festival Village Day at the Sands Point Preserve Conservancy and world class venues including The Landmark On Main Street in Port Washington, KJ Farrell’s in Bellmore, City Winery, and The Cutting Room in NYC. Thanks to our talented and dedicated team of pro-musician teachers and leaders, B2R provides all the benefits of learning music with the work ethic, comradery and performance of team sports, helping our students become confident learners, performers and friends.
The B2R team met Damon Gersh, Michele Posner and the HEARTS board when both were just starting and immediately realized that HEARTS was an organization we needed to support. So many folks in the community were clamoring for more music arts programs that becoming an early PortFest sponsor seemed like a worthy use of our resources. Over time B2R not only remained a sponsor and supporter of the amazing work done by HEARTS, but now also supports programs at the Port Washington Public Library, The Parent Resource Center, The Port Washington Children’s Center, Residents Forward, Long Island Together’s “Summer Together Program,” the Greater Port Washington Business Improvement District, The Port Washington Chamber of Commerce, The Port Washington PAL, The Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, and the John Philip Sousa Memorial Bandshell.
Approaching our 10th year serving the local community, Bach To Rock continues to provide music education and performance services to the community, supports our alumni who have gone on to top music programs and careers in music, and hopes to start meeting the children of our first students over the next ten years!
Anthony Pinelli, PWSD Music Educator
HONOREE
Anthony Pinelli currently teaches at Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington where directs two Orchestras and teaches Improvisation and Sound Engineering. Anthony has also directed the High School Jazz Ensemble and the Pit Orchestra for the High School Musical. His groups have performed at many local fundraising and school sponsored events. His groups have participated in the HEART’s PortFest every year since it’s inception. He is a certified NYSSMA All State and Major Ensemble Adjudicator. He also is currently completing his 4 year tenure as the NYSSMA All State Orchestra Chair. He has served as the National Association for Music Education Eastern Division Orchestra Chair, the New York American StringTeachers Association president, and the New York State School Music Association String Chair. He is an active member of Long Island String Festival and Nassau Music Educator Assoc. Anthony is a frequent clinician for Double Bass and Orchestral Rehearsal Techniques throughout the tri state region. He has presented at New York State Winter Conference, Long Island’s Balanced Mind Conference and Co-Presented at All Eastern on NAfME’s new National Music Core Standards. Anthony is also an active guest conductor, performer and private teacher in the Tri-State region.
HONOREE
Anthony Pinelli currently teaches at Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington where directs two Orchestras and teaches Improvisation and Sound Engineering. Anthony has also directed the High School Jazz Ensemble and the Pit Orchestra for the High School Musical. His groups have performed at many local fundraising and school sponsored events. His groups have participated in the HEART’s PortFest every year since it’s inception. He is a certified NYSSMA All State and Major Ensemble Adjudicator. He also is currently completing his 4 year tenure as the NYSSMA All State Orchestra Chair. He has served as the National Association for Music Education Eastern Division Orchestra Chair, the New York American StringTeachers Association president, and the New York State School Music Association String Chair. He is an active member of Long Island String Festival and Nassau Music Educator Assoc. Anthony is a frequent clinician for Double Bass and Orchestral Rehearsal Techniques throughout the tri state region. He has presented at New York State Winter Conference, Long Island’s Balanced Mind Conference and Co-Presented at All Eastern on NAfME’s new National Music Core Standards. Anthony is also an active guest conductor, performer and private teacher in the Tri-State region.
Sam Bombardiere
Founder's Award Recipient
A HEARTS volunteer for the last six of her twenty one years in Port Washington, Samia “Sam” Bombardiere’s love of music and art reaches back to her roots in Highland Falls, NY singing competitively in church choirs and then to Manhattan and her studies at FIT and Parsons. Through the years, Sam has honed her musical and aesthetic passions assisting at Right Track Recording Studios, consulting as a wardrobe/ fashion stylist for video and print work, promoting bands along the east coast and managing Clinton Howell Antiques and Fine Arts.
Sam’s continual support of the arts in Port Washington extends beyond her HEARTS volunteer work. As the proud wife of local drummer Stephen, she’s often spotted at his live performances. Sam is also mother to her musically gifted grown children Dante and Luca, who learned and performed with Bach To Rock and Schreiber Theater Company. She loves jamming with her family when she is not singing with her local cover band “On the Rocks.” Sam is grateful to HEARTS’ for supporting and sharing the wonderful music and arts programs of Port Washington to the entire community, especially those in need.
Founder's Award Recipient
A HEARTS volunteer for the last six of her twenty one years in Port Washington, Samia “Sam” Bombardiere’s love of music and art reaches back to her roots in Highland Falls, NY singing competitively in church choirs and then to Manhattan and her studies at FIT and Parsons. Through the years, Sam has honed her musical and aesthetic passions assisting at Right Track Recording Studios, consulting as a wardrobe/ fashion stylist for video and print work, promoting bands along the east coast and managing Clinton Howell Antiques and Fine Arts.
Sam’s continual support of the arts in Port Washington extends beyond her HEARTS volunteer work. As the proud wife of local drummer Stephen, she’s often spotted at his live performances. Sam is also mother to her musically gifted grown children Dante and Luca, who learned and performed with Bach To Rock and Schreiber Theater Company. She loves jamming with her family when she is not singing with her local cover band “On the Rocks.” Sam is grateful to HEARTS’ for supporting and sharing the wonderful music and arts programs of Port Washington to the entire community, especially those in need.
HEARTS IS GRATEFUL FOR OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS
SPONSORSHIP
Interested in sponsoring HEARTS's RED PARTY 2022?
Please contact Victor Germain for more information:
[email protected]; 516-661-0485
Please contact Victor Germain for more information:
[email protected]; 516-661-0485
2022 RED PARTY COMMITTEE
Nissa Fine, co-chair
Lisa Marschall, co-chair
Leslie Stern Abramowitz
Emily Baxter
Melissa Campanelli
Dave Franklin
Marjorie Leff
Cynthia Litman
Eric Gewirtz
Leyalanny Mata
Michele Posner
Jane Ronis
Contact [email protected] for other questions about tickets, sponsorships, and the digital journal.
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