Angel (Overture)
Original Music by Richard
Master
Performed by Eric Doney

Angel
Original Story and Music by: Richard Master
Adapted by Meredith-Lyn Olivieri and Bobby Avey

Chorography: Meredith-Lyn
in collaboration with the dancers

Music: Richard Master, adapted and expanded to four-hand piano by Bobby Avey

Lighting: Grant Wilcoxen

Dancers: Marcos Duran, Beth Edwards,Leah Ives, Sarah Beth Oppenheim,Kyleigh Sackandy, justin Ternullo,Sarah Zitnay

Costumes: Claudia Olivieri,Meredith-Lyn and Kathie Snuffer

3 Movements:
The Young Woman,
The Child, The Old Man

Richard Master has enjoyed a varied career, as a lawyer, businessman,theatrical producer and moviemaker. He has also maintained a life long intense involvement with music, including performing as a jazz trumpet player and operating a jazz club. "Angel" comes from Richard's meditations surrounding a life threatening illness.
The work of the Angel of Death and the stages of death and dying ... awareness, argument,transfiguration, rapture, nothingness... are the subject matter of this piece.
Richard is at work on "The Chase" which describes musically man's rage for competition and how the world is broken.

Since receiving a BFA in Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase in 2006, Meredith-Lyn Olivieri has maintained a busy career both choreographing and performing in New York City. She has danced for the following choreographers: Natalie Desch of Doug Varone and Dancers, Lori Stallings, Nora Petroliunas,Nicholas Andre, Lane Gifford andStephanie Miracle.
Meredith currently dances for Avodah Dance Company directed by Julie Gayer, where she has taught and performed within Baylor Women's Correctional Facility in Delaware. In addition, Meredith is also dancing works by Sarah Beth Oppenheim of Heart Stuck Bernie - a site-specific dance happenings company.
Last year, Meredith performed within a Sam Bassett film: "Storme", which is currently in postproduction. She has performed at City Center Studios,Citigroup Theatre, HERE Arts, Whitewave, Triskelion Arts Center, Green Space, the 92nd Street YMCA, Hebrew Union College, as well as various site-specific spaces including The Creek and the Cave, the Chelsea Hotel rooftop, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Rockefeller Center and Book Court, bookstore.
Meredith has shown her own work at WAXworks! within Triskelion Arts Center in Brooklyn and is excited to be showing her collaborative work with Richard Master at the 14th street Y Theater.

Upon graduating in 2007 with a BA in Jazz Studies from PurchaseConservatory of Music, Bobby Avey moved to Brooklyn, NY. In 2006, ZOHO Records released Vienna Dialogues featuring the piano/soprano sax duo of Bobby Avey and Dave Liebman, which features songs by composers spanning Handel through Mahler and opens them up for improvisation. The album received great reviews, most notably by Scott Albin of Jazz Times.
Bobby won the Pressor Scholarship while attending Purchase and was named the 2006 Yamaha Young Performing Artist on piano.
In January 2009, Bobby recorded his first CD as leader. The project is comprised exclusively of his originals and continues his association with David Liebman, who appears on four tracks.
Bobby Avey is currently an active freelance musician and composer in New York City.

A graduate of Pen Argyl High School in Pennsylvania, Eric began classical studies in first grade and gave his first public performance by the age of seven.
He started playing jazz in junior high school and began performing professionally at the many Pocono Mountain jazz clubs with local legends such as AI Cohn, Bill Goodwin, and Steve Gilmore. He earned a bachelor of music degree from Susquehanna University.Doney's performance credits include: Jon Hendricks, David Johansen, Kim Parker, Connie Stevens, Les Brown's Band and the Bob Hope Show. He has also served as musical director for Englebert Humperdink touring more than 40 countries.
In 1993, Doney formed PACIFIC STREET RECORDS. To date, he has produced 20 recordings for his label, recording such local jazz greats as Phil Woods, Bob Dorough, John Coates Jr. and Scott Jarrett.
Jazziz magazine named Doney one of  its five finalists in their Keyboards on Fire talent search in 1995.