Sudbury Seniors Concert

Wayne Hall spent 32 years in the information technology field, primarily with Digital Equipment Corporation.  He began studying piano at age 6 with Magda Glaser, a well-known concert pianist in Germany and a student of Artur Schnabel.  A professional jazz pianist in his high school and college days, he is also a singer, performing regularly with the Heritage Chorale.  Since his retirement, he has devoted much of his time to the piano and as an outdoor and nature photographer with many exhibits to his credit.  Wayne has been a resident of Sudbury since 1974

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Stephen Senturia retired from MIT after 36 years of teaching electrical engineering. He now divides his time between playing music, studying at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, working with a start-up company, traveling and watching his seven grandchildren grow up.  He studies with Elizabeth Connors.  He has performed at a variety of venues including MIT, Union College, and Wellesley College. Stephen plays the clarinet.

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Joel Dawson started playing the viola when he was ten years old, and spent his first eighteen years exclusively on that instrument, when he began to play the violin also. He minored in music as an undergraduate at MIT, where he studied with violist Marcus Thompson. As a doctoral student at Stanford, he studied with Gennady Kleyman, played chamber music with numerous groups, and was active as a freelance musician in the San Francisco Bay Area. He joined the MIT faculty in the fall of 2004.

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Helen Kim is Ben Warwick’s mother. She played the piano since she was 5 years old. She works at MIT Lincoln Laboratory as an engineer, designing chips. She accompanies Ben on the piano.

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Ben Warwick is an 8th grader in Curtis Middle School in Sudbury. Today’s concert was Ben’s idea, woven out of three threads.

The first thread was music: He has played the cello since he was 9 years old. He is a member of a Youth Baroque Ensemble in New England Conservatory and takes a lesson with Susanne Friedrich.

The second thread was his concern about climate change. He wanted to reduce carbon emissions by promoting compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), which save both money and energy and have less environmental impact than traditional incandescent bulbs.

The third thread was an outreach program that he enjoyed when in 4th grade at Haynes School hosted Sudbury Senior’s. He wanted to return the favor.

In sum, the proceeds from this music concert will go towards the purchase of CFLs for the Sudbury seniors.

Ben wishes to express his thanks to Kristin Kiesel, Director of the Sudbury Senior Center who helped make this possible, to the other performers joining him this afternoon, and to you for expressing an interest by visiting our web site today. Hope you can come and/or contribute.

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