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THE ANATOMY OF A VIOLIN
DECEMBER 29, 2021
Following in the footsteps of classical violin masters, a new generation of violin virtuosos have arrived on the scene. Names such as Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Bell are renowned in the contemporary music world, Hilary Hahn and Edward W. Hardy are also forces to be reckoned with.
BROADWAY WORLD (OFF-OFF BROADWAY)
MINTON'S CABARET PRESENTS: THE SOUNDS OF SCOTT JOINER, FEATURING JESSICA FISHENFELD & MORE!
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Joining them on stage for Joiner classics and world premieres are the extraordinary talents of violinist Edward W. Hardy (The Woodsman), soprano Kirsten C. Kunkle (Carnegie Hall), tenor Jordan W. Pitts (Stonewall), violist Lee Joiner (Blair String Quartet), and accompanied by pianist Zalman Kelber (The Metropolotan Opera)
BROADWAY WORLD (DENVER)
UNCO TO PRESENT CELEBRATION FOR A NEW DAY WITH VIOLINIST EDWARD W. HARDY
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The University of Northern Colorado's Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and Choirs come together in this wonderful event featuring Edward W. Hardy! UNC Choirs, Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra combine to present" Celebration for a New Day": an evening of music and poetry in appreciation of being able to...
BROADWAY WORLD (CABARET)
THE MUSIC OF HEATHERS, VASTHY & FRIENDS AND MORE UPCOMING AT THE GREEN ROOM 42
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
...Let's laugh, let's cry, let's go off the rails. Let's drink to that. Directed by Joanna Carpenter. Music Direction by Drew Wutke, featuring musicians Edward W. Hardy, Nikki Horton, Hajime Yoshida, and Hiroyuki Matsuura.
BROADWAY WORLD (RALEIGH)
UNC'S HISTORIC URSA CONSORT WILL PRESENT WORKS BY BIBER, BERTALI, AND HANDEL
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
UNC's early music ensemble under the direction of Dr. Derek Chester and Dr. Jubal Fulks will present Bertali's Sonata à 3 in D minor, Biber's Sonata à 3, and selections from Handel's quintessential oratorio, Messiah. This concert will feature Jubal Fulks, Edward W. Hardy, Sally Murphy, and students of the University of Northern Colorado.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO, UNC
2021 WESTERN STATES HONOR ORCHESTRA FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 5-6, 2021
...11:30AM “Classical to Pop Improvisation” UNC doctoral candidate violinist Edward W. Hardy teaches you to develop deeper improvisational skills, ranging from classical cadenzas to creating your own groove in pop music...
BROADWAY WORLD (CLASSICAL MUSIC)
2021 WESTERN STATES HONOR ORCHESTRA FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Learn how to improvise with this critically-acclaimed artist, and discover your limitless possibilities. Mr. Hardy will conclude with a performance of his original composition, Evolution – Inspired by the Evolution of Black Music...
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO'S JUBAL FULKS AND ADAM ZUKIEWICZ TO PERFORM CONCERT OF MEDITATIVE MUSIC
OCTOBER 20, 2021
In 2021, Adam Zukiewicz inaugurated the Beethoven in the Rockies Concert Series alongside Jittapim (Nan) Yamprai, Hanguang Wang, Shuang "Iris" Zhang, and Edward W. Hardy. Dr. Zukiewicz is a founding member of the Colorado Piano Trio.
BEETHOVEN IN THE ROCKIES CONCERT SERIES
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Our team... (Digital Marketing Director and Artistic Advisor) Edward W. Hardy is a 29-year-old critically acclaimed Black and Puerto Rican composer, music director, virtuoso violinist and violist and is one of the foremost exponents of solo violin repertoire for theatrical productions.
BEETHOVEN IN THE ROCKIES OPENS THIS FRIDAY WITH THE COLORADO PIANO TRIO AND THE GREELEY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Beethoven in the Rockies, a concert series based in Greeley, Colorado, starts its first concert this Friday night. Other festival members include... and Edward W. Hardy, Digital Marketing Director and Artistic Advisor.
THE COLGATE MAROON-NEWS
JAMES ORTIZ JOINS COLGATE COMMUNITY FOR SCREENING OF THE WOODSMAN
OCTOBER 1, 2021
...Musical accompaniments by lone violinist Edward W. Hardy complemented the visual elements.
THE 8TH ANNUAL AGRICULTURE FEAST AT CENTENNIAL VILLAGE MUSEUM WILL FEATURE FOOD & MUSIC BY COLORADO TALENT
AUGUST 25, 2021
Guests will enjoy... and be entertained by local musicians, including a new University of Northern Colorado doctoral student/ graduate teaching assistant, Edward W. Hardy, as they experience the Centennial Village Museum grounds and gardens.
BROADWAY WORLD
THE OMNIPRESENT MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FINALE CONCERT
AUGUST 8, 2021
Musicians of the Omnipresent Music Festival, Tiffany Weiss, Sasha Ono, Matthew Beaugé, Edward W. Hardy, Franklin Rankin, Elé Salif Howell, and Alice Tsui, will be performing a multi-musical-genre concert consisting of Classical, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Film, and Broadway music.
BROADWAY WORLD (OFF-OFF-BROADWAY)
OMNIPRESENT MUSIC FESTIVAL - BIPOC MUSICIANS FESTIVAL (2021) AT MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION
AUGUST 9, 2021
“We believe musicians on stage should reflect all communities, in the programming of music, and especially in academia. I created a new music festival, the Omnipresent Music Festival – BIPOC Musicians Festival, that aims to promote diversity and be an example for our youth.” - Edward W. Hardy, Founder & Artistic Director
DO NYC
OMNIPRESENT MUSIC FESTIVAL - BIPOC MUSICIANS FESTIVAL
The Omnipresent Music Festival is a new music festival that showcases the historical significance of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) professional musicians and composers while entertaining communities and inspiring our youth with captivating musical performances that span all genres of music... Presented by Edward W. Hardy.
EDWARD W. HARDY WILL PERFORM AN INTIMATE CONCERT OF BROADWAY & FILM MUSIC AT THE OMNIPRESENT MUSIC FESTIVAL
AUGUST 5, 2021
Founder and Artistic Director of the Omnipresent Music Festival, Edward W. Hardy (violin), will be performing a free concert of works by William Grant Still, Astor Piazzolla, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stevie Wonder, Carlos Gardel...
THE OMNIPRESENT MUSIC FESTIVAL POP STRING QUARTET HONORS MUSIC OF OUR GENERATION IN A FREE CONCERT
AUGUST 4, 2021
Musicians of the Omnipresent Music Festival, Edward W. Hardy (violin), Dr. Nicole Wright (viola), Daniel Constant (violin), and Dara Hankins (cello), will perform a free concert of works by Bruno Mars, Kendrick Lamar,...
THE OMNIPRESENT MUSIC FESTIVAL FEATURES THE FRANKLIN RANKIN JAZZ COMBO IN ITS SECOND CONCERT
AUGUST 3, 2021
The Morris-Jumel Mansion is pleased to partner with violinist Edward W. Hardy and the musicians of the Omnipresent Music Festival to host this exciting and meaningful new concert series for the New York City community.
REPRESENT CLASSICAL
EVENTS: VIOLINIST CREATES NEW MUSIC FEST TO SHOWCASE BBIPOC ARTISTS (INTERVIEW)
JULY 23, 2021
The event is the vision of founder Edward W. Hardy, a celebrated violinist and composer who has worked with the likes of Itzhak Perlman, Kygo, André De Shields, Damien Sneed, Regina Carter, Norm Lewis, Joshua Bell, John Blake Jr., Mark O'Connor, and Radmila Lolly.
BROADWAY WORLD (MUSIC)
EDWARD W. HARDY PRESENTS THE 2021 OMNIPRESENT MUSIC FESTIVAL
JUNE 29, 2021
The Omnipresent Music Festival (OMF) is a new music festival that showcases the historical significance of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) professional musicians and composers while...
NEW YORK MUSIC DAILY
AN ENTICING BROOKLYN GIG BY THE IRREPRESSIBLY AMUSING STERLING STRINGS (REVIEW)
JULY 13, 2021
They turn DJ Khaled’s Wild Thoughts into a vampy, kind of creepy tune. Cellist Eric Cooper bows his bassline, cello-metal style, instead of plucking it out, and the rest of the group – violinists Frederique Gnaman and Edward W. Hardy, and violist Patrick Page – choose their spots to sliiiiiiiiide around. They sneak a couple of devious classical quotes into Despacito; their murky version of Eleanor Rigby is pure chamber metal, raising the song’s menace by a factor of ten.
VOYAGE LA MAGAZINE
MEET EDWARD W. HARDY (INTERVIEW)
MARCH 25, 2021
Today we’d like to introduce you to Edward W. Hardy. Hi Edward, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story? Thanks for having me. I have...
THE MERCIAD | MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY
“NO STRINGS ATTACHED” A SUCCESS (REVIEW)
MARCH 31, 2021
...while also incorporating into their works ideas from current issues the country is facing. To help do so, students selected music from one of 10 short works from black classical composer Edward W. Hardy’s “The Woods-man,”...
FORBES
HOW CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED VIOLINIST EDWARD W. HARDY IS TRANSFORMING MOOD INTO MUSIC (INTERVIEW)
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The U.S. is the world’s largest music market accounting for one third of the total world recorded music market and 45% of its total annual growth, according to...
RETURN OF A NATIVE
A TALE OF TWO RAVENS, DICKENS AND POE
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
We are spoilt for choice here, as the haunting melodrama of ‘The Raven’ has inspired many musical homages. But there is something poetic about a penniless American writer borrowing from one of Britain’s greatest story tellers, which in turn inspired one of Britain’s great bands... ‘Nevermore’, a beautiful piece composed and played on violin by Edward W. Hardy. Some of the video was shot at Edgar Allan Poe’s Cottage.
THE GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL TO PRESENT FINALE CONCERT TONIGHT
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
The concert will feature the Traveling Through Time string quartet with Edward W. Hardy, violin (composer of The Woodsman); Candace Rembert, and more.
GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS FINALE CONCERT
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
The event will feature the Traveling Through Time string quartet with Edward W. Hardy and more.
HAUTE LIVING
HAUTE LIVING CELEBRATES 50 CENT WITH WATCHES OF SWITZERLAND (REVIEW)
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Violinist Edward W. Hardy set the mood with a hip-hop-style violin performance of 50 Cent’s most iconic hits before guests took their seats for dinner.
CHILL ON THE HILL: VIOLIN RECITAL WITH EDWARD W. HARDY
AUGUST 23, 2020
Edward W. Hardy will perform a classical violin recital at Morris-Jumel Mansion's Roger Morris Park on Sunday, August 23, 2020 at 4pm. Program include works by Bach, Wieniawski, Still, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Piazzolla, Puccini and some of Hardy's original pieces for solo violin.
BROADWAY WORLD (INDUSTRY INSIDER)
DIGITAL THEATRE+ PARTNERS WITH BROADWAYHD TO BE THEIR EXCLUSIVE EDUCATION PARTNER
AUGUST 5, 2020
Digital Theatre+, the digital education service focusing on the study of the Performing Arts and English Literature, has signed a landmark deal to be the exclusive educational partner of BroadwayHD, the premiere streaming service for theater fans... The Woodsman (filmed at New World Stages) by Edward W. Hardy.
ART & THEOLOGY
ROUNDUP: WHY ART MATTERS, “SPIRIT AND ENDEAVOUR” EXHIBITION, AND MORE SONGS IN LOCKDOWN
JUNE 28, 2020
The whole services are worth watching/participating in, but here are a few musical highlights I’ve queued up. I especially like the medleys, which blend together excerpts from a range of songs: June 21, instrumental prelude: “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol, arr. Edward W. Hardy.
VIDEO: LISTEN TO EDWARD W. HARDY'S HAUNTING STRING QUARTET ARRANGEMENT OF “STRANGE FRUIT” (REVIEW)
JUNE 24, 2020
A black string quartet consisting of violinists Edward W. Hardy (composer of The Woodsman) & Daniel Constant, cellist Thapelo Masita (The Metropolitan Museum), and violist Tia Allen (Jagged Little Pill) performed a beautifully heart-wrenching performance of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit".
MUSIC AND LIFESTYLE | TAYLOR DUDLEY
HOW ARTISTS LIKE EDWARD W. HARDY ARE RESHAPING CLASSICAL MUSIC
JUNE 18, 2020
Meet the artist: Edward W. Hardy is a professional African American classical musician and composer. He plays the viola, violin and writes his own compositions.
ALL CLASSICAL
AMPLIFYING NINETEEN BLACK COMPOSERS’ VOICES FOR JUNETEENTH
Edward W. Hardy is a renowned American composer, music director, virtuoso violinist and violist. His featured recording on this blog is Nevermore...
ALLEGRO MAGAZINE
‘WHY WE JOINED THE UNION’ EDWARD W. HARDY (INTERVIEW)
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
"I joined Local 802 after already establishing a career as a musician and composer. I was asked to be a sub for “Rocktopia” on Broadway, which was a fantastic experience, and prompted me to join the union."
OZ FANDOM (OZ WIKI)
EDWARD W. HARDY
JANUARY 27, 2020
Edward W. Hardy, born on January 12, 1992, in Manhattan, New York is a producer, composer, playwright, music director, violinist and violist. His full name is Edward Wellington Hardy, I.
Q&A WITH COMPOSER AND MUSICIAN, EDWARD W. HARDY (INTERVIEW)
JANUARY 20, 2020
A man of many talents within the music world, Edward W. Hardy is an award-winning 28-year-old composer, music director, virtuoso violinist and violist...
EXPLORING THE METROPOLIS
ROSTER OF COMPOSERS-IN-RESIDENCE
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
2017-18 Composers-in-Residence. Edward Wellington Hardy is a critically acclaimed violinist, violist and composer. He performs as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician throughout the United States and abroad.
HAUTE LIVING AND WATCHES OF SWITZERLAND CELEBRATE NAS (REVIEW)
As they made their way down the stairs, violinist Edward W. Hardy played a rendition of iconic Nas songs to the violin with a high-energy performance...
HAUTE TIME
HUBLOT HONORS HOCKEY LEGEND ALEXANDER OVECHKIN AT NOBU WASHINGTON D.C. (REVIEW)
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
...Edward W. Hardy, who put on a 15-minute rendition of hip-hop songs like “All of the Lights,” “Wild Thoughts,” and... as the audience listened on in admiration.
RUSSIAN MACHINE NEVER BREAKS
HUBLOT NAMES ALEX OVECHKIN ‘FRIEND OF THE BRAND’ DURING FANCY DINNER RECEPTION AT NOBU (REVIEW)
At the dinner, Hautetime.com reported that Ovechkin and the VIP guests enjoyed cocktails and a specially-curated meal while violinist Edward W. Hardy played...
THE WOODSMAN (ORIGINAL OFF-BROADWAY SOLO RECORDING)
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Although The Woodsman premiered in 2012, this soundtrack wasn't released until 2016 during its' run at New World Stages. The Woodsman (Original Off-Broadway Solo Recording), an album featuring the music composed and performed by Edward W. Hardy, was released digitally on May 29, 2016.
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