November 10, 2010 Arts Alive Concert at Tillett Gardens, St. Thomas, USVI - Wallace & Allen

Subject: Press Release for November 10, 2010 Arts Alive Concert at Tillett Gardens, St. Thomas, USVI - Wallace & Allen


     On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 @ 8 p.m., Steve Wallace, Tenor, from New York City will perform with Dr. Adele Allen, Pianist, in the opening concert of the 2010-2011 Arts Alive Concert Series at Tillett Gardens in St. Thomas, USVI. These two performers will present operatic arias, German lieder, art songs and spirituals in the outdoor theatre. In addition, Dr. Allen will perform solo piano selections by Johann Sebastian Bach.

     Both artists will present workshops at the St. Thomas public schools on Tuesday, November 9th as part of the Student Outreach Program of the Tillett Foundation. They will continue with the tradition of providing opportunities for the VI youth to learn about classical performing music in a hands-on experience with personal interactions between the students, their teachers and the performers.

     Steve Wallace, a graduate of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas campus, has studied voice, composition, music theory, ear training and music history. A student of Dr. Alfonse Anderson and Maestro Vinko Bailey, Mr. Wallace has performed as the lead soloist in seven operas, toured worldwide, composed his own three-act opera, a piano sonata and ten classical art songs. In addition to his outstanding classical performance skills, he has also recorded his own hip-hop compositions with some of the finest and best young artists in New York City, where he and his wife currently reside.

     Mr. Wallace, an urban soul vocalist and keyboard artist, will perform music from his classical repertoire on November 10th. He will sing selections from the world's greatest operas composed by Puccini, Verdi, Faure, Massenet, Schumann, Strauss, Handel and Hall Johnson and H.T. Burleigh. Well-known for his outstanding tenor voice, Mr. Wallace will perform several of his own classical compositions written based on the poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar.

     Dr. Adele Allen, well known to the Virgin Islands community dating back to the late twentieth century, has performed on St. Thomas as pianist and organist for over twenty years. Founder of the Crucian Community Choir, she has conducted and trained singers throughout St. Croix and St. Thomas, and conducted Handel's Messiah (Parts 1, 2 and 3) on numerous occasions in St. Thomas and St. Croix. She is a former music educator with the V.I. Board of Education in St. Croix at John H. Woodson J.H.S. She has frequently accompanied the Caribbean Chorale, Polymnia, Quattour Novi, as well as the choirs of Sts. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Cathedral and Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church while residing in the USVI. Her most recent concert in St. Thomas was recorded live on Jubal Records [ Royal Blue Studios of New York City ] on January 17, 2010 at Sts. Peter & Paul Cathedral. Her newest CD entitled, "LIVE from St. Thomas, USVI: A Musical Tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr." is available from her website, www.adelesworldofmusic.webs.com . 100% of the proceeds from sales of this CD will be donated to the medical work of Dr. Alfred O. Heath in Haiti. Dr. Allen is a graduate of Wellesley College, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons' Institute of Human Nutrition, and the American University of the Caribbean (St. Maarten).


Tickets for the concert are available from Ms. Lynn Berry, Executive Director of Arts Alive @ Tillett Gardens, 340-776-8566