BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Acme Widgets\, Inc.//NONSGML ExportToCalendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Groupmuses near X-WR-NAME:Groupmuses near BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T183600Z UID:8068e9ab-d8de-4d86-99e2-1d1a95c6c4f9 DTSTART:20260618T230000Z DTEND:20260619T013000Z DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Kofi H.\nMusicians: Daniel Beliavsky and Kofi Hayford \n\nDoors Open at 7:00 PM \nConcert starts at 8:00 PM \nDrinks(alcoholic a nd non-alcoholic) and light food will be served. \n\nA Sonic Profile of Hu man Experience with music from Asia\, Europe\, Africa\, the Caribbean and North America. \n\n**Kofi Hayford** is a prize-winning British Ghanaian-Am erican bass\, acclaimed for an “impressive\,” “sonorous\,” and “ stentorian” voice of distinctive timbre. With more than 40 operatic role s in his repertoire\, he has appeared in opera and concert with organizati ons including the Metropolitan Opera Guild\, Fort Worth Opera\, Indianapol is Opera\, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.\n\nA double laureate of the 2024 Grand Voix Lyrique d’Afrique International Competition\, Hayfo rd made his mainstage Carnegie Hall debut in May 2024. His performances ha ve drawn enthusiastic\, sold-out audiences from the Arctic Circle to the C aribbean\, and across Europe and Africa. Recent engagements include a conc ert tour in Martinique\, a performance at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Auditor ium as part of AfterArts’ Annual Showcase\, a six-city concert tour in F rance\, and the bass solo in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the United Nations Orchestra.\n\nIn September 2025\, he made his Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall with the Manhattan Philharmonic Society\, performing a major work about the Yellow River in Mandarin. Recent engagements includ e concerts in New York City\, the United Kingdom\, and France\, as well as his Verdi Requiem debut in Massachusetts in April 2026. He will be compet ing as a Semi-Finalist in the UK as a contestant in the Black British Clas sical Foundation's Voice of Black Opera competition in London. \n\nMr. Hay ford holds a Bachelor’s degree from SUNY Buffalo\, is the co-founder of the DictionBuddy mobile app\, and serves as Chairman of the Board of the G roupmuse Foundation\, where he is active in arts leadership and advocacy. \n\n**Daniel Beliavsky**\, Ph.D.\, is an educator\, concert pianist\, musi c theorist\, composer\, and filmmaker. He has performed in Europe and thro ughout the United States with both orchestra and in recital— notable eng agements include concerto performances with the Milwaukee and New Jersey S ymphony Orchestras and the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. His discograph y includes the world-premiere recording of composer Lukas Foss’s complet e piano works\, as well as music by J.S. Bach\, Domenico Scarlatti\, Franz Schubert\, Frederic Chopin\, and Modest Mussorgsky. 
Daniel produces mu sic documentaries through his production company\, Opus1films\, which in 2 011 released Sonata (1957)\, a film about the distinguished American compo ser Donald Harris’s opus one\, the Sonata for piano\, and about Harris ’s early career in Paris. That film was shown at Lincoln Center in New Y ork City and was broadcast on public television. More recently\, Daniel co mpleted Secret Music and Gay Body of Music\, a feature and short film\, re spectively\, about Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Del Tredici and t he contemporary social and cultural impact of his music. These films have won multiple accolades\, and have been screened at film and music festival s\, including the Wisconsin Film Festival\, the Mostly Modern Music Festiv al\, the American Music Festival\, QFest Houston\, the Lonely Seal Interna tional Film Festival\, the Toronto LGBTQ+ Film Festival\, the San Diego In ternational Film Festival\, Berlin Shorts\, the Rotterdam Independent Film Festival\, and the San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival.

Now Chair of the Fine Art and Music Department at Yeshiva University in New York Cit y\, Daniel has been a visiting professor of music theory\, piano performan ce\, aesthetics\, writing about music\, and history at several universitie s\, including the City College of New York\, the John Jay College of Crimi nal Justice\, Stern College\, Montclair State University\, the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music\, Mannes College\, and New York University .\n\n LOCATION:Flat Iron SUMMARY:KoDa presents: World Music URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/16686-koda-presents-world-music END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR