Sue
Hurwitz
Passion for the Arts
Sue Hurwitz is an active professional chamber musician. She is the co-founder of the chamber group Resonance. Sue is also the flutist in Lyric Duo, which plays at weddings and special events.
Sue is an active advocate for the Arts. Ms. Hurwitz is a founding member and on the board of City Arts Nashua.
Sue has performed both as a soloist and with ensembles at the Museum of Fine Arts, A Taste of the Arts, the Boston Opera House, the Hunt Memorial Building, the Parish Center for the Arts, and the Seacoast Academy of Music, among others. Sue has also performed as a vocal soloist with the Actorsingers Chorus.
Sue is an Arts Educator who teaches classes combining art, music, creative movement, and yoga. She is the co-director of a camp of world cultures at the Nashua Community Music School during the summer. She has taught and directed camps at Art Happens and the Wild Salamander.
Sue is a certified Life Coach, specializing in stage anxiety and confidence. Her Life Coaching business is Journey to Confidence.
Ms. Hurwitz is a member of the National Flute Association, Chamber Music America, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
photograph by Joel Jaffe
Marie Mendelow
A Musical Journey
Marie Mendelow has been teaching piano and percussion for over fifty years on four different continents. She received her collegiate training in her native South Africa at Witswatersrand University and completed all the piano examinations through the Royal Schools of Music, London. She studied piano under Dr. Adoph Hallis, a World Master, and was invited at the age of 17 to join the Primary Orchestra of South Africa (SABC Orchestra), where she performed weekly on national television as one of their three percussionists. She has served on the faculty of the Orange Free State University and has been living and teaching piano and percussion in New Hampshire since 1991. In 2007, Governor Lynch signed a proclamation making her NH's Music Teacher of the Year.
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Marie spent many years traveling around the world, living and working in different countries. During her travels, she lived in Israel on a kibbutz for some years and played the timpani in the kibbutz orchestra. She learned to play the dumbek in Israel, the conga drums in South America and the djembe in her native South Africa. Marie brought in many of her unique percussion instruments to the group which provides an interesting "color" to the music.
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photo courtesy Mark Stern Photography
Katrina
Abigail
Tsao ARSM
Behind the Music
Katrina started learning piano since age 3 with Marie Mendelow. She studies classical piano and completed all eight levels of the ABRSM examination through the Royal School of Music, London, UK. In 2021 Katrina was awarded an ARSM Diploma in piano with a Merit, a professional certification given by the Royal School of Music. In 2018 Katrina won the second prize for the Granite State Composition Competition. In the same year, at Symphony NH's Fanfare Gala, she performed her own original composition with musicians from the Symphony NH.
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Katrina has performed many gigs including Nashua ArtWalk, LaBelle Winery, and Laconia Multicultural Festival.
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Katrina is a Senior at Nashua High School South. She also plays keyboard in the NHSS jazz band.
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Outside of music, Katrina enjoys writing, nature, tennis, and travel. You can follow Katrina on Instagram @iamkat8.