Sunday, May 4, 2025

Honoring Trustee Gregory Barton and Janet Sikirica

Reid Castle
at Manhattanville University
2900 Purchase Street, Purchase NY

5:00 pm • VIP Reception
6:30 pm • Concert and Celebration of Honorees
8:00 pm • Dessert Reception

The evening’s highlights will include a performance by world-renowned flutist Nicolas Duchamp, sharing the stage with members of our flute ensembles; a keynote address by HBMS Faculty member Donna Elaine; presentations to honorees; and a wonderfully delicious and fun dessert reception generously hosted by Seth Greenberg’s Just Desserts. 

Purchase tickets here.

Funds raised will ensure that Hoff-Barthelson can continue to provide comprehensive music education of the highest caliber, offer generous financial aid, and deliver dynamic programs for our community.

Featuring world-renowned flutist Nicolas Duchamp

Nicolas Duchamp is an internationally acclaimed performer and teacher, in the tradition of the Paris Conservatory French school of flute playing, of which Philippe Gaubert was among the most famous. Born in Bordeaux France, where he directly received the tradition of the French flute playing from his teachers in his native city. He served for many years as principal flutist for the National Opera Comique in Paris and toured extensively in his native France as well as Europe, Japan, and North America.

With his ‘’warm tone, distinctive charm and creative poetic eloquence,” he has performed as a soloist with many of France’s leading chamber music ensembles and orchestras, including Paris Opera Bastille, Nice Opera, Strasbourg National Opera, Lamoureux Orchestra, Metz Orchestra, and the Bordeaux National Opera, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Georges Prêtre, Myung-Whun Chung, Philip Walsh, Brian Schembri, Yutaka Sado, Laurent Petit Girard, and Philipp  Morehead.

Duchamp created the concert and film homage, GAUBERT VIVANT!  which he presented in a US tour including Carnegie Hall in New York, and Spivey Hall in Atlanta where he recorded a historic performance on the famous Gaubert flute Louis Lot N° 1986 for American Public Radio’s “Performance Today” for over 5 million listeners.

2025 Benefit Chairs

2025 Benefit Host Committee

Dessert Reception generously sponsored by Seth Greenberg’s Just Desserts