Performance is part of the Third Annual Uptown Arts Stroll

As one of the few classical music organizations dedicated to serving Upper Manhattan residents, the SONOS Chamber Orchestra, Erik E. Ochsner, Music Director, will deploy its brass quintet on Sunday, June 19 at 3 p.m. in Fort Tryon Park. The event takes place between Bennett Avenue and Dykman Street on the path inside the park parallel to Broadway.

The performance will take place as part of the "Music Mile," an ambitious gathering of 18 music organizations in the area that will be spread across six stages along the park path adjacent to Broadway, from Bennett Ave to Dyckman Street. The Music Council of Washington Heights and Inwood (WAHI) sponsors the event, with additional support from SONOS Chamber Orchestra, among others.

The SONOS program will take audiences back to the early 20th-century Golden Era of brass bands, when they could be heard on summer afternoons throughout public parks, gazebos and band shells. Repertoire will include many pieces from this era as well as more contemporary works.

SONOS is a collaboration of freelance musicians dedicated to bringing seldom heard treasures to the neighborhoods we live and work in. In the past year, members of SONOS have performed at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, at the AIDS Center of Queens County, and in two Uptown Manhattan locations: the Church of the Holy Trinity on the Upper East Side and the Good Shepherd Church in Inwood. In March the orchestra performed salon music arranged by Arnold Schoenberg and the world premiere of “Suite from Incidental Music to The Tempest”, composed by Jean Sibelius and arranged by fellow Finn, Erik E. Ochsner.

The Music Mile is part of the third annual Uptown Arts Stroll, making WAHI a major destination in NYC. It receives city-wide and community promotion, to benefit the city with the great diversity in music that lives in WAHI. Rain locations are the YM/YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood, and the Our Saviour's Atonement Church.

The Music Mile lineup also includes Annette Aguilar and the Stringbeans, Susan Razavi and Carlos Ponce, the Jamie Fox Trio, Super UBA, Karen Hudson and Philip Lynch, Infiorare, and Jason Caplan of Naqshon's Leap, among others. The event is completely free to the public.