> DANIEL CALVO [flute] was on the faculty of one of the nation's leading preparatory schools: St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. from '84-'98. He performs on saxophone, flute, clarinet and congas with his own Top 40/general business group: NIGHT RHYTHM. Daniel received his degree from Berklee College of Music where he participated in one of it's most prestigious ensembles the "INTERNATIONAL DUES BAND". This ensemble appeared on the NBC Today Show, National Public Radio, and in a Japanese television documentary. Daniel has performed extensively on cruise ships (Carnival Cruise Lines), worked in full time pit orchestras for shows including "Annie" and "Barnum", led high school clinics, recorded for local entertainers, and backed up national stars including, Joan Rivers, Tony award winner Linda Hopkins, and Kathryn Kiefer, host of Night Tracks and VH-1. Daniel performed recently at the Capitol Center for the Arts in a premiere production of "12 Moods for Jazz"; a tribute to Langston Hughes produced by world renowned Baritone Rawn Spearman. He also appeared Wednesday nights at the Charles Playhouse Bar appearing with the "Lit Land Jazz Band." from August "98 to February "99.

> LISA WASHINGTON CALVO [harp] performs over 130 professional freelance engagements per year. Lisa began her harp studies in the Richmond (VA) Public Schools Harp Program. She received her bachelor's degree in Harp Performance at Oberlin College and a master's degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. She studied during the summer at the Salzedo Harp Colony (Camden, Maine) and also at the Brevard Music Center (North Carolina). Her teaches have included Ann Williams, Jackie Pates, Elizabeth Dechent, Alice Chalifoux and Ann Hobson Pilot. Lisa served as full time harpist at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Boston for over five years. While there, she was featured on the WCVB news program "Chronicle" as well as on National Public Radio in segments devoted to the Ritz. She has played in many of the finer hotels in Boston and for functions at the World Trade Center, JFK Library, African Meeting House, Fogg Museum, and the Gardner Museum. Lisa has performed in many chamber music concerts including a program for the African Meeting House in Boston where she appeared with noted African American orchestral performers from around the United States. The concert featured works by Composers William Grant Still, Scott Joplin, and T.J. Anderson. Lisa recently performed for the National Republican Governers Conference and for the inauguration of Governor Shaheen of New Hampshire. In the spring of '98 she performed several parties for Governor Cellucci's (in attendance) campaign. The Washington Calvo Duo was formed when Daniel and Lisa married in 1987. This group has performed at the opening party of the Boston Film Festival, and has appeared on the same bill as the Count Basie Orchestra. They have been guest lecturers on "African Americans in the Arts" at the University of Connecticut and Brown University. The Duo has been featured for numerous chamber music concerts in New England as well as performing hundreds of parties for the Gilded Harps in the past 10 years.

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