Conducted by Dean Karahalis, the FTC Concert Pops get in the holiday spirit with their Winter Concert, featuring the best sounds of the season performed by Five Towns College’s own marvelous musicians.
It’s an uplifting afternoon of festive holiday music.
Dean Karahalis is the founder of the Concert Pops as well as the conductor and musical director. The vivacious style of Dean Karahalis draws the audience into each performance. Karahalis and the Concert Pops will fill the very air with their intense energy.
In the blink of an eye you will be transported by their musical time machine to a better place.
Dean Karahalis has performed with the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, New York Lyric Choir, Goldovsky Opera and is Musical Director/Founder of the New York Brass Choir. He has performed extensively as a guest conductor and soloist throughout the United States.
In 1992, Karahalis was appointed Conductor-Musical Director for The Egievsky Ballet and is currently musical consultant to the Moscow Festival Ballet, Ballet de Bordeaux and has an extensive guest conducting schedule.
The Concert Pops have performed concerts throughout the East Coast in their “Pops Under the Stars” series and over the years they’ve appeared at benefit concerts of the American Cancer Society, United Way, Astoria Federal Savings Bank as well as given performances at the United States Figure Skating Championships.
Five Towns Performing Arts Center, 305 North Service Rd., Dix Hills, 631-656-2148, $10, 2 p.m., Dec. 14
