Pina Magri

Pina Magri December 2019 - present Adapt Network Community

Pina works as Music Specialist with Adapt Network Community - the leading human service not-for-profit and a pioneer in providing cutting edge programs and services for people with disabilities - empowering people through innovative solutions one person at a a time.

Pina Magri 2015- 2019 NYU SPS

Adjuct Instructor Discovering Italian through Timely Topics. This class links Italian Culture and learning language in a new creative manner including art, poetry, song, opera, newspaper articles, and cinema.

Pina Magri composer/author

2014 - Mark Hayes, renowned composer/arranger/pianist arranged "Wings of Love", the American version of "Briciole di Amore" for choral performance. This beautiful song, highly praised by Mark Hayes, was created in solo version and now is available for choirs. It is part of a series of spiritual compositions written by Pina Magri including "Pater Noster", "Nell´Anima", "Imprimi il Tuo Volto / Impress on my Spirit".

Pina Magri author

2013 - "Voglia di Vivere" a virtuoso Bocelli style song created in collaboration with New York composer Lawrence Rush.

Pina Magri in concert at the Majestic Theatre

On Oct 10 and 11, 2011 Pina will be performing From Italy with love! Puccini Broadway ...and Beyond at the lovely Majestic Theater in West Springfield, Massachusetts. An inspiring way to celebrate Colmbus day!
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Pina Magri on television in Massachusetts USA

Pina performed her song "Nell'Anima" and was interviewed on Channel 22 (NBC) Mass Appeal the day before her standing ovation concert in Springfield Massachusetts.

Oggi Scelgo Io - Santuario del Divino Amore - Roma, Italia

March 2011
Organized by Pastorale Universitaria with the patronage of the Lazio Region, the students of Star Rose Academy performed an original musical "Oggi scelgo io" including Angels by Robie Williams and an original pop ballad "La Musica in Te" by Pina Magri in front of 4 thousand college students. The students also performed Pina's song live at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. Click here to listen and see their performance.

New Release

July, 2010
Pina Magri co-author/composer and singer of Hypnotized her new house/dance single on Smilax Records as Julie Rush.
To hear the remixes and buy the record go to www.beatport.com. Hypnotized her new single and also Sunshine of your love are just waiting for you! Click here to listen to various versions of both songs

Pina on Television

February 4, 2010
Pina on Gold TV and Roma Sat (851 SKY) Franco Simone's program Il Dizionario dei Sentimenti. She sang My Fair Lady (medley), Wuthering Heights, Magnificat in duo with Franco, and Memory from Cats. She has been asked to return as guest singer soon.

Pina with Simonetti and Dario Argento

January 31, 2010
During a special evening at the Rome Auditorium (Sala Sinopoli) Claudio Simonetti accompanied Pina in an emotional "unplugged" version at the concert piano in "Opera" and "Phenomena". This historical encounter of the three artists could lead to new musical collaborations.

Musical Maria di Nazareth

January 2010
Pina debuts as actress/singer in the role of Elisabetta in the new cast of the musical Maria di Nazareth Director Maria Pia Liotta composer Stelvio Cipriani at the Teatro Francesco Cilea, Reggio Calabria. The 2010 National Tour is programmed to continue in Turin at the end of April.

New release: CD "Guarda le mie mani"

January 2009
New release: CD "Guarda le mie mani" Italian artists for Africa with Claudia Koll, contains the original song "Nell'Anima" written and sung by Pina Magri - an original text and musical elaboration of Bach's Air for the G String.

March 29 2009 Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA. USA

CONCERT by Pina Magri at Wisteriahurst on Sunday, March 29, 2009. So. Hadley native Pina Magri, whose voice and lyrics are featured on the CD, 'Guarda le Mie Mani' (Look at My Hands) released in January in Rome, Italy with Claudia Koll and Famiglia Cristiana peformed in concert at Wistariahurst Museum. Accompanied by Pianist Scott Bailey, director of choral activities at Baypath and adjunct instructor of music at Westfield State College. Magri�s concert, entitled 'from Bach to Broadway and Beyond', included her new song, Nell�anima (In the Soul) a special re-elaboration of Bach�s famous Aria on the lV Chord. Highlights from Magri�s Wistariahurst program included Con te Partirò, Memory, Over the Rainbow, as well as selections from West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Porgy and Bess, and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Tosca.

Celebration of Leonardo da Vinci's Horse

Leonardo da Vinci's Horse, a gift form Charles Dent to Italy. In Milan, in the evening at the Teatro alla Scala Riccardo Muti conducted the Filarmonica della Scala. Pina sang later at the Gala at Palazzo Clerici accompanied by pianist Stefano Ferretti. The following morning at the unveiling celebration at the "Parco dell'Ippodromo" in the presence of the Mayor of Milan Gabriele Albertini and the American Ambassador in Italy Thomas Foglietta, Pina sang the Italian national anthem with the Fanfara dei Carabinieri and the American national anthem with the Sixth Fleet Band.

House Pleasure featuring Julie Rush "Sunshine of your love" (Smilax Records CD Promo) Listen on Beatport

Pina Magri and Roberto Calamia team to present the classy "Sunshine of your love" featuring singer Julie Rush (aka Pina Magri). The summery 'Miami Club Mix' is an uplifting affair featuring powerful vocals by Julie Rush alongside warm melodic keys over a funk soaked groove, while the 'Soulful Mix' uses a catchy piano and jazzy sax over a stompin' backdrop to create a feel good vibe. The powered-up 'Tribal Sex Mix' is the choice pick for peak time play.

March 23 2009 Mt Carmel Academy, Springfield, MA. USA

The Academy's auditorium was packed with two different schools ranging from age 4 to age 18. After the two hour one woman concert with standing ovation, Pina met with some of the younger children of the school.

Verdi to Gershwin an interview with journalist Emanuela Di Geronimo