Music on the Mountain: June
June 6-13, 2025
Music on the Mountain
Join us for a weeklong celebration of music at our Upstate NY resort, featuring world-class performers across an ocean of genres including Broadway, Jazz, Reggae, Folk, West-African, Country, and more. From captivating lakeside concerts to unforgettable evenings in the Parlor, this festival promises a vibrant mix of melodies to ignite your summer.
What’s Included
Your stay at Mohonk Mountain House includes access to countless activities and experiences for guest of all ages, including our indoor pool, tennis courts, show gardens, and an award-winning spa. Discover all that Mohonk has to offer during your mountaintop getaway.
Entertainment
Themed Mohonk Signature Events, featuring live music and engaging performances, changing daily
Schedule of Events
Program Leaders
Dan Micciche
Dan Micciche is the current Music Director and Conductor of WICKED on Broadway and has been with the show for over 9 years – including the national and international tours. Prior to WICKED, Dan began his acting career on Broadway as the youngest actor to play Mary Sunshine in the Tony Award winning revival of CHICAGO. He performed in 2000 shows across 125 cities as a part of the Broadway, US national tour, Canadian tour and, the Japanese, Alaskan and Thailand companies. In 2008 Dan performed as a soloist in Bernstein’s MASS at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center and the United Palace. He was the first male to record the male soprano solo in “I Don’t Know” which was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award NAXOS. As an accomplished conductor and performer, Dan has led workshops and masterclasses across prestigious academic and industry institutions including: University of Michigan, The Boston Conservatory of Music, Berklee School of Music, NYU, Pace, Notre Dame, Eastman School of Music, Otterbein University as well as schools in Peru, Mexico and Switzerland.
Amanda Jane Cooper
Amanda Jane Cooper is delighted to be with you all! Broadway: WICKED (15th Anniversary Glinda & Commercial Glinda), Kristin Chenoweth: For The Girls (Special Guest). Amanda recently returned from premiering the Pre-Broadway run of Stephen Schwartz’s new musical The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth at the storied Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston. 1st & 2nd National Tour: WICKED (Glinda). Off-Broadway: The Streets of New York at Irish Repertory Theatre, Letter From Algeria with Abingdon Theatre Company. Select Regional: Bye Bye Birdie (Kim) at Sacramento Music Circus. Select Television: “Glee”, Disney’s “Jessie”, “CSI”, “Bones”, ABC’s “Selfie”, “Law & Order: SVU”, HBO’s “Hello Ladies”. Select Film: “Smart People”, “First One In”, Lifetime’s “Homecoming”, Hallmark’s “The Michaels”. BFA, Carnegie Mellon University. @amandajanecoop
Lissa deGuzman
Lissa deGuzman is currently in WICKED on Broadway as the Elphaba standby after playing the role on the national tour for over a year all across the country. Prior to WICKED, Lissa made her Broadway debut as Ann Darrow in “King Kong” and then went on to be in the Broadway company of “Aladdin”, where she played various roles including Princess Jasmine. Beyond her Broadway career, Lissa has performed as a soloist with symphonies and in various concert halls. This past year, Lissa performed at Carnegie Hall in “Strike Up the Band with MasterVoices” as Miss Meade. She sang with symphonies across the country including Disney Princess the Concert with the Boston Pops and Broadway’s Best with the Bay Philharmonic. Lissa graduated from Belmont University in Nashville, TN with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. Additionally, Lissa believes you should never stop learning and growing. With her extra time, she finds herself teaching and working with nonprofits like Sing For Hope bringing joy, healing, and education to millions via the arts.
Jennafer Newberry
Jennafer Newberry recently made her Broadway debut as the Glinda Standby in WICKED after playing Glinda from 2022-2023 in the National Tour of WICKED! She has worked regionally in Disney’s Freaky Friday (La Jolla Playhouse) and Nemo in Finding Nemo: The Musical (Walt Disney World). Other notable credits include Shelley in Bat Boy, Clara in The Light in the Piazza, and Rosa Bud in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. She also frequently sings in concerts at 54 Below and voices new work in readings and developmental labs. She graduated with her BFA from NYU Tisch.
Travis Taber
Travis Taber is a Rochester Native and lives in New York City with his Beautiful wife Celia, and their dog Sawyer. Broadway: WICKED (Ensemble, Fiyero U/S), Broadway National Tours: WICKED (Ensemble, Fiyero U/S), Mamma MIa! (Ensemble, Sky U/S), Priscilla Queen of the Desert(Farrah/Young Bernadette). Other favorite roles: Georg in She Loves Me, Stone in City of Angels, For Lovers Only at New World Stages. @tgtaber
House of Waters
House of Waters is a genre-defying trio blending West-African, jazz, psychedelic, indie rock, classical, and world music. Max ZT, known as the “Jimi Hendrix of the Hammered Dulcimer” (NPR), has revolutionized dulcimer techniques with his global influences, including Irish folk, Senegalese, and Indian classical traditions. Moto Fukushima, a master of the six-string bass, combines jazz improvisation, classical music, and South American styles to create a powerful and refined sound. Their latest album On Becoming features collaborations with Antonio Sanchez, Mike Stern, and Priya Darshini, showcasing their innovative approach to composition. House of Waters has been nominated for a 2024 GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. They have scored an Emmy-winning documentary and re-scored French Dadaist-era silent films. Having performed with icons like Pandit Ravi Shankar and Snarky Puppy, House of Waters continues to redefine the boundaries of music.
SunDub
SunDub aims to honor the roots of Jamaican music while offering their unique ability to combine soul and funk sophistication into their art. Born out of a weekly music residency at a local watering hole, Brooklyn-based SunDub has developed into a collaborative mix of New York City musicians, consistently turning heads with an offering of classic reggae repertoire peppered with original and featured soul and blues almost weekly since 2013. Anchored by a core group—Finnegan Singer (guitar), Jose Lopez (guitar), Derrick Bourne (bass), Eric “The General” Toussaint (vocals-keys), Sidney Mills (vocals-keys) and the brother-sister team of Joanna (lead vocals) and Ben Teters (vocals-drums)—many of SunDub’s stellar and frequent collaborators came together for its first production of original music, “Burden of Love” – amassing millions of streams and whet the appetites of listeners around the world for their future releases to come.
Ernie Sites
Ernie Sites is a western entertainer and an experienced cowboy. Among his many talents, he is a western performer, songwriter, cowboy poet, trick roper, bull rider, rodeo clown, team roper and a calf roper. He has traveled the world over, using his gifts to teach people about cowboys and the west. Western author, Corinne J. Brown, has dubbed Ernie “the urban cowboy troubadour.” Along the trail, Ernie Sites has performed with such luminaries as Riders in the Sky, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, Gene Autry, and the Sons of the Pioneers. He has been a guest on CBS, PBS, TNN, the BBC, and Good Morning, America. Along with these accomplishments, he is also a playwright and has created a fun filled songbook for kids. Hailing from Southern Idaho, Ernie Sites has spent his life travelling from coast to coast performing for audiences, but now calls the Hudson Valley his home.
Scott Robinson
Scott Robinson, one of today’s most wide-ranging instrumentalists, has been heard on tenor sax with Buck Clayton’s band, on trumpet with Lionel Hampton’s quintet, on alto clarinet with Paquito D’Rivera’s clarinet quartet, and on bass sax with the New York City Opera. On these and other instruments, he has been heard with a cross-section of jazz greats representing nearly every imaginable style of the music, from Braff to Braxton. His discography now includes more than 190 recordings. Scott has performed in some 30 nations, in such diverse venues as Carnegie Hall, the Village Vanguard, the Library of Congress, and the Vienna Opera House. Scott’s group was selected to be the closing act at the Knitting Factory’s Sun Ra Festival in New York City. Scott has also written magazine articles and liner notes, and was an invited speaker at the Congressional Black Caucus Jazz Forum in Washington, D.C.
Martin Wind
Martin Wind, bassist and composer, has become a regular at all major jazz clubs in New York and is also in demand as a session player; his credits include movies such as “The Alamo,” “Intolerable Cruelty,” “Mona Lisa Smiles,” and “Fur ”. He has recorded and/or performed with the following artists, among many others: Guidon Kremer, Clark Terry, Mark Murphy, Slide Hampton, Toots Thielemans, Jim McNeely, Buddy DeFranco, The Metropole Orchestra, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Curtis Fuller, Phil Woods, Johnny Griffin, Bucky Pizzarelli, Mike Stern, Sting, and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. As a member of the Kennedy Center Honors Orchestra he’s been appearing with world stars such as Aretha Franklin, Reneé Fleming, John Legend, James Taylor and others. He’s released several highly-acclaimed CDs over the past three years. His album New York Bass Quartet “Air” was hailed as a “bass manifesto” in a 4 1/2 star review in Downbeat Magazine.
Frederic Chiu
Frederic Chiu, a frequent guest artist at concert venues in Europe, South America, and throughout the United States,
is devoted to enhancing the live concert experience for diverse audiences. Chiu has created many innovative programs, often showcasing transcriptions and rarely-programmed repertoire. Also an enthusiastic collaborator, he has performed with many friends in Classical music such as Joshua Bell, Pierre Amoyal, Gary Hoffman, the St Lawrence String Quartet; as well as with artists in other genres including the jazz pianist Bob James, writer/storyteller David Gonzalez, actor Brian Bedford, and the clown Buffo. Frederic Chiu has released 27 CDs, many available on the harmonia mundi usa label, including the most extensive complete piano works of Prokofiev, works of Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Rossini and Grieg. His most recent recordings are Distant Voices (Debussy and Gao Ping) and Hymns & Dervishes
(Gurdjieff/De Hartmann), both acclaimed in the press. He is a frequent presence on popular radio shows such
as St. Paul Sunday Morning, Performance Today, and WNYC’s Greene Space. Through his Deeper Piano Studies – a philosophic and holistic training program – Chiu brings together advanced concert pianists, promising students, high-level amateurs and piano teachers from around the world for workshops that develop a Body/Mind/Heart approach to piano-playing and music-making. He has taught at the Juilliard School, Indiana University’s Jacob School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, the New England Conservatory and the Banff Centre, as well as most of the National Conservatories in China. Frederic Chiu’s website, www.FredericChiu.com, contains up-to-date information about his upcoming concerts and DPS workshops, as well as links to recordings and videos.
Vinnie Martucci
Vinnie Martucci has toured extensively on the international jazz festival circuit as co-leader of the Jazz Fusion Quartet “The Dolphins” with Dan Brubeck and Mike DeMicco. As an arranger, accompanist he’s performed with Laurel Masse (Manhattan Transfer), Eileen Fulton (Award winning star of As the World Turns), Blues artist Rory Block and many others. As a composer, Vinnie co-wrote the music for the off-Broadway play “Clue, The Musical” with Galen Blum. Vinnie has composed and produced numerous cable network TV themes for Lifetime, the Travel Channel, CNN, as well as daytime TV dramas “As the World Turns” and “Guiding Light”. As a producer, engineer, and studio musician, he worked with composer Baikida Carroll on numerous productions such as WGBH and the Tony award winning play “Having Our Say”. Vinnie is an educator, teacher, and clinician, giving master classes across the US, Europe, South America, and China. During his time as Professor of Jazz Studies and chair of the Music Department at SUNY New Paltz, Vinnie developed a broad range of courses and programs in Jazz, improvisation, recording technology, and music industry studies. Vinnie also teaches at summer festivals and camps, especially at the Ashokan Center, where he has taught swing piano every summer for over 20 years.
Jay Anderson
Jay Anderson is among the most versatile and respected jazz bassist/composer performing today. He has performed/recorded with a wide range of jazz artists including Woody Herman, Carmen McRae, Michael Brecker, Paul Bley, Bob Mintzer, John Abercrombie, Dave Liebman, Joe Sample, Maria Schneider, Stanley Cowell, John Scofield, Lee Konitz, Vic Juris, Red Rodney, Ira Sullivan, Mike Stern, Anat Cohen, Toots Thielemans, Kenny Wheeler, Jay Clayton and non-jazz artists like Oswaldo Golijov, Dawn Upshaw, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Robert Spano (Atlanta Symphony), Michael Franks, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Terre Roche, Chaka Khan, Michel Legrand, Allen Ginsberg, and Celine Dion. He has been featured on over 500 recordings, seven of which have received the Grammy Award . He has conducted clinics around the world and is a Professor of Jazz Bass Studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Jay currently co-leads the critically acclaimed group BANN featuring Seamus Blake, Oz Noy and Adam Nussbaum.
Harvey Sorgen
Harvey Sorgen’s career has spanned over 40 years having performed on over 300 records along with national and international touring. The diversity of artists Harvey has performed and /or recorded with include: Hot Tuna, Ahmad Jamal, Michelle Shocked, Paul Simon, Dewey Redman, Warren Haynes, Dave Douglas, Julian Lage, Mark Feldman, Pete Levin, Zakir Hussain, Tony Levin, Giovanni Hildago, Wadada Leo Smith, Gilad Hekselman, Cameron Brown, Neil Rolnick, Anthony Braxton, Carter Jefferson, John Stubblefield, Bruce Hornsby, Brenda Bufalino, Honi Coles, Daunik Lazro, Derrick Trucks, Roswell Rudd, Phil Lesh, David Torn, The Memphis Pilgrims, Bill Frisell, Fonda/Stevens Group, Carlos Santana, Dry Jack, NRBQ, Bob Weir, Greg Allman, Marcel Monroe, The Mallards, Sorgen-Rust-Windbiel Trio, Ben Monder, Jay Anderson, Dave Samuels, Drew Gress, Garth Hudson, Jimmy Vivino, among many others.
Chris Pasin
Chris Pasin, a jazz trumpeter, has released the CDs “Detour Ahead,” and “Random Acts of Kindness,” comprised largely of his own diverse compositions, and has a release, “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” of reimagined holiday music, and his recent album “Ornettiquette,” playing the music of Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, and Don Cherry. And Chris has recorded with the likes of Gunther Schuller, Ran Blake, George Russell, and Toshiko Akiyoshi, and he appears as a sideman on numerous jazz albums. Recent albums have been with Pete Levin, Scott Petito, John Esposito, Keith Pray, Tony Levin, and Brian Mitchell. He has recorded on dozens of albums for a myriad of artists, often with The North Country Horns co-led by saxophonist/arranger Jay Collins.
DoMoJOAT
DoMoJOAT, one of the many reasons why he is titled the Jack-Of-All-Trades is for his diversity and versatility in the realm of entertainment. DoMoJOAT is a professional musician whose talents are in full display on the steel pan, piano, and drums across the country and abroad. In addition, DoMoJOAT is a music educator and dance instructor, covering the styles of Swing, Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Hip-Hop, African, Break, Dancehall, Intermediate Tap and Ballroom; while teaching steel band ensembles across the New York City schools.
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