GTMF take works by Carrie Saladino ‘On the Road’ – JH News&Guide

Underscoring the “community” in its free community concert series, the Grand Teton Music Festival has programed two works by Jackson’s own Carrie Saladino.

Saladino’s “Family Portrait,” for string quartet, will be performed at Friday’s “On the Road” concert at Sage Living, starting at 2 p.m. On Saturday, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra principal harpist Elizabeth Remy Johnson will play her “Transitions” in St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Saladino, daughter of longtime area keyboardist Tony Saladino, said music came naturally to her as a child.

“When I was 7, I found out I had perfect pitch,” she said in an email exchange. She plays piano, vocals, guitar, violin, viola, flute, clarinet, trumpet and trombone, and earned an undergraduate degree in composition from New York University (where she studied with another noted Jackson music figure, George Hufsmith) and a master’s in music education from Hunter College.

She taught privately in New York, then in an elementary school on an Army base in Maryland. There, she began to notice symptoms that would lead to a diagnosis of a rare neurodegenerative condition.

She relies on music therapist Hilary Camino as a friend and facilitator who brought the idea of programming her work to GTMF, which readily accepted.

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