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Soirée Enchantée: An Enchanted Evening

Presented by Jamie Salinas Productions at Hilton Americas - Houston

June 12, 2010

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Jamie Salinas Productions presens Soirée Enchantée: An Enchanted Evening, featuring magic and music.  Saturday, June 12 at 7pm, at the Hilton Americas, Third Floor Room 330.

Featuring:  Deceptionist Richard Hatch and Violinist Rosemary Kimura, Accompanied by Pianist Jo Ellen Hubert.  The Magic of Hofzinser, Robert-Houdin, Vernon and Punx, music by Kreisler, Bartok, Saint-Saens and Rimsky-Korsakov!

Classic Music combined with Classic Magic to create an Enchanted Evening Performed in an intimate setting.

Richard Hatch (pictured)
Although he holds two graduate degrees in Physics from Yale University, Richard Hatch finds it easier apparently to violate the laws of nature than to discover them. He has been performing his unique brand of magic full time since 1983. In 1985, shortly after winning first place in the annual New England Close Up Competition in Worcester, Massachusetts, Richard moved with his wife, violinist Rosemary Kimura, to Houston, Texas where they have been based ever since. For several years he honed his craft entertaining the guests as one of the house magicians at Houston's Magic Island Nightclub before devoting himself exclusively to private and corporate work, traveling internationally on behalf of his clients. Hatch is a member of the Academy of Magical Arts, the International Brotherhood of Magicians, and is a lifetime member of the Society of American Magicians. He is currently a featured performer at the exhibit "Magic: The Science of Wonder" at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Rosemary Kimura
Rosemary received her Masters degree from Yale School of Music and her Bachelors Degree with Performer’s Certificate from Eastman School of Music. She has studied Chamber Music with the Fine Arts, Tokyo and Cleveland Quartets and with Raphael Hillyer. She has performed with the New Haven, Hartford, San Antonio and Houston Symphonies and with the Houston Grand Opera. Her principle private instructors have been Sergiu Luca, Syoko Aki, Peter Salaff, Charles Castleman and Martha Katz. As a teacher herself she has been on the faculty of Music Schools in New Haven, Milwaukee and Houston. She is currently on the faculty at the Atascocita School of Music and at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp in Michigan. She and Richard Hatch were married in 1982 and have two children, Catherine and Jonathan.

Jo Ellen Hubert
Jo Ellen’s background in theatre includes musical director, educator, producer, composer and administrator. An honors graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Ms. Hubert pursued post graduate studies at the renowned Kodaly Pedagogical Institute in Hungary with a focus on piano performance and vocal coaching. Ms. Hubert has served as the Musical Director for 46 different Broadway Musicals. She was the founder of Applause Theatre Company and served there as Executive Artistic Director for 10 years. She most recently served as Musical Director for the TUTS-UH workshop of 110 in the Shade, working along with Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, creators of the show. Ms. Hubert has composed three musicals. She has taught piano and voice in the Houston area for 28 years. Jo Ellen was awarded the 2002 Woman of Achievement in the Arts by the Family Time Foundation in Houston.