Cello and piano benefit concert for Gazan journalist Moamen Hermaid and his family. Pianist Robert Lind and cellist Alejandro Acosta will be playing Brahms/Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Rachmaninoff/Vocalise, Piazzolla/Milonga Sin Palabras, Schubert/Arpeggione Sonata in A.

Moamen Hemaid is a brave independent journalist in North Gaza. He was injured in a horrific attack and now his jaw is broken and his teeth shattered. To make matters worse, these injuries have become infected after he used funds meant for his treatment to save his community from starvation and thirst. AND NOW Moamen also has a terrible chest infection from breathing in toxic fumes and dust from the bombing while helping in rescue efforts. This is AT THE SAME TIME as the North of Gaza is being obliterated and annexed in this new campaign to ethnically cleanse the area of its population. He needs support for water, food, antibiotics, and for medical evacuation.

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Robert Lind grew up in southern New Hampshire, near Boston and took piano and music theory lessons at the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division. After majoring in music at Amherst College, he pursued advanced degrees in composition at the University of California at Berkeley and Brandeis University. Robert spent time as music director of summer stock theater companies, where he was accompanist for opera workshops. Non-music jobs then took over for several years but since retirement, he has returned to performing and composing.

Alejandro Acosta started his musical training at a early age, studying in both his native city of Bogotá and the town of Cota, where he spent his formative years. At the age of 8, he enrolled in the Music Conservatory preparatory program of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and later continued his studies at Oklahoma City University and Syracuse University. Subsequently, he became cello and chamber music professor at Universidad de Cundinamarca and performed regularly with the Bogotá Chamber Orchestra, Ensamble Barroco de Bogotá, Cuarteto Efferus, and Cuarteto Hadaly, among others. Having since returned to the States, Alejandro now works as a freelance musician in New York City.