Name James Neglia | ||
James Neglia (born October 24, 1963 in Englewood, New Jersey) is a percussionist, music coordinator, music contractor, personnel manager of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and author of Onward and Upward.
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Background and education
Neglia is the son of Sicilian immigrants, Giuseppe Neglia and Vina Profita, and grand nephew to the accredited musician and composer, Francesco Paolo Neglia. Neglia graduated from Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange New Jersey in the fall of 1981, and received his Bachelor of Music (1986) and Master of Music (1987) degrees from the Mannes College of Music in New York City.
A pround descendant of the famed composer FP Neglia, Neglia shares his story of family heritage, love of music and strong roots in the arts in his soon to be published second book, CENTER STAGE.
Professional career
A veteran force in the Performing Arts Neglia has been a working percussionist, music contractor, personnel manager and music coordinator for more than 30 years. He has work closely with some of the best-known names in the industry. Classical artists such as Gil Shaham, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Midori, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Emanuel Ax, Sarah Chang, Leila Josefowicz, Evelyn Glennie, Joseph Kalichstein, Sir James Galway, André Watts, Pamela Frank, Lillian Kallir, Claude Frank, Jerome Hines, Murray Periah, Richard Goode, Empire Brass, Richard Stoltzman, Leon Fleisher, Plácido Domingo, Peter Serkin, Andrea Bocelli, Peter Schickele, Yo-Yo Ma, Vladimir Feltsman, Vadim Gluzman, Karel Husa, Frederica von Stade and Contemporary artists such as: Johnny Mathis, Chuck Berry, Mel Tormé, Joan Rivers, The Moody Blues, Marvin Hamlisch, Queen Latifah, Christopher Cross, Neil Sedaka and former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani.
Neglia covers the entire gamut of music production and performance. He works for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center where he has taken part in dozens of Musical productions including The King and I, West Side Story, Oklahoma, Chicago, The Rat Pack, My fair Lady, Fiddle on the Roof, The Color Purple, Legally Blonde and South Pacific as well as a host of guest artists including Michael Feinstein, Bernadette Peters, Don Rickles, Chris Botti, Spike Lee, Terence Blanchard, Garrison Keillor, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Toni Tennille, Patti Austin and Smokey Robinson.
Neglia is involved with multiple North American concert tours. The Legend of Zelda is produced by the New York based production company, MGP Live which have performed in over fifty venues in North America. Neglia has supplied the orchestras for several other North American tours - some of which are The Hans Zimmer Tour, Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy - Game of Thrones as well as with musical composer, arranger and orchestrator Thomas Rousell better known as Prequell. Serving some of the largest companies such as NIKE, Michelin Tires, and Fashion Guru, Michael Kors.
Neglia performed live on WNYC radio, All Things Considered and has made various recordings for RCA, Decca & Delos International records. He has appeared worldwide, covering 27 Countries in solo and orchestral performances and worked with a range of musical greats from Plácido Domingo to the Moody Blues. Neglia has also appeared and performed in motion pictures that include, “I love NY”, with Christopher Plummer and Scott Baio and “Joe Gould’s Secret” with Stanley Tucci which ran on HBO.
Neglia was the music coordinator for Town Square Productions on the Broadway musical “A Tale of Two Cities” first opened at Asolo Theater in Sarasota, Florida where it was well received. Later, Neglia and TSP worked on the smash hit Disenchanted which enjoyed complete success.
Author
His book, Onward and Upward is featured at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com as well as Book Reader and Waterstone.com in the United Kingdom and The Nile in Australia. The Book Expo America which features new authors invited Jim to participate in the 2013 exposition at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Onward and Upward is reaching great press and notoriety. Onward and Upward was published by AuthorHouse.com http://jimneglia.com/about_me.html Some other pertinent articles include Grover Percussion.
Onward and Upward, has been chosen to be placed on the “required reading list” at the Ithaca College School of Music, New York University – Steinhardt School Department of Music & Performing Arts Professions and it is currently under consideration at the Colorado College Center for Entrepreneurship as well as at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, The Cleveland Institute of Music, The Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, Longy School of Music of Bard College, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and DePauw University School of Music, The Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College, Wanda L. Bass School of Music Oklahoma, Pennsylvania Academy of Music, Setnor School of Music Syracuse University, Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Middle Tennessee State University School of Music, College of Visual and Performing Arts at The George Mason University, Manhattan School of Music, Brigham Young University School of Music, and The Mannes College of Music.