Hot Wrk Ensemble
Engaging and Interactive
Creating Community and Connections
Photography by Sandy Santra
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THE LATEST NEWS!
Fall 2025
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Awarded a grant from Orange County Arts Council NY to 2025 Featured Artists, and commissioned to create an original works for the annual fundraising gala, The Art Affair 2025: Interwoven . The performance aligns with the "Interwoven" theme, and the commissioned work incorporates composed and recorded digital beats using field recordings of natural sounds obtained throughout eastern Orange County, NY. Additionally, it includes composed counterpoint and improvised elements. The commissioned work will be premiered at the Art Affair 2025 and takes inspiration from and acknowledges the indigenous Munsee Lunaape peoples who first inhabited the Hudson Valley and whose vibrations still exist and are interwoven throughout the landscape.
https://www.ocnyartscouncil.org/aa25
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Summer 2025
Hot Wrk Ensemble was awarded an Arts and Culture Grant to perform FREE community concerts during 2025 in Ulster and Dutchess counties!
Now our project, Chamber Music Club: A Mid-Hudson Valley Tour, is coming to a venue near you! Come join us for some truly unique chamber music. Ask your questions, share your ideas, listen to diverse music, join the club!
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We are thrilled to have award winning artist and composer, GWEN LASTER join us for several of these concerts and excited to have percussionist, Angel Michael Lau with us.
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This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
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HOT WRK is:
Lois Hicks-Wozniak, saxophones
Brad Hubbard, baritone saxophone and woodwinds
Angel Michael Lau, percussion
Saxophone/woodwind and percussion trio founded in 2020 by award-winning musicians Lois Hicks-Wozniak and Brad Hubbard, Hot Wrk Ensemble is committed to creating community through diverse, genre-eclectic “chamber grooves” that include everything from Bossa Nova, Son Jalisciense, Scarlatti, contemporary classical and collaborative improvisation. Both questioning and answering, “what is chamber music?" Hot Wrk explores, deconstructs and wrks out concepts of traditional chamber music and the concert experience
Upcoming Performances:
**Featured Artists**
November 8, 2025 7:00pm
Orange County Arts Council NY
Interwoven Art Affair '25
Sugarloaf PAC
1351 Kings Hwy
Chester, NY
https://www.ocnyartscouncil.org/aa25
November 13, 2025 7:00pm Savage Wonder
Beacon, NY
https://savagewonder.org/calendar/​​​​
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December 6, 2025 9:30pm
Savage Wonder
Beacon, NY
https://savagewonder.org/calendar/​​​​
December 14, 2025 6:00pm
Savage Wonder
Beacon, NY
https://savagewonder.org/calendar/​​​​
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Get to Know HWE!
the saxophone/woodwind and percussion trio founded in 2020 by award-winning musicians Lois Hicks-Wozniak and Brad Hubbard, is committed to creating community through diverse, genre-eclectic “chamber grooves” that include collaborative improvisation. Both questioning and answering, “what is chamber music Hot Wrk explores, deconstructs and wrks out concepts of traditional chamber music and the concert experience