Maria Corsaro: Love Makes the Changes
Maria Corsaro presents an evening of music from her 2025 MAC Award-nominated album Love Makes the Changes at Pangea, Friday, October 23 at 7:00 PM. With musical director/arranger Gregory Toroian on piano, Skip Ward on bass, David Silliman on drums, and Mark Fineberg on saxophone and flute, Corsaro performs timeless swing, ballads and bossa style tunes, directed by the album’s producer, David Friedman.
Of Corsaro’s album release party on November 22, 2025, at Chelsea Table + Stage in NYC, Music Connection Magazine noted, “Her love and execution of the material is impressive and it’s refreshing to hear these songs that you don’t often hear live these days.”
Recording the album Love Makes the Changes was a year-long labor of love, focusing on the lifelong journey of love: the joy, the hope, the heartache, the beginning, the end, and everything in between. Love Makes the Changes features the music of McCoy Tyner, Michel Legrand, Ennio Morricone, Bill Evans, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Roger Kellaway and more! Love Makes the Changes is available on Spotify and Apple Music. For more information, see mariacorsaro.com/album.
“Love Makes the Changes suspends listeners over the clouds, above temporal worries… Track after track, Corsaro steers an intimate relationship with listeners, singing to them directly and privately.” ~ Jazz2Love
“Corsaro’s storytelling, phrasing, and delivery aligns seamlessly with the ensemble’s fantastic performances. This is one engaging production.” ~ The Jazz Page
Love Makes the Changes
Friday, October 23, 7:00 PM
(The house opens at at 6:00 PM)
Maria Corsaro – Vocals
Gregory Toroian – Musical Director/Arranger/Piano
Skip Ward – Bass
David Silliman – Drums
Mark Fineberg – Saxophone/Flute
Director – David Friedman
PANGEA
178 2nd Ave, NYC, 10003
212-995-0900
TICKETS: www.pangeanyc.com/show/cabaret-room-maria-corsaro-love-makes-the-changes-700pm/
Tickets online are $20. Tickets at the door, if available, are $25 (Cash Only)
$20 food and/or beverage minimum per person
“Maria Corsaro’s new album Love Makes the Changes is an example of what happens when a vocalist fully embraces jazz as an expressive language. Her voice moves with the clarity, warmth, and narrative poise of a seasoned storyteller, while the spirit of jazz shapes her phrasing from the inside out.” ~ All About Vocals
“Here is a woman who has chosen an emotional and heartfelt repertoire of beautiful music and poignant lyrics. The arrangements are rich and creative. This is a project both cabaret lovers and jazz aficionados can enjoy.” ~ Making a Scene
“With a world-wise delivery and voice, Maria Corsaro delivers an album that is wide ranging in colors, from bright primaries to nuanced blends… Corsaro shows she can weave out a story…Able to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.” ~ Jazz Weekly