Concerts

Location for All Concerts:
The Church of the Holy Spirit (Episcopal)
204 Monument Rd, Orleans MA

Time for All Concerts:
7:30 p.m.

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Monday, June 23 Irina Muresanu, violin; Sergey Antonov, cello

Prokofiev - Cello Sonata, Op.119, mvmt,II -Moderato
Paul Frucht - String Duo
Andrzej Panufnik - Trio, mvmt.III -Presto
Rodion Shchedrin - Gypsy Melody (solo violin)
Anton Arensky - Trio, Op.32

Irina Muresanu, violin

Photo credit: Becca A Lewis

Internationally renowned Romanian violinist Irina Muresanu continues to fearlessly stretch the boundaries of classical music. A sought-after soloist and chamber musician who has appeared throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and South Africa, Ms. Muresanu has developed a reputation of a compelling and eloquent interpreter in the standard repertoire as well as in the contemporary music world. Acclaimed for her elegant, passionate performances, her concerts have frequently been cited by The Boston Globe as among the “Best of Classical Music Performances.”

Sergey Antonov, cello

Photo creditt: Lisa Marie Mazzucco

Grammy nominated cellist Sergey Antonov enjoys a versatile career as a soloist and chamber musician. Critics throughout the world have hailed him as “destined for cello superstardom” -Washington Post, “combining formidable technique and an incredibly warm, penetrating and vibrant tone to a romantic musical sensibility to create music-making of a highest caliber” - Budapest Sun.

Donald Enos, piano

Pianist Donald Enos, a native Cape Codder, is the founder and director of the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival. After having received extensive musical training at the New England Conservatory, Mr. Enos returned to his native Cape Cod, where he is known for his solo work and collaboration with the Chatham Chorale and the Cape Symphony, and presentations on the historically significant 1762 English chamber organ in South Dennis, Massachusetts.

Monday, June 30 Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp; Allison Parramore, flute

Nino Rota - Sonata for flute & harp
Marianna von Auenbrugger - Rondo in E Flat (solo harp)
Mozart - Andantino from Concerto K.299
W.F. Bach - Presto from Duetto F.10 (harp & piano)
Allison Loggins-Hull - "Homeland" (solo flute)
Doreen Carwithen - Molto Adagio (solo harp)
Carlos Salzedo - "Whirlwind" (solo harp)
Poulenc - Sonata for flute & piano

Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp

Elisabeth Remy Johnson was appointed principal harpist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1995. She holds the endowed Carl and Sally Gable Chair, and also held the honorary UPS Community Service Chair for 2006-07. With the Atlanta Symphony, Elisabeth has performed concertos by Debussy, Handel, Mozart and Ginastera. Winner of first-place awards in competitions of the American Harp Society and the American String Teachers Association, she is also a NFAA/ARTS awardee. She graduated from Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in Music and French. Her harp studies were with Ann Hobson Pilot in Boston and Alice Chalifoux at the Salzedo Summer Harp Colony in Camden, Maine. Elisabeth is co-founder of the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble, a program serving 55 students from 7 schools in the Atlanta Public School system, and was artistic director from 2000 to 2010. For this work she received Atlanta’s Channel Eleven Community Service Award and the TBS Pathfinder’s Award. In fall of 2009, Elisabeth was awarded the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Up & Comers Award,” also known as “40 under 40,” showcasing young community leaders in Atlanta.
In 2018, Elisabeth founded The Merian Ensemble, a group of colleagues from the ASO dedicated to performing and commissioning chamber music composed by women.

Allison Parramore, flute

Flutist Allison Parramore is a versatile performer and educator with a multifaceted career as an orchestral, chamber, and solo musician, freelance artist, and Artist-Teacher.
As an orchestral musician, she is the Principal Flutist of the Boston Festival Orchestra, Second Flutist & Piccolo player of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and is the former Second Flute & Piccolo player of the Missouri Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the Boston Symphony, Pops, and Esplanade Orchestras, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Philharmonic, Odyssey Opera, Portland Symphony, Albany Symphony, New Haven Symphony, New Bedford Symphony, Cape Symphony, and the Midland-Odessa Symphony, among others. Parramore has appeared as soloist with the Boston Festival Orchestra, Boston’s Phoenix Orchestra, and the University of Rhode Island Symphony Orchestra.
Her awards include first-prize in the 35th Annual James Pappoutsakis Flute Competition, resulting in a solo debut recital at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, first-prize of the Boston Woodwind Society Doriot Dwyer Competition, third-prize in the Upper Midwest Flute Association Young Artist Competition, and appearances at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Astral Artists National Auditions, and the Plowman Chamber Music Competition.
As a solo and chamber artist, Parramore has been a featured performer in the Austin Flute Festival, Rochester Flute Association, and Upper Midwest Flute Association presenting a joint solo recital: Raise Their Voices: Celebrating Female Composers, and has performed at the Tanglewood Music Center Festival of Contemporary Music, Phoenix Orchestra and Boston Festival Orchestra Chamber Series, and the Boston Conservatory New Music Festival.
An active and passionate educator, Allison Parramore serves as flute faculty at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, the University of Rhode Island, and at Ithaca College. She is a frequent guest performer and educator and has given several lectures and masterclasses at universities and conservatories throughout the United States, including her presentation, Freelancing and Entrepreneurship: navigating the field from student to full-time music professional. She has also been a guest educator for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Youth Orchestra, as well as a presenter at the Flute Society of Berklee and the New Jersey Flute Society. Parramore currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Boston Woodwind Society, the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition, and formerly the Rochester Flute Association.
In the summers Parramore performs as the Second Flutist of the New American Sinfonietta, part of the Hamptons Music Festival under music director Michael Palmer, and has performed at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Texas Music Festival, the Lake Tahoe Music Festival, and was the teaching assistant at the Brevard Music Center. In Summer 2024 she served as flute faculty at the New England Conservatory Summer Orchestral Institute, a four-week full symphony orchestra training program.
Allison Parramore’s primary teachers include Linda Toote, Elizabeth Rowe, Susan Thomas, and Jacqueline Goudey. She holds degrees from The Boston Conservatory and the University of Rhode Island where she won the Kingston Chamber Music Award, the Presser Scholarship, the President Award for Musical Excellence, and the 2010 Concerto Competition.

Leland Ko, cello

Photo credit: Elise Fafard

A cellist of Chinese-Canadian descent, yet born and raised in the Boston area, Leland has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in venues across America’s east coast, such as Merkin Concert Hall and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in New York, and Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, and Sanders Theatre in Boston, as well as internationally in Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Israel, and Spain, including Auditorio Manuel de Falla in Granada. Violinist Itzhak Perlman has described Leland as someone that “plays with the beauty of sound and subtlety that we don’t often encounter in a cellist of his age,” someone who is “a musician who willingly considers all aspects of music.”

Donald Enos, piano

Sunday, July 6 Amit Peled, cello

"A Midsummer Eastern European Evening"
Mieczyslaw Weinberg - Sonata No.2 for cello & piano
Prokofiev - Symphony Concertante

Amit Peled, cello

Photo credit: Melissa Golden

Praised by The Strad magazine and The New York Times, internationally renowned cellist Amit Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. Having performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Konzerthaus Berlin, Peled has released over a dozen recordings on the Naxos, Centaur, Delos, and CTM Classics labels. Musical America named Peled one of the Top 30 Influencers of 2015.

Donald Enos, piano

Friday, July 11 Heather Goodchild Wade, violin; Leland Ko, cello

Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in A minor, RV356
Laos Janacek - Pohadke "Fairy Tales" (cello & piano)
Bright Sheng - Chinese Tunes (solo cello)
Dvorak - Trio, Op.65, Finale: Allegro con brio
Schubert - Trio in B Flat, Op.99

Heather Goodchild Wade, violin

Joyce Hammann, violin

Photo credit: Matt Dine

Violinist Joyce Hammann’s distinctive versatility and virtuosity have won her praise and a loyal following whether appearing on the concert stage, in a jazz club, or before 17,000 screaming rock concert fans. Hailed for "splendid soloing" and a "sweet, rich tone" by The New York Times, she has performed and recorded with such artists as Paul McCartney, Sting, Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen. Joyce's discography includes John Zorn's String Quartets, Sam Zyman's Bashe, Uri Caine's Wagner and Venezia, Mozart Re-imagined and The Othello Syndrome, Michael Breckers' Grammy award winning Wide Angles, Gil Goldstein’s Under Rousseau's Moon, Ted Nash's Double Quartet and Mark Feldman's Book of Tells. Currently Concertmaster for Broadway's longest running show, The Phantom of the Opera, Joyce continues to perform with The Harlem Chamber Players, The Craftsbury Chamber Players (Vermont) and The Meeting House Players (Cape Cod).

Danielle Farina, viola

Photo credit: Jason Home

Violist Danielle Farina enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, teacher and recording artist. Formerly with the Lark Quartet, the Elements Quartet and the Manhattan Quartet, Danielle currently performs with a number of ensembles in the New York area and around the country.

Megan Koch, cello

Photo credit: Natalie Drozhzhin

As an avid chamber musician, Megan Koch has traveled the world, bringing along her love for music and teaching. She currently teaches with Musicians for the World, bringing lessons to Africa and South America. As a founding member of the Rivendell String Quartet, she had the opportunity to travel to Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic, in association with the United States Department and Carnegie Hall. There, the quartet performed several concerts, coached aspiring young conservatory students, and experienced the rich culture of both countries.

Jeff Carney, double bass

Jeffrey Carney is touring bassist for Barbra Streisand and jazz great Bobby McFerrin. He has performed with such jazz artists as Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson, as well as pop icons Sting, James Taylor, Elton John, and Andrea Bocelli.

Jeff is principal bassist of the New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. On Broadway, he has played first chair for many productions including The Secret Garden, Cyrano, Beauty and the Beast, Anything Goes, and Les Misérables. Jeff was a member of Garrison Keillor's NPR radio band for Prairie Home Companion.

For over 15 years he has been a professor of double bass and electric bass at The New School University.

Donald Enos, piano

Monday, July 21 Joyce Hammann, violin; Danielle Farina, viola; Megan Koch, cello

Haydn – Piano Trio in C Major, XV:27
Rebecca Clarke – Two Pieces for viola & cello
Rebecca Clarke – "Midsummer Moon" (violin, piano)
Weber – Quartet Op.8, Finale: Presto
Brahms – Quartet in A Major, Op. 26

Heather Goodchild Wade, violin

Laura Manko Sahin, viola

Clark Matthews, horn

Clark Matthews is principal horn with the Cape Symphony Orchestra and is interim principal hornist with Symphony New Hampshire. He has also appeared with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and is a member of the critically-acclaimed Walden Chamber Players. Before arriving in New England, he was a member of the Colorado Symphony and appeared at the Opera Festival of Manaus at the Teatro Amazonas in Brazil. Clark enjoys a diverse career, playing contemporary music with the Callithumpian Consort, as well as the music of J.S. Bach with the Marsh Chapel Choir and Collegium and the Bach Cantata series at the Emmanuel Church. Mr Matthews began his musical studies at the age of eight, starting on piano. At 12 he found his calling in the sound of the French horn. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Curtis Institute of Music, and is a graduate of the New England Conservatory.

Donald Enos, piano

Sunday, July 27 Katie Lansdale, violin; Matthias Naegele, cello

Ernest Bloch – 3 Nocturnes (1924) (piano trio)
Beeethoven – Sonata in G minor, Op.5, No.2 (piano & cello)
Andre Previn – Sonata No.2, mvmt.I (violin & piano)
Jessie Montgomery – Rhapsody, No.1 (solo violin)
Mendelssohn - Trio in C minor, Op.66

Katie Lansdale, violin

Photo credit: Peter Alexander

Violinist Katie Lansdale has been widely lauded as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. She has performed as soloist and chamber artist in South America and Europe, and on numerous North American concert series, including the Phillips Collection, the Caramoor Series, and Lincoln Center’s Rose Room. Winner of Grand Prizes at the Fischoff and Yellow Springs national chamber competitions, she has collaborated in chamber concerts with artists such as Yo Yo Ma, Felix Galimir, Donald Weilerstein, the Miami Quartet, Robert MacDonald, and Charles Neidich. Lansdale's concerto appearances have included with the National Symphony, the Austin Mozart Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Schroeder Classical Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and the NY Spectrum and Repertory Orchestras.

Matthias Naegele, cello

Matthias Naegele has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician in Europe, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Asia. He has participated in the Marlboro, Apple Hill, Dubrovnick, Jerusalem, Curagao, California State Summer Arts, Aspen, International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, and Edinburgh music festivals. Many of Mr Naegele’s performances are regularly broadcast over National Public Radio and Public Television. He has also appeared on Dutch, French, Austrian, BBC radio, and BBC television. He performs regularly with numerous chamber music ensembles, including the Kaleidos String Quartet, the Prometheus Piano Quartet, the Music Project, the Chamber Music Society of New York University, Anthony Newman’s Brandenburg Collegium, the Chamber Music Society of New Jersey, Sergio Luca’s Context, An Die Musik, and the microtonal group New Band. He has performed on the Lincoln Center Great Performers Series. Mr Naegele plays on a Mateo Goffriller cello made in Venice in 1735. He resides in the Netherlands with his wife and two daughters.

Donald Enos, piano