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. |
(click concert line to show details)
Sunday, June 16 Irina Muresanu, violin; Sergey Antonov, cello
Ernest Bloch – 3 Nocturnes (1924) (piano trio)
Mozart – Duo in G Major, K.423 (violin & cello) Miguel del Aguila – Tango Trio Dvorak Trio, Op.90 "Dumky" |
Irina Muresanu, violin
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.”
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Sergey Antonov, cello
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.
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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.
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Monday, June 24 Heather Goodchild Wade, violin; Laura Manko Sahin, viola; Leland Ko, cello
Mozart Trio K.502
Mark O’Connor – Appalachia Waltz (solo cello) Bach – Courante from Suite #1 (solo cello) Rizgar Ismael – Piece for solo viola Brahms – Quartet in A Major, Op.26 (mvmt. IV) Schumann – Quartet, Op.47 |
Heather Goodchild Wade, violin
Since 2007, violinist Heather Goodchild Wade has held the position of principal second violin with the Cape Symphony Orchestra. Prior to that appointment she lived in Chicago, where she played with the Illinois Philharmonic and South Bend Symphony. Heather has performed in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Mechanics Hall and Jordan Hall in Massachusetts, and at the Auditorium Theater, Millennium Park and Ganz Recital Hall in Chicago. She is a founding member of the newly formed string quartet, Quartett Giocosa. Now a mother of four, Ms. Wade maintains an active life at her home in western Massachusetts, well balanced by her orchestral and chamber music appearances throughout New England.
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Laura Manko Sahin, viola
Violist Laura Manko Sahin has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. She was formerly principal violist of the Cape Symphony, violist with the Boston Harp Trio, and a member of the Bilkent (Ankara, Turkey), Knoxville, and Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestras. Dr. Sahin recently moved to New Jersey, where she is on the faculty at Skidmore College. During the summers, she serves on the faculty at Luzerne Music Center, and is violist for the Meeting House Festival.
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Leland Ko, cello
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.”
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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.
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Friday, July 5 Amit Peled, cello
Edvard Grieg - Sonata for cello & piano, Op.36
Friedrich Gulda - Cello Concerto |
Amit Peled, cello
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.
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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.
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Monday, July 8 Joyce Hammann, violin; Danielle Farina, viola; Megan Koch, cello;
Jeff Carney, double bass
Jeff Carney, double bass
William Walton – Piano Quartet
Nino Rota – Intermezzo (viola & piano) Rebecca Clarke – Midsummer Moon (violin & piano) Schubert – “Trout” Quintet |
Joyce Hammann, violin
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).
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Danielle Farina, viola
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.
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Megan Koch, cello
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.
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Jeff Carney, double bass
Jeff 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 and continues to tour with the show. For over 20 years, he has been a professor of double bass and electric bass at The New School. |
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.
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Monday, July 15 Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp, Clark Matthews, horn
Ferdinand Ries – Horn Sonata, Op.34 (mvmt. I)
Antonio Soler – Concerto #1 in C Major (harp & piano) Johannes H.E. Koch – Toccata (1982) (harp & piano) Koetsier – Sonata Op.94 (horn & harp) Jean-Michel Damase – Sonata (1964) (mvmt. III Presto) (harp & piano) Mel Bonis – Melisande & Desdamona (solo harp) Tasha Smith Godinez – El Amonecer (solo harp) Clarice Assad – Solais (solo harp) Salzedo – Whirlwind (solo harp) Scriabin – Romance (horn & piano) Vaclav Nelhybel – Scherzo Concertatne (horn & piano) Eric Ewazen – Sonata (1992) (mvmt. I & IV) (horn & 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. |
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.
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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.
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Monday, July 22 Katie Lansdale, violin; Matthias Naegele, cello
Beethoven – Trio in E Flat Major, Op.1#1
Germaine Tailleferre – Trio (1978) (mvmt. III & IV) Heinrich von Herzogenberg – Trio #2 in D minor, Op.36 (mvmt. III) Gaspar Cassado – Trio (mvmt. I & III) |
Katie Lansdale, violin
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.
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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.
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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.
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