Sundays at Johns
2008--2009 concert season Co-sponsored by
Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Charleston’s premier chamber music ensemble will open our concert series again this year with music featuring woodwinds and harpsichord. Pieces include Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro for Reed Trio, Franciax’s Divertissement for Reed Trio, and a Vivaldi concerto for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and harpsichord. Musicians include Mark Gainer, oboe; Charles Messersmith, clarinet; Sandra Nikolajevs, bassoon; and Julia Harlow, harpsichord.
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 7:00 pm
A graduate of the Juilliard School, where he worked with masters like Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas has already lead a dazzling career from Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall to performing concerti with the New York Philharmonic, Princeton Symphony, and the Moravian Philharmonic just to name a few. The New York Times has called him “a pianist of considerable flair” while The Washington Post has described him as “an artist who is master of both the grand gesture and the sensual line.” This special recital will include timeless works by Schubert, Liszt, Dohnanyi, Paderewski, and more! In addition to his 2008—2009 recital tour, Thomas will kick off Virginia Beach Symphony Orchestra’s concert season this October in their newly opened performing arts center. Please visit www.thomaspandolfi.com for more details!
Sound Clips: Gershwin, Concerto in F: III
Liszt, Concerto #1 in E-Flat: I
Two guest artists touring with works by great American masters, including Barber, Copland, Ives, Hoiby, and others. Chan is already no stranger to the American stage with credits at the Cincinnati Opera, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis, and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA just to name a few. He has also served as Artistic Co-Director of the all-male vocal ensemble Cantus. McGuire is currently staff accompanist at Vanderbilt and Belmont Universities and the Nashville Symphony Chorus, where she has worked with conductor Leonard Slatkin and composer John Corigliano. In addition to her American stage credits with the Cincinnati and Dayton Operas, she will be working abroad this summer in Austria in the AIMS Festival.
Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 7:00 pm
featuring the Vocal and Handbell Choirs of Johns Island Presbyterian
Church.
Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Special Family Concert
The magical world of the string quartet will come to life in a 45-minute program that introduces younger audiences to classical music in an interactive, engaging format. “Circle Unbroken” is a special adaptation of Margot Theis Raven’s celebrated children’s story about the history of the sweet grass basket. Music of the late African American composer, William Grant Still will be performed while the story is narrated and illustrations by E. B. White are displayed on a screen. A nursery will be provided during the concert. Musicians include Megan Allison and Frances Hsieh, violin; Katrina Smith, viola; and Timothy O’Malley, cello.
Chamber Music Charleston
Co-Sponsor for this Special Family Concert
Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Erika Blanco, violin and Ralph Blanco, piano
This duo will bring to life the German romanticism of the nineteenth-century in a program of Beethoven and Brahms. Erika, a Charleston native, is talented both as performer and teacher. Holding a music degree from Vanderbilt University, where she studied with the first violinist of the Blair String Quartet and Joseph Joachim Endowed Professor, Christian Teal, she also acquired her certification as a Suzuki violin pedagogue. She has performed in recitals and concerts across the Southeast and in the UK, including a season with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera. In addition to teaching her private studio, she occasionally performs in the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. Ralph also holds a music degree from Vanderbilt, where the couple met and where he studied with internationally renowned artist, Craig Nies. In addition to master classes with Emanuel Ax and Gilbert Kalish, Ralph was a member of the winning chamber ensemble in the 2005 Music Teachers National Association Chamber Music Competition in Seattle. He has worked as staff accompanist at Charleston Southern University and currently teaches piano at the Charleston Academy of Music.
This season finale will feature a local favorite—The Charleston Harp & Flute Duo. This program will certainly conclude the season with grace and charm, but we’ll leave the specific pieces and composers as a surprise! Judy has performed professionally since she was fifteen and became the principal harpist of the Columbia Philharmonic at age seventeen. A graduate in music of the University of South Carolina, she has performed in many orchestras across North and South Carolina, including principal harp in the Greenville and Brevard Symphonies. She currently performs in many weddings and events in the Lowcountry. Regina is the second chair flute of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and teaches at Charleston Southern University. She has also performed with many orchestras including St. Louis, Knoxville, Honolulu, and Minnesota. She is Chairman of the Piccolo Commissioning Consortium, which commissions new pieces for piccolo, and she is currently recording an album which features many of these new works.