October 20, 2002 - 5:00 p.m. First annual "Beinema Concert" to honor the distinguished career of Trinity's Organist-Emeritus, Marvin Beinema, and his wife, Polly.
Evensong/organ recital
Charles Callahan, organist and conductor
Trinity Episcopal Church Choir Click here to hear Dr. Callahan performing a short clip from "The Grand Triumphal Chorus, Opus 47 #2" written by Alexandre Guilmant from the CD "Guilmant Garnishes". Click here to hear the entire piece. Click on logo for free download of QuickTime media player.
Marvin and Polly Beinema
Charles Callahan is one of America's leading organist-composers. A
native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of
Music, where he had the distinction of being the last pupil of legendary organ
instructor Alexander McCurdy. Well-known as an improviser, he made his debut in
this realm at the International Eucharistic Congress in 1976. In 1977, the
Belgian ministry of Culture awarded him a grant to study with the renowned
organist-composer, Flor Peeters.Upon
returning to the United States, Dr. Callahan earned his graduate degrees from
the Catholic University of America.In
addition, he has studied organ with Theodore Marier, George Faxon, Clarence
Watters, William Watkins and Daniel Roth.
Dr. Callahan has conducted frequent European organ concert tours,
performing in such notable sites as Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral.
His early performing career was highlighted by appearances with the
Philadelphia Orchestra, at the White House, and by his complete Franck organ
works series given in 1979 at Washington D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts. Dr. Callahan has served as organist, teacher, conductor and
composer-in-residence at Middlebury College in Vermont and Rollins College in
Florida.Since 1986, he has been
involved in the design of many important new American pipe organs, and he has
become one of the most recognizable names in American church music, with scores
of choral and instrumental compositions now in print from leading
publishers.His orchestral music has
been premiered by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and his numerous
commissions include works written for the Harvard University Choir and the
choir of St. Patrick’s Cathedral.In
recognition of his service to the Catholic Church and his commissioned
compositions for Papal visits to the United States, he was awarded in 1999 the
Papal Honor of Knighthood in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
In addition to compositions and performances, Charles Callahan is
a noted educator and author. His two books on American organ building, “The
American Classic Organ”, and “Aeolian-Skinner Remembered”have become standard reference works. He is
frequently in demand as a consultant for organ projects and his work in this
area includes significant instruments for the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica, St.
Agnes Cathedral, Long Island, NY, All Saints Church in Buffalo, NY, First
United Methodist Church in Beaumont, TX, and his alma mater, Curtis
Institute.
He has established his studio and home in rural Vermont, from
which he frequently commutes to New York City in order to fulfill professional
church music duties at Church of the Holy Family, the parish of the United
Nations.
Cathedral Church of the Nativity Choir
November 3, 2002 - 5:00 p.m.
Evensong
(music of Beinema, Callahan, Noble and Sowerby)
followed by a performance of
Requiem by Gabriel Faure
Trinity Episcopal Church Choir
Cathedral Church of the Nativity Choir
Canon Russell Jackson, conductor
Lorenz Maycher, organist
Paul Salerni
January 11, 2003 - 7:30 p.m.
Benefit Concert for the Trinity Soup Kitchen
Domenic and Paul Salerni
Domenic Salerni
Program will include Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor, Bach "Chaconne" from the D minor Partita for solo violin, Wieniawski Polonaise Brillante, and other favorites. Of special note will be the world premiere of a composition by Walter Dworakivsky.
Domenic Salerni is a tenth-grader at Liberty High School, Bethlehem, Pa. He started studying the violin at age three with Linda Wear Fiore and has performed with the Da Core Strings in Philadelphia, Reading, Chicago, and at the State Capitol in Harrisburg. He presently studies with Lee Snyder in Abington, PA. He is often featured on benefit recitals and concerts given by violinist Paul Chou and composer/pianist Paul Salerni, and has toured public schools in the Lehigh Valley with Chou, Salerni, and soprano Debra Field as part of their "Composer in Your Classroom" presentations. In May 1996, he played the first movement of Vivaldi's Concerto in A Minor with the Lehigh University Chamber Orchestra. In February 1999, he performed as a soloist with the Bucks County Symphony Orchestra as a result of winning their Young People's Concerto Competition. He has played solo recitals for the Delaware Valley Music Club and First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem. He spent 1999-2000 in Italy where he played solo recitals in Bassano and Vicenza and performed as soloist and orchestra member with the Camerata Vicentina Musicale in numerous locations including Sovizzo, Vicenza, and Legnago. He was the soloist for the Camerata's concert for the European Union's Conference on Human Rights in Venice. In Italy, he played soccer for Gruppo Sportivo San Paolo.
Last season he won first prize in two Young Artists competitions: the Voorhees competition for the Allentown Symphony and the junior division of the MacPhail competition at the Pottstown Symphony. He also won a Menges Scholarship from the Ambler Symphony. As a result of these competitions, he played as the soloist in Allentown's Side-by-Side concert in May and will perform as a soloist with the Pottstown Symphony and the Ambler Symphony in February. Domenic also plays the baritone horn and the cornamusa (Italian bagpipes) and plays as a violinist in the Braverman Quartet, one of Settlement Music School's scholarship quartets. In 2001, Domenic won the Scripps-Howard Regional Spelling Bee and subsequently competed in the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
Paul Salerni is Professor of Music at Lehigh University where he teaches composition, theory, and directs LUVME (the Lehigh University Very Modern Ensemble), an ad hoc group of undergraduate, faculty, and guest musicians which have given over 60 concerts of contemporary music in the past 20 years. He received a Ph.D. in composition from Harvard University where he studied with Earl Kim. Salerni is an expert in the performance of Kim's music. Besides producing and directing two festivals and several concerts of Kim's music at Lehigh, Salerni has recently been featured as a guest pianist and lecturer with the International Sejong Soloists. In collaboration with them, he has given performances of Kim's music in Seoul, New York City, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at the Aspen Music Festival.
Dr. Salerni's own music has been played throughout the United States, in Canada, in Europe, and in China. His orchestra music has been performed by the New Haven Symphony, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, the Schuylkill Symphony, the Young People's Philharmonic of the Lehigh Valley, the International Chamber Orchestra, the Kinhaven Orchestra, and LUVME. His songs have been presented by the Washington Square Contemporary Music Series and the Derriere Garde Festival in New York City, the Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, the Contrasts Chamber Artists of Philadelphia, at the Shenyang International Music Festival (China), at SUNY Stony Brook, and at the University of Washington. He is best known for his music for and about children; his recent violin concerto/fable entitled The Big Sword and the Little Broom has been called an "extraordinary gift to the audience." Another Italian fable, The Old Witch and the New Moon, has had numerous performances including a performance in Italian this past summer at the international music festival in Canna, Calabria. Both fables have texts written by poet Dana Gioia, an example of Salerni's close working relationship with that great American poet. Besides numerous art songs and choral pieces, Salerni and Gioia are presently collaborating on a one-act opera to be presented in an unstaged version next season.
Salerni is a dedicated educator having received Lehigh's most prestigious acknowledgement of excellence in teaching, the Stabler Award. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Suzuki Association of the Americas.
February 9, 2003 - 5:00 p.m.
Evensong
with combined choirs of
Trinity Episcopal Church
and
Cathedral Church of the Nativity
Russell Jackson, Canon Precentor
Music by Sowerby, Noble, and Bainton
followed by Organ Recital
by Lorenz Maycher, Organist
Music by Bach, Franck and Sowerby
Lorenz Maycher
Lorenz Maycher is organist-choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is assistant organist at St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York City. He teaches at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He was formerly organist at the historic First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, for ten years. A native of Oklahoma, he has studied organ with Margaret Lindsay, Thomas Matthews, Clyde Holloway, and William Watkins, and is a graduate of Rice University. While a student at Rice, Lorenz won the Gibbons Prize in organ, placed first in the San Antonio Pipe Organ Competition, and won the Houston AGO's Mary Ellen Bond Award.
In 1989, Lorenz was a featured recitalist at the Organ Historical Society national convention held in New Orleans. He has since been invited to play for six OHS national conventions, and was recipient of an OHS E.Power Biggs Fellowship in 1990. He has played over fifty recitals on the 1830 Appleton organ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and has appeared in recital in such places as Wichita State University, Rollins College, Irvine Auditorium (University of Pennsylvania), and Philadelphia's Lord and Taylor Department Store (on the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ).
In recent years, Lorenz has participated in several projects devoted to the music of
Leo Sowerby. In 1994 he recorded an all-Sowerby disk on the 1949 Aeolian-Skinner organ at First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas, for Raven Records. The following year he was invited by the Leo Sowerby Foundation to give the world premiere performances of Sowerby's recently discovered 1958 Nostalgic Poem and Heroic Poem in a Washington, D.C. concert honoring organist William Watkins. He later gave the New York premiere at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, and the Chicago premiere at Fourth Presbyterian Church. He has played three of Sowerby's five works for organ and orchestra, including the first performance in over forty years of Concert Piece in a concert with the Richmond Symphony and a performance of Classic Concerto with the Buffalo Philharmonic. In 1998, he performed Sowerby's seldom heard Sinfonia Brevis in a Baltimore AGO memorial concert to organist Rodney Hansen, to whom the work is dedicated. He has participated in Sowerby festivals in Chicago, New York, Richmond, and Worcester, Mass.
Satori
March 7, 2003 - 8:00 p.m.
Satori
Chamber music concert
featuring flute, strings, and guitar
SATORI is a professional chamber music ensemble performing regularly throughout the Eastern United States. Its mission is to explore traditional and contemporary repertoires, to present chamber music in an accessible fashion, maintaining a high standard of musical excellence, and to foster growth in chamber music appreciation through a regular series of public performances, special projects, and educational programs.
The group was formed as a conductorless, musician-managed chamber ensemble in 1996, after its component musicians had performed together over a number of years. Since its inception, SATORI has performed full concert series, with appearances at colleges, museums, and major music festivals. The group's schedule includes in-school educational programming and multidisciplinary performance projects, as well as formal concerts and appearances by small, "cameo" ensembles.
SATORI is a mixed ensemble of winds, strings, and piano. The group's repertoire ranges from baroque to 20th century selections, often intertwined in a single performance.
SATORI's name is taken from a Zen term suggesting the coming together of separate parts to form a whole.
JOHN ARNOLD, guitar, holds an Artist diploma degree from the Hartt School, University of Hartford, as well as Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Guitar Performance and Guitar Pedagogy from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University. In addition to numerous solo performances, John has performed at the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA), Guitar Ensemble Festival, Kennedy Center Washington DC, Festival of the Human Voice, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and on National Public Radio (NPR). Mr. Arnold has taught guitar at Bennington College, and currently is on the faculty of Bethlehem's Moravian College, where he is also the founder and director of the annual Bethlehem Guitar Festival..
REBECCA JO BROWN, violin, is a graduate of Drake University, with a Master's in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. She is on the music faculty of Cedar Crest College, and performs regularly with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, and Bach Festival Orchestra. She is a frequent soloist with the Valley Vivaldi summer concert series, and a regular performer on the Lehigh Valley's chamber music stages.
ELYSSA CORLISS, cello, is a graduate of Boston University, with both bachelor's and master's degrees in performance. She is an active free-lance musician in the greater Philadelphia area, where she has premiered several contemporary chamber music works, and teaches cello students of all ages. Elyssa performs regularly with the Harrisburg Symphony and Opera Orchestras, the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, and the Delaware Symphony.
NORA SUGGS, flute, is a graduate of Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine, with extensive private education in music. She has played in England, Canada, and Japan, and throughout the United States. Nora performs on both classical and baroque flute, and is active as a teacher, recitalist and chamber musician in the Lehigh Valley. Nora teaches at Bethlehem's Moravian College, and also plays flute, pennywhistles, and uillean pipes with Malarky, a Celtic/rock band, performs with Two-Part Invention, a flute and guitar duo, and is studying shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese flute.
Season Finale
May 11, 2003 - 5:00 p.m.
Evensong/Organ Recital
Peter Conte, Organist
Joint choirs of Trinity Church and
Church of the Mediator
Peter Conte
Peter Conte is Wanamaker Grand Court Organist at Lord & Taylor Department Store, and organist-choirmaster at St. Clement's Episcopal Church, both in Philadelphia. One of the great organists of our time, his brilliant virtuosity and varied programming have made him a favorite among audiences throughout the United States. He has been featured several times on National Public Radio and on ABC national television's "Good Morning America" and performs daily recitals on the legendary Wanamaker Organ (the largest pipe organ in the world). When not touring, he performs on the six-manual 29,000 pipe instrument twice daily, six days per week.
Peter Conte is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists and holds the prestigious Performer's Certificate in Organ from Indiana University where he studied with Larry Smith and Robert Rayfield. He has also served as Associate Organist of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, New York, while studying with Robert Kennedy. His CD recordings from St. Clement's Church, Longwood Gardens, and on the Wanamaker organ have all become best sellers. He is in great demand as a concert organist, and has recently appeared in recital before his professional colleagues at national conventions of The Organ Historical Society and The American Guild of Organists to critical acclaim.
All concerts are free and open to the public.
For more information on the concert series and other
musical activities at Trinity Episcopal Church, please contact Lorenz Maycher,
director of music, at 610-867-4741, or by e-mail at Lorenz@trinitybeth.org
