On Monday, July 24 at 7:30 PM, the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival will present a fitting cap to a season that has brought audience after audience to its feet throughout this 49th summer season. The season finale will feature chamber music gems from Telemann, Mozart, Shostakovich, Frank Bridge, and Benjamin Britten. All festival concerts are presented at Church of the Holy Spirit, Orleans. Tickets are $25 at the door (under 18 free). Additional festival information can be found at http://www.meetinghousemusic.org
Joining the festival's Artistic Director and pianist Donald Enos will be a perennial festival favorite, violinist Katie Lansdale, and violist Danielle Farina in her debut concert with the festival. They will perform Five Pieces for violin & viola by Shostakovich; Frank Bridge's Pensiero & Allegro Appassionato for viola and piano; Benjamin Britten’s Suite, op.6 for violin and piano; Telemann's Sonata Fantasia; and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante K. 364.
Violinist Katie Lansdale is a highly acclaimed soloist, chamber musician, and teacher who performs to enthusiastic audiences in the U.S. and internationally. She has given outstanding performances with many prestigious orchestras, including the National Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Austin Mozart Orchestra, and the New York Repertory Orchestra, as well as such concert series as the Phillips Collection, the Caramoor Series, and Lincoln Center’s Rose Room. In New York, where she founded the acclaimed Locrian new music group, Lansdale’s extensive chamber music concerts have included Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center with Yo Yo Ma and Merkin Hall with the Twentieth Centuryists. She performs regularly in Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall with the Festival Chamber Society. Lansdale is particularly known for her solo Bach performances, and her Bach CD was cited by American Record Guide as “one of the best recordings of this music.”
Danielle Farina is the new Principal Violist of the Cape Symphony (Cape Cod, MA) and is a former member of the Manhattan String Quartet, the Lark Quartet and Elements Quartet. She performs regularly with a number of ensembles in the NY area and around the country, among them the Bedford Chamber Ensemble, Music from Copland House and the Palladium Chamber Players. A proponent of new music, Ms. Farina premiered Peter Schickele's Viola Concerto with the Pasadena Symphony and recorded Viola concertos by Jon Bauman and Andy Teirstein in addition to Anthony Newman's Sonata on the Planets for Viola and Piano and Joel Suben’s “Ciacconetta”for Viola and Orchestra with the composer conducting. Music of Robert Paterson, John Musto, Eric Ewazen, Morton Feldman and Pierre Jalbert are also part of the discography. Recent digital audio and video releases include all of J.S. Bach’s Sonatas for Gamba and Harpsichord with Anthony Newman and Richard Wilson’s Music for Solo Viola. An active teacher, Ms. Farina is on the faculty of Vassar College. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Ms. Farina studied with Karen Tuttle, Joseph dePasquale, Stephen Wyrczynski, and Byrnina Socolofsky.
Donald Enos, a native Cape Codder, holds the position of Wesley DeLacy Chair, Keyboards, with the Cape Symphony and is the resident pianist for the Chatham Chorale. He is also director of music at the South Dennis Congregational Church, where he often presents concerts on the church’s Snetzler Chamber Organ (1762), believed to be the oldest organ in continuous use in the United States. It is his exceptional musicianship and creativity that have made the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival the longest running music festival on Cape Cod. The festival will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary in the summer 2024. Prepare to be spellbound!
The Meeting House Chamber Festival is grateful for the support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Cape Cod 5 Foundation, and the Mary-Louise and Ruth N. Eddy Foundation.
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