2011-2012 Concert Season

October 30, 2011
"A Greek Musical Odyssey"
Soprano Julie Ziavras presents a collection of classic Greek popular songs capturing the lyric expression and the rich, deep texture of the Greek spirit and culture. The program will include a variety of Greek songs and ballads ranging from the plaintive to the rhythmic, with works by renowned Greek composers including Hadjidakis, Theodorakis, Tsitsanis rembetika (Greek blues) and traditional folk songs. She will be accompanied by Greek pianist/arranger Spiros Cardamis, and bouzouki master Kostas Psarros.

November 27, 2011
"A Baroque Holiday"
Kenneth Hamrick, harpsichord; Akiko Hosoi, baroque violin; and Andrew Trombley, baroque bass.
17th and 18th Century harpsichord music, accompanied by authentic instruments of the period, by J.S. Bach, John Eccles, G.F. Handel, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Isabella Leonarda and Jean-Phillipe Rameau.

February 5, 2012
"Poets of the Harlem Renaissance"
baritone Anthony Turner
classical art songs by black composers, inspired by the works of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin.

March 4, 2012
MAYA Trio
John Hadfield, percussion; Bridget Kibbey, harp; and Sato Moughalian, flute in a concert of upbeat rhythms in a mix of Celtic,and World music.

March 25, 2012
"The Mother Mild - Meditations on the Sorrows of Mary"
Anneliese von Goerken, soprano and Tracy Bidleman, mezzo-soprano with Jeffrey Hoffman, keyboardist and composer.
Giovanni Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs, works by Ned Rorem, Charles Callahan and the world premiere of Jeffrey Hoffman’s cantata The Weeper, a setting of 17th-century mystic Richard Crashaw’s poem about St. Mary Magdalene.

April 22, 2012
"Romantic Piano - works of contemporary American composers"
Pianist Jason Andrews returns to play a recital of romantic music, featuring works by contempoary American composers John Neufeld, Charles T. Griffes, Jeremy Cavaterra, and John Powell.

May 20, 2012
A Spring Choral Celebration
The Clerkes of Alban with the Christ Church Community Youth Choir and the Richmond Choral Society Youth Chorus.
The program includes Renaissance a capella choral music by Tallis, Parson, Gibbons and Arcadelt. Also classic Anglican choral music and traditional hymns sung with organ accompaniments; rarely-heard Renaissance Italian motets by Palestrina (sung in Latin) and by the renegade Jewish virtuoso Salamone Rossi (sung in Hebrew); and traditional Negro Spirituals and contemporary American settings by Jean Berger and Lee Hoiby.

All concerts at 3:30 pm
at Saint Alban’s Episcopal Church
76 Saint Alban’s Place Staten Island, New York

Artists and Programs subject to change