Lighthouse Chamber Players~Masterpieces at the Meetinghouse 2023 Chamber Series

Friends of the South Harwich Meetinghouse are thrilled for the return of the Lighthouse Chamber Players. Join us on Sunday, April 2nd at 3:00 pm!

Program

Beach: Romance
Previn: Four Songs for soprano, cello, and piano
Beethoven: Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Archduke"

Featuring

Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano,
Elizabeth Chang, violin
Alberto Parrini, cello
Alissa Leiser, piano

Come experience outstanding chamber music within our beautifully restored 1836 South Harwich Meetinghouse, proud recipient of the 2019 Massachusetts Historic Commission Preservation Award. The South Harwich Meetinghouse recreates the perfect setting for chamber music with historic lighting, unparalleled acoustics and candlelit ambience.

About the Artists....

ELIZABETH CHANG, violinist, enjoys a multi-faceted career as performer, teacher, and arts administrator. Her performing career has taken her to more than twenty countries and her chamber music appearances have included collaborations with many of today's leading artists. She is professor of violin at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the violin and viola faculties of the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School. Committed to the organic intersection of performance, teaching, and artistic leadership, Ms. Chang has, over the course of her career, launched and led various performance and teaching projects. She is Artistic Director and co-founder of the Lighthouse Chamber Players (Cape Cod) as well as co-founder and co-organizer of the Five College New Music Festival, the UMass Amherst Bach Festival and Symposium, and Musique de Chamber en Val Lamartinien (Burgundy, France) . In the summers she is a member of the artist faculty of Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival (Vermont) and the Brancaleoni Music Festival in Italy. A native New Yorker, Ms. Chang's primary teachers were Louise Behrend, Joseph Fuchs, Roman Totenberg, and Max Rostal. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was the recipient of the Presidential Scholar in the Arts Award and the Beebe Fellowship for Study Abroad awarded by New England Conservatory.

Born in Italy, ALBERTO PARRINI is principal cellist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic and a member of the American Symphony and Orchestra of St. Luke's. He also performs regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and New Jersey Symphony and has been guest principal cellist with the American Symphony, Cecilia Chorus, New York Symphonic Ensemble, Performance Santa Fe, Stamford Symphony and Teatro Grattacielo.
As a founding member of the Zukofsky Quartet he has given performances of the complete string quartets of Milton Babbitt in New York and Chicago. Alberto has toured North America, Europe and Asia with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project and performed with Arco Ensemble, Concertante, Continuum, ECCO, Lenape Chamber Ensemble, Mark Morris Dance Group, Mirror Visions, Proteus Ensemble, Richardson Chamber Players, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and Sinfonietta of Riverdale. His festival appearances include Evian, Tanglewood, Taos, Verbier, Ottawa, Montreal, San Miguel de Allende, Spoleto U.S.A., Music@Menlo, Windham, The Weekend of Chamber Music and the Piatigorsky seminar. His principal studies were with Timothy Eddy, Joel Krosnick, David Soyer, Colin Carr and Enrico Egano; he is a graduate of the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School. Alberto teaches cello at Princeton University and at The College of New Jersey. In the summer, he teaches at Kinhaven Music School, where he is also co-director of the Adult Chamber Music Workshop.

Pianist Alissa Leiser is recognized as both a soloist and collaborative artist of technical skill and interpretive command. She has performed at Alice Tully Hall, the Ravinia Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The National Gallery of Art, Bargemusic, and the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago. Her orchestral appearances have included the New Jersey Symphony, the New Orchestra of Boston and Orchestra New England. She has been heard on several radio and television broadcasts including WQXR, WFUV, and WAMC in New York. Her CD entitled Sounds of America with flutist Adrianne Greenbaum, was featured on National Public Radio as part of the Presidential Inauguration celebration in 1992. Her festival appearances include the Grand Teton Music Festival, Mohawk Trail Concerts and Music from Salem.

Praised by the Boston Globe for "a rich, viola-like tone and a rapturous, luminous lyricism," mezzo-soprano JANNA BATY enjoys an exceptionally versatile career. As a soloist, chamber musician, and recitalist, she has performed at festivals worldwide, including the Aldeburgh and Britten Festivals in England, the Varna Festival in Bulgaria, the Semanas Musicales de Frutillar Festival in Chile, and the Tanglewood, Norfolk, Monadnock, and Coastal Carolina festivals in the US. She is an alumna of Oberlin College and the Yale School of music

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Website: https://go.evvnt.com/1512904-3?pid=6581

Artists: Elizabeth Chang, Janna Baty, Alberto Parrini, Alissa Leiser