Free concert this Sunday, Dec. 6 at 3 pm - Duo Eamon

Messiah Sing-Along

Wonderful reading of Part 1 of Handel's Messiah and the Hallelujah Chorus.  The church was packed, everyone sang and played their hearts out, and $350 was donated for local food agencies. A wonderful pre-season holiday treat that we will do again next year!

Here's a short clip:

Hallelujah Chorus - excerpt

Special Concert Saturday Nov 14 - 4 pm

Don't miss this special concert by Lidia Chang (baroque flute) and Connie Byrne (soprano) and St. John's music director Bob Hansler (harpsichord), 

The concert is free- donations will be gratefully received to support the Bach st. John Passion Project, a collaboration between St. John's and Ensemble Musica Humana which we take place in March 2016.

Last concert of this year's summer series 

- don't miss it! 

This week's concert features music 

from the 17th and 21st centuries: 

J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concerto 6 (scored for 2 violas, 2 viola da gambas, cello, bass, and harpsichord)
Larry Wallach: Prelude and Fugue for Viols
James Bergin: Duo for Violas ("Seelenpein")

Performers include:
Michael Strauss, James Bergin, violas
Lucy Bardo, Anne Legene, viola da gambas
Perri Morris, cello; 
Alice Spatz, doublebass
Larry Wallach, harpsichord

Bring a lunch to eat before the concert - St. John's will provide drinks and cookies.

Admission is FREE 

Violin and piano recital Monday, August 10

New York-based violinist Emily Kalish has performed on the Summer Noontime Concert Series since its inception in 2004. She and pianist Scott Bailey (North Adams native and faculty member of Westfield State College) will perform neo-classical works of Hindemith and Stravinsky.  Don't miss this exceptionally captivating program!

Audience members are invited to bring a bag lunch to eat before the concert; drinks and cookies will be provided.

Children are welcome, and admission is free (donations gratefully accepted).

Mercer Greenwald - Meditation from Thais

Click on the arrow to hear Mercer's performance

of Massanet's Meditation (from the opera Thais)

from her concert of this past Monday.

Viola recital Monday, August 3 at noon

Short video of July 13th viola-piano recital

Two short clips from Nora and Vlada's 

July 13th concert!

Nora Krohan, viola

Vlada Yaneva, piano

An increasingly established pianist in the greater Hartford area, Andrew King was winning regional competitions by the age of 17. In 2003, he and violist Sean Reilly were the first-prize winning chamber music group at the IES program in Vienna, Austria.  After studying in the Hartt School of Music Community Division, Mr. King attended Bowdoin College where he earned a BA in Music.  He returned to Hartt as the recipient of the WM Vincent Scholarship to complete his MM in Piano Performance.  His principal teachers include Robert Durso (New York), David Westfall, Margreet Francis, and Gerald Stofsky (Vienna). 

Mr. King has competed internationally and performed in masterclasses for leading pianists, including Ilya Itin, Paul Roberts, Yael Weiss, and Robert Wyatt.  Active as both teacher and performer, Mr. King maintains a private studio at his home in Bloomfield and is on the faculty of the Community Division of the Hartt School.  Recent performances include a Hartt Community Division faculty recital at the Simsbury Library in October of this past year.  

Additionally, Mr. King serves as pianist for the Enfield American Baptist Church, a position he has held since 2008.  For more information, please visit his website, andrewkingpianist.com.  

Baroque flute and harpsichord concert

Free concert at noon

Monday, July 20th

 Lidia Chang, baroque flute

Matthew McConnell

harpsichord

Music by J.S. Bach, 

Jacques Hotteterre, Michele Blavet

Bring a lunch to eat - 

St. John's will provide drinks and cookies!

Children welcome

A versatile musician and well-rounded scholar, Lidia Chang double majored in Flute Performance and Music History at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She went on to earn a Master's in Historical Performance on the Baroque flute at McGill University's Schulich School of Music. Lidia works as a freelance musician and has the pleasure of performing internationally as a soloist and with a number of period instrument ensembles including Ensemble Ad Libitum, Arcadia Players, and Ensemble Musica Humana, of which she is a founding member. 

Dr. Matthew McConnell holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from Bennington College, a Master’s degree in Musical Composition from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the same institution. He is a member of ASCAP and the American Guild of Organists.

Dr. McConnell is the Minister of Music at the First Baptist Church of North Adams, and is the current Director of Choral Instruction at St. Stanislaus-Kostka Private School in Adams, MA. Dr. McConnell's choral music publisher is E.C. Schirmer, and he is a contributor to the Lorenz organ periodicals. For more information please visit: www.mattharpsichord.com.

Bring a lunch to eat - we will provide drinks and cookies.

Great music in a lovely space - and a welcome break in the day!

A versatile performer and recording artist in the New York area, Nora Krohn has performed on three continents in a diverse range of venues and styles. She is the Assistant Principal violist of the Ridgefield Symphony and section violist in the Binghamton Philharmonic. Her numerous recording credits include collaborations with Ethel, Phil Dizack and Declan O'Rourke, and commercial projects for Budweiser and Tiffany and Co. She can also be seen in several episodes of Amazon Studios' web series "Mozart in the Jungle."

A native of Sofia, Bulgaria, pianist and educator Vlada Yaneva has been residing in New York for the past fourteen years. She is actively performing throughout the United States and Europe and teaching in NYC. She can be often heard in collaboration with her husband pianist Matthew Harrison as part of their project Masterwork Conversations - lecture recital series dedicated to creating a closer and more personal relationship with the audience through an open conversation. This project is currently in its fifth season and is being brought to libraries throughout the US East coast.

New York-based violinist Akiko Kobayashi returns to open our 12th annual summer concert series in a program of music for solo violin.

Audience members are invited to bring a bag lunch to eat; St. John's will provide drinks and cookies.

Akiko Kobayashi has appeared as a soloist with the West Islip Symphony Orchestra, Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Suginami Kokaido Chamber Orchestra, and InterHarmony Festival Orchestra. Her recital appearances include Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in the Young Musicians Concert sponsored by the MTNA League; Steinway Hall in New York; Cathedral of St. John in New York; the Gala Chamber Music Concert at the Nyack Academy of Music Summer Festival; Bach-Archiv in Leipzig, Germany; Konzertsaal des Rathauses in Bavaria; and a benefit concert for the Annie Le Memorial Fellowship Fund sponsored by the Association of Yale Asian American Alumni. Past season highlights include a debut appearance in Chicago and solo with the West Islip Symphony.

She has appeared at international festivals such as the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine, the InterHarmony International Music Festival in the Berkshires and the Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Festival in Bavaria, where she performed as both soloist and chamber musician. She has performed in master classes for the Stradivarius Society, Zvi Zeitlin, and Sergiu Schwartz.

Her interests include baroque performance and compositional practices and violin and harpsichord works. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Master of Music in Classical Violin from the Manhattan School of Music. Her teachers include Victor Aitay, Sidney Harth and Felix Galimir.

Summer series concert schedule

Concert Wednesday, June 24 at 7:30

Family Art Day - Friday, Feb. 20