VOICES SUMMER SINGS BEGIN TONIGHT WITH "MESSIAH"
Dear Choral Music Lover,
If you love choral music, and you miss singing in the summer, please join the VOICES Chorale for Summer Sings 2008. Music, a pianist, soloists, conductors, beautiful spaces will be provided. Please join others who love choral music and sing these pieces together.
Handel's MESSIAH: Thursday, July 17, 7:30 pm
Anchor Presbyterian Church, 980 Durham Road (Route 413)
Wrightstown, PA, 18940Haydn's ST. THERESA MASS: Thursday, August 7, 7:30 pm
Music Together, 225 Pennington-Hopewell Road Hopewell, NJ 08525
An old-fashioned ice-cream social, with fresh fruit, will follow each sing. A donation will be collected at the door, and scores will be provided, or you can bring your own.
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Soloists include Alison Davy of New York, soprano; Lisa Reifschneider of Hopewell Township, NJ, alto; Ron Baltimore of North Plainfield, NJ, tenor; and John Sergey of New Hope, bass. Area singers will remember Alison Davy from her outstanding solo work in Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass last summer. Conductors for July 17 in Wrightstown, PA, include Jim Moyer, Director of Choral Activities and Coordinator of Vocal Music, Pennsbury School District and Artistic Director of The Pennsbury Community Chorus. Also featured will be Peter de Mets, adjunct faculty member at Mercer County Community College, as well as VOICES Music Director Lyn Ransom, Assistant Conductor Andrew Monath, and Guest Conductor for fall 2008 J.A. Kawarsky. |
 Alison Davy, Soprano |
JIM MOYER, GUEST CONDUCTOR
James D. Moyer, born in 1964
in Easton, Pennsylvania, completed his Bachelor of Music degree in voice and
organ at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey in 1986. While
there he studied under Frauke Haasemann, Allen Crowell, Robert Carwithen and
Marvin Keenze. He also sang in the Westminster Symphonic Choir under the
direction of Joseph Flummerfelt. Currently, Mr. Moyer is the director of choral
music for the Pennsbury Schools in Fallsington, PA, and Director of Music at
the First Presbyterian Church of Morrisville, PA. He is a former President of
the Virginia American Choral Directors Association (VACDA), and has served on
four convention committees for ACDA. He often contributes reviews to The Choral
Journal, and is sought after for clinics, workshops, adjudications and guest
conducting.
PETER DE METS, GUEST CONDUCTOR
Peter de Mets is a composer, conductor, and
tenor soloist. He served as the Director of Music and Organist for Forest Grove
Presbyterian Church for 13 years and as the Artistic Director and Conductor of
the Chamber Arts Guild and the Centennial Singers for 7 and 8 seasons,
respectively. As a composer, Peter's works have been performed at the National
Cathedral, The White House and throughout the United States. His choral
fanfare, "One World One Dream," was performed in Beijing, Shanghai and The
Forbidden City in China as part of the 2008 Olympic Celebrations. Peter is the
Repertoire and Standards Chair of the American Choral Director's Association's
Pennsylvania Chapter. Recently, Peter sang the tenor solos from the CPE Bach
Magnificat at Morrisville Presbyterian Church conducted by Jim Moyer, and has
performed in productions of Amahl and the Night Visitors (Kaspar), The Merry
Widow (Camille), Godspell (Jesus), and Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey II).
Peter has music directed and conducted over a dozen musical productions. This
fall, Peter was honored to receive the "Young Alumni Award for Achievement"
from his alma mater, Susquehanna University.
CRISTOPHER FRISCO, PIANIST
Cristopher Frisco has worked on
three recent Broadway productions and in many of the East Coast's finest
regional theaters. He was selected to conducted the Philadelphia Premiere of
Bat Boy for 1812 Productions, which was awarded a Barrymore Award for
Outstanding Ensemble in a musical. He has also acted as musical director and
accompanied productions for Westminster Choir College of Rider University, The
Walnut Street Theater, Downtown Players, The Theatre Outlet, Lehigh Univeristy,
Muhlenberg College, Muhlenberg Summer Music Theater, and the Bucks County and
Pocono Playhouses. Cris is on the accompanying staff of the Opera Theatre and
Music Festival of Lucca, Italy. As a frequent concert partner for singers and
instrumentalists, recent seasons have brought Cris to New York, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, San Diego, Tai-Pei, Hong Kong, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, and
Bangkok. He is currently on the faculty of the Doylestown School of Music and
the Arts and is a community outreach instructor in Opera and Classical music
for Bucks County Community College. Cris is also the founder and artistic
director of The New Voice Project, a fledgling non-profit arts organization
that commissions and produces new music.
VOICES
Now in its 21st year, the VOICES Chorale performs three concert programs in the Princeton area and in Bucks County, PA, each year. VOICES also performs small group, solo and ensemble music at retirement centers in Pennsylvania. The chorale has completed three concert tours of Germany, produced several CDs, and performed with outstanding orchestras including the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra, and the Riverside Symphonia.
If you are interested in singing with VOICES in the 2008-2009 concert season, please contact Sandy Duffy, at 609-799-2211 or sandy.duffy@comcast.net. More information, including a DVD clip of an outreach concert and directions to our summer sings is available at www.VoicesChorale.org.
Don't miss great singing, great musicians, and great ice cream this Thursday! Hope to see you at 7:30, July 17, for the Messiah, Part I, at Anchor Presbyterian Church.
Sincerely,
Lyn Ransom
Music Director, VOICES
www.voiceschorale.org