Friday, August 16, 2019

The Harlem Chamber Players' Upcoming 2019-20 Season






The first concert of our 12th anniversary season will feature Tchaikovsky grand string sextet Souvenir de Florence, Beethoven’s Sextet for 2 horns and strings, and Britten’s Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings. This concert will feature violinists Joyce Hammann and Claire Chan, violists Amadi Azikiwe and Aundrey Mitchell, cellists Robert Burkhart and Caryl Paisner, French hornists Eric Davis and William de Vos, and oboist Hassan Anderson. Harlem historian and author Eric K. Washington will host. This concert will take place at Broadway Presbyterian Church at 601 West 114th Street (on Broadway).




Members of The Harlem Chamber Players will return to Goddard Riverside's Bernie Wohl Center for an intimate afternoon chamber music concert. This concert features Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Sonata for flute and harp, the Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp, Miguel del Águila’s Submerged for flute, viola and harp, and the Schubert “Cello” Quintet in C Major. Harpist Ashley Jackson, violist Amadi Azikiwe, flutist Julietta Curenton, violinists Joyce Hammann and Claire Chan, and cellists Robert Burkhart and Caryl Paisner will perform. This concert will take place in the Bernie Wohl Center at Goddard Riverside Community Center as part of their Community Arts Programs at 647 Columbus Avenue at 91st Street.



"The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit." - J.S. Bach

The “Harlem Bach Project” continues with an evening of beautiful concertos and arias by the master J.S. Bach. Met Opera soprano Brandie Sutton and mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford will sing selected arias. Flutist Julietta Curenton and violinist Ashley Horne will be featured soloists for the Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major. Violinists Claire Chan, Suzanne Gilman, and Chala Yancy will perform the Triple Violin Concerto. The soloists will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra comprised of members of The Harlem Chamber Players. This concert will take place at Broadway Presbyterian Church at 601 West 114th Street (on Broadway).




The Harlem Chamber Players' 12th Annual Black History Month Celebration will take place at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in tribute to the Harlem Renaissance Centennial (#HarlemRen100). WQXR's Terrance McKnight will host and perform with members of The Harlem Chamber Players. This concert also features special guest artists, virtuoso pianist, conductor and arranger Joseph Joubert and soprano Renay Peters Joubert. This concert is FREE and open to the public. (RSVP is required, and registration will open two weeks prior to the event.) This concert will take place in the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg Center at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Ave. & 135th Street).


Members of The Harlem Chamber Players will perform a joint Spring Concert with students from the Opus 118 Harlem School of Music. They are taught by the legendary string teacher Roberta Guaspari, who is featured in the Academy Award nominated documentary Small Wonders and portrayed by Meryl Streep in the film Music of the Heart. This concert will be FREE and open to the public. Please RSVP. This concert will take place at St. Mary's Episcopal Church at 521 West 126th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.


Harlem Stage will present the members of The Harlem Chamber Players and Talea Ensemble in a joint performance of the work Femenine by the late minimalist composer Julius Eastman. This concert will take place at Harlem Stage at 150 Convent Avenue (on 135th Street east of Amsterdam Avenue.)




The Harlem Chamber Players and the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine will jointly present R. Nathaniel Dett’s colossal oratorio entitled The Ordering of Moses for soloists with full orchestra, organ, and a 100-member choir featuring Chorale Le Chateau, organ, and orchestra as part of the 2-year Harlem-wide celebration of the Harlem Renaissance Centennial (#HarlemRen100)


This concert will be led by IMG artist, conductor/composer Damien Sneed. The soloists will be Met Opera soprano Brandie Sutton, alto Raehann Bryce-Davis, tenor Gregory Hopkins of Harlem Opera Theater, and Met Opera baritone Justin Austin. Terrance McKnight of WQXR will host. This event will take place at the Cathedral Church at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street.



Starting this 2019-20 Season, The Harlem Chamber Players will be Artists-in-Residence at the Harlem School of the Arts. Stay tuned as we announce programs as part of this residency. Click here to view our Summer 2019 newsletter. Please visit our website and sign up for our email list to get announcements about our concerts and other news. We hope you will join us this season!

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The Harlem Chamber Players, Inc.
191 Claremont Avenue #25
New York, NY 10027

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