Sept. 18 at 3 PM 'Music At St. Mary's With The Harlem Chamber Players: Season Opening Concert'

[Season Opening Concert Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 3:00 PM; Eric K. Washington, Host]

On Aug. 6, 2011 AfriClassical posted: “'Music At St. Mary's With The Harlem Chamber Players: Season Opening Concert' Sept. 18 at 3 PM.” Carl Jackson is in Media Relations at The Harlem Chamber Players, and sends this release:

The Harlem Chamber Players present the opening concert of the 2011-2012 season of their "Music at St. Mary's" chamber music series in Harlem.

Eric K. Washington, author of Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem will host the event.

The program will feature mezzo-Soprano Carolyn Sebron and violist Richard Brice in the Brahms Songs Opus 91.

Founder and Artistic Director Liz Player will be featured in Brahms' Clarinet Quintet Opus 115.

Violist Amadi Azikiwe will also join the group in a performance of Mozart's String Quintet in Bb, K.174.

The concert takes place Sunday September 18th at 3pm in the historic St. Mary's Episcopal Church located at 521 West 126th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam.

Please join us for an afternoon of beautiful music followed by a wine and cheese reception in the courtyard after the concert. Tickets are $15, $10 for Seniors and students and may be purchased at the door or online at harlemchamberplayers.org

Carolyn Sebron: 'A Brief History of Blacks in Opera' on TheRoot.com; Harlem Chamber Players Concert Sept. 18

[TOP: TheRoot.com: A scene from "Treemonisha," a Scott Joplin opera (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images) BOTTOM: Carolyn Sebron]

Mezzo-Soprano Carolyn Sebron will perform in The Music at St. Mary's Harlem Chamber Players Season Opening Concert, 3 PM, September 18, 2011. Below is a link to her article as featured on TheRoot.com:

A Brief History of Blacks in Opera

“African Americans have overcome many barriers for a chance to sing. A new generation of performers may have the greatest opportunities of all.”

By Carolyn Sebron | Posted: May 22, 2011

Carolyn Sebron Bio

“American mezzo-soprano Carolyn Sebron is known throughout the world for her interpretations of opera's most dramatic heroines. She had her debut in Italy in 1996, performing the title role in CARMEN in Palermo and more recently a debut at Teatro Liceu in Barcelona singing the role of Amneris AIDA, a role she subsequently repeated at the Trappani Festival in Italy with Deutsche Oper Berlin. She has sung alongside many of opera's most notable artists; Placido Domingo at Madrid's Teatro Real in SAMSON ET DALILA, as CARMEN opposite Jose Cura at L'Arena di Verona in Verona, Italy, Fiorenza Cedolins, Maria Guleghina, Lando Bartolini, with Norma Fantini AIDA, and with Luis Lima and Dimitri Horostovsky in a highly acclaimed production of DON CARLO at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

“L'Arena di Verona, Bologna, Rome, Venice, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Real in Madrid, the Deutsche Oper of Berlin, Marseille, Glasgow, Ravenna Festival, Genova, Firenze, Torino, the Spoleto Festival, Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli, Macerata, Limoges, France, Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Omaha, Nebraska, in the heart of the Midwest, are all cities and theaters which have welcomed her wonderful talent. She has worked with stage directors such as Anthony McDonald, Franco Zefferelli, and Hugo de Ana and with such conductors in opera and concert as Daniele Gatti, Bruno Bartoletti, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Daniel Oren, Frederic Chaslin, Leslie Dunner, Ejii Oue, Roberto Abaddo, Steven Mercurio, Keith Lockhart and Hal France.”