Friends of Music St. Boniface Episcopal Church The Concert Series at St. Boniface Church is made possible through the generous donations of the 5615 Midnight Pass Road, Siesta Key, Sarasota, FL 34242 Friends of Music. All gifts are tax deductible (to the extent allowed by law), and additional funds are
collected at freewill offerings during the performances. If you are interested in becoming a Friend of
Music, please complete the enclosed “Friends of Music” donation card in our music brochure. We look forward to seeing you at all the concerts - and please, bring a friend! FRIday, JANUARY 13, 7:00 p.m.
Brenda & Jim Albus Kathie Hayes Beverly Peyser Bob Bole Katie & Peter Hayes Charmienne & John Pohlman Jeremy Filsell Dor & Bob Brown Penny & Wilson Hendry Grace Riker Charlotte & John Calhoun Robert Hesse Barbara Roth-Donaldson Joanna Cleary Nancy Hinds & Dr. J. F. Donaldson Edward D. Cohen Mary Jo & Erskine Hopkins Diane Jim Roytz John Cooper Philip H. Hubbell Cynthia & Richard Sand Judy & Ted Copland Jan & Marvin Huff Cynthia Olsen Smyth Gray S. Davis Suzanne & Oliver Janney Jack Stewart Margot & John Dickie Jeanene Kortjohn Richard Street Bruce Eberlin & Chuck Kelley Meg & Herb Larrabee Melliss Swenson Jacqueline Ekgren D’Arlene Llewellyn Dale Willard & Fr. Reid Farrell Nancy & David Evans Marita & Albert Marsh Lou & John Woellner Amy & Bob Ferrell Ernie Matijasic Evelyn Ferguson Ralph McGimpsey A very special thank you to Phyllis & Steve Gaffney Connie & Rooney Mereness Anne & Cope Garrett for Anne & Cope Garrett Molly & Fred Moffat sponsoring this evening’s D. Dyson Gay Ralph Morey & Lou Salamone post-concert reception Mary & Jon Gordon Mary & Paul Neuhauser AND Mary & Lawrence Gurley Beverly W. Parker The American Guild of Lorna Hard Jenifer & Doug Parker Organists Sarasota-Manatee Liz Harper Muriel Patram Chapter for their underwriting Concert for Piano and Organ Debbie & Don Harvey Linda & Jack Pendray in-part of the concert with soprano Rebecca Kellerman
And join us for the next music event here at St. Boniface Church:
Sunday, February 12, 2017 ~ 6:00 p.m. WELCOME! All concerts at St. Boniface Church this season are FREE and open to the public. These performances are made possible by the generosity of the Boniface Eleonora Lvov Friends of Music, and the free-will offerings at each event. Thank you! Concert Pianist (941)349-5616 www.bonifacechurch.org
Jeremy Filsell is widely recognized as one of very few performers who concertizes equally as organist Program and pianist. He has appeared as a solo pianist in Russia, Scandinavia, the USA, and throughout the UK. His concerto repertoire encompasses Mozart and Beethoven through to Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff (1st, 2nd, and 3rd concerti). He collaborates frequently with Wanamaker Grand Court PIANO Organist Peter Richard Conte in performances of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the organ
serving as the orchestra. Trois Préludes, Op. 36 ...... Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Dr. Filsell’s discography comprises more than 25 solo recordings. He has recorded the solo Par gros temps piano music of Herbert Howells, Bernard Stevens, and Eugene Goossens for the Guild label, Tendresse Rachmaninov’s piano music for the Signum label, and French Mélodies with Michael Bundy (baritone) Suprème Appel for the Naxos label. Gramophone magazine said of Filsell’s premiere recordings in 2000 of Marcel Dupré’s complete organ works that it was “one of the greatest achievements in organ recording.” In 2005, the Signum label released a 3-disc set of the six organ symphonies of Louis Vierne, recorded on Agnus Dei (from Messe ‘Cum jubilo’, Op. 11), for soprano ...... the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in St. Ouen, Rouen. Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Dr. Filsell has taught at universities, summer schools, and conventions in both the UK and USA and has served twice on international organ competition juries. Recent solo recital engagements have Quartre Mélodies, Op. 6 for soprano and piano Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) taken him across the USA, the UK, and to Germany, France, Finland, and Norway. Sous la pluie Jeremy Filsell studied organ at Keble College, Oxford before completing graduate studies in piano performance at the Royal College of Music in London. He was awarded his PhD at Birmingham Roses dans le nuit Conservatoire/BCU for research of the music of Marcel Dupré. Prior to moving to the U.S. in 2008, he Marquise held lectureships at London’s Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Le deux soeurs Manchester and was a lay clerk in the Queen's choir at St. George's, Windsor Castle. He currently serves as artist-in-residence at Washington National Cathedral, director of music at the Church of the
Epiphany, and Professor of Organ at the Catholic University of America, all in Washington D.C. Prélude, Choral, et Fugue, Op. 21 ...... César Franck (1822-1890) Jeremy Filsell is represented exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.
INTERMISSION Rebecca Kellerman has been hailed as a soprano with “grace and elegance” by the Washington Post and is a sought-after presence in the DC metro area consort and recital scene. Throughout the Washington DC area, Rebecca sings with groups such as The ORGAN Washington Bach Consort, The Bach Sinfonia, Chantry, Cathedra, Opera Lafayette, and
The National Gallery Vocal Ensemble. Beyond DC, she has worked with Bach Collegium Troisième Choral in La mineur ...... César Franck San Diego, Chatham Baroque, Three Notch'd Road, Kontrabande and recently made her Berkeley Early Music Festival debut. Conductors with whom she has worked include Daniel Inventions, Op. 50 ...... Marcel Dupré Abraham, the late J. Reilly Lewis, Robert Shafer, Julian Wachner, Ruben Valenzuela, Michael McCarthy, Nos. 1, 7, 13, and 12 Christoph Eschenbach, Robert King, Jane Glover, Leonard Slatkin, and Ryan Brown. Most recently, Rebecca's solo appearances have included recitals featuring the works of Reger, Dupré, Britten, Monteverdi, Purcell and Handel and she has appeared in performances of J. S. Bach's B minor Mass, St. Les Angelus, for soprano and organ ...... Louis Vierne John Passion and St. Luke Passion, numerous Bach Cantatas as part of the Washington Bach Consort's Au Matin Cantata Series, Handel's Messiah and Israel in Egypt, the Mozart and Fauré Requiems, Pergolesi's À Midi Stabat Mater and Vivaldi's Gloria. In England she has performed as a recitalist on concert series in Au Soir Edinburgh and Coventry and worked with members of Fretwork and 'The English Cornet and Sackbut ensemble'. A champion of new music, Rebecca is currently working on a recording project featuring the Songs of Leo Popplewell and Jeremy Filsell, alongside lesser known works of Marcel Dupré and Ernest Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’ALAIN, Op. 7 ...... Maurice Duruflé Moeran. She currently studies with the acclaimed pedagogue Elizabeth Daniels, but in the past, she has also worked with Emma Kirkby, Judith Coen, Italian coach Enza Ferrari, Julianne Baird, and Craig Audio or video recording of this recital, using any electronic device, without prior Rutenburg. Rebecca received her BM and MM in Vocal Performance from Shenandoah University before written consent is strictly prohibited. studying privately in Spoleto, Italy, and at the Hochschule fur Musik in Stuttgart, Germany. Her career has taken her across England, France, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany as both a soloist and chorister.