Master Arts Series
Look for more information soon about the Church Street Master Arts Series!
2024-2025 Master Arts Series – Fall & Winter Selection
Tuesday, October 25, 2024 – 7 pm
An innovative concert recitalist and sacred music specialist, Janet Yieh has been lauded for her “expressivity and technical prowess” (The American Organist). Janet is Director of Music and Organist at Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side in New York City, where she oversees a vibrant music program for all ages and plays the 138-rank Austin Organ. She previously served as Associate Organist at Trinity Church Wall Street and Director of the St. Paul’s Chapel Choir for seven years.
In 2020, Janet co-founded a new platform ‘Amplify Female Composers’ with Carolyn Craig, and she contributes research to an international sacred music database called “A Great Host of Women Composers.” She has played as staff organist for Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) America choir courses. Janet frequently collaborates with composers to premiere new music for organ and choir.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 – 7 pm
Vox Luminis is a Belgian early music vocal ensemble created in 2004 by Artistic Director Lionel Meunier. The ensemble performs in Belgium, across Europe and around the world. Its unique sound appeals as much through the personality of each timbre as it does through the color and the uniformity of the voices. The size and composition of the group depend on the repertoire, and most of the singers are from the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. The repertoire is essentially Italian, English, and German, and spans from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
The concert at Church Street UMC will feature works by Baroque German masters. Using Brahms’ A German Requiem from the Romantic period as a template, Meunier has assembled a collection of older settings of the requiem’s texts, rather than setting them in a more modern style. Thus, the program for the evening is “A German Baroque Requiem.”
Sunday, November 17, 2024 – 3 pm
Scott Montgomery, organist, and Frode Gundersen, pianist, have performed together as Orgiano Duo since 2018, including two European tours with concerts given in Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, and Latvia. During the pandemic, and after having to cancel a Midwest tour, Frode and Scott posted short concert videos via social media, which were in turn viewed and shared by many. Orgiano Duo is pleased to have resumed a regular performance schedule across the country, performing an array of classical, secular, and sacred repertoire, highlighting the organ and piano in an orchestral manner.
Scott Montgomery is Director of Music Ministries and Organist for Central United Methodist Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Frode Gundersen is Director of Music, Arts, and Worship at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Tuesday, February 27, 2025 – 7 pm
Founded in Paris in 2009, Trio Karénine bears the name of Tolstoy’s beautiful and
emotionally honest heroine. The trio of Julien Dieudegard (violin), Louis Rodde (cello)
and Paloma Kouider (piano) is acclaimed by critics and audiences for its musical
integrity and passionate interpretation, and was the top prizewinner at the ARD International Competition in 2013.
The group has performed in the world’s most
prestigious halls, including the Philharmonie and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris,
London’s Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Frick Collection in New York, Salle Bourgie in Montréal, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater in Münich, and the Leiszhalle in Hamburg.
