Music spanning three centuries featuring works by Beethoven, Ernst Von Dohnanyi and Paul Moravec (b. 1957) will be performed at the Trinity Church by the Concordia Chamber Players on March 22. Beethoven’s Serenade in D major, Opus 8, for String Trio will open the program with Concordia regulars, Carmit Zori on violin, Robert Rinehart on viola and artistic director Michelle Djokic on cello. Beethoven’s musical genius and his creative abilities virtually transformed every aspect of music that he touched. He died in 1827, however, his genius inspired composers in the later part of the

Concordia Chamber Players Gala and Musicale January 9 Concert January 11  Ken Cooper Plays Fortepiano Madrigals arranged for String Quartet Oh Gesualdo, Divine Tormentor  by Carlo Gesualdo Viola da Gamba Sonata in G minor #3 by Johann Sebastian Bach Piano Quartet K478 by Wolfgang Mozart Kenneth Cooper – fortepiano Carmit Zori, Yoon Kwon – violin Robert Rinehart – viola, Michelle Djokic – cello 3:00 Sunday, January 11 Trinity Church Solebury 6587 Upper York Road at Sugan Road Solebury, PA 18963 Gala Dinner and Musicale January 9, 2009 7:00pm Cradle Valley Farm 6454 Meetinghouse Road, Sole

Concordia Players rehearse the Taylor Clarinet Quintet Frank Huang, Carmit Zori, Anthony McGill Michelle Djokic and David Cerutti at Concordia Chamber Players concert November 16 Anthony McGill, who has played with Concordia Chamber Players several times, most recently November 16, 2008, will play with several classical music stars at the inauguration January 20. The following are quotes from the New York Times article about the inauguration. John Williams, the composer whose music was heard at Mr. Obama’s victory party on election night in Grant Park, will compose a new piece to be played for

Concordia Players rehearse the Taylor Clarinet Quintet Frank Huang, Carmit Zori, Anthony McGill Michelle Djokic and David Cerutti By Roy Ziegler Photo Ray Kinlock The rapt audience at the Concordia Chamber Players concert on Sunday, November 16, owed a great debt to one of their own members who had suggested Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet to Concordia’s Artistic Director, Michelle Djokic, for the performance. It is a work written by Taylor about a hundred years ago while he was a student at the Royal College of Music. Rarely heard, this composition was brought to life by Concordia’

By Roy Ziegler One generally thinks immediately of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when discussing composers whose great careers ended far too soon by their tragic early deaths. But, unfortunately, there were many other gifted classical composers whose great talents were silenced in the midst of promising careers. On Sunday, November 16 at 3:00 PM at the Trinity Church in Solebury, the Concordia Chamber Players will pay homage to three such composers whose early exits from this life undoubtedly deprived the world of countless musical treasures. Samuel Coleridge Taylor, an African-British composer and