2007 CONCERT SERIES

 
  NAPLES CHAMBER BRASS
January 28, 2007

For many years a favorite performing group in Southwest Florida, the Naples Chamber Brass Ensemble will be making its first appearance in the Signature Chamber Concerts series.

The group, consisting of five members of the distinguished Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, will be offering an exciting and diversified program from their extensive repertoire ranging from jazz to ragtime and from dixieland to the classics.

Featuring: Matthew Sonneborn (trumpet), James Stephenson (trumpet), Tracy Leonard (French horn), Michael Zion (trombone), Mo Anderson (tuba).

  MOUNTAIN LAUREL TRIO
February 11, 2007

Three talented local artists in the Southwest Florida music community made their national debut at the National Flute Association Convention in San Diego, CA in 2005.  It was there they first performed as The Mountain Laurel Trio, the name of the suite commissioned for them at their request by James M Stephenson, III.  Since then, they have been performing  frequently as a group with a recent program aptly described as including “a bouquet of gems from classical to jazz - with a few Barn Dances thrown in just for fun!”  We expect no less when they make their first appearance on this years Signature series. 

Featuring: Beth Larsen (flute), Scott Ellington (clarinet), Julie Bearden Shafer (piano)

 
  SOUNDS OF THE CLASSICS

February 25, 2007

 

An internationally recognized soprano, the concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for 43 years, and a pianist who has played at the White House for President Clinton and the fifty State Governors join together to present a varied and inspirational program which promises to be one which will be long remembered by those attending.

Featuring: 

Susana Diaz (soprano), Raymond Gniewek (violin), Richard Bosworth (piano)

   AURORE TRIO

March 18, 2007

Chamber music at its very best will be heard when this accomplished piano trio presents two well known and loved classical trios, Beethoven’s “Archduke” and Dvorak’s “Dumky”. This concert certainly will provide a fitting conclusion to this the 8th season of Signature Chamber Concerts. 

Featuring: Geoffrey Day (violin), John Marcy (cello),    Lan Lam (piano)