Kent Singers
Celebrating our 40th Anniversary Season!
The Kent Singers, a small auditioned group of amateur singers, have been bringing high quality choral performances throughout the Litchfield County community for 40 years. The group is known for its clean, finely pitched sound. Programs that Kent Singers develops have included early music, baroque, classical and modern works, both sacred and secular.
Members of the group are a congenial and varied bunch, with professions as far ranging as garden photography, computer programming, veterinary medicine, masonry and the ministry.
Welcome to Our New Musical Director, Matt Travis
We are pleased and excited to announce that with the start of 2013, Matthew Travis assumes the group's leadership. Mr. Travis has a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Penn State and a Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan in Music with honors in Voice Performance. He is now the music director at Trinity Pawling School.
Welcome to Our New Accompanist, Sung Lee
We were joined in January, Dr. Sung Ju Lee, who is an amazing concert pianist and music educator. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Michigan, was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, and a Professor at the National University of Education in Chunchon, Korea.
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SPRING CONCERTS
Our spring concert, featuring music by Brahms, Bach and Copland, is scheduled for April 21 and April 28. And a gala 40th anniversary performance of Haydn's The Creation is scheduled for June 9. Details below:
"Brahms, Bach and Copland, in Love and Song"
Sunday, April 21, 2013, 4:00 pm -- at St. Andrew's Church in Kent
Sunday, April 28, 2013, 4:00 pm -- at St. Mark's Church in Bridgewater
J. Brahms -- Liebeslieder Waltzer Op. 52
J. S. Bach -- Cantata 196
A.Copland -- "The Promise of Living" from The Tender Land
Conductor: Matthew Travis
Piano Four Hands: Sung Ju Lee and David Baranowski
Soprano soloist: Jennifer Baranowski
To reserve tickets, mail a check to Kent Singers, P.O. Box 774, Kent, CT 06757, in the amount of $12 per ticket. When we receive your check, we will mail you tickets if there is time; otherwise they will be held for you at the door. Tickets will also be available at the door at $15 each.
For questions or more information, call 860-619-8110, or e-mail info@kentsingers.org, or go to www.kentsingers.org.
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Haydn's The Creation
Sunday, June 9, 2013, 3:00 p.m. -- at St. John's Episcopal Church in New Milford on the green
The Kent Singers Anniversary Chorus: current and former members of the Kent Singers, with invited guest singers from 14 towns.
Conductor: Matthew Travis
Soloists: Linda Burton, soprano; Jack A. Pott, tenor; Marques J. Ruff, bass
Chamber ensemble: strings, woodwinds, piano
To reserve tickets, mail a check to Kent Singers, P.O. Box 774, Kent, CT 06757, in the amount of $20 per ticket. When we receive your check, we will mail you tickets if the check arrives before June 1st; otherwise they will be held for you at the door. Tickets will also be available at the door at $20 each.
For questions or more information, call 860-619-8110, or e-mail info@kentsingers.org or go to www.kentsingers.org.
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DOCUMENTING KENT SINGERS' HISTORY: CALL FOR PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA
The Kent Singers is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the group this year, and as part of that the current singers would like to reconstruct and document its history.
Probably every former singer in the group has a little bit of that history stored in the attic, or in the drawer with old music, or on a shelf by the piano. It may be old programs, or press clippings, or annotated music, or reviews of performances. We are especially interested in photographs, or personal notes about the activities of the group while you were a member.
We, the current singers, would very much like to collect that history, that documentation, and preserve it. We would appreciate any contributions of relevant material -- preferably the originals, but copies if you want to hold on to the originals.
You may call David Hopkins at 860-354-9258, or Susan Mullins at 860-354-7310, or get in touch with any of the current singers whom you may know, to speak with us about this effort.
We shall be receiving materials at: Kent Singers, PO Box 774, Kent, CT 06757.
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