Second Sunday Concert Series Offers Romantic Evening
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Music is the language of the heart.
Celebrate St. Valentine's Day with romantic classical music and theater selections presented by Christian Performing Artists' Fellowship performers.
An "Enchanted Evening" will be held Sunday in Rodeheaver Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. and admission is free. Desserts made by volunteers from the Warsaw and Winona Lake community will be served throughout the performance. A hymn-sing will follow the concert.
The concert features soprano Joy Freschly singing "Je veux vivre" from Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet"; "Three Romances Op. 94" performed by flutist Amanda Shine and pianist Jennifer Jackson; Handel's "Tornamia Vagheggiar" from Alcina sung by soprano Andrea McNeil; and cellist Barbara Kavanaugh will perform Chopin's "G minor Sonata for Piano and Cello" with Jackson.
A scene will be performed by actress Christi Mahan from Les Precieuses Ridicules; and a guest performance will be given by tenor Don Bernadini.
Joy Frechsly is a recent Grace College graduate who works as the Bible study administrator's assistant.
MasterWorks Administrator Amanda Shine holds a bachelor's degree from the Greatbatch School of Music at Houghton College. Bible study administrator Jennifer Jackson, originally from Clovis, Calif., has a master's degree from the Peabody Conservatory of the John Hopkins University.
Development-international publicity intern Andrea McNeil holds a bachelor's degree from York University in Toronto, Canada, and a diploma in professional studies from The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music.
A member of the Christian Performing Artists' Board of Directors, Barbara Kavanaugh has a bachelor's degree from Catholic University of America. With a degree in English from Angelo State University, Christi Mahan has worked at the Christian Performing Artists' Festival as graphic designer for two years.
From February through May, the Christian Performing Artists' Fellowship will host the spring season of the Second Sunday Series, all beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Rodeheaver Auditorium.
March 11 is "An Evening of Trios" with guest performer Mary Irwin, violinist, formally with the Wichita Symphony, the Knoxville Symphony, and the Columbus Symphony and current member of the MasterWorks Trio.
Principle clarinetist with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra of Asheville, North Carolina, Chip Hill will be the guest artists for the April 1, April Fool's Event.
Guest artists David Reimer, of the Grand Rapids Symphony and Lancaster Festival Orchestra and professor of violin and chamber music at Calvin College, and violist with the Indianapolis Symphony, Terry Langdon performs May 13.
Rodeheaver Auditorium is on the corner of Park Avenue and Ninth Street in Winona Lake.
For more information, contact Molly Coonrod at 888-836-2723..
