Sunday, June 24, 2:00 pm

Location:
St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts
155 Emery Street
Berlin, NH

Tickets: $12.00 (adults) and $10.00 (minors)

Organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer, Ms. Archer draws attention to composer anniversaries or musical themes with her annual recital series. She was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen for the centennial of the composer’s birth in 2008. Time Out New York recognized the Messiaen cycle as “Best of 2008” of classical music and opera. Her recording include A Russian Journey, The Muse’s Voice, Franz Liszt: A Hungarian Rhapsody and Bach: The Transcendent Genius to name a few.

Ms. Archer is the founder of Musforum (www.musforum.org) , an international network for women organists to promote and affirm their work. She is the college organist at Vassar College, director of the music program at Barnard college, Columbia University where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus and serves as the director of the artists and young organ artist recitals at historic Central Synagogue, New York City.

Sunday, July 1, 3:00 pm

Location:
St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts
155 Emery Street
Berlin, NH

Tickets: $5.00 all seats

Director: Connie Drexler

A la Boston Pops!

The Youth Ensemble of New England is a youth orchestra composed of 35 talented young musicians from the age of 9 to 18. Based in Lancaster, Massachusetts, the orchestra draws its members from all over New England. Under the direction of Dr. Connie Rittenhouse Drexler, the orchestra has toured Iceland, Canada, England, Scotland, New England and southern California. The concerts feature gifted young soloists and are lively, varied, exciting and appeal to young and old alike. The orchestra repertoire is taken from a variety of great classical and sacred music, spanning from the Baroque period to the present.

Monday, July 9, 7:00 pm

Location:
St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts
155 Emery Street
Berlin, NH

Tickets: $5.00 all seats

Director: Patricia Boyle-Wright

Saturday, July 21, 7:00 pm

Location:
St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts
155 Emery Street
Berlin, NH

Tickets: $12.00 (adults) and $10.00 (minors)

Sharing their Eastern European roots through old-time Appalachian music and gypsy jazz.

Supported by Vaillancourt & Woodward Agency.