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T HE T UESDAY C ON CERT S ERI ES
Since Epiphany was founded in 1842, music has played a vital
role in the life of the parish. Today, Epiphany has two fine
musical instruments which are frequently used in programs
and worship. The Steinway D concert grand piano was a gift
to the church in 1984, in memory of parishioner and vestry
member Paul Shinkman. The 64-rank, 3,467-pipe ÆolianSkinner pipe organ was installed in 1968 and has recently
been restored by the Di Gennaro-Hart Co. It was originally
given in memory of Adolf Torovsky, Epiphany’s organist and
choirmaster for nearly fifty years. The 3-stop chamber organ
by Orglarstvo Škrabl of Slovenia was commissioned in 2014 in
memory of Albert and Frances Manola.
H OW Y OU C AN H ELP S U PPORT T H E S ER IES
The Tuesday Concert Series reaches out to the entire
metropolitan Washington community. Most of today’s freewill offering goes directly to our performers but a small
portion helps to defray the cost of administration, advertising
and instrumental upkeep.
WE
AS K Y O U T O CO NS I DER A M I NI M UM O F
$10
THE CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY
at Metro Center
1317 G Street NW Washington, DC 20005
www.epiphanydc.org
[email protected]
Tel: 202-347-2635
T UESDAY C ONCERT S ERIES
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We also invite you to consider becoming a
P ARTNER
OF THE
T U ESDAY C O NC ERT S ER IES
at a giving level comfortable for you.
This is a new venture for the Church of the Epiphany as the
continuation of the concert series is dependent on your
generosity. For further information on how to support the
Tuesday musical activities here, please take a brochure
available at the back of the church or make contact with
either of the following:
Jeremy Filsell, Director of Music; 202-347-2635 ext. 18:
[email protected]
Rev. Randolph Charles at 202-347-2635 ext. 12:
[email protected]
To receive a weekly email of the upcoming concert program,
email Catherine Manhardt (Administrative Assistant) at
[email protected] and request that your address
be added to the list.
P A RT N E RS O F T HE T U E SD A Y C ON C E RT S S E RI E S
Kirkland & Ellis Law Partnership
Alan M. King
Christine Windheuser
David Pozorski
John Kattler
David Post and Nancy Birdsall
Celia McEnaney
3 F EBRUARY 2015
12:10 P M
Please ensure that all cellular phones, pagers, and other electronic devices
are turned off before the performance begins.
Brooke Evers, soprano,
Stephanie Gustafson, harp
Jeremy Filsell, keyboards
PROGRAM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Hark! The Echoing Air – From Rosy Bow’rs – An Evening Hymn
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques (1906)
(Five Popular Greek Folk Songs)
Chanson de la mariée – Là-bas, vers l'église – Quel galant
m'est comparable – Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques –
Tout gai!
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
A Birthday Hansel Op. 92
Birthday Song – My early walk – Wee Willie Gray – My hoggie
– Afton Water – The Winter – Leezie Lindsay
Four American Songs
Ned Rorem (b. 1923)
Love (from Six Songs)
John Musto (b. 1954)
Lament
Kevin Oldham (1960-1992)
Scarbo
Tom Cipullo (b. 1956)
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House
A Fulbright Scholar to Austria, Brooke Evers performed in Vienna,
Berlin, and Milan before returning to her hometown D.C. As an
Opera Lafayette Young Artist, Brooke appeared in productions of Le
Roi et le Fermier, Armide, Acis and Galatea, and scenes of Lalla
Roukh, and most recently with Cathedra in Dido and Aeneas. Other
solo engagements have included Elijah, the Brahms, Mozart and
Fauré Requiems, Mozart's Grand Mass in C, Handel’s Messiah and
Creation, the Bach St. John Passion and B Minor Mass. Brooke has
performed in D.C.'s Epiphany, Westmoreland, Truro, Living Arts, and
Concordia Concert series and regularly champions new music in her
performances. Recently she has performed new works of Kipyn
Martin and Lowell Liebermann. Brooke also worked with conductor
Julian Wachner of The Washington Chorus and the composer Nico
Muhly and premiered the roles of Lydia and Lucy in Kirke Mechem’s
The Newport Rivals with the Maryland Opera Studio. Brooke has
been a winner and finalist of competitions in categories of opera,
oratorio, art song, baroque music and jazz including the Vocal Arts
Discovery Series, American Bach Competition, Louisville Bach
Competition, the New York Oratorio Society Competition,
Liederkranz, the Washington International Competition, and the
Billie Holiday Jazz Competition. For her expertise in German Lieder,
Brooke was awarded the David Gundlach Lied Prize in The Lotte
Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition. Her Fulbright studies of
Lieder in Austria led her to the Franz-Schubert-Institut and later to
the Ravinia Festival of Chicago; she has participated in masterclasses
of Elly Ameling, Renée Fleming, Wolfgang Holzmair, Helmut Deutsch,
James Conlon, and others. Brooke has also collaborated as a
performer in a lecture-recital by the renowned Hugo Wolf scholar,
Louise McClelland Urban. Brooke serves on faculty at Shepherd
University and has also taught at American University. She is
currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of Maryland,
where she received her Master of Music and performed leading
roles as a member of the Maryland Opera Studio. She received
Bachelor’s degrees in Voice and German from Indiana University.
www.brookeevers.com
Washington DC harpist Stephanie Gustafson was appointed
Principal Harp of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra in May
2014.She has performed with orchestras on stages all over Europe,
North and South America, most recently in Santiago, Chile, and
Gothenburg, Sweden, where she worked with Maestro Kent Nagano
and the National Orchestra of Sweden. During 2013-2014 Ms.
Gustafson performed as principal harpist of the Orquesta
Filarmónica de Santiago at the Teatro Municipal de Chile. She has
performed in many summer music festivals, including the Bowdoin
International Music Festival, Bel Canto Institute in Florence, Italy,
and the National Orchestral Institute, where she played Principal
Harp under renowned conductors such as Maestros Leonard Slatkin
and Christopher Seaman. As a soloist, she won second prize at the
ASTA National Solo Competition in 2011 and was a finalist in the
Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship competition this past March. She won
the Agnes Krueger Memorial Fellowship in 2011, renewed for 2012
and 2013, and was honored with a 4-year full tuition scholarship as a
Thomas Smith Competition winner at University of Illinois. An avid
advocate for performing a diverse range of repertoire on the harp
and furthering the boundaries of the instrument, she collaborated
with the alternative rock band Elsinore, recording the harp part on
their 2011 EP Life Inside an Elephant. Stephanie has worked with
large ensembles specializing in jazz, pops, classical, and
contemporary music as well as modern dance. She received her
Masters from Manhattan School of Music in 2013, where she was a
student of the late Deborah Hoffman, principal harpist of the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for 28 years. She earned her
bachelors at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she
studied with Dr. Ann Yeung.
Jeremy Filsell is director of music at The Church of the Epiphany,
artist-in-residence at Washington National Cathedral, and Professor
of Organ at the Catholic University of America. He has appeared as a
soloist across the USA and UK and in Germany, France, Russia,
Finland, Sweden and Norway. His piano concerto repertoire
encompasses Bach, Mozart and Beethoven through to Shostakovich,
Ireland and Rachmaninov. His discography comprises more than 30
solo recordings, including the solo piano music of Herbert Howells,
Bernard Stevens, Eugene Goossens and Johann Eschmann, Marcel
Dupré’s complete organ works, the six organ symphonies of Louis
Vierne (BBC Radio 3's Disc of the Week in September 2005) and,
most recently for Signum, Rachmaninov’s piano music. He has
taught at universities, summer schools, and conventions in the UK
and USA and has served twice on international competition juries.
As a student of Nicolas Kynaston in London and Daniel Roth in Paris,
Jeremy studied Musicology at Oxford University before completing
graduate studies in piano performance at the Royal College of Music
in London. He was awarded his PhD at Birmingham
Conservatoire/BCU for research involving aesthetic and
interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré. Before moving to
the USA in 2008, he held lectureships at the Royal Academy of Music
in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester
and was a lay clerk in the Queen’s choir at St. George's Chapel,
Windsor Castle. He is on the international piano roster of Steinway
Piano Artists. www.jeremyfilsell.com
N EXT T U ESDAY
10 February at 12:10PM
Deborah Lee, piano
The Swiss-American pianist plays classic works by
Mozart, Schumann and Chopin