Happy Musical New Year! Please come enjoy our formal Tea Reception event held in our lower Reception Hall at 2:00 pm followed by a powerfully beautiful concert at 3 pm featuring the brilliant Lighthouse Chamber Players~ Elizabeth Chang, violin; Alberto Parrini, cello; Alissa Leiser, piano.

Featuring works by:

Korngold ~ Much Ado About Nothing Suite

Schumann ~ Fantasy Pieces

Brahms ~ Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major

Ravel ~ Piano Trio

The Lighthouse Chamber Players performances, within our historic lighting and unparalleled acoustics at the Meetinghouse are always a Chamber Music experience to remember, leaving our audience breathless!

Come join us for our outstanding Valentine's celebration!

Tickets are $25 for Adult General Admission and $10 for Students and available at evenbrite.com and at the Door

The South Harwich Meetinghouse is located at 270 Chatham Rd, Harwich, MA 02645

For further information: www.southharwichmeetinghouse.com or call 508 364-5223

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About the Performers...

Elizabeth Chang, violinist, enjoys an international career as performer, teacher, and leader in the arts. A member of the Juilliard Pre-College faculty since 2004, Chang is also professor of violin at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Artistic Director of Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. She is dedicated to fostering musician-citizens and has embraced leadership roles in the arts, serving as founder and artistic director of the Lighthouse Chamber Players, the Five College New Music Festival, and the UMass Bach Festival and Symposium. Her performing career includes regular appearances as soloist and chamber musician in this country and abroad. Her solo and chamber recordings have been released on Albany and Bridge Records and her 2024 CD with pianist Steven Beck, "Sonatas and Myths," was named a Recording of the Year by Audiophile.

Born in Italy, ALBERTO PARRINI is principal cellist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic and a member of the American Symphony and Orchestra of St. Luke's. He also performs regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and New Jersey Symphony and has been guest principal cellist with the American Symphony, Cecilia Chorus, New York Symphonic Ensemble, Performance Santa Fe, Stamford Symphony and Teatro Grattacielo. As a founding member of the Zukofsky Quartet he has given performances of the complete string quartets of Milton Babbitt in New York and Chicago. He performed throughout the U.S. with the American Chamber Players from 2004 to 2010, was the cellist of the St. Lawrence String Quartet in 2002-03 and spent one season as assistant principal cellist with the Richmond Symphony.

Alberto has toured North America, Europe and Asia with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project and performed with Arco Ensemble, Concertante, Continuum, ECCO, Lenape Chamber Ensemble, Mark Morris Dance Group, Mirror Visions, Proteus Ensemble, Richardson Chamber Players, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and Sinfonietta of Riverdale. His festival appearances include Evian, Tanglewood, Taos, Verbier, Ottawa, Montreal, San Miguel de Allende, Spoleto U.S.A., Music@Menlo, Windham, The Weekend of Chamber Music and the Piatigorsky seminar. His principal studies were with Timothy Eddy, Joel Krosnick, David Soyer, Colin Carr and Enrico Egano; he is a graduate of the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School.

Alberto teaches cello at Princeton University and at The College of New Jersey. In the summer, he teaches at Kinhaven Music School, where he is also co-director of the Adult Chamber Music Workshop.

Pianist Alissa Leiser is recognized as both a soloist and collaborative artist of technical skill and interpretive command. She has performed at Alice Tully Hall, the Ravinia Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The National Gallery of Art, Bargemusic, and the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago. Her orchestral appearances have included the New Jersey Symphony, the New Orchestra of Boston and Orchestra New England. Her CD entitled Sounds of America with flutist Adrianne Greenbaum was featured on National Public Radio as part of the Presidential Inauguration celebration in 1992. Her festival appearances include the Grand Teton Music Festival, Mohawk Trail Concerts and Music from Salem. Ms. Leiser holds undergraduate and advanced degrees from The Juilliard School where she studied with William Masselos. Ms. Leiser has been a valued and sought after teacher for over 20 years. She is proud to have influenced a generation of young pianists. She has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and most recently Amherst College, where she taught from 1998-2015. Ms. Leiser resides in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she performs with the Lighthouse Chamber Players and is co-director of Long River Concerts in Roxbury, CT.

URLs:

Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2838660-0?pid=91 

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Prices:

General Admission: USD 25.00,

Students: USD 10.00

Artists: Elizabeth Chang, Alissa Leiser, Alberto Parrini