Chamber choir and Schubert celebration

Event Los Angeles Children's Chorus
Chamber Singers

When Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.

Where Trinity Lutheran Church
1340 Eleventh Street, Manhattan Beach, CA
(3 blks east of Sepulveda 1 blk south of Manhattan Beach Blvd.)

Admission Suggested concert donation $15 / $5 students

Hors d'oeuvre & dessert reception follows

www.LAChildrensChorus.org

Background
The Chamber Singers is a small all-female ensemble comprised of the most advanced members of acclaimed Los Angeles Children's Chorus, under artistic direction of Anne Tomlinson. LACC performs regularlywith Southern California's leading performing arts organizations including Los Angeles Opera, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
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Event Brandon Velarde, baritone, and Victoria Kirsch, piano, perform songs by Franz Schubert, Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy, and Samuel Barber

When Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

Where Trinity Lutheran Church
1340 Eleventh Street, Manhattan Beach, CA
(3 blks east of Sepulveda & 1 blk south of Manhattan Beach Blvd.)

Admission Free, donations appreciated.

www.PalosVerdes.com/TLCmusic/TLCMBs2.htm

Background
This is a special homecoming recital for acclaimed London-based baritone, Brandon Velarde, now a dual American-British citizen who was born and brought up in Southern California. He studied music at the University of California, Irvine, where he won numerous prizes and scholarships. His post-graduate years were spent at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His numerous opera engagements in England and recitals worldwide include recent participation in a major London song series at King’s Place of the complete songs of Mendelssohn.

Brandon performed the three great Schubert cycles, Dieschöne Müllerin, Winterreise, and Schwanengesang, with world-renowned collaborative pianist Graham Johnson. He has recorded for the Complete Schubert Edition, as well as a cycle of songs by Ronald Stevenson, both for England’s premier label, Hyperion Records.

Most recently he has recorded a program of Schubert, Wolf, Ravel, Debussy, and Samuel Barber, to be released in Autumn 2009. Future engagements include a recording of Poulenc songs, a Winterreise at the festival of song at Tagg’s Yard in South London, and a series of Mendelssohn concerts for the Klavierfest Ruhr (Germany) with Graham Johnson.

Victoria Kirsch’s professional schedule includes international performing, work with Los Angeles Opera, and extensive audition playing (Plácido Domingo’s Operalia in 2000 and 2004 and, until 2003, the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions), among numerous ongoing projects.