Music at Trinity Concerts 2023-2024

Music at Trinity-by-the-Cove presents

Brandon Patrick George, flute

Aaron Diehl, piano

Sunday, October 22nd

4 p.m.

Parish Hall

The Gesualdo Six Owain Park, director

Sunday, November 12th

4 p.m.

Parish Hall

Christmas Choral Concert

Saturday, December 16th, 5 p.m.

Sunday, December 17th, 4 p.m.

Church

Filament

Evan Few, baroque violin

Elena Kauffman, viola da gamba

John Walthausen, harpsichord and antique organ

Sunday, January 14th

4 p.m.

Parish Hall

Opera Fuoco

Love and Redemption

Sunday, February 4th

4 p.m.

Parish Hall

Akropolis Reed Quintet

Sunday, March 17th

4 p.m.

Church

Music at Trinity

-by-the-Cove

Concert Series 2023-2024

Our concert series is a gift to our Naples community by the Friends of Music who generously underwrite the series with sponsorships, which you can read about in the following pages. Churches often enrich their communities with the arts, and our concert series will be among the most dynamic in Southwest Florida.

This year’s slate of concerts continues Trinity’s pattern of presenting wonderful variety of first class performers and instrumentations. Musicians from New York, Philadelphia, London, and Paris will journey to Naples this season. Among our performers include some exciting rising stars of the classical music scene, as well as a GRAMMY nominated artist.

The series is crafted by Trinity-by-the-Cove’s Director of Music, Dexter Kennedy, and is presented in an intimate venue in both size and sound, whether in the church or in the parish hall over looking the water.

Concerts are presented free of charge, with a freewill offering received, but this year we will ask concert goers to register for each concert so that we can plan for adequate seating. General registration will begin on September 22nd; Friends of Music sponsor registration will begin on September 18th.

Read more about this year’s artists, thoughtfully consider being a Friend of Music and sponsoring the series, and mark your calendars for each of our concerts.

The Rev. Edward Gleason Rector Dexter Kennedy Director ofMusic

Friends of Music

It is an unrivaled experience to hear live music played by world-class musicians in a visually serene and acoustically intimate setting. New to many will be Trinity’s Parish Hall, which underwent a transformation in 2020, and now is another wonderful place on Trinity’s campus to experience live music for both the eye and ear –the acoustics in the hall are marvelous!

This concert series would not be possible but for the generosity of those who join the Friends of Music. There are opportunities for sponsorships at a variety of levels. Sponsors are recognized in the concert brochures.

Angel $1,000 or more Guarantor $750 $1,000 Sustainer $500 — $750 Benefactor $250 $500

$100 — $250 Friend $25 — $100

All contributions are tax deductible.

The Friends of Music exists as an outreach to theNaples community. We hope that you will want to share in the support of our concerts throughyour financial gifts and attendance.

There are special opportunities to underwrite concerts and enhance our concert series with world class artists. Contact Fr. Edward or Mr. Kennedy at 239.262.6581.

SONGS OF BLACK AMERICA

BRANDON PATRICK GEORGE, FLUTE & AARON DIEHL, PIANO

Sunday, October 22rd

4 p.m.—Parish Hall

Brandon Patrick George is a leading flute soloist and GRAMMY nominated chamber musician whose repertoire extends from the Baroque era to today. He is the flutist of Imani Winds, and has been praised as “elegant” by The New York Times, as a “virtuoso” by The Washington Post, and as a “knockout musician” by The Philadelphia Inquirer. His ensembleworkallowed him to work closely with some of the foremost composers of our time including John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Steve Reich, and George Lewis. He serves on the faculty of the Curtis Institute and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Since his debut release in 2013, pianist-composer Aaron Diehl has mystified listeners with his layered artistry. He was named the 2011 Cole Porter fellow of the American Pianist Association, and has been described in the New York Times as “a composer worth watching. He was a finalist in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2002 Essentially Ellington competition, which subsequently led to a European tour with Wynton Marsalis. He is equally versed in both jazz and classical performance, having performed in the world’s most celebrated venues of each genre.

THE GESUALDO SIX

OWAIN PARK, DIRECTOR

Sunday, November 12th

4 p.m.—Parish Hall

The Gesualdo Six is an award-winning British vocal ensemble comprising some of the UK’s finest consort singers, directed by Owain Park. Praised for their imaginative programming and impeccable blend, the ensemble formed in 2014 for a performance of Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories in Cambridge and has gone on to perform at numerous major festivals across the UK, Europe, North America, and Australia.

The ensemble integrates educational work into its activities, regularly holding workshops for young musicians and composers. The Gesualdo Six has curated two Composition Competitions, with the 2019 edition attracting entries from over three hundred composers around the world.

Videos of the ensemble performing a diverse selection of works filmed in Ely Cathedral have been watched by millions online. The group released their debut recording English Motets on Hyperion Records in early 2018 to critical acclaim, followed by a festive album of seasonal favourites in late 2019, Christmas, and an album of compline-themed music titled Fading which was awarded Vocal & Choral Recording of the Year 2020 by Limelight. Most recently, the ensemble released their seventh disc celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Byrd, titled Byrd: Mass for five voices.

Christmas-by-the-Cove

Saturday, December 16th, 5 p.m. Church

Sunday, December 17th, 4 p.m. — Church

An annual Naples holiday tradition! The church will ring with Christmas joy as the choir of Trinity-by-the-Cove presents Christmas Carols old and new, enhanced by local instrumental musicians from the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra at Artis Naples.

The Choir of Trinity-by-the-Cove

Dexter Kennedy, Director of Music

Wendy Willis, flute

Richard Fleisher, harp

Craig Benson, percussion

Brice Gerlach, organ

FILAMENT EVAN FEW, BAROQUE VIOLIN ELENA KAUFFMAN, VIOLA DA GAMBA

JOHN WALTHAUSEN, HARPSICHORD AND ANTIQUE ORGAN

Sunday, January 14th, 2024

4 p.m. Parish Hall

Filament is a chamber ensemble, formed in 2019, of Philadelphia based period-instrument soloists. As constituents of the global early music community, they regularly join the ranks of such ensembles as Apollo’s Fire, Bach Collegium Japan, Chatham Baroque, Philadelphia Bach Collegium, Tempesta di Mare, Venice Baroque Orchestra, and the Washington Bach Consort. As an ensemble, they share their collective passion for the rich trio repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries with audiences in Philadelphia, the Delaware River Valley, and beyond. Recent preoccupations include music of Northern Germany and Scandinavia, and cross-cultural music making in Northern Europe.

An opportunity for musical time travel with a concert played on period instruments!

“AMOR DILETTO”

Sunday, February 4th

4 p.m.—Parish Hall

Fuoco Obbligato is the period instrument chamber ensemble of Paris’s Opera Fuoco, an organization that focuses on developing young singers transitioning from conservatory to professional life. In this program celebrating love from the baroque opera repertoire, Fuoco Obbligato brings together some of the most beautiful arias for soprano, tenor and baroque instruments. These arias often capture the most intimate moments of a larger-scale work, perfectly reflecting this human emotion. The dialogue between the singer and the instrumental soloist is nuanced and reveals the complexities of love. The program reflects many emotions - everything from sensuality and languishing melancholy to cheeky humor and outright theatricality.

Amor is both a piercing bowman and a playful cherub, a devastating tempter of fate and a forgivable joiner of hearts. The program ends with thedelightful duet from Handel’s pastoral ode, a reassuring philosophical contemplation of the purity of the heart winning over the fanciful mind.

AKROPOLIS REED QUINTET

TIM GOCKLIN, OBOE

KARI LANDRY, CLARINET

MATT LANDRY, SAXOPHONE

RYAN REYNOLDS, BASSOON

ANDREW KOEPPE, BASS CLARINET

Sunday, March 17th

4 p.m.—Church

Celebrating their fifteenth year as “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine), the Akropolis Reed Quintet has “taken the chamber music world by storm” (Fanfare).

Winner of seven national chamber music prizes including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, Akropolis has premiered over 130 new compositions. They are the only reed quintet to twice appear on the Billboard Charts. Recent and upcoming performance highlights include the University Musical Society (Ann Arbor), Oneppo Chamber Music Series (Yale University), the Flagler Museum (Palm Beach), and the Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.) Experimenters and creators at their core, Akropolis has collaborated with poets, a metal fabricator, dancers, small business owners, string quartets, pop vocalists, and more.

Passionate educators, they are the recipient of the 2015 Fischoff Educator award and have been awarded seven consecutive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of their educational initiatives for youth in Detroit schools. Believers that anyone can write great music, they have premiered and recorded over 30 pieces written by individuals between the ages of 12-22. Their sixth CD recording will be released this year.