Concerts 2021
A pianist and choral conductor, Barbara Luhn is Director of Music/Pianist at Nacoochee Presbyterian in Sautee. She obtained her Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and later earned the Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Westminster Choir College. She has two CDs available for purchase, Going Home and Midwinter.
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Franklin Pond Chamber Music is a unique year-round chamber music program for talented string students. Goals are to develop the artistic and interpretive talents of students, as well as to strengthen their communication skills as developing musicians. Created as an opportunity for serious students to interact personally with highly qualified professionals, Franklin Pond offers coaching with faculty members from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, master classes with guest artists from all over the nation, special classes such as movement, eurhythmics, and Alexander Technique, and regularly scheduled sight-reading sessions.
Franklin Pond Chamber Music was founded in 2001 by Atlanta Symphony Orchestra violinist Ronda Respess, who realized Atlanta's need for a high quality program for serious string students.
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BellaNota Strings is a professional ensemble based in Atlanta since 2017. They have been building a diverse repertoire of songs to perform, developing their own unique and beautiful sound and have mastered an array of material in a spectrum of musical styles, with different combinations of musicians.
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Revien is a contemporary chamber ensemble consisting of three members of the Georgia Guitar Quartet, with Phil Snyder on cello, Kyle Dawkins on guitars and electronics, and Brian Smith on guitars and electronics. All graduates of the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music, the trio embraces the classical repertoire and draws from the energy of rock and pop music as well incorporated into their programs.
Playing in a collection of Athens bands throughout their seventeen years together, the trio is equally at home in rock and chamber music lineups, and creates a compelling program for audiences, incorporating modern tech and prepared enhancements on their instruments - you might hear guitars and cello used as percussion, or guitar strings fitted with found objects to sound more like a sitar or an Indonesian gamelan, for instance.
The trio is regularly featured on NPR's Performance Today. Their most recent album, Dama, consists of all original compositions by the members.
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Percussionist Stuart Gerber and saxophonist Jan Berry Baker are The Bent Frequency Duo Project. Stuart and Jan have commissioned over 20 new works for their duo and have given countless performances of this new repertoire across the US, Mexico, and Europe since 2014.
The first iteration of this project was truly international in scope, including commissions from seven American composers (Robert Scott Thompson, Chris Burns, Devin Maxwell, Jeff Herriott, Roshanne Etezady, Kevin Schlei and Chris Arrell) and two European composers (Vivienne Olive from Germany and Stefano Pierini from Italy). They performed across the East Coast (Worchester, Boston, Storrs, Hartford and New York), the Midwest (Milwaukee, Chicago, Champaign, Oshkosh, Dekalb, Whitewater and multiple cities in Indiana), Texas (Huntsville) and Nuremberg, Germany.
Stuart and Jan have recently released Bent Frequency's debut album on Centaur Records featuring a number of these works.
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