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The Chapel (St. Mary's) as it looked before closing in 1906.

The Chapel today.
CHAPEL OF OUR LADY RESTORATION SITE

45 Market Street,

Cold Spring, NY 10516

845-265-5537

www.chapelofourlady.com

Sun. Oct. 19: 4pm, Madera Vox, Chamber Ensemble playing Copland, Corea, De Falla, Douglas, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos and Weill. Free, contributions welcome. Free parking at adjacent Metro-North lot.

Sun. Nov. 9: 4pm. André Emelianoff, cello, with Ying-Chien Lin, piano Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak and Messiaen. Free parking at adjacent Metro-North lot. Free, contributions welcome.

Madera Vox Chamber Ensemble Combines Masterworks, Modern Music and Jazz in Chapel

Combining the best of the traditional repertoire with 21st century works and jazz, Madera Vox, a unique chamber ensemble, weaves together a provocative and engaging performance. They are in the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 4pm.

Oboist Nicole Golay, bassoonist Cornelia McGiver, pianist Sylvia Buccelli, soprano Kelly Ellenwood and percussionist-composer David Gluck will play works of Aaron Copland, De Falla and Villa-Lobos as well as Kurt Weill, Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla, jazz great Chick Corea, and Bill Douglas.

Nicole Golay is a founding member of Madera Vox. She regularly performs with Ridgefield Symphony, Putnam Chorale and Hudson Valley Philharmonic, among others, and has been a member of the Charlottesville Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Festival Orchestra and Jupiter Symphony. A graduate of California Institute of the Arts and Yale School of Music, she has taught at the University of Virginia, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Crestwood Music School and Dutchess Community College Music School.

Cornelia McGiver, who recently formed North Winds, a bassoon duo, performs with the New Haven Symphony, Canterbury Choral Society, Trinity Chorale and Orchestra New England. She has also played with Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, and Northern Dutchess and the Greater Newburgh symphony orchestras. She has a BA in music and classics, a MS in education, and has studied with Kim Laskowski of the New York Philharmonic.

Sylvia Buccelli is a founding member of several chamber ensembles as well as frequent recital partner of instrumentalists and vocalists. She has performed at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall and throughout New England, where she has also appeared in radio concerts. CDs include She Walks in Beauty, vocal and piano music of Otto Luening. On the faculty of SUNY, New Paltz, and Dutchess Community College, she has a master's from Manhattan School of Music.

Kelly Ellenwood has starred on Broadway as the diva in The Phantom of the Opera and as Mrs. Fezziwig in the Madison Square Garden production of A Christmas Carol. She received First Prize and Oxnard Gold Medal at the Savannah Music Festival, singing gospel, blues, jazz and musical theatre, and was "Actress of the Year" for her performance in the Chicago and National Tour productions of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. She has a bachelor of music degree from University of Nebraska-Lincoln and master's from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

David Gluck has toured the world as a founding member of Rhythm & Brass. His compositions and arrangements have been performed and recorded by them, and his arrangements played by symphonies throughout the United States. A commission of his recently premiered at Weill Recital Hall. He is Assistant Professor of Studio Composition, Purchase College, SUNY. He has a bachelor of music degree from Ithaca College, where he won the first annual Louis Smadbeck Award in composition, and a master of fine arts from Purchase, where he won the prestigious Alvin Brehm Award.

The chapel is located at 45 Market Street, Cold Spring. Concert admission is free and free parking is available on weekends at the adjacent Metro North Train Station. The music series is made possible, in part, with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered in Putnam County by Putnam Arts Council. Individual contributions are welcome.

Chapel of Our Lady Restoration Announces New Music Series Season

The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration has announced its eighth music series season beginning on April 20, with the final program on November 9. The Sunday afternoon concerts begin at 4pm and are free to the public.

The 2008 season offers an eclectic group of performers, opening with the talented Furuya Trio, three sisters on cello, piano and violin. It features jazz piano with John Stetch, the classical guitar of Terry Champlin and Helen Avakian with Eugene Friesen on cello, the folk, jazz and world music of Timothy Hill, and the critically acclaimed New Amsterdam Singers, conducted by Clara Longstreth. Other artists are Kees Kooper on violin with Aaron Wunsch on piano, the Madera Vox chamber ensemble, and André Emelianoff, cello, with Ying-Chien Lin on piano.

The chapel, a lovely Greek Revial building on the banks of the Hudson River, is located at 45 Market Street, Cold Spring. Free parking is available on weekends at the adjacent Metro North Train Station. The music series is made possible, in part, with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered in Putnam County by Putnam Arts Council.

-May 18: Kees Kooper, violin, and Aaron Wunsch, piano. Dvorak, Franck and Handel

-June 8: New Amsterdam Singers Chamber Chorus, Clara Longstreth, conductor. Classical selections, folksongs and spirituals

-June 29: John Stetch, piano. Jazz, classical and folkloric arrangements

-August 10: Terry Champlin, classical guitar, Eugene Friesen, cello, Helen Avakian, classical guitar and voice. Compositions of Terry Champlin

-September 21: Timothy Hill, singer, guitarist, Jazz, folk and world music

-October 19: Madera Vox, Chamber Ensemble Sylvia Buccelli, piano, Kelly Ellenwood, soprano, David Gluck, percussion, Nicole Golay, oboe, Cornelia McGiver, bassoon, Copland, Corea, De Falla, Douglas, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos and Weill

-November 9: André Emelianoff, cello, with Ying-Chien Lin, piano Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak and Messiaen

To reserve the Chapel for weddings or other special events, call 845-265-5537
Link to a web site about the Chapel Organ

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