The 2018 roster included
Sunday, June 24 - The Philadelphia Flute Quartet
Sunday, July 8 - K. Scheide and C. Cunningham – harp and forte piano
Sunday, July 29- The Wister String Quartet
Sunday, August 5 – Allen Krantz – classical guitar
Sunday, August 19 – The Franklin String Quartet

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Concerts by Candlelight At Laurel Hill Mansion Presents
The Wister Quartet

The performance will take place on July 29, 2018 at 6:30 P.M.

Since the formation in 1987, the Wister Quartet has earned high praise from critics and audiences alike for it superb musicianship and memorable performances, including those with guest artists Emanuel Ax, Christoph Eshenbach, and Yo-Yo Ma.

Their program will include works by Handel, Farago, and Beethoven.

A reception with light refreshments will follow the concert where there will be an opportunity to meet the artists.

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Past years programs

Magdaliz and Her Latin Ensemble Crisol

Saturday, April 23rd 2016
4:00 PM

CRISOL, Spanish for melting pot, is an ensemble that has been performing in the Philadelphia and surrounding areas since the fall of 1997. The ensemble is dedicated to the interpretation of a variety of folk and traditional music genres from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, and other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean; performing romantic Puerto Rican Boleros, energetic Mexican Mariachi music, feisty Cuban Sones, sensuous Colombian Cumbias, contagious Dominican Merengues, jazzy Brazilian Bossa Novas, and much more
A reception with refreshments and the opportunity to meet and greet the artists will follow the performance.
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40th Anniversary Season - CONCERTS BY CANDLELIGHT
AT LAUREL HILL MANSION

June 28, 2015 - Principally Harps featuring
Mindy Cutcher and Janet Witman

July 12, 2015- The Dolce Suono Ensemble

July 26, 2015- The Wister Quartet

August 9, 2015 - La Fiocco

August 23, 2015 -Allen Krantz

La Fiocco
AT HOME AT LAUREL HILL:
MUSIC OF LONDON & PHILADELPHIA, c. 1700-1800

Lewis R Baratz, harpsichord,  Elissa Wagman, baroque violin,  Lynn Fergusson, Viola da gamba,  Rebecca Stuhr, Baroque Ÿlute

Sunday, August 24, 2014 starting at 6:30 P.M.

Genteel Society of Georgian London

Trio Sonata in B Minor, Opus 2, No. 1 .........................George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Andante
Allegro mà non troppo
Siciliana
Allegro

Sonata VIII in E minor for Violin & Continuo ............................Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Largo
Allamanda
Sarabande
Gigue

Sonata in G Major for Flute and Continuo, Op 1, No. 5 .........................G. F. Handel
Adagio
Allegro
Adagio
Bourrée
Menuetto

Lesson in F Major for Harpsichord .........................William Felton (1715-1769)
AndanteWilliam Felton (1715-1769)
Allegro moderato
Larghetto
Allegro assai

Trio Sonata in G Major, Op 3. No. 2 (1757) .........................Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
Largo
Con Spirito
Largo
Allegro

Interval

Trio Sonata I in A minor (1747) .........................William Boyce (1711-1779)
Largo
Fuga – Allegro
Allegro ma non troppo

Piano Trio Hob. XV:36 in Eb Major .........................Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Allegro moderato
Polones
Finale: Allegro molto

Music in Federal Era Philadelphia*

Washington’s March at the Battle of Trenton
The Tartan Plaidde (from the James Calvert Anthology)
Ap Shenkin, A Popular Air
Jefferson’s March, Philadelphia, March 4, 1801

*With many thanks to John H. Burkhalter III of Princeton, New Jersey his kind permission to study and perform music from his private collection of 18th- and early 19th-century printed music.

LA FIOCCO
Rebecca Stuhr, baroque flute
Elissa Wagman, baroque violin
Lynn Fergusson, baroque cello
Lewis R. Baratz, harpsichord & fortepiano

LA FIOCCO, based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is earning national attention as a period instrument ensemble that specializes in performing music of the 17th and 18th centuries. La Fiocco’s regular concert series is based in Solebury PA. La Fiocco recently performed in at New Brunswick’s Crossroad’s Theater in a celebration of the 350th anniversary of the founding of New Jersey, with a program that traced the settlers from the early 17th century through the American Revolution, and made its New York City debut in May 2014. La Fiocco is a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania not-for-profit organization. For upcoming concerts and more information on the ensemble, visit www.lafiocco.org.

Lewis R. Baratz is La Fiocco’s founder, artistic director, harpsichordist, and primary recorder player. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Case Western Reserve University and performance degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Southern Methodist University. Baratz authored over 20 articles on a wide range of musicological topics, including 15th-century dance music, 17th-century Roman keyboard music, biographical, archival, and manuscript studies, basso continuo, and the choirboys of the Brussels Collegiate Church of SS Michael and Gudula, ca. 1550 to 1793, and has contributed more than a dozen entries to The New Grove Dictionary of Music. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. Performances with Ars Musica, MidAtlantic Opera Company, New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, Bethlehem Baroque, Biber Baroque, Ensemble Impromptu,, Le Triomphe de l’amour, PA Sinfonia, Virtuosi de seicento, and VOICES as harpsichordist and consultant. He was Adjunct Associate Professor at Mercer County Community College and is currently a Board member of Early Music America.

Lynn Fergusson spent 30 years living and working in Switzerland. She holds a degree in baroque performance practice from the Schola Cantorum in Basel, with a major in viola da gamba and minor in baroque cello. She has concertized as soloist and chamber/orchestral musician with numerous early music ensembles throughout Europe, and founded her own viol consort, Chelyos. Lynn was also active as choir conductor, teacher, and ensemble coach. In 2005 Lynn returned to the United States and now lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Her credits include performances with Tempesta di Mare, Washington Bach Consort, the Dryden Ensemble, Le triomphe de l’amour, and as a core artist of La Fiocco.

Rebecca Stuhr has three recordings with Centaur Records and a solo album on her own Lebende Music label. Rebecca recently moved to Philadelphia and is Coordinator for the Humanities at the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania. She has performed on baroque flute with La Fiocco, the Kansas City Early Music Consort, and Basically Baroque. On modern flute, her repertoire comprises a wide range of music from the 20th century, concentrating on French music for flute and piano and flute and guitar. With the duo ensemble New House, she performs American and Celtic folk music.

Baroque violinist Elissa Wagman is a member of Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, with which she has recorded several CDs on the Chandos label and toured in the US and Germany. She has performed with Triomphe de L’amour, Brandywine Baroque, Handel Choir of Baltimore, and many other period ensembles. As a modern violinist, Elissa is a member of the Delaware Symphony and frequently performs with the Philly Pops and the orchestra of the Pennsylvania Ballet. She studied baroque and modern violin at Oberlin Conservatory with Marilyn McDonald, and holds a bachelor’s degree in violin performance from Rice University and a master’s degree and performer’s certificate from the Eastman School of Music.

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Duet for Violin and Cello…………F. J. Haydn
 1. Poco Adagio
 2. Tempo di menuetto (moderato)
 3. Allegro


Sonata No. 5 in E-flat Major……………W.A. Mozart
 1. Allegro
2. Rondo, Andante grazioso

Fantasia in C Major, Hob XVII/4……………….F. J. Haydn

Sonata I, BWV. 1027……………….J.S. Bach
1. Adagio
2. Allegro ma non tanto
3. Andante
4. Allegro moderato

Intermission

Trio in D Major for Violin, Cello, and Piano………F.J. Haydn
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Allegro, ma dolce

Trio in G Major for Violin, Cello, and Piano…….F. J. Haydn
1. Andante
2. Poco Adagio
3. Finale. Rondo all’Ongarese. Presto

Program Notes

Haydn’s Fantasia in C major, Hob. XVII/4 was composed in 1789. It opens with delightful melody and develops into daring harmonies, clever modulations, cadenzas and virtuosic passages. The music dominated by the sprit of improvisation.

This work is based on an Austrian folksong, Do Bauren hat d’Katz valor’n (The Farmer’s Wife Cannot Find the Cat), which provides the main melody material. The text, in which the farmer’s wife tries to capture her elusive cat, itself serves as a basis for the piece. The hunting motifs, sudden changes in register, and raising chromatic scales are musical ideas that can be associated with the text.

Performer Bios MC3

Piano Trio was formed as an extension of the Montgomery County Community College Duo (Elizabeth Guerriero & Soh Lee). The group is comprised of Elizabeth Guerriero, violin, Gael Abbasi, violoncello, and Soh Lee, piano and fortepiano.

Elizabeth M. Guerriero, Ph.D. currently serves as on the faculties of Rider University (strings) and Montgomery County Community College (strings and orchestra). She has also taught applied violin and music education courses at the Westminster Choir College, University of Denver, and Penn State University. Dr. Guerriero presents at the SAA, ASTA, PMEA, and MENC conferences regularly, while keeping an active performing schedule in the Philadelphia area. She performs with the Chesmont Quartet, the MC3 Piano Trio, and frequently in solo recitals on the east coast, including at Elizabethtown College each summer.

Gael Abbasi has lived and performed in the Philadelphia area for many years. Her teachers include, Orlando Cole of the Curtis String Quartet and Janos Starker, at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana .She was a founding member of Strings for Schools, Inc, now Musicopia, an organization which provides vibrant educational adventures in music, in the schools and communities of the Greater Delaware Valley. She is also a founding member of String Variations, a commercial music business. She has performed at the Kimmel Center, Carnegie Hall and the Mann Center. She has taught at Immaculata University, Kimberton Waldorf School and the Baldwin School. In the summer, she is a chamber music coach at Vermont Music and Arts Center in Lyndonville, Vermont (vermontmusicandarts.org). Aside from performances in the Chesmont Quartet , she is also in MC3 Piano Trio.

A native of Seoul, Korea, Dr. Soh Lee completed her DMA in piano performance at Rutgers University. While attending Rutgers University, she performed for Bridgewater Concert Series of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Kirkpatrick Chapel Concert Series and was a winner of the South Orange Symphony Artist Competition in New Jersey. Dr. Lee has often appeared as a soloist and accompanist for the Afternoon Music Club of Phoenixville, Pa and performed as a guest artist at West Chester University. She performs recently with MC3 Piano Trio that was formed as an extension of Montgomery County Community College in 2013. She is currently a faculty member of Montgomery County Community College and Ursinus College, Pa. With a life-long commitment to church music, she presently is pianist at Pughtown Baptist Church, Pa.