Our 2004 - 2005 season.

The 1st of our 2004 - 2005 series.

Frank Contreras and Jeffrey Dortch

Sunday, October 3, 2004  2:30 P.M.

First Presbyterian Church

East College Street at Mulberry Avenue

Pianist Frank Contreras and Violinist Jeffrey Dortch

Frank Contreras is a pianist and organist on the music faculty of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. He is pianist for the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and organist at First Presbyterian Church and Temple B’Nai Sholom in Huntsville. Dr. Contreras holds degrees in piano performance from Milliken University and from East Carolina University, and earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from West Virginia University. He also holds an Artist’s Diploma from the American College of Musicians. He is an active piano collaborator with singers and instrumentalists and has appeared twice as soloist with the Huntsville Symphony.

Jeffrey Dortch is a graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York where he studied with violinist/conductor Pamela Gearhart. Before attending Ithaca, Mr. Dortch studied for one year at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York where his teacher was noted violinist Sylvia Rosenberg. He has also worked with well-known Israeli violinist Yair Kless and with Henry Rubin, formerly professor of violin at the University of Alabama.

While at Ithaca College, Mr. Dortch was one of a select group of students to perform in a master class for world-renowned violinist Kyung-Wha Chung. He was concertmaster of the Ithaca College Orchestra.

Mr. Dortch was concertmaster of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra for nine seasons, appearing as guest soloist in 1986 and 1990. He is currently associate concertmaster of the HSO and the Huntsville Chamber Symphony, and performed as soloist with the latter group in 1996 and 1998. He also frequently performs with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham, Alabama. As a recitalist and chamber musician, he has performed throughout the Southeast. An active teacher, Mr. Dortch is a member of the music faculty at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and maintains a large class of private students.

The 2nd of our 2004 - 2005 series.

Heritage Children's Chorale

of The South

Sunday, November 14, 2004  3:00 P.M.

Methodist Church (new wing)

First United Methodist Church, 200 North Elk Avenue, Fayetteville, TN

The Heritage Children’s Chorale of The South is a professional Children’s Chorus made up of young people ranging in age from eight to eighteen. In 1988, the chorale was born with its first class of thirty-five auditioned singers. Presently, the Chorale has grown to seventy members comprising two chapters, the Alabama Chapter and the Tennessee Chapter. Since its inception, the Heritage Children’s Chorale, directed by Mary Stephenson and accompanied by Canna Ricketts and Pat Woolard, has been consistently challenged to meet more and more the requirements of a professional children’s chorus. The children practice every Monday in Alabama and every Tuesday in Tennessee for one hour and a half from September through June. The HCC’s degree of professionalism and standard of excellence in children’s music literature has created new, sophisticated performance invitations and opportunities making it one of the Southeast’s leading children’s choirs.

The Chorale has performed throughout Tennessee and Alabama presenting over 100 seasonal concerts. The children have concertized in Washington D.C., Philadelphia. PA, Chicago, IL, New York City, The Greenbrier Inn in West Virginia, Bruton Parish in Colonial Williamsburg, Charleston, S.C. San Antonio, TX, New Orleans, LA, and Mobile, AL. They have been invited to Spain, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Great Britain. The Chorale has appeared several times with members of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. The Tennessee Chapter of the HCC has appeared on the Grand Ole Opry Stage in Amy Grants Christmas with Vince Gill. Recent accomplishments include recordings with pop artist, Donna Sumers and Christian recording artist, John Starnes. In addition, the Chorale has made its own recording of concert tour selections and Christmas favorites.

The 3rd of our 2004 - 2005 series.

Debra Saylor

Sunday, February 20, 2005  2:00 P.M.

First Presbyterian Church

East College Street at Mulberry Avenue

Debra Saylor was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on April 10, 1962. She received her early education from the Iowa School for the Blind. At Clarke College, Dubuque, she earned the Bachelor of Arts in Piano and Vocal Performance. She received her M. A. in Piano and Vocal Performance from the University of Iowa.

Debra Saylor competed in 2000 and 2002 in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs held at Fort Worth, Texas. She was the Third Place overall winner in 2000, and the best interpretation of a piece in the Romantic period for Clair de Lune. In 2002, she tied for "Jury Discretionary Award" (third place). Ms. Saylor also competed in "Le Grand Concours des Amateurs de Piano" in Paris, France, in 2001. She was a Quarter Finalist and opened the final round of performances at the Sorbonne.

Ms. Saylor is currently instructor of Piano and Voice at Ars Nova School of the Arts in Huntsville, Alabama. Member of Huntsville Community Chorus, Nativity Church Choir, and Joyful Spirit Singers.  Member of the Huntsville Traditional Music Association.  She performs throughout the area for a variety of functions-church services, clubs and organizations, nursing homes, senior citizen functions, weddings and funerals, etc.

The 4th of our 2004 - 2005 series.

Olde Towne Brass

Sunday, April 3, 2005  2:30 P.M.

Lincoln County High School

Olde Towne Brass performs in the manner of Early American bands, playing original scores on actual Civil War Instruments. With their special emphasis on the War Between the States, Olde Towne Brass presents programs that provide their listeners with history and information about the composer and the song. Their renditions of these timeless and compelling tunes are played just as they were more than 135 years ago. The music library of Olde Towne Brass includes over 1500 songs of both the Confederate and Union Bands which has been compiled from various resources across the country including the Library of Congress and the Museum of the Confederacy.

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The 5th of our 2004 - 2005 series.

The Lee High School Concert Choir

Sunday, May 1, 2005  3:00 P.M.

Lincoln County High School

Adnia Rice Auditorium