Rieth Chamber Series returns for fifth season with six outstanding chamber concerts
Series tickets for the 2017-18 Rieth Chamber Series at Goshen College are now available. This year’s series will feature six different outstanding chamber music ensembles and organists as it continues to build on its reputation of providing captivating classical music to Michiana.
As the fifth season kicks off, the Rieth Chamber Series will once again include performances featuring the college’s Taylor and Boody “Opus 41” organ, and distinguished musicians sharing repertoire from the Baroque to the present.
Subscriptions to the series are available for $84 and will include tickets to all six concerts. This year’s structure has changed from previous seasons; subscribers will now receive a 10 percent or more discount over individually-priced tickets for the entire series, which is due to the past subscribers who helped build this series through their additional donations. Subscription forms can be found online at gcmusiccenter.org/riethseries.
For questions about ticket availability, pricing, reservations and more, contact the Box Office at (574) 535-7566 or email boxoffice@goshen.edu. The Box Office, which is located in the Goshen College Music Center, is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tickets to individual concerts will be for sale as available via the Box Office, online at www.goshen.edu/tickets or at the door.
The 2017-18 series includes:
Neave Trio
Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall
Hailed by critics for its “bright and radiant music making” (Robert Sherman, WQXR Radio), the Neave Trio has been described as “A revelation” (San Diego Story) and “A brilliant trio…” (MusicWeb International), who has “exceeded the gold standard and moved on to platinum” (Fanfare Magazine). The Trio has appeared in places like Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and the 92nd Street Y, and as soloists with the California Chamber Orchestra and the Fall River Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. The Trio has held several important residency positions including the Fisch/Axelrod Residency at San Diego State University (since 2012), and the prestigious Chamber Music Residency at the Banff Centre.
Milton String Quartet
Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall
Grand Prize and Strings Gold Medal Winners of the 2017 Fischoff National Chamber Music competition, the Milton String Quartet is based in Montreal, Quebec. The ensemble was the 2017 Fellowship String Quartet at ENCORE Chamber Music in Cleveland, Ohio, and was named winner of the 2016 McGill University Chamber Music Competition, earning an exchange in May 2017 with the Mozarteum Universität in Salzburg, Austria. In addition to their Midwestern United States tour, the Milton String Quartet’s fall season includes debut performances in Ontario and New Brunswick. They will attend the Emilia Romagna Music Festival in Italy in summer 2018 as part of the Fischoff Grand Prize. Milton members are top prizewinners in many competitions, including the Concours de musique du Canada.
Thomas Fielding, organist
Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017, 4 p.m.
Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall
Organist and composer Thomas Fielding is director of music and liturgy for St. Augustine Cathedral, Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has taken first prize in the national Arthur Poister (Syracuse, New York) and San Marino (California) performance competitions, has won several national composition prizes, and has been the recipient of several full-tuition scholarship awards at Indiana University. Dr. Fielding’s compositions have been performed by soloists and ensembles throughout North America, Europe and Asia. In celebration of the 500th year of the Reformation, Dr. Fielding will present a program including works by Buxtehude, Bach and Fielding.
Glenn Miller, organ/basso profundo, with the Goshen College Chamber Choir
Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall
Returning to Goshen College after his magnificent 2016 collaboration with the St. Joseph Valley Camerata, Glenn Miller maintains a very active career as an organist and basso profundo singer, specializing in Russian liturgical choral repertoire. He is presently in his 20th season as director of music and organist of Kirk in the Hills, Bloomfield Hills (Michigan). Miller was the featured soloist on Conspirare’s 2015 Grammy-award winning recording of Chesnokov’s “Do not cast me off in my old age.” For this unique concert, Glenn Miller will present solo works for organ, and also sing traditional hymns and the basso profundo solo in the Chesnokov work with the Goshen College Chamber Choir and director Dr. Scott Hochstetler.
Bach & Beethoven Ensemble
Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, 4 p.m.
Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall
Founded in 2009, the Bach & Beethoven Ensemble (BBE) is a Chicago-based ensemble that brings artists from different traditions together to collaborate on cross-genre multidisciplinary projects. Hailed as “thrilling…charming and performed with such grace…joy and sincerity that a watcher and listener had to be won over” (Bloomington Herald Times), the BBE has performed across the Midwest and Northeast including at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Early Music Academy in Ann Arbor. This trio will feature a countertenor, Baroque violin and Baroque guitar/violone in songs, and fiddle dance music from the British Isles…with an Italian twist! Selections will include arias from ‘The Gentle Shepherd,’ a pastoral comedy by Allan Ramsay, considered to be the first Scottish Opera; the best violin hits of the 17th and 18th centuries by Matteis, Geminiani, and Henry Eccles and more.
Ronen Chamber Ensemble
Sunday, March 25, 2018, 4 p.m.
Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall
Since 1983, The Ronen Chamber Ensemble has presented an annual concert series in downtown Indianapolis, showcasing the up-close, intimate nature of chamber music. Ronen covers a wide array of repertoire, especially music featuring winds and strings, and promotes new music, commissioning and premiering over 20 new works. In partnership with the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Ronen collaborates annually with internationally renowned IVCI Laureates. In addition to live performances, Ronen musicians are regularly broadcast locally and nationally over the air. This RCS concert will feature Ronen’s co-directors, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (ISO) principal clarinetist David Bellman, ISO cellist Ingrid Fischer-Bellman, and pianist Dr. Gregory Martin, in exquisite trio and duo repertoire by Brahms, Poulenc and Mendelssohn.
For more information about the concert series or the performers, please contact the Goshen College Music Center Main Office at (574) 535-7361 or visit www.gcmusiccenter.org.