Concert Series

December 12th, 6pm
Maroon Bel Canto Children's Chorus
performs a Christmas Concert at Snowmass Chapel. Directed and founded by Paul Dankers, Katie Hone Wiltgen and Katie Schmidt, Maroon Bel Canto is now in its 3rd season as a group. Last year saw the beginning of a partnership of Snowmass Chapel and Aspen Music Festival and School to fund and provide this musical opportunity to all students with unchanged voices in the valley. There is no charge for this heart-warming concert.

 

December 24th, 7pm and 9pm
Christmas Eve Services Concert
The community of Snowmass Village comes together every year to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ with a beautiful and traditional “Lessons and Carols” service at Snowmass Chapel. This candlelit service features the talents of singers and instrumentalists combined as the Snowmass Chapel Choir and Bell Choir combine efforts with the Snowmass Chapel’s Chamber Orchestra. There are two services, and if you are able to choose either service, you will probably find more seats during the 9:00 service, but if you can only attend the 7:00 service, you might want to come early and prepare for the service by sitting and listening to the Chamber Orchestra play a prelude of Christmas Music. Either way, we hope you can join us for this elegant feast for the eyes and the ears!

January 20, 6pm
Harpist, Cheryl Losey
Cheryl Losey Harp Dinner Concert, “An Evening in Paris” by reservation only, please contact Paul Dankers at (970) 300-1330 or paul@snowmasschapel.org. This formal dinner concert will feature delicious meat and vegetarian entrees. Be sure to make your reservation early, because seating will be limited! Cheryl Losey has earned distinction as one of America’s leading young harpists, receiving national and international awards, and performing in diverse settings around the world. She was recently awarded the Alice Rosner Prize in the 2009 Munich International Competition. Other awards include first prize and Grandjany Prize in the American Harp Society’s National Solo Competition, first prize in the American String Teachers Association National Solo Competition, winner of the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition, and prize winner in the Corpus Christi International Young Artists Competition. Festival credits include summers performing at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, the Spoleto Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Festival, and with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas throughout South America. She is performing as the harp fellow at the Aspen Music Festival in 2009-2010. Ms. Losey has appeared as soloist with the New England Symphonic Ensemble in eleven different countries, and with orchestras including the National Repertory Orchestra, CIM Orchestra, and in 2010, the Sarasota Orchestra. She received her Bachelor and Masters Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Yolanda Kondonassis, and is a native of Harpswell, Maine. In May 2008, Ms. Losey was appointed Principal Harp of The Sarasota Orchestra.

February 17th, 6pm
Valentines Wedding Bazaar
Concert at 6 PM with reception following. The Silver City Strings has played for scores of wedding in and around Aspen, becoming a favorite with wedding planners in the valley. Snowmass Chapel will feature the Silver City Strings with guest artists performing their favorite wedding songs. Young lovers should bring their partners to this concert to kindle the spark, prospective brides and grooms should come to this concert to scope out ideas for their wedding, and married couples should attend to confirm and renew their love and commitment. Rev. Dr. Robert de Wetter will lead couples in a renewal of their vows if they should choose to participate. Couples can e-mail a one sentence message or photo of their favorite wedding photos to be displayed on a big screen during the concert, but all e-mails must be received before February 10. Contact Paul Dankers at paul@snowmasschapel.org.

March 2nd, 7pm
March 3rd, 7pm
March 9th, 7pm
March 10th, 7pm
Fantasticks
“Fantasticks” a musical theatre performance. The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It was produced by Lore Noto. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play "The Romancers" ("Les Romanesques") by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud and erecting a wall between their houses. The fathers then hire traveling actors to stage a mock abduction, so that Matt can heroically seem to save Luisa, settling the supposed feud and securing their fathers' blessings (which of course the young lovers have really had all along). After the children discover the deception, they reject the arranged love match. Each goes off to experience the wider world. They return to each other bruised but enlightened by their journeys, realizing that they have always been in love, and renew their vows with more maturity. Elements of the play are ultimately drawn from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, its story winding its way through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and Rostand's play. The show's original off-Broadway production ran a total of 42 years and 17,162 performances, making it the world's longest-running musical. It was awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 1991. The poetic book and breezy, inventive score, including such familiar songs as "Try to Remember," helped make this show so durable. Many productions followed, as well as television and film versions. The Fantasticks has also become a staple of regional, community, and high school productions virtually since its premiere, with approximately 250 new productions each year. It is played with a small cast, two-person orchestra and minimalist set design. Among many revivals, the show re-opened off-Broadway in 2006. As of 2010, its original investors have earned 240 times their original investments. The musical has played throughout the U.S. and in at least 67 foreign countries.!

March 23rd, 7pm
Alex Chien
Piano Solo Performance by Alex Chien, Winner of the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition. Alex Chien was born in 1998. He started taking piano lessons with Ms. Kai Chi Zhu when he was four years old. At the age of 5, he made a TV appearance when he performed in the “Maestro Darrell's Music Workshop” TV Program. Alex is the winner of many piano competitions. He recently won the first prize in the 2010 Young Artist Competition of Diablo Symphony Orchestra. His other recent awards include the first Prize in the Young Artists Competitions of California Youth Symphony, the grand prize in the 2009 Mondavi Young Artist Competition, the first place award in the 2009 Marilyn Mindell Piano Competition, the first place award in the Sylvia M. Ghiglieri Piano Competition and the inaugural winner of the Temple Hill Symphony Orchestra’s Outstanding Young Pianist award. In 2008, he won the first place award and the “Most Promising Young Talent” special award in the 9th International Russian Piano Competition’s Young Musician category, the first place award in 2008 MTAC Piano Concerto Competition (Division I), the Menuhin-Dowling Young Musicians Award, the James Denver Gary Piano Award in Pacific Music Society Annual Competition, and the Nafisa Taghioff Prize in the Fremont Symphony's Young Artist Competition. Alex has been the prize winner of many awards in the US Open Music Competitions each year since 2003. He won the first place award in the complete Piano Concerto category in 2009. He won several first place awards in the piano concerto categories and the solo showcase category in previous years, and he was selected as the Gold of Golden Medalists in the Gold Medalist Showcase Recitals each year it was held. In addition, Alex has been the first place award winner of the piano competitions sponsored by the Music Teachers' Association of California In 2004 and 2005, the first place awards and the best Chinese Music performance awards in the Chinese Music Teachers' Association of North California Youth Music Competition in 2004 and 2007, the first place award in the “Kids Play the Darndest Things!” piano competition and the first place award in the “Technic is Fun” piano competition in 2006. Alex has kept a busy performance schedule. Most recently, he performed with the California Youth Symphony Orchestra (CYS) at the Flint Center of Cupertino, California and at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center in San Mateo, California. Alex was the youngest soloist to open a music season for the CYS, and the two concerts have been among the most successful events in their history. Earlier in October, Alex gave a solo piano recital at California State University Stanislaus in a sold-out concert. He was also the youngest pianist that performed in the university’s regular concert series. In the summer of 2009, he also gave a solo recital at Newcastle University in England. Alex has played at the Carnegie Hall as a winner of the American Fine Arts Festival. He also performed with the Fremont Symphony Orchestra and the Temple Hill Symphony orchestra. Alex’s other 2009 performances include a performances at the Peninsula Symphony’s Family Concert, at “A Celebration of Young Artists Concert” of the Fremont Symphony Guild, at the Kohl Mansion, Burlingame, California, and at the Twilight Concert at Fairytale Town, Sacramento, California. In 2008, he performed in the Junior Bach Festival and in the Steinway Society Young Artists Concert. He also performed at the Piano Fantasia Concert honoring Robert and Margaret Mondavi at Pacific Union College. His other performance events in 2008 include the Listening Hours at San Jose State University, Pacific Music Society Christmas Gala, Beshoff Mercedes-Benz Concert and a benefit concert at the San Francisco Tower. Alex attended the 2009 Chetham International Summer Piano School in Manchester, England where he worked with many internationally renowned masters such as Leslie Howard, Vladimir Tropp. Alex has also performed in master classes by Lang Lang, Jon Nakamatsu, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Ruth Slenczynska, and Pascal Nemirovski. Alex is currently a 6th grade student at Saint Andrew School in Saratoga. He lives in San Jose, California with his parents and brother, Robert. In addition to music, he loves writing and computers.

April 9th
Easter Service Concert
If Christmas Eve is hushed, reverent and introspective, then Easter is its celebratory opposite. The service takes place at 9:00 AM in the full light of the day with the triumphant pronouncement of Jesus Christ’s Resurrection. Once again, the performing forces of Choirs and Orchestra assemble to give voice to the triumphant music that speaks to our hope of life everlasting.