With excellent acoustics and accessible facilities, St. Alban's Parish Hall and Church provide an ideal concert venue.
Concerts at St. Alban's
Friday, August 15th, 8PM: English Restoration Harpsichord and Organ Music
Vince Ho will perform harpsichord and organ music by Purcell, Locke, Blow, and other English composers of the Restoration period.
Saturday , August 30th, 8pm: Organ Mass from the time of Henry VII and Henry VIII
Vince Ho and Thane Thomas will perform service music during the times
of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Te Deum by Avery Burton, and Mass by
Philip ap Rhys.
Performer
Vince Ho was a student of James Darling of Colonial Williamsburg, and
Sandra Soderlund. He obtained his Masters with a thesis on Early Italian
Keyboard Music. He was also the harpsichord technician in New Mexico
State University. In addition to the keyboard, he also performs on
the recorder, and was a student of Dave Barnett. He also studied the
Baroque Triple Harp with Cheryl Ann Fulton; and composition and theory
with David Soley of Stanford. Vince had performed with the medieval
music group Sex Saecla, and had conducted workshops in the Davis Early
Music Mixer.
Vince, 39, currently lives in Oakland with his cat, September.
Mezzo-Soprano Sally Light's first CD, which includes several pieces recorded at St. Alban's Church, is now available. Works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Pizzetti, Granados, as well as the more modern composers Samuel Barber, Ernst Bacon, and Alexander Tcherepnin, are featured, many of which have never been recorded before. Each piece is in its original language. Accompanists are prominent Bay Area pianists Miles Graber and Christopher Salocks.
f you wish to buy the CD, you can do so either directly from Sally
Light or on-line. If directly, please mail a check for $14.95 to Sally
Light, P.O. Box 6325, Albany, CA 94706. Be sure to include your
address so Sally can send the CD to you. If on-line, the links to her
web page are: http://cdbaby.com/cd/sallylight and http://cdbaby.com/cd/sallylight
A second CD is coming out soon - the official CD of Sally Light's
recital at St. Alban's, with Christopher Salocks, accompanist.
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