EVENT DATE SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

GLORIA CONSORT
AT
PEACE CHURCH

Please join The Friends of Peace Church in welcoming The Gloria Consort for their first appearance at Peace Church. Plan on attending September 14, 2008 at 3 p.m Admission is free. No reservations are necessary.

THE GLORIA CONSORT was formed in 1994 to explore the solo and small chamber ensemble music literature of the European late Renaissance and Baroque eras. Cornettist and recorder soloist Orum Stringer, viola da gambist Amy Warren, and harpsichordist Ernest Meyer comprise the basic ensemble. For specific programs, distinguished artists are asked to join in to perform larger works for up to seven players. This concert presents a program of French music from the time of Louis XIV. Join us to hear sounds that evoke the splendor and brilliance of the Grand Court at Versailles at the height of its glory.

ERNEST MEYER holds degrees from Temple and New York University. He has performed extensively in the Philadelphia area as an oboist with such ensembles as the Concerto Soloists, Pennsylvania Pro Musica and the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. He joined The Gloria Consort as a harpsichordist in 1999. He was an Instrumental music teacher in the Philadelphia public schools for many years.

 ORUM STRINGER studied Baroque recorder technique with Prof. M. S. Rubin in New York. After coming to Philadelphia in 1973, he extended his studies to include music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. He mastered the Renaissance cornetto and kortholt and has sung with the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Renaissance choir under the direction of Edward Handy since 1975. He teaches recorder and cornetto and directs large ensembles in meetings of the American Recorder Society, and in workshops of the Historic Brass Society. He founded The Gloria Consort in 1994 and serves as its director. He sat on the board of the Lower Makefield Society for the Performing Arts (Bucks County, PA) for eight years and, for twelve years, was the artistic director for the Lake Afton Concert Series sponsored by St. Andrew’s Church, Yardley, PA.

AMY WARREN received her degree in music from Amherst College in 1993, and has studied and performed early music in Massachusetts, Alaska, Washington, California and Dublin, Ireland. She has studied the viola da gamba with Alice Robbins, Robert Eisenstein, Margriet Tindemans, John Dornenberg, Mary Springfels and Rosamund Morley. Ms Warren is a former member of the Five-College Early Music Collegium, the University of Washington Early Music Ensemble, and Anchorage Vocal Ensemble. In addition to The Gloria Consort, she currently performs with La Spirita and The Orbis Ensemble, and free-lances as a viola da gambist in the Princeton area.

Handicapped access is available behind the resource center. Seating is limited to approximately 225 people. Parking is available in the office lot directly across St. John’s Church Road. For more information call 422-5486