Triple fret threat at Church of Beethoven Oak Park with Avanti Guitar Trio

Church of Beethoven-Oak Park, a casual classical concert series at Open Door Theater welcomes Avanti Guitar Trio Sunday, Oct. 19 at 10 a.m.

Passionate about new music, Avanti Guitar Trio (Thomas Clippert, Julie Goldberg, Jeffrey Gabriel Silva) collaborated with members of the Chicago Composers Consortium and premiered works written for and dedicated to the AGT, Avanti members have studied and graduated from some of our country’s most prestigious music conservatories and universities: Yale School of Music, Northwestern University, and the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Each has performed as soloists throughout the country; and all are currently teaching in Chicago area Universities.

Program:

Triple fret threat: Avanti Guitar Trio play Vivaldi, Beatles and music of Brazil at Church of Beethoven

• Concerto no. 6, RV 356 Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

• Sylvan Winds Martha Horst

• Beatles medley John Lennon, Paul McCartney

• Let Go Benjamin Verdery (1955)

• Now You See, It Now You Don’t, Now You Do

• Start Now

• Bajo de La Palmera Isaac Albeniz
• Diamantina Juarez Moreira (1954)

• Baioa de Gude Paula Bellinati (1990)

The Church of Beethoven is “...a ‘church’ with no preaching, just uplifting music, poetry and two minutes of silence in an all-too-busy world.” The goal of the Church of Beethoven is to build a sense of community around the arts, by removing the typically formal atmosphere of classical music, by breaking down the proverbial “fourth wall” between the audience and the performers. Featuring intimate Sunday morning performances by professional poets and musicians, it is located in the Arts District of Oak Park Illinois on Harrison St. Our Mistress of Ceremonies is walking-musical-encyclopedia Val Camilletti of Val’s Halla Records.

The original Church of Beethoven was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Oak Park native and classical cellist Felix Wurman in an abandoned gas station on historic U. S. Route 66. http://youtu.be/F_NekVF9XXY The Albuquerque “Church” grew out of its humble beginnings and moved into The Kosmos, a larger arts space. Felix Wurman died of cancer in 2009, but the Church of Beethoven (now Sunday Chatter) lives on in Albuquerque and has sprouted new branches in Durham, North Carolina, Santa Monica, California and Tucson, Arizona and here in Oak Park, Illinois.

www.churchofbeethoven-oakpark.com