Please attend the University Guild program with Dr. Stephen Alltop at Alice Millar Chapel, on Monday, April 7th, at 1:30 pm on Northwestern University’s beautiful campus. The Alice Millar Chapel is located at 1870 Sheridan Road, Evanston, 847-491-7256. The music program will follow a brief University Guild Annual Meeting.
Dr. Alltop is a Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University, Director of Chapel Music. He just completed a sold out successful Northwestern University Alumnae Continuing Education class. The University Guild Program will be "Vive la France - Glories of the Organ in France" - Nowhere has the pipe organ enjoyed a more storied history than in France. Stephen Alltop will perform and guide you on a tour of some of the greatest music composed for "The King of Instruments," from the ornamental gems of the French Baroque to the symphonic splendor of the French Romantic age. Tea, coffee and cookies are served after the program.
Stephen Alltop has built a career based on excellence in several disciplines, conducting orchestral and choral ensembles, and performing as a keyboard artist. He is Music Director of the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, the Green Lake Choral Institute, and is the Associate Conductor of the Peninsula Music Festival. From 2000-2008, Mr. Alltop was the Music Director and Conductor of the Cheyenne Symphony in Wyoming. Stephen Alltop led the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra into a new permanent concert venue and also in the orchestra’s appearances at Chicago’s Harris Theater and Rockefeller Chapel. The ESO won the Illinois Council of Orchestra’s Programming of the Year Award for the 2009-2010 season.
The Apollo Chorus has established itself as one of Chicago’s most in demand choral ensembles. In the 2010-11 season, the Chorus appeared twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and performed Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem on the Wheaton College Artist Series, Puccini’s Tosca at the Ravinia Festival with Bryn Terfel and the Chicago Symphony, and Verdi’s Requiem at the Peninsula Music Festival. Apollo and the ESO have collaborated in works such as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Requiem and Verdi’s Requiem. Dr. Alltop has served as a member of
Northwestern University’s conducting and keyboard faculties since 1994 where he conducts the Alice Millar Chapel Choir and the Baroque Music Ensemble.
Dr. Alltop has guest conducted numerous orchestras and choruses across the United States. He has led opera and orchestral concerts with a number of Italian orchestras,and has conducted world premieres of works by Jan Bach, Miguel del Agila, Françoise Choveaux, Frank Ferko, Fabrizio Festa, Ricardo Iznaola, Stephen Paulus, Maxwell Raimi, Giancarlo Scarvaglieri, Alan Terricciano, Hiroaki Tokunaga and many others. In 2007, he made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting music of Eric Whitacre. Stephen Alltop made his Chicago Symphony Orchestra subscription concert debut as a harpsichord soloist in 2009 playing Bach with conductor Pinchas Zukerman. He appeared as an organ soloist with the CSO at the Ravinia Festival of 2008. In 2011, Dr. Alltop served as principal organist for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion for Soli Deo Gloria’s Chicago Bach Project, and with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and conductor John Nelson at the Basilique St. Denis. As a harpsichordist and organist, he has performed with the Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, Chicago Chamber Musicians, Chicago Sinfonietta, Joffrey Ballet, Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Omaha Symphony, and the Peninsula Music Festival. Dr. Alltop has recorded Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 on the American Gramaphone label and a disc of baroque arias with soprano Julianne Baird and trumpeter
Darin Kelly on the Albany label. As a conductor, his CD’s include The Divas of Mozart’s Day with soprano Patrice Michaels on the Cedille label, operatic and chamber works of Antonio Caldara with soprano Julianne Baird on the Albany label, and Handel’s complete Messiah with the Apollo Chorus and Orchestra of Chicago on the Clarion label.
Next University Guild Program: Treasures In Your Attic with Karl Gates,
Appraiser, on Monday, April 21st, at 1:30 pm in Northwestern
University’s Scott Hall, 601 University Place, Evanston. Pick a great item from your collection and bring it to today’s program! We all will learn about the antiques we treasure from our own homes.
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The University Guild’s Annual Membership is $50. Membership is open to all in the community. Guests are welcome and cost is $2.00 per program. The purpose of the University Guild is to bring to the membership of the Guild the intellectual resources of the University, to promote the interests of the University, to work for the collection and exhibition of the objects of art, and to advance the development and appreciation of the fine arts in the University and in Evanston. The University Guild also gives scholarships to students at Northwestern University.
