All concerts are free of charge.
Childcare available by reservation (no later than one week prior to each concert). For childcare reservations please call 817-335-1231, ext. 254.

FPC Chancel  Choir and Friends
Duruflé Requeim
Sunday, March 7, 5:30 p.m.

UNT One O'Clock Lab Band
TBD -- will be rescheduled

Douglas Scott, Organ
Sunday, May 2, 5 p.m.

Each year, First Presbyterian Church hosts a series of musical soloists and groups to provide a rich cultural experience to the congregation and the people of Fort Worth and the surrounding communities. The schedule for this year’s series is:

Sunday, September 20, 5 p.m.
ANTHEM BRASS: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC...
The concert will include favorites such as Phantom of the Opera, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sweeney Todd, In the Hall of the Mountain King, The Firebird and more.

The Anthem Brass Ensemble is a Dallas-Fort Worth based brass quintet whose members are some of the top professional musicians in the area. As individuals they perform with various symphonies in the Metroplex, some of which include the Fort Worth, Irving, Richardson, Waco and East Texas Symphonies. In addition, Anthem Brass members perform at venues such as Bass Hall, The Meyerson Symphony Center, Casa Manana, and The Eisemann Center. As a group, they have been together for seven years, performing in concert, churches, private events and functions across the state.

The Anthem Brass also actively promotes music education through their affiliations with Texas Christian University, Cedar Valley College, Grand Prairie and Fort Worth School Districts, and various community outreach programs. For more information, visit www.anthembrass.com. 

Thursday, October 22, 7:30 p.m.
SIETZE DE VRIES, ORGAN
Sietze De Vries studied organ with Jaap Niewenhuijse at the Gouda Music School and then furthered his education in Groningen with Johan Beeftink, Jan Jongepier and Wim van Beek. In 1994 he was awarded the pedagogy diploma (Docerend Musicus) summa cum laude as the last pupil of Wim van Beek and in 1996 received his performance diploma (Uitvoerend Musicus) from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where Jos van der Kooy was his teacher.

Mr. de Vries is a much sought-after performer and teacher in Europe and the United States. The recipient of many prizes in organ competitions, he has recorded numerous CDs of various periods and styles. A master improviser, Sietze will include improvisations on submitted themes. For more information, log on to www.sietzedevries.nl.

Sunday, January 17, 5 p.m.
JEAN DANTON, SOPRANO
Soprano Jean Danton has performed within the United States and internationally on the opera, oratorio, musical theatre and concert stage. She has been a soloist under conductors Christopher Hogwood, Helmuth Rilling, Martin Pearlman, Bruce Hangen and Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, among others.

Ms. Danton made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Masterwork Chorus and her Lincoln Center debut at Avery Fisher Hall with the National Chorale, in both instances performing Handel’s Messiah. Her concert appearances include the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Oregon Bach Festival, Colorado’s Breckenridge Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival and Associazione Culturale in Italy.

Her operatic performances include roles with Boston Baroque, Greater Buffalo Opera, Brown Bag Opera and New England Light Opera, American Repertory Theatre and the Boston Classical Orchestra. She has appeared with Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Opera Theatre and the Boston Early Music Festival. She is a favorite soloist for Pops, jazz and musical theatre appearing with the Boston Pops Orchestra, North Shore Music Theatre, American Classics, Hillyer Festival Orchestra and the Orchestra at Indian Hill.

An accomplished recitalist, Ms. Danton has performed on the N.Y. Trinity Church Concert Series in New York City and the Twentieth Century Music Series at the N.Y. Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

Ms. Danton has several solo recordings on Albany Records and Newport Classic. Television credits include the PBS documentaries The Nobel Legacy, Apollo 13 – To the Edge and Back, American Experiences: Stephen Foster and in Mary Magdalene for Lifetime. For more information about Ms. Danton’s performances and recordings please visit www.jeandanton.com.

Sunday, February 7, 5 p.m.
ARMONIA CELESTE
The emerging ensemble Armonia Celeste offers audiences the ravishing sound of three exquisite female voices intertwining in trios and duets, accompanied by a plucked-string continuo ensemble of period instruments — theorbo, baroque guitar, lute and the rare arpa doppia (baroque triple harp) — and performed in the passionate spirit of the early Italian Baroque.

Audiences at the Boston Early Music Festival, South America and the Southwest alike have been captivated by the group’s engaging and joyful performances of this amazing repertoire. Upcoming performances include a return to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex as well as participation in a DVD about 17th century music produced by Early Music Television.

The group members are sopranos Rebecca Beasley and Sarah Griffiths; mezzo-soprano Dianna Grabowski; Paula Fagerberg on the Baroque triple harp;and Lyle Nordstrom on the lute and theorbo. For more information, visit www.armoniaceleste.com.

Sunday, March 7, 5:30 p.m.
FPC CHANCEL CHOIR and FRIENDS: DURUFLÉ REQUIEM
The Requiem, scored for choir, soli, orchestra and organ, was commissioned by Duruflé’s publisher, Durand and Company, and is dedicated to the composer’s father. First performed in 1947, this timeless work, which is entirely based on plainchant melodies, remains Duruflé’s most popular composition. The composer’s modifications in the burial service text (e.g. In Paradisum) result in a calm and meditative setting. For more information please visit www.fpcfw.org.

Duruflé’s Requiem has been a favorite in churches and concert halls in Europe and America. On Nov. 2, 1971, Duruflé conducted his Requiem at First Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth with his wife, Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier, at the organ.

TBD
UNT ONE O'CLOCK LAB BAND --
Due to miscommunication among the band's schedulers, the One O'Clock Lab Band concert originally scheduled for April 18 will be rescheduled.

Sunday, May 2, 5 p.m.
DOUGLAS SCOTT, ORGAN
Douglas Scott is known throughout Michigan as a composer, arranger, soloist, accompanist, and orchestral musician.

Mr. Scott received his first appointment as a church organist at the age of 12. He is currently organist at Grosse Île Presbyterian Church. He earned the bachelor of music degree with highest honors from Michigan State University in 1978. His principal teachers were Ralph Votapek, piano; David Liptak, composition; and Wendell Westcott, composition and carillon.

Mr. Scott frequently appears as soloist, in recital and with orchestra. Recently he has appeared as organ soloist in the Respheghi "Church Windows", the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony and the Jongen Symphony Concertante; as harpischord soloist in the Bach Brandenburg Concerto #5; and as piano soloist in the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody ("Paginini Variations"), Beethoven Choral Fantasy, Saint-Saens "Carnival of the Animals" and the Dohnanyi "Varations on a Nursery Rhyme".

Mr. Scott has recently performed solo recitals in the Metro Detroit area for the Tuesday Musicale, the Dearborn Symphony and the Grosse Île Musicale.

He performs as an orchestral musician on piano, celeste, harpsichord and organ with the Southern Great Lakes Symphony, the Dearborn Symphony and the Warren Symphony. He also performs with several chamber ensembles, jazz ensembles and choral groups. He appears frequently with his wife Carole as a flute-piano duo.