Music at St. Matthew’s presents The Concord Ensemble in concert, Friday, April 23, at 8 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 1031 Bienveneda. The program will feature sacred and secular music by Carlo Gesualdo, Heinrich Sch’tz, Igor Stravinsky, and Arvo P’rt. The award-winning Concord Ensemble formed in 1997 and quickly catapulted into the international music scene by winning the grand prize in the first Early Music America Recording Competition. Their subsequent debut recording, ‘The Victory of Santiago: Voices of Renaissance Spain,’ earned them the prized five-star distinction in Goldberg magazine. The most recent performances by the ensemble include newly commissioned programs of Spanish and Latin American Christmas and Easter music. Equally at home in the contemporary medium, Concord has performed music by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stephen Hartke, Steve Reich and Libby Larsen. Members include Pablo Cora, a tenor/hautecontre who performs regularly with Musica Angelica, as well as the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the L.A. Chamber Singers and Cappella. Rachelle Fox, soprano, is active as a soloist specializing in baroque and Renaissance music in addition to new music. Scott Graff, bass/baritone, sings with numerous ensembles and the Long Beach Opera. N. Lincoln Hanks, tenor, helped found The Concord Ensemble, and as a composer he won the Contemporary Choral Composition Competition Award from the Roger Wagner Center for Choral Studies. He teaches music theory and composition at Pepperdine University. Kristen Toedtman, mezzo-soprano, has frequently collaborated with composers on new music and has recorded her own music. She is pursuing a career of solo music since moving to Los Angeles. Tickets ($35) are available at www.MusicGuildOnline or at the door.
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