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Trinity Lutheran Church

Manhattan Beach

Trinity Lutheran Church, Manhattan Beach

2010-2011 Concert Series

KARLA DEVINE Artistic Director

1340 Eleventh Street
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
3 blocks east of Sepulveda
1 block south of Manhattan Beach Blvd.

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Trinity Lutheran Church hosts three concert series:

  • The Main Concert Series, Sundays at 4:00 p.m.,


  • The noontime "Bach's Lunch Recitals" at 12:15 p.m. on first Fridays from September or October through June, and


  • "The Previews," at 2:00 p.m. on third or fourth Saturdays from September through June (except December). From January through June, the concerts are repeated the next day on Beverly Hills' "Music In The Mansion" recital series in the the historic Beverly Hills Greystone Mansion.

See the Main Concert Series on this page, and find links to the other two series at the top and bottom of each page.

Trinity Lutheran Church welcomes you to all its events and warmly invites you to join in worship. For information at its main website, click here.

For concert-series information
call (310) 937-7275 or send e-mail by clicking here

[About the TLC Concert Series from the Dobson Organ Newsletter]

past seasons: [2000-2001] [2001-2002] [2002-2003] [2003-2004] [2004-2005] [2005-2006] [2006-2007] [2007-2008] [2008-2009] [2009-2010]

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.

Bach's Goldberg Variations
for String Trio


UCLA CAMARADES STRING ENSEMBLE

Movses Pogossian, violin  Guillaume Sutre, violin/viola  Antonio Lysy, cello
 
UCLA String Faculty
MOVSES POGOSSIAN violin                                         
    GUILLAUME SUTRE violin/viola
                                        ANTONIO LYSY cello
and
TOP UCLA STRING STUDENTS

The concert will include masterworks of the chamber music repertoire followed by Dmitry Sitkovetsky's arrangement J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations for string trio performed by UCLA string faculty members: Movses Pogossian, Tchaikovsky Competition Prizewinner and Artistic Director of the Dilijan Chamber Music Series; Guillaume Sutre, 1st violinist of the internationally renowned Ysaÿe Quartet; and Antonio Lysy, acclaimed soloist and chamber musician, and Artistic Director of Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival in Italy.

Suggested concert donation $15 / $5 students
Hors d'oeuvre & dessert reception with the artists follows

Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.

18th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORGAN DEDICATION

Organist of Pasadena Presbyterian Church

Timothy Howard, organ

TIMOTHY HOWARD organ

Lecturer in Music at California State University, Northridge, Timothy Howard holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from USC. Timothy holds the position of Director of Music and Organist of Pasadena Presbyterian Church. and for 13 years held the position of Associate Organist-Choirmaster at All Saints Church in Pasadena. This year marks his fifth season at the Corona del Mar Baroque Music Festival. A graduate, with honors, from the University of Southern California with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, Dr. Howard also holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and Biola University.

Suggested concert donation $12 / $5 students
Hors d'oeuvre & dessert reception with the artists follows

[Dobson Mechanical-Action Pipe Organ at Trinity Lutheran Church]

Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.

Advent/Christmas Recital

Organist Karla Devine

KARLA DEVINE organ

Karla Devine is Director of Music, Organist, and Director of Children's Choirs at Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan Beach. Karla is also a soprano with Camerata Singers of Long Beach. She did her graduate work in Basel, Switzerland, and at the University of Minnesota. Karla is the Artistic Director of the Trinity Lutheran Church Concert Series.

Freewill donation

Sunday, February 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

California State University, Fullerton
UNIVERSITY SINGERS
ROBERT ISTAD director

CSUF CSUFUniversity Singers

The CSUF University Singers is comprised of 33 upper-class members selected by audition. In recent years, they have become recognized as a premier collegiate vocal ensemble performing for numerous choral conventions including the American Choral Directors Association. The group has performed with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra among others, and in February 2003, was selected to perform at the ACDA National Convention in New York presenting concerts at Riverside Church, Carnegie Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall. Most recent among numerous tours was to Northern Italy in June 2010.

Suggested concert donation $15 / $5 students
Hors d'oeuvre & dessert reception with the artists follows

Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

Hymn Festival
led by
ROBERT HOBBY

Robert Hobby, organRobert A. Hobby is Director of Music and Organist at Trinity English Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, which has a congregation of almost 3,500 members. During his tenure, Trinity Church has established a choral series with seventeen composers commissioned thus far, hosted a regional convention of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, produced four recordings, and expanded the opportunities for music ministry, including an active youth choir of forty teenagers. Mr. Hobby received his Bachelor's Degree in Church Music from Wittenberg University in 1985 and a Master's Degree in Organ Performance from the University of Notre Dame in 1987.

Freewill donation
Hors d'oeuvre & dessert reception with the artist follows

Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

LONG BEACH CAMERATA SINGERS

Robert Istad, Artistic Director

ROBERT ISTAD Artistic Director

presents

A MAN OF SORROWS

Suggested donation $20 in advance / $25 at the door

[Long Beach Camerata Singers]

Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

Liszt and his Transcriptions

Timothy Durkovic, piano

TIMOTHY DURKOVIC piano

MELISSA MCINTOSH-LANDIS soprano

In celebration of the bicentenial of the birth of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) , Timothy Durkovic will examine lieder and Liszt's transcriptions of them. Timothy will accompany soprano Melissa McIntosh-Landis in the original version of Lieder and then play the Liszt transcriptions. In the second part of the program, Timothy will perform Liszt's B-Minor Sonata, which was his Gold-Medal-winning piece at the 1996 Los Angeles Liszt Competition.

Born and rasied in Guatemala, Timothy was educated at the National Conservatory of Guatemala, the Juilliard School, Salem College, and the USC Thornton School of Music. In addition to winning the Gold Medal at the Liszt Competition, he won both the 2001 San Diego Duo Piano Competition and the 2001 IBLA Grand Prize Duo Piano Award (Sicily, Italy) with his piano-duo partner Chie Nagatani.

Melissa McIntosh Landis, sopranoRenowned soprano Melissa McIntosh-Landis studied at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, Southern Nazarene University, and the USC Thornton School of Music, where she earned her DMA. She is a sought-after recitalist, concert soloist, and opera singer.

Suggested concert donation $15 / $5 students
Hors d'oeuvre & dessert reception with the artists follows

Click here for Bach's Lunch Recitals
Click here for "The Previews" Recitals