Join the International Chamber Artists as we begin our season with the Quartet for the End of Time, written by Messaien as a POW. He performed the work with three fellow prisoners, playing an upright, out-of-tune piano with several keys that did not work, along with the cellist missing a string, in front of an audience of 5,000 prisoners. The piece is one of the most monumental works of its time. Fairy Tales, or Marchenerzahlungen, was amazingly composed as Schumann was on the brink of psychosis. Both pieces on this concert explore the limitless possibilities of the musical imagination. Join the exploration into your own musical imagination during this concert. Don't miss Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and ICA clarinetist Marci Gurnow performing on both works! Also, find out how much money was raised last year for the People's Music School because of your donations. Suggested donation for this concert is $15 for adults and $7 for students. For further information please visit our website at www.ICAmusic.org or call 773-727-5357. This concert features the following musicians:

• Marci Gurnow, clarinet
• Drew Williams, violin
• Sharon Chung, viola
• Victor Sotelo, cello
• Patrick Godon, piano

Free parking is available in St. Gregory's courtyard parking lot, which is entered from W. Bryn Mawr through a "tunnel" between St. Gregory High School and the British School of Chicago. Parking is also available in the lot on the northwest corner of N. Ashland and W. Gregory across the street from St. Gregory's gym building.

After the concert you are invited to a "Meet and Greet the Musicians" at Ranalli's Restaurant located at 1512 W Berwyn, 60640, just east of Ashland. You'll be able to meet and talk with your favorite musicians!

Work off some excess Thanksgiving pounds by laughing out loud during the next International Chamber Artists concert. The Brass Calendar highlights a significant day from each month (e.g. “Income Tax Day”). Peter Schickele said, "Research for this work was conducted in my pocket datebook.” Lowell Liebermann's Appalachian Liebeslieder, Op. 54 for soprano, baritone and piano four hands is a parody of the German Lieder tradition, with movement titles including “Frau Turbosupercharger” and “Schwarzen Hosen Woes.” Joining ICA soprano Jessica Usherwood to create these merry musical morsels is Teppei Kono, whose career recently took an international leap when he made his Singapore Lyric Opera debut in the title role of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. Beethoven's Quintet for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon, Op. 16 incorporates a subtler brand of humor with buffo elements in the last movement. A student performer will also sing two short songs, one with Jessica Usherwood. Suggested donation for this concert is $15 for adults and $7 for students. For further information please call 773-727-5357 or visit www.ICAmusic.org.

Free parking is available in St. Gregory's courtyard parking lot, which is entered from west Bryn Mawr through a "tunnel" between St. Gregory High School and the British School of Chicago. Parking is also available in the lot on the northwest corner of N. Ashland and W. Gregory across the street from St. Gregory's gym building.

After the concert you are invited to a "Meet and Greet the Musicians" at Ranalli's Restaurant located at 1512 W Berwyn, 60640, just east of Ashland. For $15 at the door you'll be able to meet and talk with your favorite musicians and enjoy dinner awaiting you! Ranalli's will donate 20% of dinner receipts to ICA.

This concert features the following artists:

• Jessica Usherwood, soprano
• Teppei Kono, baritone
• Anna Velzo, oboe
• Pamela Coats, clarinet
• Jason Kramer, bassoon
• Keri Godon, horn
• Jonathon Weber, trumpet
• Erin Carrick, trumpet
• Chelsea French, trombone
• Sean Whitaker, tuba
• Patrick Godon, piano
• Mabel Kwan, piano

The 7th annual Christmas Festival of Lessons, Lights, and Carols, a holiday tradition at St. Gregory the Great Church will include music from Advent and Christmas carols, along with solo and choral selections from Handel's Messiah with organ and chamber orchestra accompaniment. The Choir will be joined by the St. Gregory Youth Choir under the direction of Jen Sherrill, as well as the St. Gregory Chamber Orchestra. Prelude music will begin at 6:30 PM. This event is free and open to all.

Free parking is available in St. Gregory’s courtyard parking lot which is entered from W. Bryn Mawr through a “tunnel” between St. Gregory High School and the British School of Chicago. Parking is also available in the lot on the northwest corner of N. Ashland and W. Gregory across the street from St. Gregory’s gym building.

In this first concert of 2008, the International Chamber Artists unveil their new flute player Joanna Messer. Joanna plays in the Illinois Philharmonic, the Madison Symphony, and the Southwest Michigan Symphony and has performed the Nielson concerto in Leipzig, Germany. The program highlights Philippe Gaubert's Nocturne et Allegro Scherzando, Bach's Triple Concerto in A Minor BWV 1044 for violin, flute, and keyboard soloists with chamber orchestra, and the passionate, dramatic and stormy Franck Piano Quintet in F Minor. As part of ICA’s mission, two cello students from the People’s Music School will also perform. Suggested donation is $15 for adults and $7 for students. For more information please call 773-727-5357 or visit www.ICAmusic.org.

Free parking is available in St. Gregory’s courtyard parking lot; Enter from West Bryn Mawr through the “tunnel” between St. Gregory High School and the British School of Chicago. Additional free parking is located one block east at Ashland and Gregory Streets. CTA: 22 Clark to Bryn Mawr, 50 Damen to Bryn Mawr. Red Line to Bryn Mawr.

After the concert you are invited to a "Meet and Greet the Musicians" at Ranalli's Restaurant located at 1512 W Berwyn, 60640, just east of Ashland. For $15 at the door you'll be able to meet and talk with your favorite musicians and enjoy dinner awaiting you! Ranalli's will donate 20% of dinner receipts to ICA. This concert features the following artists:

• Elizabeth Choi, violin soloist
• Joanna Messer, flute soloist
• Patrick Godon, piano soloist
• Roxana Pavel Goldstein, concertmistress
• Matthew Cataldi, violin
• Elias Goldstein, violin
• Aurelien Pederzoli, violin
• Drew Williams, violin
• Phoebe Zhao, violin
• Adam Davidowicz, viola
• Erin Nolan, viola
• Paul Roberts, viola
• Jocelyn Butler, cello
• Carolina Gomez, cello
• Jeremy Attanaseo

Northside College Prep High School is located at 5501 N. Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60625 -- near Bryn Mawr & Kedzie

This concert will feature Soprano, Violin, Cello, Piano, Harpsichord, Oboe, Flute, Trumpet, Trombone, Horn, Tuba, and Percussion in the following works:

• Dmitri Shostakovich - E Minor Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 67
• Dominick Argento - Elizabethan Songs
• John Glenesk Mortimer - Prelude & Dance

This concert will feature Soprano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass, Piano, Harp, Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Caja Drums in the following works:

• Igor Stravinsky - Septet
• Alberto Ginastera - Cantos del Tucumä n (6 mvts)
• Maurice Ravel - Introduction and Allegro
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto in C Major, No. 13, K. 415

Members of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago will be performing chamber music at St. Gregory the Great Church. Patrick Godon, Civic Orchestra pianist and Music Director at St. Gregory the Great, will be playing in one of the chamber groups. His group will play the Brahms Trio No. 2, Op. 87 in C Major for piano, violin, and cello. The other group on the program will play the Poulenc Sextet.

Please join us for our 4th annual Christmas Festival of Lessons, Lights and Carols, a holiday tradition at St. Gregory the Great Church. The music will include Advent and Christmas carols along with solo and choral selections from Handel’s Messiah with organ and chamber orchestra accompaniment. Music will be presented by the St. Gregory the Great Choir under the direction of Patrick Godon, the director of Music and Liturgy at St. Gregory. The Choir will be joined by the St. Gregory Youth Choir under the direction of Kathy Pepin, the St. Gregory Chant Choir as well as the St. Gregory Chamber Orchestra. A reception will follow the event in the high school cafeteria.

Admission is free but a good will offering will be taken. Free parking is available in St. Gregory’s courtyard parking lot which is entered from W. Bryn Mawr through a “tunnel” between St. Gregory High School and the British School of Chicago. Parking is also available in the lot on the northwest corner of N. Ashland and W. Gregory across the street from St. Gregory’s gym building.

The 5th annual Christmas Festival of Lessons, Lights, and Carols, a holiday tradition at St. Gregory the Great Church will include music from Advent and Christmas carols, along with solo and choral selections from Handel's Messiah with organ and chamber orchestra accompaniment. The St. Gregory Chant Choir will provide prelude music beginning at 6:30 PM. You can hear music from the last two festivals by clicking on "Parish Choir Live Recordings" on the homepage.

Please join us for a vespers service for All Souls Day melding prayer, silence and sublime music appropriate to the feast on Thursday, November 2 at 7:00 p.m at St. Gregory the Great Church. For this vespers, we will commemorate the faithful departed and celebrate their lives in prayer and music. The evening will highlight choral selections from John Rutter's Requiem performed by the St. Gregory the Great Chamber Choir under the direction of Music Director Patrick Godon. Carolina Gomez, cello, will be featured in the second movement "Out of the Deep," Machiko Ogawa, oboe, in the beautiful movement entitled "The Lord is My Shepherd," and Alison Janes, soprano, in the final movement, "Lux Aeterna."

One extremely powerful aspect of the evening occurs with the tolling of a funeral bell in the bell tower used only for this service while the names of the faithful departed are read aloud. Adding to the solemn pageantry of the service will be the participation of the Quest Theatre Ensemble; at the end of the service, they will sing the shape note hymn "Evening Shade." If someone in your own family has recently died, please call the number below and ask that their name be included in the list of names read during the service. This event is free and all are invited to attend. Free parking is available in the courtyard lot, accessed through the tunnel entrance between the British School and St. Gregory High School on Bryn Mawr. For more information call (773) 561-3546.

This CSO concert at Orchestra Hall in downtown Chicago will include Lutoslawski's "Koncert na Orckiestre (Concerto for Orchestra)"

         Mozart Quintet for Piano & Winds          K. 452 Leopold Mozart Alto Trombone Concerto
         Haydn Trio Hoboken XV: No. 25
         Beethoven An Die Ferne Geliebte, Adelaide
         Mozart Rivlogete from Cosi fan Tutte

ROUND OUT YOUR THANKGIVING WEEKEND WITH PIECES OF BEAUTIFUL HOMEMADE MUSIC!

The second International Chamber Artists (ICA) concert on November 26, 2006 at 6:00 PM at St. Gregory the Great Church will feature pianist and Artistic Director Patrick Godon playing in various combinations with nine other musicians.

The concert will include the most popular Haydn Piano Trio - Hoboken XV: No. 25 with Hungarian Rondo last movement - played by Roxana Pavel Goldstein, violin, and Carolina Gomez, cello. Also on the program will be two very talented vocal soloists from the 2006 Chicago Opera Theater Young Artists Program singing Beethoven songs. Jessica Usherwood, soprano, will sing An die ferne Geliebte, the first recognized song cycle, and Teppei Kono, baritone, will sing "Adelaide." Father and son Mozart will comprise the second half. The Leopold Mozart Trombone Concerto will showcase Chelsea French, trombone. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, K. 452 will be performed by Machiko Ogawa, oboe, Pamela Coats, clarinet, Keri Godon, horn, and Jason Kramer, bassoon. W. A. Mozart in a 1784 letter to his father said of the Quintet, "I myself consider it the best thing I have ever composed in my life." You will be fully stuffed with musical delights as the concert concludes with Teppei Kono singing "Rivolgete" from W. A. Mozart's Così fan tutte. The featured student from the People's Music School for this concert will be 15-year-old Sabriah Wiedeman.

A portion of the proceeds from all the concerts for the first year will be donated to the People's Music School, an organization that offers free music lessons for everyone, especially to those who have little opportunity for musical instruction. Suggested donation for this concert is $10-$20 for adults and $5-$10 for students. For further information please visit our website at www.ICAmusic.org or call 773-727-5357.

Free parking is available in St. Gregory's courtyard parking lot which is entered from W. Bryn Mawr through a "tunnel" between St. Gregory High School and the British School of Chicago. Parking is also available in the lot on the northwest corner of N. Ashland and W. Gregory across the street from St. Gregory's gym building.

This CSO concert at Orchestra Hall in downtown Chicago will include Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin"

Once again, St. Gregory's Music Directory Patrick Godon has been invited to travel with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to play at Carnegie Hall in NY. The concert will include Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin"

The 6th annual Christmas Festival of Lessons, Lights, and Carols, a holiday tradition at St. Gregory the Great Church will include music from Advent and Christmas carols, along with solo and choral selections from Handel's Messiah with organ and chamber orchestra accompaniment. The Choir will be joined by the St. Gregory Youth Choir under the direction of Megan Frei, the St. Gregory Chant Choir as well as the St. Gregory Chamber Orchestra. Prelude music will begin at 6:30 PM.

This event is free and open to all. A good will offering, to be donated to the Bonaventure House, will be taken up at the end of the evening.

Free parking is available in St. Gregory’s courtyard parking lot which is entered from W. Bryn Mawr through a “tunnel” between St. Gregory High School and the British School of Chicago. Parking is also available in the lot on the northwest corner of N. Ashland and W. Gregory across the street from St. Gregory’s gym building.

Works will include Respighi's "Pines of Rome" and "Fountains of Rome"

This concert at Orchestra Hall in downtown Chicago will include works by Stravinsky, Petrouchka.

The International Chamber Artists (ICA) concert on Sunday April 29, 2007 at 4:00 PM at St. Gregory the Great Church will feature pianist and Artistic Director Patrick Godon and ten other musicians. The program begins with Bernstein's Suite from West Side Story for Brass Quintet - with Andrea Vonk, trumpet, Simon Menin, trumpet, Keri Godon, horn, Chelsea French, trombone, and Mark Fabulich, tuba. Come and hear some of your favorite melodies from this great musical that combines Afro-Caribbean and Latin American music, jazz, and Tin Pan Alley melodies. The Austrian composer Heinrich von Herzogenberg's Quintet for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Piano, Op. 43 is relatively unknown. His music reveals influences of a friendship with Brahms. The quintet will be performed by Machiko Ogawa, oboe, Pamela Coats, clarinet, Keri Godon, horn, and Karl Rzasa, bassoon. The concert ends with the Debussy Piano Trio - played by Emma Banfield, violin, and Nuno Abreu, cello. This piece was lost to the world for over a century after its composition, and only recently published in 1986! Experience this beautiful piece as a pioneer audience member.
The featured student from the People's Music School for this concert will be 14-year-old Mehdi Boukhafla. 20% of the proceeds from all the concerts for the first year will be donated to the People's Music School, an organization that offers free music lessons for those who have little opportunity for musical instruction. Suggested donation for this concert is $15 for adults and $7 for students. For further information please visit our website at www.ICAmusic.org or call 773-727-5357.
After the concert you are invited to a "Meet and Greet the Musicians" at Ranalli's Restaurant located on 1512 W Berwyn, 60640, just east of Ashland. We've reserved the whole restaurant, just bring your program to get in the door and you'll be able to meet and talk with your favorite musicians! Ranalli's will donate 20% of dinner receipts to ICA.

This concert includes works from:
Beethoven - Trio IV, Op. 11
Schubert - Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D 965, Op. 129 (The Shepherd on the Rock)
Brahms - Quintet for Piano and Strings in F Minor, Op. 34

This concert includes works from:
Britten - Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain
Britten - Phantasy Quartet, Opus 2
Les Illuminations for High Voice and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 18