Takoma Ensemble Concert - Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 7:30pm

Takoma Ensemble ~ Heaven and Earth: Spirituality in Music ~ 4/8/17 in Silver Spring, MD

Takoma Ensemble presents HEAVEN AND EARTH: SPIRITUALITY IN MUSIC

Saturday, April 8 at 7:30PM

Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring, MD

Join us as we explore music's ability to connect us to the inner and the divine, transcending religion and culture. 

Arvo Pärt, Summa for Strings

Andrian Pertout, Illuminismo (Concerto for Saxophone and Marimba)

World Premiere of new version

Alan Hovhaness, Alleluia and Fugue

Lucas Richman, Kol Nidre

Jennifer Higdon, String Lake

Christopher Theofanidis, Visions and Miracles

Victoria Gau, conductor

Guest Artists Noah Getz, saxophone, and Lee Hinkle, marimba

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Concert partner Interfaith Works

We will take collect donations to Interfaith Work's current wish list at the concert

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2/18/2017 Takoma Ensemble - PB & Jam Session: Meet the Composer

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PB & Jam Session: Meet the Composer!

Saturday, February 18 at 4 PM - 4:45 PM

Join Becky Linafelt, members of the Takoma Ensemble, and our special guest, the effervescent composer Charlie Barnett for the latest in our series of incredibly popular and interactive concerts geared to children ages 1-1/2 to 7 and their grown-ups!

In a program called "Meet the Composer", our young audience will have the chance to learn how music is created - and to help!

Tickets not available in advance for this event, so come early as it fills up!
Suggested donation $10 per child.

Takoma Park Community Center Auditorium
7500 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, MD

The concert is presented by the We Are Takoma Series, and supported by a grant from the Takoma Foundation.

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Takoma Ensemble -- The Golden Door: Music Without Borders -- 1/21/17 at 7:30pm

Takoma Ensemble: Peanut Butter & Jam Session

Takoma Ensemble: Peanut Butter & Jam Session

January 30, 2016 at 4:00pm

Takoma Park Community Center Auditorium
7500 Maple Ave, Takoma Park, MD 20912

We are excited to present the next installment in our series of Peanut Butter & Jam Sessions with Becky Linafelt as part of the WE ARE TAKOMA Series.

Peanut Butter & Jam Sessions are designed for children ages 1 1/2 to 7 and their accompanying grown-ups. These informal concerts encourage young children to become active and enthusiastic listeners through music, movement, and games.

In this session, we will explore FEELINGS. For the young child, navigating and understanding feelings can be quite a complicated task! Our feelings range from great excitement and joy to sadness and anger and all that’s in between.

Join a String Quintet from the Takoma Ensemble and Kindermusik educator, Becky Linafelt, on a musical journey through the varied landscape of FEELINGS.

Stay for snacks after the performance!

A $10 per child donation is suggested.
There are no advance tickets or reservations available for this event, so please come early as it is VERY POPULAR!

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Takoma Ensemble: Carols for Christmas

Carols for Christmas

Friday, December 4, 2015 at 8:00pm

Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Avenue, Silver Spring, MD

Takoma Ensemble joins forces once again with the National Philharmonic Singers in a concert to help jump start your holiday season with music from the Baroque to right now. The concert includes an opportunity for the audience to sing along on favorite carols.

Featuring music of Durante, Torelli, and McDowall along with premieres of three works by local musicians; Alistair Coleman, a multi-talented young musician currently attending Walt Whitman High School who has received many awards for his work; Virginia composer and George Mason University alum Peter Gjon Kadeli; and National Philharmonic Singer Ed Rejuney. The concert concludes with favorite carols by the choir, including Stille Nacht and our ever-popular Carol Sing with the Twelve Days of Christmas.

$25 general admission
$15 "young professional" 30 and under
$10 student (17-25)
16 and under free

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Takoma Ensemble - November 14 - Happy Birthday, Aaron Copland! A Celebration of American Music

Happy Birthday, Aaron Copland!

A Celebration of American Music

Victoria Gau, conductor

Join us for our next concert at 8PM on Saturday, November 14 - Copland's birthday!

Two of the Washington area’s finest musicians, Chris Gekker (trumpet) and Mark Hill (oboe, English horn), join the ensemble to celebrate the birthday of one of America’s greatest composers, Aaron Copland.

The concert features Copland’s Quiet City, as well as the beloved “Hoe-down” fromRodeo. Gekker and Hill solo in works by other American composers with the same immediate appeal: Eric Ewazen and Tison Street.  The ensemble concludes the evening with a repeat of Charlie Barnett’s wildly popular and engaging Three Completely Workable Perpetual Motion Devices, composed for the Takoma Ensemble and premiered last spring.

Saturday, November 14 at 8:00PM,
Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring, MD
Tickets available at http://takomaensemble.org. Discounts available.
16 and under FREE.

Chris Gekker is Professor of Trumpet at the University of Maryland, School of Music. He has been featured as soloist at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In the Washington DC area, Chris serves as principal trumpet of the National Philharmonic at Strathmore, is a member of the Washington Symphonic Brass, Post Classical Ensemble and performs regularly at Wolf Trap.  During the summer he is principal trumpet of the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, NC.
For more information, visit chrisgekkertrumpet.com

Mark Hill has earned a wide reputation as an oboe and English horn soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, recording artist and teacher. In the symphonic world he has been invited to perform with the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, the Orchestra of the Academy of St.-Martins-in-the-Fields, Orpheus, the Mostly Mozart Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. He was a member of the New York Chamber Symphony for fifteen years. Currently he is Principal Oboe of the National Philharmonic and Professor of Oboe at the University of Maryland School of Music.

About the Takoma Ensemble

The Takoma Ensemble was created by Victoria Gau and Susanna Kemp who recognized the need for a new kind of chamber orchestra in the area. Members are freelance musicians. As a free-range, organic ensemble, the ensemble has a commitment to present concerts which are fresh and appealing mission of the ensemble is to expand the local audience for orchestral music and broaden the notion of what the genre can be through accessible, affordable performances of music that ranges freely across time and type. For more information, visit www.takomaensemble.org.