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CONCERTS at RHUMC
Rolling Hills United Methodist Church shares the gift of great music with the congregation and the community with a variety of concerts during the year.
- RHUMC Chancel Choir and Orchestra perform annual Christmas and Easter concerts.
- Main Concert Series - The RHUMC Concert Series Committee offers the congregation and the community major evening concerts fall and spring.
- Second Sundays At Two - RHUMC Music Director Chuck Dickerson serves as Artistic Advisor for the series of free afternoon 40-minute recitals and chamber music concerts typically on the second Sundays of the month from September through June, except December and sometimes the month of Easter, when there are other musical offerings at RHUMC. See the season schedule by clicking here, and find information on the upcoming Second Sundays At Two concerts below.
- The annual congregation Thanksgiving Dinner on the Saturday evening before Thanksgiving offers after-dinner musical entertainment, which in past years presented singers from Los Angeles Opera.
Upcoming concerts are listed below. See the concerts recently presented by clicking here.
THIS MONTH & UPCOMING CONCERTS
ROLLING HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday, February 12, 2012 – 2:00 p.m.
Second Sundays At Two
presents
SONICATION
CHRIS WOODS violin, ADRIENNE WOODS cello
LAUREN SMITH soprano
Soprano Lauren Smith is a professional singer who covers all styles from opera to musical theater to jazz, pop, rock, and R&B. She also performs with the Hutchins Consort. Lauren has been a soloist with the Southeast Symphony, and has performed with L.A. Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. She was a featured singer on the House Full of Toys benefit by Stevie Wonder at the Nokia L.A. Theater, where she performed alongside the legendary musician.
Cellist Adrienne Woods and her violinist brother Chris grew up in South Carolina, where studied both classical and jazz styles at the University of South Carolina. She continued her studies at the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles. To name just a few of her activities in town, she has played on the Tonight show, the Grammys, and American Idol, where she is a regular in the house band. Adrienne even did a few fun days on the new show Glee. She recently joined the Hutchins Consort playing an original instrument called the alto violin.
Violinist/composer Chris Woods graduated from the Manhattan School of Music. Though trained in classical music, he learned to play different styles, from bluegrass to rock to hip-hop to jazz. He also is a composer, arranger, and producer, and has written music for Sonication, his quartet Quartetto Fantastico, the Hutchins Consort, and MASS Ensemble. He is concertmaster of the Southeast Symphony and Center Stage Opera and has performed on such shows as American Idol, America's Got Talent, the Grammys, and the American Music Awards, to name a few. He is a member of the Hutchins Consort playing the very small treble violin.
Free Admission—Donations Appreciated
ROLLING HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Friday, March 2, 2012 – 7:30 p.m.
Main Concert Series
presents
JJ'S SUNSET SYNCOPATORS
This concert by the eight-piece JJ's Sunset Syncopators presents American popular music, with seldom-told stories about each piece. Drawing musicians from across the Southland, the Sunset Syncopators are well-known locally for their eleven annual concerts since 2001 at the Miraleste Library. The program takes its theme from a famous radio series of sixty years ago entitled, You Are There - The Music of Then & Now. Bandleader and narrator Jim Jones will transport listeners into the past, spinning tales of how famous songs came to be written.
Donation: $20 / $10 children 12 and under
ROLLING HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 2:00 p.m.
Second Sundays At Two
presents the
The Los Angeles Debut
FLUTE / VIOLA / PIANO TRIO
TESSA BRINCKMAN flute
KIMBERLY FITCH viola
DANNY HOLT piano
CalArts Professor of Piano and frequent Jacaranda performer Danny Holt returns to Second Second Sundays At Two with his colleagues from the Northwest - New Zealand-native flutist Tessa Brinkman and violist Kimberly Fitch - in their Los Angeles debut to explore selections for this rare ensemble of instruments.
Free Admission—Donations Appreciated
ROLLING HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Friday, April 6, 2012 – 7:30 p.m.
Rolling Hills United Methodist Church
Chancel Choir with Orchestra
CHARLES DICKERSON music director & conductor
present
Easter Season Concert
Maurice Duruflé's Requiem (1947)
and other selections
Free Admission
ROLLING HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday, May 6, 2012 – 2:00 p.m.
Second Sundays At Two
presents
STEVEN VANHAUWAERT piano
"impressive clarity, sense of structure and monster technique" Los Angeles Times
Grand-Prize winner of the 2004 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, Belgian pianist Steven Vanhauwaert earned his Master of Music degree from the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and continued his graduate studies at the USC Thornton School. Steven won the USC Concerto Competition with the Schumann Concerto and performed it with the USC Thornton Symphony under the baton of Carl St. Clair. He has also performed as concerto soloist with the Pacific, Flemish, Bryan, Auburn, and Peninsula Symphonies, the Eastern Sierra Chamber Orchestra, and Prima la Musica, amongst others. His China tour in June 2010, culminating with a debut at the renowned National Performing Center for the Arts in Beijing, was received with great critical acclaim. Steven is a two-time Beverly Hills Auditions Winner and frequent pianist on the acclaimed Jacaranda series.
The repertoire for Steven's recital will complement the program he will perform the previous Friday at 12:15 p.m. on Trinity Lutheran, Manhattan Beach's "Bach's Lunch" recital series. For information, click here.
Free Admission—Donations Appreciated
ROLLING HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday, June 10, 2012 – 2:00 p.m.
Second Sundays At Two
Season Finale!
Pianist ROBERT EDWARD THIES
Internationally renowned concert pianist and favorite of Southland piano aficionados, Los Angeles-based Robert Edward Thies is Gold-Medal winner of the Second International Prokofiev Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia. Robert has performed worldwide with over forty orchestras including the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Liepaja Symphony (Latvia), Mexico City Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Mexico, Auckland Philharmonia (New Zealand), Louisville Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Pasadena Symphony, and the Naples Philharmonic., to name just some. A graduate of USC, his teachers have included Robert Turner and Daniel Pollack, both protégés of the legendary Russian pedagogue and pianist Madame Rosina Lhevinne and the great pianist Josef Lhevinne. Robert has a huge and avid Southern California following. He is returning to the Palos Verdes Peninsula where he grew up for this special Season Finale of the Second Sundays At Two series, which he opened in September 2009 in a memorable concert to a packed house.
Free Admission—Donations Appreciated
iPalpiti ORCHESTRA & SOLOISTS
EDUARD SCHMIEDER Music Director & Conductor
15th Annual
iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates
Festival Preview Concert
ROLLING HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Saturday, July 21, 2012 — 7:30 p.m.
Performing Selections from the Festival Programs
Maestro Edward Schmieder iPalpiti in Walt Disney Concert Hall, July 2011 - photo by Dana Ross
"... Eduard Schmieder, the founder of the admirable iPalpiti, believes that music remains a functional universal language. Schmieder is an authoritative conductor. A tall and serious Russian of the old school, he goes in for intense expression and dug-in string sonorities..."
Mark Swed, Chief Music Critic, Los Angeles Times (2010)
The orchestra iPalpiti (ee-PAHL-pit-ee, Italian for "heartbeats") is unique in the world in that it draws its members from top prize-winning laureates of international
competitions. iPalpiti has played to great acclaim in leading concert halls around the world. Approximately 30 artists will arrive in Los Angeles from over 20 countries for the
annual iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates. Concerts take place at various venues throughout the Southland and culminate in an evening concert by the full orchestra in
the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Read about the remarkable assemblage of talented artists by clicking here.
The iPalpiti Orchestra & Soloists perform a preview of 15th Annual iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates with chamber music selections that will be performed around
town during the following week and orchestral selections by the full Ipalpiti Orchestra that will be performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall the following Saturday evening.
Tickets: $10 / $5 for students
Please click here to view past concerts at RHUMC.