The Lenape Chamber Ensemble has been Bucks County’s resident Chamber Music Ensemble since 1975. The Ensemble is a non-profit organization devoted to the performance of music selected from the complete chamber literature for up to nine instruments. Musicians are chosen from the best that New York and Philadelphia have to offer, and have come from as far away as California and Europe.
Our twenty-sixth season of Summer Gala Concerts promises to be an exciting one and we hope you will join us to hear top-flight musicians from New York and Philadelphia in three outstanding chamber music programs to be presented on three Saturday evenings, July 7, 14, and 21at 8:00 p.m. in the air-conditioned Moumgis Auditorium in the Student Center at Delaware Valley College, located on Route 202 in Doylestown.
To celebrate this season, we offer a concert with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra including violinists Barbara Govatos and Dara Morales, violist Burchard Tang, cellist Udi Bar-David and bassist David Fay. They will be performing a late Mozart Trio and the Trout Quintet with pianist Marcantonio Barone a favorite with our audiences. We are bringing back solo flutist Pamela Guidetti to perform the Griffes Poem arranged for her by composer Robert Capanna. She has toured Europe and recorded with Orchestra 2001.
Also, Kyu-Young Kim, the former first violinist with the Daedalus String Quartet and now principal Second Violinist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will lead the Dvorak String Quartet in A Flat Major, a work that he feels particularly close to. And, we are pleased to have two members of the Wister Quartet with us, violinist Nancy Bean and cellist Lloyd Smith. Clarinetist Alan R. Kay from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will join violinist Cyrus Beroukhim and Marcantonio Barone to perform Stravinsky’s Suite from L’Histoire du Soldat. Cellist Arash Amini and violist Catherine Beeson from our winter concerts will be with us as audience favorites.
Please invite your family, friends and neighbors to these popular concerts and enjoy meeting the performers at the champagne reception following each concert. Arrive early and take a walk around the College grounds where plants and trees are labeled as part of the Schmieder Arboretum and have a picnic at one of the tables in the courtyard or enjoy one of the fine restaurants in Doylestown.