Light Divine: Music Of The Baroque

On All Saints’ Sunday

Music@Trinity, the performance series at Trinity Episcopal Church, will present the musical event “Light Divine — Music of the Baroque” on All Saints’ Sunday, November 1, at 4 pm. The program will feature works by Bach, Handel, Albinoni, and others.

The concert will feature three prominent local musicians: trumpeter Douglas Myers, countertenor Michael Doran, and and organist Fiona Smith Sutherland. The unique combination of trumpet and countertenor — a male singing the same range as a mezzo-soprano — gives the opportunity for music both rarely heard and rarely performed.

The repertoire for the combined trio will include the opening movement of G.F. Handel’s Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, “Eternal Source of Light Divine,” with which they will open the concert.  The trumpet and organ duo will also play a series of short pieces by Telemann and Viviani, along with works by Purcell and Marcello.

Mr Doran and Mr Myers will also collaborate on additional works by Handel, along with Bach and Pergolesi.

Douglas Myers, trumpet and horn, has been solo trumpet in orchestras in the US, Europe and Asia, before turning his attention to a career as soloist and chamber musician. He specializes in the newly invented corno da caccia, or piccolo French horn. The New York Times has said he “played with sheer musicianship ... beautiful sound.”

Michael Doran has studied voice with Chai-Yun Lueh (NY MET), Scott Reeves (CONCORA), and Ian Howell (Chanticleer), and has served as alto section leader in the Choir of Men and Boys, Trinity-on-the-Green, New Haven. He has sung with Chanticleer, and been a guest musician with the Christ Church Choir, New Haven and the Yale Recital Chorus. Currently Mr Doran is a section leader for the Choir of Men & Women at Trinity Newtown.

Trinity Church’s organist and choirmaster, Fiona Smith Sutherland will be playing both on Trinity’s stunning 49-rank Austin organ, and primarily on a beautiful Bennett/Giuttari portative organ at the front of the church’s sanctuary. In her second decade as a professional Anglican musician, Ms Smith Sutherland has served as organist and choirmaster at such historic churches in the metropolitan New York area as St James the Less in Scarsdale and Christ Church in Greenwich.

The beautiful acoustics of Trinity make it an ideal locale for this concert of vocal and chamber music. The concert is free, with a suggested donation basket to support the event available.

A reception with the musicians will follow the performance.

For further details call Ms Smith Sutherland at Trinity Episcopal Church, 426-9070 extension 11, or send email to MusicMinister@TrinityNewtownCT.org.