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Meet Cantemus’ New Keyboardist

Welcome, Jeffrey Mead! At our concerts on April 28 & 29, our audiences will meet Jeffrey and hear him on the organ and piano in works by Britten, Holst, Hovland and Perera.

In his life as a musician, Jeffrey has applied his organ, harpsichord and piano skills as church music director and organist, recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestra member. In the latter capacity, he has collaborated with various ensembles in New England and Germany, performing major choral and orchestral works, most notably while serving as accompanist for the acclaimed Boston Cecilia chorus and as keyboardist for the New Hampshire Symphony and the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany). Jeffrey has been a church organist for more than 25 years, most recently (since 2005) at First Congregational Church in Winchester, MA. He also serves as Treasurer of the Old West Organ Society, a non-profit organization committed to the preservation and promotion of the remarkable instrument at Boston’s Old West Church.

Jeffrey holds degrees in Organ Performance and Classical Civilization from Oberlin College and Conservatory, and a Master’s degree from Westminster Choir College, with post-graduate studies at the New England Conservatory and the North German Organ Academy in Bremen, Germany. In his spare time, he works for the Investment Management Group of Rockland Trust Company, a community bank based in southeastern Massachusetts.

Shining Night: Songs of a Night Sky, Dec. 3 & 4, 2011

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Featured Artists

Adriana Repetto, soprano
Adriana Repetto’s voice has been described by critics as “…radiant tones sung from the heart” (Munich), and as having a “melting bloom” (Thomas Garvey, The Hub Review).  She is a native Bostonian and a graduate of both Oberlin College and Conservatory, with a Master of Music in voice from Boston University. Currently, she is soprano soloist at Boston’s Old South Church (Copley Square), serves on the voice faculties of Emerson College, Middlesex School and Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School, and manages her own voice studio. More > 

Marjorie Gere, violin
Marjorie Gere, violinist, is an Iowan living in Somerville, MA. She builds her life and work around meaningful, complex, long-term, collaborative projects with idealistic artists and thinkers from a wide variety of backgrounds. In collaboration with composer/pianist Dan Sedgwick, she has performed violin/piano recitals, composed puppet shows, pop songs and rounds, and organized An Exciting Event, an unwieldy and wacky chamber ensemble of musician/puppeteers. Through the organization musiConnects, Marjorie teaches violin and chamber music to students at the Chittick Elementary School in Mattapan, MA, and performs as member of the Boston Public Quartet. More > 

Jason Amos, viola
Jason Amos began his viola studies at age eleven through the public schools in his hometown of Southfield, MI.  He has received honors in several competitions including 4th place in the 2007 Sphinx Competition and 1st place in the 2006 Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Bradlin Scholarship Concerto Competition. He has also performed as the featured young artist of the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings. He has appeared as soloist with the Ann Arbor Symphony, played in the Flint Symphony, and has played principal viola for many other orchestras throughout Michigan as well as the Aspen Sinfonia. Jason has served as violist and resident musician at MusiConnects and Boston Public Quartet since 2010. More >

Betsy Hinkle, violin
Violinist Betsy Hinkle has been performing and teaching in Boston since graduating from the New England Conservatory in 2001 with a Masters in Violin Performance. She founded the Boston Public Quartet and the non-profit organization musiConnects in 2007. musiConnects and the BPQ are pioneering a new model for public music education and performance that unites youth, families and musicians around the shared intention of building a strong, thriving community. Ms. Hinkle performs regularly with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, and the Back Bay Chorale. More > 

New Music Director

As we prepare to launch our 29th season, Cantemus is thrilled to welcome a musical star to our chamber chorus: Jane Ring Frank takes the baton effective July 1 as new music director. The seventh conductor to hold the position, she is best known in Boston as the Founder/Artistic Director of Boston Secession, a critically-acclaimed professional chorus that broke musical barriers from 1996 -2010, when it ended its 13-year run. The Boston Globe called Secession an “extraordinary chorus, notable for its beautiful balance, musical surety, and English-styled straight-toned singing” (March, 2008), while Tom Garvey of the Hub Review praised the ensemble for its “lushly transparent singing conducted with intelligence and wit” (February, 2007).

With degrees in accompanying as well as conducting, she is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Minister of Music at the First Congregational Church in Winchester, and Artistic Director of the Concord Women’s Chorus, a 50-voice women’s chorus. Previously, she was a faculty member at Emerson College for 12 years, and the Conductor of Philovox, publishing house E.C. Schirmer’s resident professional recording chorus.

Please join us December 3 and 4 for our first winter concerts with Jane! To read more about her appointment, please check out the news release. 

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Buy Early for Ticket Deals

Everyone loves a bargain, so be sure to take advantage of discounted advance ticket pricing for our concerts. To purchase specially priced tickets, we must receive your ticket request with your check made out to "Cantemus" at least one week prior to the concert date. Your tickets will be held for you at the door. Send your request to Cantemus, P.O. Box 784, Ipswich, MA 01938. Tickets by mail are sold at the advance-purchase price of $18 (adults) and $15 (seniors). And don’t forget that students aged 21 and under are always admitted free to our concerts!

Please also visit our ticket outlets for discounted tickets: The Book Shop of Beverly Farms, Nazir’s Fine Jewelry in Wenham, Norris Gallery & Frame Shop in Ipswich, Toad Hall Bookstore in Rockport, Gloucester Music and The Book Rack in Newburyport.

There are so many ways to save while hearing Cantemus’ “Small Chorus, Grand Sound!” We can accept one discount per ticket purchase.

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