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Music Program

Musical Score

Music at FPCY includes:
Click Here for some Music Program Photos

Some Musical Samples

The Choir Handbells
Offertory on March 8, 2009: Agnus Dei by Schubert. The Adult Choir, with Katharine Frase and Christie Herman, soloists, and Carol Jensen, flute. Prelude on February 8, 2009. Ballade by Dobrinski. Performed by the Adult Bell Choir.

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Music Director - Simona Frenkel

Simona Frenkel has been the musical director of the First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown since 2000, and is also an internationally acclaimed musician.  A native of Kiev, Ukraine, she holds an M.M. degree in Performance from Juilliard School of Music in New York, and a Ph.D. in musicology from the Kiev Conservatory.  In 1994, she became the youngest organist ever to receive the national award "Honored Artist of the Ukraine".  Ms. Frenkel is heard frequently in recitals in the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet Union.  She has made numerous television and radio recordings.

Click here for a video of Simona playing the Mozart Adagio from Sonata in F, K 332, at FPCY.

Concert Series

Ninth Annual Sunday Afternoon Concert Series

The ninth annual Sunday Afternoon Concert Series will kick off a year of beautiful mu-sic with an Advent Concert on December 13th at 3:00. Conducted by Simona Frenkel and fea-turing professional soloists and orchestra, the concert will feature the Vivaldi Gloria and other music of the advent season.

Written by Antonio Vivaldi, one of the most celebrated composures of his time, the Gloria waited nearly two hundred years until its first modern performance in 1939. The exact date of the piece is unknown, but it is believed to have been composed for the female students of a charitable school for orphaned girls. This popular work is often performed in the Christmas season, and is a thrilling musical start to the season of Advent.

And then, mark your calendars now! Christmas Week would not be the same without our traditional Candlelight Chamber Music Concert on Sunday December 27th at 4:00 p.m. featuring David Baranowski on harpsichord, and invited guests. This popular annual tradi-tion features chamber music in a sanctuary lit by candlight with costumed ushers guiding you to your seats, as might have occurred in the early years of our church building.



ConcertSeries

The Concert Series was initiated in the Winter of 2001 as a musical outreach to the community, to provide high quality musical concerts at little or no cost. (Previously, an Organ Concert Series was held in 1995-1996). The Concert Series is organized and facilitated by the Concert Series Task force under the auspices of the Worship Commission. The funds to support the series are provided by annual donations of music patrons; the concert series is entirely self-supporting.

The concerts held over the years include:

2008 - 2009

2007 – 2008

2006 – 2007

2005 – 2006

2004 – 2005

2003 - 2004

2002 – 2003

2001 - 2002

Notes from the Music Program--by Carol Jensen

Our music programs provide ways for youth to participate in the life of the church.  Simona Frenkel organized a youth handbell choir in 2002, and about 40 young people have been involved in it since then.  They learn general musical skills as well as the specific skills needed to play handbells.  Some of them have also contributed to the adult handbell choir or the adult choir.

Simona also encourages vocal development of talented youth.  Two outstanding examples are Sean McAuliffe and Amy Savino, who have amazed and moved us with their singing. Both of them had some prior experience with music, but Simona has encouraged and coached them.  They assert that they couldn’t be where they are without her teaching skills her support and caring.  Sean is taking voice lessons and sings in two choirs at the college he attends.  Amy will soon be competing in the finals of a classical singing competition for high school students in Chicago, and has been accepted into a summer program at the Eastman School of Music.
 
All of us (and especially Simona!) are very proud of all these young musicians.   Simona invites more teenagers to join the handbell and choir programs.
 

Thanks for your help!

Many thanks for the scrumptious refreshments provided by members of the congregation and friends for the Concert Series Receptions.  The treats were an extra special way to end the concerts and provided us all with a chance to share the fellowship of our Church with members of the congregation and community.

Thanks again to:  Rose Johnson, Carol Cornish, Aloha Hicks, Jocelyn Ramage, Dorrit Nelson, Christine Lazarus, Sue Mintzer, Ann Everinham, Debbie Farrell, Sally Martin, Gordon Braudaway, Nancy Caswell, Deanna Collins, Liam McAullife, Marilyn Dreher, Mable Seymour, Judy Chessa, Claire Damon, Ann Timmons, Cathy  Anderson, Karen La Bonte, Jean Mulcahy and the Dineen Family.
    Louise Fang


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