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Mid-Week Music
Written By: Angela Jenkins | Issue: August 2024
The Interlude Concert Series, which is sponsored by Highlands First Presbyterian Church, continues with a great lineup this month. Concerts are on Wednesdays at 2:00 P.M. at First Presbyterian Church.
Isabella Chaney
Featured on August 7 will be Edward Eikner, Pianist. Eikner, a native Texan, attended Baylor University on a Van Cliburn Scholarship and did his graduate work at the Eastman School of Music. He pursued extended studies in Europe on a Fullbright grant. His appearances as a recitalist, soloist with symphony orchestras and as a chamber musician have taken him all over the world. After 40 years as Comer Professor of Fine Arts at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, he recently retired to become Professor Emeritus.
On Wednesday, August 21, featured will be Georgia State University vocalists Isabella Chaney, Mezzo Soprano, and Maxwell Clements, Baritone.
Maxwell Clements
Ms. Chaney, a senior at GSU, most recently performed the role of Carmen in Bizet’s Carmen. Other notable performances include Tisbe in La Cenertola with FIO Italia in Urbania, Italy; La Ciesca in Gianni Shicci; L’infermiera in Suor Angelica; Nancy in Albert Herring at the Harrower Summer Opera, and her Shiler “Best Leading Actress” Award winning performance of Nettie Fowler in Carousel.
Clements, a rising senior at GSU, has performed in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Puccini’s La Boheme, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Roram’s Our Town. Other performances include the role of Dancaire in Bizet’s Carmen and Marco in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. He recently traveled to Istanbul to perform in the World Symposium on Choral Music with the Georgia State University Singers.
There is no admission charge for the Interlude concerts, which constitute a ministry in music to the community. Dress is casual–come as you are. First Presbyterian Church is located at the corner of Main and Fifth Streets. Handicapped accessible entrances are located on Church Street and on Fifth Street.
