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Tapestry,
a concert honoring women
February 19, 2012
Benefit concert for Women In Need
Chambersburg, PA
(717) 816-7201
Elisabeth Turchi Presents Benefit Concert for Women in Need
Tapestry
a concert honoring women
Elisabeth Turchi, soprano
an afternoon of music, poetry, and dance
Sunday, February 19th at 3pm
Tickets $20 Adults $10 Students Call: 717-816-7201
All Proceeds Benefit Women in Need of Franklin and Fulton Counties.
Sponsored by:
Soprano Elisabeth Turchi to Present Benefit Concert for Women in Need
CHAMBERSBURG, PA - Women in Need of Franklin and Fulton Counties announces a benefit concert entitled “Tapestry” featuring soprano Elisabeth Turchi on Sunday February 19 at 3 pm at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 750 Norland Avenue in Chambersburg. “Tapestry” is a concert honoring women, including the works of women poets, composers and choreographers, as well as the dancers of the Chambersburg Ballet Theatre Company. Women in Need provides residential, legal and personal assistance for victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse and also conducts educational programs in Franklin and Fulton County schools. WIN acknowledges the sponsorship of Johnson Controls of New Cumberland, PA in making the “Tapestry” concert possible. Tickets to the concert will be $20 for adults and $10 for students, and can be purchased by calling 816-7201.
Like Turchi's 2011 Valentine’s concert “Amour, Amor, Amore,”“Tapestry” will feature opera, art song and musical theater. The concert will feature many female composers and poets – Clara Schumann, Emily Dickinson and Jeanine Tesori, to name a few. In addition, the concert will feature the talents of other female artists - the choreography of Lavinia Reid of Chambersburg Ballet Theater, and the poetry of Susan Mull of Lancaster, who will read some of her own poetry as well as the poetry of other female poets.
Elisabeth Turchi’s musical roots are in Chambersburg, but her musical career has taken her to Europe and to many U.S. cities. The daughter of Dr. Pierre and Sassy Turchi, a graduate of CASHS (and a Chorister alum), and alum of the Cumberland Valley School of Music, Elisabeth began her vocal studies with the late Margaret “Peg” Weeks and was one of the Cumberland Valley School of Music’s first students when the school opened in 1990. Even after leaving area to begin her professional career, Elisabeth continues to teach voice at CVSM and Shepherd University.
Locally, Elisabeth has been featured in performances including CVSM Galas and Musicales, Handel’sMessiah with the Mercersburg Chorus, the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center’s Festival Celebration Series, Maryland Symphony Orchestra concerts, and her popular Valentine’s concert “Amour, Amor, Amore.”
Elisabeth has sung with the Pittsburgh Opera, Berks Opera Workshop, Opera Camerata of Washington DC, Atlantic Coast Opera Festival, Harrisburg Opera, New Opera Festival of Rome, and Gotham Chamber Opera. Ms. Turchi’s numerous concert engagements include a European tour of Haydn’sCreation with two-time Grammy winner Robert Page and his Festival Singers. Other concert credits include performances of Orff’sCarmina Burana with The Providence Singers (Rhode Island), Mozart’s Requiem with Maryland’s Hagerstown Choral Arts, and A Night at the Opera with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Last year, Ms. Turchi performed Dave Brubeck’sCanticles of Mary with the composer and his famous quartet. Other recent engagements includeThe Merry Widow at the Embassy of Austria in Washington DC and a return to Embassy Row to perform Gilda in Verdi’sRigoletto at the Italian Embassy. This season, Ms. Turchi made her Opera Delaware debut as The Queen of the Night and makes her Bel Cantanti debut as Frau Herz inDer Schauspieldirektor.
Ms. Turchi is an alumna of The International Institute of Vocal Arts, The Westchester Summer Vocal Institute, The International Lyric Academy of Rome, and The Ezio Pinza Council of American Singers of Opera. She holds degrees in vocal performance from Carnegie Mellon University and Shenandoah University.
For more information about Elisabeth Turchi’s “Tapestry” benefit concert for WIN, call 717-816-7201.
Anne H. Finucane
Gallery Coordinator
Council for the Arts
159 South Main Street
Chambersburg, PA 17201
www.councilforthearts.net
