GABRIEL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Providing world-class chamber music and education in Southeastern PA since 1990

GCE 35th Season

November 3, 2024: 2nd Subscription Series Concert

February 23, 2025: 3rd Subscription Series Concert

April 5, 2025: Run Out Concert, Lancaster

April 6, 2025: 4th Subscription Series Concert

We Have a New Piano!

In addition to other planned festivities to celebrate this milestone season GCE has acquired a newly-restored Steinway B grand piano for more pristine sound than was found on the much older piano at the church.

This was made possible through the expertise of GCE’s own Dr. Xun Pan, a Steinway artist, and with funds generously bequeathed by the late Dr. Gwen Gentile of Schuylkill Haven and Brooklyn–a beloved and longtime concert patron.

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Coming Up: November 3

GABRIEL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE TO BE JOINED BY LOCAL ARTISTS:

Ronald Stabinsky, piano – John Riley, drums – Paul Miller, composer -Mike McCord, artist painter.

Father-son team will also be featured: Chris Fiore on cello, and Domenick Fiore on bass. 

The Gabriel Chamber Ensemble (GCE) continues its 35th season celebration with a concert on Sunday, November 3 – 3 pm, at Jerusalem Lutheran Church, 252 Dock St., Schuylkill Haven, PA.

This concert will be the first time that Gabriel Chamber Ensemble features Ron Stabinsky – a well-known local pianist, John Riley – a most talented drummer, Paul Miller – a local composer, and Michael McCord – an artist featured at the Walk In Arts Center since 2014. Other musicians will be Dana Allaband and Simon Maurer, on violin – Agnès Maurer, on viola – Christopher Fiore, on cello – Domenick Fiore, on bass

Music presented will include two famous works by French composer Claude Bolling: Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano Trio – a work on which both Bolling and Pinchas Zuckerman collaborated, and Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio – a work that Yo Yo Ma recorded with Bolling. And on the program will also be two pieces composed by Paul Miller: Piano Quintet, which was commissioned by GCE for its 10th anniversary and now revised for its 35th anniversary season, and “Gabriel Concerto”, a work for the Ensemble and the featured guest artists.

In addition to the music, the concert attendees will see Mike McCord in action, as he will be painting during the concert, inspired by the music and the musicians. His artwork will then be auctioned at a later date.

 Tickets: $25/adult and $20/senior citizen. Free admission to students. Purchase tickets here, or contact Agnès Maurer:  (570) 943-2558

Proclamations

Our President, Judy Terwilliger, holds the proclamation from Senator Argall.

The first performance in our 35th Concert Series was graced by the attendance of Schuylkill Haven Mayor Michael J. Devlin, Schuylkill County Commissioner Gary J. Hess, and State Senator David G. Argall. Each of these presented a proclamation in celebration of 35 years of chamber music and music education by Gabriel Chamber Ensemble.

The proclamations recognized the 35 years of GCE’s contributions to the music and arts scenes, by performing over 500 chamber music works of more than 150 composers from all musical eras, and by attracting musicians of local, regional, national, and international renown to perform with them in the Schuylkill County and Southeastern Pennsylvania regions.

In addition, the proclamations recognize Gabriel Chamber Ensemble’s contributions to music education in Schuylkill County and beyond, in the form of outreach programs to attract new and young musicians to the wonderful world of chamber music, and in their creation of an endowment fund to further the development of quality chamber music in Schuylkill County for the foreseeable future.

Gabriel Chamber Ensemble extend our thanks to Mayor Devlin, Commissioner Hess, and Senator Argall, and to the wonderful patrons who have attended our concerts over the last 35 years. We look forward to many more years of service to Schuykill County and beyond.

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