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BACH MAGNIFICAT | VIVALDI GLORIA | HANDEL ZADOK THE PRIEST
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7:30pm Friday November 10
Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago
We perform this beautiful program of sacred music with the Fourth Church Choral Society comprising an eighty member chorus, directed by John W. Sherer, organ, chamber orchestra and soloists. Conducted by Drostan Hall, this performance marks the first anniversary of Camerata Chicago’s appointment as Orchestra-in-Residence at Fourth Presbyterian Church.
Arias will be performed by excellent soloists
Gretchen Adams | Carol Carpenter | Kathryn Wills Cole
Beena David | Kimberly Gunderson | Rachael Holzhausen
Carla Janzen | Laura Perkett | Katherine Weber
Brett Potts | Dan Richardson | Marshall Rollings
Choral Society & Camerata Chicago Photos and Videos
Watch our video highlights of the Mozart Mass in C Minor performed with the Fourth Church Choral Society on November 11, 2016.
Robin Wiper received her Masters Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and has had the blessing to learn from many famous Master Clinicians, Teachers and Coaches during her 25 -plus years of study, performance and teaching. She has studied acting, directing, pedagogy, movement and dance, and has twice been a Certified Actor Combatant in six weapons as a stage combat artist with the Society of American Fight Directors. 
Annie Rosen, a mezzo-soprano of “bright promise” (Chicago Tribune), is a 2017 graduate of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Ensemble of the Lyric Opera of Chicago; her performance in the Ensemble’s 2017 showcase was recognized as “the evening’s tour-de-force” by the Chicago Tribune. Rosen began her first season at the Ryan Center jumping in as Mélisande/Pelléas et Melisande in rehearsal with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. 
Mezzo-soprano Denise Gamez regularly sings recital, oratorio and symphonic repertoire with orchestras throughout the United States and abroad. She has appeared as soloist with the Indianapolis, San Francisco Opera, Toledo, South Dakota, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Terre Haute, and Wheaton College symphony orchestras, and twice performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica under the baton of John Nelson. 
Tenor Timothy Bentch was raised on a farm in Missouri. His first singing experiences took place in the local Mennonite church and practicing scales on the tractor and in the silo but eventually led him to a master’s degree at the acclaimed Curtis Institute of Music. For twelve years he lived in Hungary where critics referred to him as “a treasure in today’s Hungarian musical life”, naming him the most significant “Hungarian” lyric tenor of this generation. ![5B-g-sundberg-lg[11]-400](http://www.cameratachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/5B-g-sundberg-lg11-400.jpg)
Performances for the 2016-17 season included Handel Messiah with the Atlanta Symphony and Chamber Chorus; Finzi In Terra Pax with Northside United Methodist Church, Atlanta, GA; Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem with the North Carolina Master Chorale, Raleigh, NC; Mendelssohn Elijah with Bel Canto Chorus, Milwaukee; BWV 9, 38, 79, 80, and 192 J.S. Bach cantatas with the Peoria Bach Festival, IL 
