Feste Fantini in Concert

Name: Feste Fantini in Concert
Start: 2025-03-01T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 131 W Council St, Salisbury, NC, United States, North Carolina 28144

Schedule

Sat, 01 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

131 W Council St, Salisbury, NC, United States, North Carolina 28144 | Salisbury, NC

Arts at St. Luke's is delighted to welcome the ensemble, Feste Fantini, to Salisbury as part of their American tour.
Join us at St. Luke's on March 1st at 7pm for a fabulous program featuring works from the Baroque period as well as contemporary repertoire.
Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $10 per person.
Feste Fantini members Dr. Bruce Barrie (trumpet), Dr. Gary Malvern (trumpet), Dr. Genie Burkett (timpani/organ) and Mr. Steven Trinkle (trumpet) are delighted to be joined by Thomas Strauss (organ) from South Germany.
The players of Feste Fantini have worked together since 1975 in brass quintets, symphony orchestras and many oratorio orchestras, most recently the B Minor Mass of J.S. Bach in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The group has performed for the “Festwoche klassischer Musik” in Oppenau and Offenburg, Germany, and for the American Guild of Organists in Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
The Musicians
Dr. Bruce Barrie, former Associate Professor of Trumpet at Seoul National University has recorded more than sixteen CDs with the Grammy award winning Chestnut Brass Company.
Dr. Gary Malvern, professor of trumpet at Furman University, has performed as soloist and section member with the National Repertory Orchestra, the Greenville Symphony, the Spoleto
Festival and the American Wind Symphony.
Thomas Strauss is the organist/choir director at St. John the Baptist in Oppenau (Black Forest region), and in 1995, founded the Bach-Chor Ortenau. He performs regularly in Europe and
worldwide as a conductor, soloist and chamber musician and he has accompanied numerous renowned artists. His oratorio “St. John The Baptist” premiered in 2022 and his passion for
composing reaches its first peak in this large-scale work.
Steven Trinkle (MM Ithaca College has held principal trumpet positions with orchestras in the United States and abroad including Casper, Augusta, Dubuque, Shreveport, the Orquesta
Sinfonica de Maracaibo (Venezuela), and the Orchestra Sinfonica della Radiotelevisione in Turin, Italy in addition to performing with the Houston Symphony and the Kansas City
Philharmonic. A founding member of the Chestnut Brass Company and artistic director of Trinkle Brass Works, Trinkle was elected to honorary membership in the Associaçao dos
Trompetistias do Brasil for this work with trumpeters in Brazil. Under his direction, his ensembles have performed in Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, at the Kennedy Center in Washington
D.C. and throughout the United States. He is the Conductor/Artistic Director of the Powder River Symphony.
Genie Burkett (PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison) has performed with several chamber ensembles and orchestras including the Paul Price Percussion Ensemble, the Orchestra
Society of Philadelphia, the Orquesta de la Primera Jornada Musicale, and the Kansas City Philharmonic. She has held positions as Principal Timpanist with the Orchestra Sinfonica RAI
(Turin, Italy), the Wyoming Symphony and the Augusta (GA) Symphony, and as Principal Percussionist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Maracaibo (Venezuela). She will retire from the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas this spring after 35 years of teaching. A co-founder of Trinkle Brass Works, she is active as a piano accompanist and organist and the author of several textbooks on music education.