Access to Art, Inc.
4l7 E. Pacific Ave.
Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210

Press release/for immediate release
From: Barbara J. Beitel
Telephone: (609) 465-3963

MONDRIAN ENSEMBLE GUESTS DUANE ROSENGARD OF PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA FOR PERFORMANCE OF SHUBERT’S TROUT QUNITET AUG. 25TH AT OUR LADY OF THE ANGEL’S R.C. CHURCH

Cape May Court House. At the l0th annual Sam Maitin Summer Chamber Music Festival, on August 25th at 8 p.m., at Our Lady of the Angel’s R.C. Church, on the Garden State Parkway and Mechanic St.. here, Access to Art will present their fourth concert featuring the Mondrian Ensemble. The music festival was built around this group including Aurelia Mika Chang, pianist, MM Juilliard, and Philadelphia Orchestra strings, John Koen, cello, Anna Marie Ahn Petersen, viola, and former Associate Concertmaster of the orchestra, Michael Ludwig, violin. They have invited Philadelphia Orchestra’s Duane Rosengard, double bass, to join them and they will present the Schubert Trout Quartet on their program. Michael Ludwig has been concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic this year, and the Philly Pops, and he has been conducting and performing in Europe and the states. He’s also in residence as a virtuoso at Skidmore College at Saratoga. Aurelia Mika Chang is a Steinway artist. She has just returned from Japan where she has been performing. The orchestra, one of the top five in the country, performs regularly on four continents.

“We brought the Mondrian here when they were very young, and they brought their friends like Steven Copes, who became concertmaster of the St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra, (Sunday at St. Paul’s on NPR), Robert Chen, currently concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the principal harp of the Philly Orchestra, etc.” said Barbara Beitel. They we expanded and brought in additional groups to perform here like the Daedalus, The Chester String Quartet, the Johannes Quartet, and the Borromeo. We have had ten years of presenting very excellent musicians. Our last concert will feature, on Sept. 8th, at the United Methodist Church of Avalon, on 34th & Dune, classical guitarist Christopher Kenniff, and Brett Deubner, NJSO, violist. They conduct an ASTA string school summers in North Jersey. The musicians are all exemplary performers and we are grateful to our sponsors including Sturdy Savings Bank, the Falls Run Family Foundation and the Kyrios Tsakapoulis fund from the Sacramento Community Foundation. Mr. Tsakapoulis is currently seeking to have Drexel College found a university in Sacramento and has donated land to that end. He has attended our concerts.

This concert is brought to us, in part, by the courtesy of the Cape May County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and it is administered by the Cape May County Cultural & Heritage Commission.

Tickets are $20. adults; $l5. seniors. Call Access to Art, Inc. at (609) 465-3963 for reservations. Tickets are available at the door the evening of the event from 7 p.m.

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