Music at Christ Church
Summit, New Jersey
Music Staff |
Music Staff
[ Holly Chatham | Daniel Rufolo | Alison Vidal ]
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Director of Music, Holly Chatham |
About the Director of Music, Holly Chatham
Holly Chatham is a performer of wide range and skill, sought after for her continuo and improvisational skills on early keyboards as well as her virtuosity on the modern piano. An "elegantly florid" (San Francisco Classical Voice) player and a "leader in the field" (Counterpoint), Ms. Chatham is hailed as possessing "a wonderful improvisational flair" (Atlanta Early Music News) on the keyboard. She has played under directors such as Jos van Immerseel, Paul Hillier and Stanley Ritchie, and in such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, Spivey Hall, The Krannert Center at University of Illinois, Schubert Hall and Schoenberg Hall at UCLA, to name a few. She has performed at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, Miami Bach Festival, Musica Viva, Festival San Luis, Festival Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado and Music in the Vineyards in Napa Valley. She will be spending five weeks as a pianist in the Carmel Bach Festival (CA) this summer.
Ms. Chatham is a founding member and harpsichordist for the critically-acclaimed ensemble reconstruction. Recent seasons found reconstruction performing in such venues as the Lane Series at University of Vermont, Ford Hall at Ithaca College, The Cutting Room in NYC, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at University of Maryland, and embarking on two tours of Mexico. (Website: www.reconstructionmusic.com)
Ms. Chatham toured the U.S. extensively as harpsichordist for the ground-breaking ensemble Bimbetta from 1998 until 2003, performing in major concert series throughout the country and giving workshops and master classes at many colleges and universities. Bimbetta was honored in 2003 by Chamber Music America as one of the ensembles to have changed the face of chamber music in the United States.
As pianist in The Chatham-Wood Duo, she performs regularly with violinist Patrick Wood. The Duo's recent engagements include concerts at The Ugbrooke Chamber Music Festival (UK), The Austin Chamber Music Center, Bickford Theatre (Morristown, NJ) and Friends of Music Series (Princeton). The Duo's live performances of works by Chávez and Ponce, as well as their own transcriptions of Gershwin songs, have been broadcast nationwide on WWFM The Classical Network. (Website: www.ChathamWoodDuo.com)
Ms. Chatham and Mr. Wood are also the founding members of Fiat Lux Chamber Players, which is Ensemble-in-Residence in the Lile Hall Concert Series at Christ Church in Summit, NJ. (Website: www.FiatLuxChamberPlayers.org)
Ms. Chatham received her Master of Music degree in Harpsichord and Fortepiano Performance from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University (Bloomington) where she studied with Elisabeth Wright and Colin Tilney. At IU she was awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Clayton State University (Atlanta), where she studied with George Lucktenberg, Michiko Otaki and Lyle Nordstrom. She is currently a DMA candidate in Collaborative Piano at Rutgers University. Ms. Chatham has been a church organist since the age of 14, having begun pipe organ studies with Calvert Johnson and later continuing study with Richard Morris. She has served churches of various denominations throughout the U.S. and is now Director of Music at Christ Church in Summit, NJ. Ms. Chatham was Director of Middle and Upper School Music at Marymount School in New York for five years, having previously been Director of Music at Chatham Hall (Virginia) for a year.
Daniel Rufolo
About Daniel Rufolo, 2nd Service Jazz Pianist
Daniel Rufolo is a jazz pianist with a wide ranging repertoire and a vibrant transmittable energy. He was awarded the Presidential Scholarship and is studying Jazz Performance and Composition at William Patterson University. He has studied with the Wachovia NJPAC Jazz for Teens program for 5 years, earning the JFT International Groningen Award to study at the Prins Claus Conservatory, Hanze University in Holland. He has performed at the inauguration of NJ Governor Jon Corzine, the NJ Jazz Festival and in venues from Pennsylvania to Boston including BB King Blues Club in NYC. He organizes and performs original compositions at annual concerts at Christ Church, benefiting Katrina area rebuilding, Darfur, and rehabilitation of US soldiers. He believes that music is a powerful art form and can change our world.
He is currently studying under the direction of jazz master Mulgrew Miller in his second year at William Patterson University.
Alison Vidal
About Alison Vidal, Director of Children's Choirs
Alison Vidal is a Music Education and Vocal Performance major at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. While studying at Rutgers, Ali has served as President of the Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir, Secretary of Music Educators National Conference, and Rehearsal Assistant for the Rutgers University Children's Choir. Ali is very active on the operatic stage as well; at Rutgers she has appeared in Roméo et Juliette (chorus), La Traviata (chorus), Street Scene (Jenny Hildebrand), Dido and Aeneas (Witch), The Mother of Us All (Jenny Reefer), and The Merry Widow (Prashkowia). In the summer of 2006, Ali was a cast member of the Bard Summerscape Music Festival production of Robert Schumann's forgotten opera Genoveva. Presently, Ali is working as a music instructor of voice and keyboarding at Camp Horizon's Day Camp at Newark Academy.
