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, Stanley Ritchie, Jane Glover, Andrew Megill and Patrick Gardner, and in major concert halls and series throughout the U.S., U.K. and Mexico, including such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space (New York) and Merkin Hall (New York). This spring, she will make her Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall as pianist in Orff's two-piano and percussion version of Carmina Burana. She has been a feature performer in festivals such as the Ugbrooke Chamber Music Festival (UK), Bloomington Early Music Festival, Miami Bach Festival, Festival Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado (Mexico), Festival San Luis (Mexico), Musica Viva Festival, and Music in the Vineyards in Napa Valley. Each summer, Ms. Chatham is a keyboardist in the five-week Carmel Bach Festival (CA). She was Artistic Co-Director and harpsichordist for the critically acclaimed ensemble reconstruction from 2002 to 2010, performing works of the Baroque as well as new commissions. Past seasons found reconstruction performing in such venues as the Lane Series at University of Vermont, Hockett Hall at Ithaca College, The Cutting Room in NYC, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and on two tours of Mexico. From 1998 to 2003, Ms. Chatham toured the U.S. extensively as harpsichordist for the ground breaking ensemble Bimbetta, performing in major concert series throughout the country and giving workshops and master classes at many colleges and universities. Bimbetta was honored 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 Uribe. Past engagements include concerts at the Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin), the Westminster Choir College Concert Series, Catholic University of America and the Bickford Theatre (Morristown, NJ). The Duo's live performances of works by Chvez and Ponce, as well as their own transcriptions of Gershwin songs, have been broadcast nationwide in the U.S. on WWFM The Classical Network. Ms. Chatham is pianist in the Lile Piano Trio, which is Ensemble-In-Residence in the concert series at Christ Church in Summit, NJ. She is an active performer in the New York area, performing with ensembles such as Riverside Choral Society, Trinity Choir, Summit Chorale, Fuma Sacra, and Westminster Kantorei, as well as with singers and instrumentalists in recital. She has been heard on NPR's programs “Performance Today,” “Harmonia,” and “Soundcheck.”
Ms. Chatham is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in Collaborative Piano at Rutgers University, where she studies with Barbara Gonzlez-Palmer. She 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 and was a winner of the Baroque Concerto Competition. 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. For more information, visit www.hollychatham.com.
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 Paterson 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 Paterson 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.
