On Thursday, February 9th, the choral music ensemble Countertop will be performing a concert
at 7:30 pm in the Sanctuary. We are thrilled to be hosting this talented ensemble and invite you to come be blessed by their amazing music.
Information on The Countertop Ensemble:
The Countertop Ensemble was formed in 2005, beginning as a Quartet, toperform music for upper voices, primarily with two sopranos and twocountertenors. In 2008, artistic director Chris Dudley, expanded the group into an ensemble with 8 singers, while also maintaining its original core. Concerts with Countertop now allow listeners to not only hear the full ensemble, but the smaller aspects of the group too, with the quartet of sopranos and countertenors, and the consort, involving the countertenors, tenors and basses.
Countertop now delights audiences with their varied and exciting
performances throughout the year. They do not specify the performance of one genre though. Each year, at the Modern Voices concert, Countertop performs modern music, sometimes by local composers and often performs King's Singer's arrangements or barbershop music.
Since becoming an ensemble, Countertop has received several critically acclaimed reviews from the Washington Post for its "fine singers who blend and balance..." from Joan Reinthaler (2008) and its "consistently beautiful performance...because of their exotic inscrutability..." from Charles T. Downey (2009). In May 2010, The Ensemble joined with the Orchestra of the seventeenth century, to perform the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610.
Click here for more information on The Countertop Ensemble.
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