FCC Series 2022-2023 Season
Schedule of Events:
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September 25
Pikes Peak Ringers Kevin McChesney, conductor Enchanting music by Pikes Peak’s premier bell choir Pikes Peak Ringers and special guest Fortéare excited to invite you to our Fall Concert series, Take Flight. We are emerging from a time of separation and embracing our ability to come together to enjoy music with one another. Our song selection embodies the feeling of taking flight and the fun and freedom that results. We hope to see you there! Since 1991, the Pikes Peak Ringers have continually expanded the boundaries of traditional handbell music, bringing their extensive repertoire, innovative techniques and distinctive visual approach to numerous projects and venues around the country. Recognized worldwide as one of the premier handbell ensembles in North America, the Pikes Peak Ringers released their sixth studio CD, Classics, in the spring of 2011 that includes “Dona Nobis Pacem,” PPR’s track with world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma that was released in December 2009 as part of Mr. Ma’s Grammy award-winning CD, “Songs of Joy and Peace.” With an annual performance schedule that includes several local and out-of-state concerts, they have also been featured at national handbell events and on several promotional recordings, in addition to their own studio CDs, instructional DVD, and a live concert DVD of the world’s first-ever classical concerto for handbells and orchestra. Today, as a non-profit organization, the Pikes Peak Ringers continue to provide an outlet for advanced ringers in the greater Colorado Springs community, to teach others about handbells through workshops and other venues, and to create vivid performances that showcase the instrument of English handbells with the highest-quality presentation and musicianship. |
Start Time: All concerts start at 3:00pm
Admission: Free will offering, $15 suggested donation.
Address: First Christian Church, 16 E. Platte Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Contact: Zahari Metchkov, Series Director
ztmetchkov@yahoo.com
Admission: Free will offering, $15 suggested donation.
Address: First Christian Church, 16 E. Platte Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Contact: Zahari Metchkov, Series Director
ztmetchkov@yahoo.com
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October 9
Art Songs with Armando Contreras, baritone and Zahari Metchkov, piano Complete performance of Dichterliebe by Robert Schumann and more |
On Sunday, October 9 at 3:00 p.m., First Christian Church at 16 E. Platte Avenue is presenting Armando Contreras, baritone and Zahari Metchkov, piano in recital. A free will offering will be taken, $15 suggested donation.
Program will include a complete performance of “A Poet’s Love” by Robert Schumann, art songs by Maria Grever, and favorites by Paolo Tosti and Stefano Donaudy.
Praised for “the easy caramel syrup of his voice” (Opera Today), Mexican-American baritone Armando Contreras is quickly becoming a standout in the world of opera. In 2021, Mr. Contreras was a part of the world premiere of Aleksandra Vrebalov and Deborah Breevort’s The Knock, singing the lead role Lt. Roberto Gonzales with The Glimmerglass Festival. Other highlights of his current season include making his debut with Salt Marsh Opera as Moralès in Carmen, reprising the role of Diego Rivera in Frida and the Bravest Girl in the World with Central City Opera, joining Opera Steamboat in The Three Feathers as The King/Rat and making his Denver Philharmonic debut in L'elisir d'amore as Belcore. This summer, Mr. Contreras will return to The Glimmerglass Festival to sing a lead role in the world premiere of the Rossini pastiche, Tenor Overboard, and cover Moralès in Carmen. In 2022-2023, Mr. Contreras will sing Marco in Gianni Schicchi and Council in Trial by Jury with Salt Marsh Opera.
Native of Sofia, Bulgaria, Dr. Metchkov holds BM, MM, and DMA from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, Ohio. In 2010 he joined Colorado State University-Pueblo’s department of music and is now a Full Professor of Music, teaching applied piano, applied organ, piano pedagogy, and ensembles. He was the 2013 recipient of the CSU-Pueblo’s Outstanding Service and Transformative Leadership Award and the 2014 recipient of CHASS Outstanding Faculty of the Year. In 2018, he received the Steinway & Sons Top Teacher Award and in 2022, the recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award by the Colorado State Music Teachers Association. He is the Organist and Concert Series Director at First Christian Church, Colorado Springs.
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