Access Continues Sam Maitin Summer Chamber Music Series

CAPE MAY — Access to Art offers its second concert on Aug. 4 of its 13th Annual Sam Maitin Chamber Music series with a performance by Dr. Bertram Greenspan, violin, and Elise Auerbach, piano featuring works by Beethoven, Faure, Debussy, Wieniawski and Vaughn Williams.
The concert will be held at the Cape May United Methodist Church, 635 Washington St., Cape May at 8 p.m.
Please come early because parking is difficult in the area. Greenspan chairs the strings department at Rowan University.
Greenspan presented a sold out lecture at the Southern Mansion, a gracious Civil War-era bed and breakfast in Cape May, framing the Renaissance in music, art, politics, and religion on July 21.
Entitled Religion, Sex and Strife in the Renaissance, he put the period in historical context and likened it to the modern age with many similar and all too human problems. He also performed Renaissance music on his viola.
He, and his fellow professors at Rowan University, are participating in the Renaissance Festival to be held Oct. 2 and 3 in West Cape May.
Joseph Mayes performed on the lute with tenor, Bart Singer, who sang several secular songs of the period. Outside of the beautiful liturgical music of the period, Mayes described the secular songs as having two themes, sad or naughty.
Greenspan is a noted violinist and conductor who is a professor of music at Rowan University. He received his early training in Chicago and at the Juillard School of Music under the tutelage of Dorothy Delay and Ivan Galamian and earned his Masters and Doctor of Music degrees at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where his major teachers were Josef Gingold, Daniel Guilet and Janos Starker.
He has conducted Youth Orchestras in numerous states from Illinois to Maine including the N.J. All-State High School Orchestra and the NJ Region III High School Orchestra. Among his honors and awards is the gold Medal and Diplome d’Honneur of the Foundation Eugene Ysaye of Brussels, Belgium.
Greenspan has performed in Carnegie Hall, Town Hall (NYC) and has served as concertmaster of the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, and the Reading Symphony Orchestra. Most recently he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the American String Teachers Association – NJ Chapter and the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award by Rowan University.
He will be joined by pianist, Elise Auerbach who has performed around the world and enjoys an active and diverse career as a collaborative artist.
Performing highlights include Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall soloist with the Temple University and Delaware Symphonies, live broadcasts on Cincinnati Classical Radio WGUC, and chamber music tours in Germany.
Auerbach has been pianist for the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, the Savoy Company, Faculty Pianist for the Summer Conference for String Education and Chamber Music, and Artist-in-Residence at Cheney University. She has participated in and performed at festivals in Japan, Italy, Canada and the United States.
Recent collaborations include faculty recitals at Temple, Rowan, and Immaculata Universities and appearances at Weill Recital Hall and the Croatian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Auerbach holds degrees from Temple University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She is a member of the Vocal coaching Faculty at Temple University and the pianist for Symphony in C.
Tickets are $20. adults, $l5. seniors, and $l0. students. Reservations may be made by calling Access to Art at (609) 465-3963.
Tickets will also be available at the door.
The concert series is supported, in part, by Sturdy Savings Bank, the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Fund, and the Falls Family Foundation.
Advertising sponsor is La Mer Motor Inn.