Pat Stout, trumpet, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is a jazz and classical performer. He has been a soloist at West Parish of Barnstablesm on a number of occasions including the Mardi Gras service and the Community Carol Sing. He has played for and backed up many well known artists such as Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Bob Hope, Liza Minnelli, Aretha Franklin, George Burns, Rosemary Clooney, Lena Horne and many others. He can be found on several recordings with artists such as Gary Burton, Stanley Clarke, the Brecker Brothers, Clark Terry, Marvin Stamm and Lionel Hampton. Pat received his education at the Philadelphia Music Academy and the Berklee College of Music.

Gene Roma, percussion,

John Harrison III, piano, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, has toured frequently on the festival circuit in Europe and the United States. He has accompanied many of the region’s best known musicians in live performances, on tour and in recordings including Herb Reed and the Platters, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Newton Symphony, Tavares and Rebecca Parris. He has participated on fifteen CDs including Rebecca Parris, Alvin Queen, Shawn Monteiros, Marcel Gauvin along with his trio, the John Harrison Trio. A new CD featuring John Harrison and Clark Terry is soon to be released. He currently teaches courses in Jazz piano and small Jazz ensemble at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with a major in composition from the Berklee College of Music and has furthered his studies at the University of Massachusetts.

The Brentwood Brass

The Brentwood Brass quintet is a Cape Cod based ensemble of professional musicians and academics who are dedicated to exploring the multifaceted literature of the brass quintet world and presenting this music to audiences in Southeastern Massachusetts. The musicians strive for the highest level of musical performance and present concerts, recitals, music for weddings, church services and for ceremonies and special occasions throughout the area and occasionally beyond. The group plays transcriptions and original compositions of music ranging from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries and from popular to classical genres.

Babette F. Bach, Organist

Babette F. Bach is the Director of Music and Organist for West Parish of Barnstable. She is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in music with piano and organ as her instrument. While at Brown, she studied organ with William Dinneen. She currently studies organ with concert organist, Dr. James Jordan. She has participated in masterclasses with Ken Cowan, Dr. James David Christie and Heinrich Christensen. She has previously served as an accompanist for Falmouth Chorale and Cape Cod Chorale. Mrs. Bach has 30 years experience as a music educator having worked as an elementary and classroom teacher as well as music teacher within the public school systems of (Providence) Rhode Island, (Westport and Saugatuck) Connecticut and Pennsylvania. In the same amount of time, she has worked as a church musician in other congregational churches and continues her ministry of music here at West Parish. In 2003, she served as Assistant Coordinator for the Region I Convention of the American Guild of Organists held on Cape Cod. Mrs. Bach is a past Dean of the Cape Cod and the Islands Chapter of the American Guild of Organists as well as being a member of the United Church of Christ Musicians Association and the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers.

As a retired professional orchestral violist, Marilyn Klerx, may now decide, herself: "What to play, when, where, how loudly to play, how fast, what to wear and even when to take a coffee break. Back to the music I loved to play, on viola and violin, alone and in small groups where, to quote a dear friend, ‘I can hear myself.' "

In her teens Marilyn studied violin with Samuel Applebaum in Maplewood, New Jersey. She received, Summa cum laude, a Bachelor of Science in Music Education, as well as a double Master of Arts in Viola Performance and Musicology from The Crane school of Music, State University College at Potsdam, New York, where she studied violin with Maurice Baritaud, and viola with John Graham and Lamar Alsop.

Marilyn played violin in the Bloomfield High School (BHS) Orchestra and String Orchestra, as well as The New Jersey Regional and All State Orchestras, The All Eastern Orchestra and The New Jersey Symphony Junior Orchestra.

She played both flute and piccolo in the BHS Band, Wind Ensemble and Marching Band. She sang, as well, in the BHS Varsity Choir, Girls' Choir and Belletones select vocal ensemble. She was Validictorian of the Class of 1964. Recently, a fellow classmate reminded her that she once played Mozart's 5th Violin Concerto at her pyjama party!

Marilyn dreamed of playing in orchestras, travelling in Europe and speaking foreign languages. Although the prevailing wisdom was that: "It's almost impossible to get a job in an orchestra," Burton Kaplan, violin pedagogue in New York City, said "You have to prepare an audition." Marilyn assisted him as camera-person for his film about the use of the (then) new video technology in string teaching. With his help she prepared to audition and landed a job in L'Orchestre Symphonique de Québec: Her first professional paycheck, working in French!

Two years in Quebec, then Lisbon, Portugal, as Assistant Principal Viola in A Orquestra Sinfónica da Emissora Nacional; then to the Overijssels Philharmonisch Orkest in Enschede, the Netherlands, where she held the same position and ultimately to the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Holland.

The RFO is a ferociously ambitious orchestra building an international reputation. Under conductor Edo de Waart the orchestra recorded, during live performances at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the 9 completed symphonies of Gustav Mahler, for RCA Red Label. Under Conductor Emeritus Jean Fournet they recorded numerous French works, including Dukas's Sourcerer's Apprentice. For a full discography, see www.RFO.nl.

Marilyn, now retired, lives with her husband Willem Klerx in the farmhouse, in the Belgian Ardenne Forest, that they have renovated together over the past 20 years. He's the brains and brawn and she hands him the nails, screws, boards, etc. Their daughters, Margo (26) and Denise (20) have left the nest.

Joseph's organ studies at Yale were with Dr. Martin Jean and choral conducting studies with Marguerite Brooks. He holds both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies and a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance from The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. At Wooster, he was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda, a music honorary, awarded the Theodore Presser Scholarship, and was twice the recipient of the Richard T. Gore Prize for organ students. Organ studies at Wooster were with John Russell and Dr. Thomas Gouwens. Joseph also studied organ with Todd Wilson at the Cleveland Institute of Music during his last year at Wooster. Other organ teachers include E. Wayne Eich of Charleston, WV and David Higgs of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.

During his studies at Wooster, he was involved in singing with and conducting the Wooster Chorus and the Wooster Choral Union. In 2002 and 2003, he conducted Handel's Messiah and Faure's Requiem with orchestra in Connecticut. In the coming year he will be performing concerts in Wallingford, CT; Charleston, WV; and Chicago, IL.

Keith Underwood Keith Underwood has had a diverse career as a flutist and teacher. He is the solo flutist for Parnassus and Ufonia, and has performed with most of the major musical organizations in the New York area, including the New York Philharmonic, the American Composer's Orchestra, and the Orpheus Ensemble. He has recorded extensively for such labels as New World, CRI, Columbia, and Musical Heritage, and has done a great deal of recording for motion pictures and television in New York and Los Angeles. He has appeared as a soloist and recorded with such diverse artists as Benjamin Verdery, Anthony Newman, Bobby McFerrin, Rod Stewart, Milton Nascimento, Kathleen Battle and Celine Dion. Keith is well-known as a flute teacher and teacher of general techniques for wind players. Many people who have studied flute (and other instruments) with Keith are playing with or have gone on to play in orchestras throughout the United States and abroad. These include the Atlanta, Boston, and Cleveland Symphonies, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Dallas, Houston, Detroit, and Toronto Symphonies, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Honolulu Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. He has served as a wind-playing consultant to the New Jersey Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, and the Honolulu Symphony, and the San Francisco Opera, among others.

Keith teaches at the Mannes College of Music, New York University as well as other New York area institutions. He has conducted many masterclasses and seminars in the United States and abroad, including Brazil (where he taught on a Fulbright Lectureship Grant in 1986), Japan, Italy, Mexico, at well-known institutions such as the Eastman School, the Juilliard School, Rice University, New England Conservatory, and the Berklee School of Music. Each summer Keith presents masterclasses all over the world, most recently in Ravello, Italy, Abiquiu, New Mexico, Carmel Valley, California, and Mushashino Academy, Tokyo.

The Brentwood Consort is a group of professional musicians brought together by their love of baroque chamber music and dedicated to sharing their enthusiasm with audiences is eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod. They specialize in instrumental music written between 1600 and 1750 and perform on replicas of period instruments.

John Clark - oboe -Guest Artist John played violin and oboe in his school years in England but has always been interested in small ensembles. He has played in the Cape Symphony for ten years. His interest in early music is revealed by his hobby of restoring harpsichords and clavichords. John holds the Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of Wisconsin and is an associate of the Royal College of Music in London. He runs Inquiring Mind, a school for the study of literature in Eastham, and is also a certified professional life coach.

Lore Loftfield DeBower - harpsichord Lore holds the Ph.D. from the Five College Cooperative in Amherst and is Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences at Cape Cod Community College. She is very active in international education and is currently an academic division Associate Dean pro tem at the College. She is an active organist and harpsichordist.

Molly Johnston - viola da gamba Molly is a graduate of Wellesley and Yale and has headed the Collegium Musicum at Duke. She has performed in the Utah Shakespeare Festival, directed Quidam Musici and held posts at North Carolina University, the Viola da Gamba Conclave and at Pinewoods Early Music Camp. She is an active sailor and pilot.

Robert W. Kidd - recorder Bob holds the Mus. A. D. from Boston University and is a former department chair and professor emeritus from Cape Cod Community College. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. An active trumpeter and choral and instrumental conductor, he is a member of the Brentwood Brass, the Original "Dissonance" Jazz Band and several other ensembles in the area.

Keith Underwood, master flutist and teacher, is known worldwide not only for his artistry as a flutist, but also for his extraordinary teaching techniques.

Underwood has appeared extensively in solo recitals, concerto performances and master-classes internationally. A resident of New York City, Underwood has performed with New York's most prominent musical organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Orpheus Ensemble, the American Composer's Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and the Brooklyn Philharmonia. He is solo flutist with Parnassus and Musical Elements, Jazz Antiqua, Arcadia Baroque Ensemble, Ufonia, and the Riverside Symphony. Underwood has recorded with such diverse artists as Benjamin Verdery, Celine Dion, Kathleen Battle, Rod Stewart, Bobby McFerrin and Anthony Newman. In addition, he devotes much of his time recording for motion pictures and television.

As a teacher, Underwood's extraordinary breathing and embouchure techniques are known, discussed and accepted worldwide. He has worked with flutists and other instrumentalists from orchestras around the globe. His current U.S. roster includes orchestra members from Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Los Angeles, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Tennessee. His foreign roster includes musicians from Canada, Brazil, Italy, Japan and Mexico.

Currently, Underwood is on the faculties of the New England Conservatory, New York University and the Mannes College of Music. As a master-class teacher, he is affiliated with the Julliard School, Manhattan School of Music and the Eastman School of Music. He also travels annually to Japan, Mexico, Italy and Brazil to perform and conduct master-classes.

Jane Donnelly, who received her BA in music from Bennington College, and MM in Piano Performance from Peabody Conservatory , has been performing for thirty years throughout the East Coast. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Miss Donnelly accompanies at the Carver Center for the Arts, teaches piano at the Friends School, serves as the Music Director at Mays Chapel United Methodist Church, and is the accompanist for the women’s choir, The Canticle Singers.

Gael Alcock studied cello with George Finckel, Jules Eskin, Michael Grebanier, Nicolau Hohloff, and Colin Hampton. Her improvisations and compositions have been heard on radio, television, and in San Francisco Bay Area venues such as the Palace of Fine Arts, the Berkeley and Oakland Art Museums, Vorpal Gallery, and the Exploratorium. She has been a member of the San Francisco Chamber Players, Berkeley and San Jose Symphonies and Cinnabar Opera, and has founded many performing groups including The Concerto Collective, Schumann Piano Trio, Sorelli String Trio, Allemande, Redwood, and Agua String Quartets,and Sweet Western Dalliance. She teaches strings at Joaquin Miller Elementary and Martin Luther King Middle Schools, and directs Celloposse,a cello choir of adult students.

Music and Musings "At the Meetinghouse" is a concert and lecture series established and operated by the West Parish Memorial Foundation. This concert and lecture series was organized to help benefit the new pipe organ as well as provide programs of interest to the Barnstable community and to help foster an interest in the arts throughout the Cape and Islands. The two organizations also jointly co-sponsor an organ recital series: The West Parish Organ Recital Series.

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