A CONCERT OF MUSIC FOR TWO PIANOS–David and Lauren Winkelman.
David Winkelman
Pianist David Winkelman has appeared throughout the northeastern United States, including concerts at Alice Tully Hall, CAMI Hall and Symphony Space in New York City, as well as the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. He has played with the Philadelphia Orchestra and performed live recitals broadcast by WFLN in Philadelphia and WFDD in Winston-Salem. He and saxophonist James Kalyn have collaborated on a recording entitled Brilliance, featuring virtuosic French music for saxophone and piano. Educated at The Juilliard School (B.M.,M.M.) and the Manhattan School of Music (D.M.A.), his primary teachers have included Martin Canin and Yoheved Kaplinsky, and his chamber music studies have been with Samuel Sanders, Lewis Kaplan, Paul Doktor and Eleanor Schoenfeld.
In the School of Music at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Dr. Winkelman serves as Assistant Dean for Undergraduate and High School programs, having also held positions as Interim Assistant Dean for Performance Activities and Administrative Director of Summer Music Programs
Lauren Winkelman
A versatile performer, pianist Lauren Winkelman has appeared as both soloist and collaborator with the orchestras, chamber music groups, instrumental soloists, and singers. She was educated at Baldwin-Wallace College (B.M.,piano) and The Cleveland Institute of Music (M.M. accompanying), as well as The Music Academy of the West and The Colorado College Summer Conservatory. Her primary teachers have included Anne Epperson, Anita Pontremoli, and George Cherry; she has also had the experience of accompanying in the studios of artists including William Preucil, Beverley Rinaldi, Arnold Steinhardt, and Donald Weilerstein. She has held staff accompanying positions at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Meadowmount School of Music, and the Killington Music Festival.

SAMSON-LEITZER MEMORIAL ORGAN INAUGURAL RECITAL SERIES–Margaret Mueller, organ.
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, CHAPEL

Margaret Mueller is a graduate of Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. She received a Fulbright award for study with Helmut Walcha in Germany then continued organ study with André Marchal in Paris on an Aeolian Grant from Oberlin College. Margaret Mueller has been guest artist and judge at National AGO conventions and recently was one of the judges for the International André Marchal Organ Competition in Biarritz, France. She is Professor Emerita of Salem College and is recently retired from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston Salem where she was organist for thirty-eight years.

KNOLLWOOD ANNIVERSARY ARTS FESTIVAL.

Our festival of hymns and anthems is designed by our guest festival director, Dr Robert Scholz. The festival follows the liturgical pattern of the Lutheran Vespers service. (Dr. Scholz and St. Olaf College are part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.) Near the end of the festival the combined choirs and instrumentalists will sing the new anthem composed for this festival by Dr. Scholz, “We Know You, O God, As the Giver if Grace.” The anthem is a setting of the Fiftieth Anniversary hymn text written by Dr, Chapman and premiered in our Feb. 11 celebration.
As our choral affirmation of faith, the Chancel Choir sings “God’s Truth,” the 50th Anniversary anthem composed by Knollwood’s composer-in-residence, Dr. Susan Borwick. This anthem was likewise premiered in our Feb. 11 celebration.

Deep appreciation is expressed to the Committee for Worship and the Arts, all the Knollwood musicians involved in tonight’s festival, and in particular, thanks to the parents who work diligently to arrange the lives of their children to include participation in a church music program. (No small feat.)