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THE AMADEUS ORCHESTRA
About the Artist
Timothy Rowe, Music Director
Amy Horman, Violin
Paul Skevington, Organ
The Amadeus Orchestra, a professional chamber orchestra, has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian Institution (where they presented the 100th Anniversary Gershwin Concert), and worldwide via the Voice of America. In 2000 the Orchestra recorded a commercial compact disc of RheinbergerÆs two organ concerti with Paul Skevington.
Amy Horman is a former student of Washington violinist Patricia Hurd and, more recently, acclaimed artist Jody Gatwood. Twice winner of the National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition and First Prize holder of the Eastern Music Festival Competition, Ms. Horman studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Gerard Poulet, achieving Premier Prix in Solo Violin. She has apppeared as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Meudon and the Orchestre Regionel de Paris, at the Kennedy Center Constitution Hall, and Strathmore Hall. Further, she has been featured on French television and in the U.S. on National Public Radio. Ms. HormanÆs wide repertoire includes over 25 concerti; a notable recent concert featured the Nielsen violin concerto with the MCC Orchestra.
Paul Skevington, a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Indiana University and holds a D.M.A. in Liturgical Music from The Catholic University of America. Dr. Skevington has served as Assistant in Liturgical Mucis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, and he is past dean of the Northern Virginia branch of the American Guild of Organists (AGO). His is also the current AGO District Convenor for Virginia. He is a board member of the National Association of pastoral MusiciansÆ Steering Committee for Organists. Minister of Music and Liturgy at Saint Luke Church in McLean, he presides over its massive new Steiner-Reck pipe organ.
Timothy Rowe is also an adjunct lecturer in music at Georgetown University and a senior lecturer in music history at the Smithsonian Institution. He is a popular guest speaker for the Washington Opera and Washington Concert Opera. Mr. Rowe, who received music degrees from Middlebury College and the University of Wisconsin (studying with Robert Fountain) is currently Artistic Director of The Amadeus Concerts, Inc., and its professional ensembles, the Amadeus Orchestra and the Potomac Theatre Orchestra, founded in 1983 and 1996 respectively.
Overture to The Pirates of Penzance
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Concert for Organ in F major, op. 4 no. 5
I. Larghetto
II. Allegro
III. Alla Siciliano
IV. Presto
George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
Concerto for Violin in A minor, BWV 1041
I. (Allegro)
II. Andante
III. Allegro assai
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Two Modern British String Masterworks The Orchestra will contract these popular short works by BritainÆs two most acclaimed 20th century composers
Simple Symphony, op. 4
Sir Benjamin Britten
(1913-1976)
Serenade for Strings in E minor, op. 20
Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
English Folk Song Suite
I. March: ôSeventeen Come Sundayö
II. Intermezzo: ôMy Bonny Boyö
III. March: ôFolk Song from Somersetö
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Past Performances
September 9, 2006
This professional chamber orchestra has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian Institution, and worldwide via radio broadcast.
May 2, 2001
The Amadeus Orchestra presents a varied and colorful British program spanning Handel, Gilbert & Sullivan, and Britten, capped by the rollicking English Folk Song of Ralph Vaughn Williams. UK/KC FESTIVAL
