GERALD KOWALLIS AND KAY YAUKEY TO BE FEATURED PERFORMERS AT CVSM MUSICALE ON MARCH 25
WAYNESBORO.
The Cumberland Valley School of Music will present “Home Field Advantage,” its
third musicale of the season, on Sunday, March 25, at 3:00 pm at the beautiful
home of Craig and Judy Welterlen, 11468 Weatherstone Drive in the Forest Hills
section of Waynesboro, PA. Featured performers will be singers Gerald Kowallis
and Kay Yaukey, who both have longstanding ties to the Waynesboro area and have
extensive performance experience in musical theater at such venues as Totem Pole
Playhouse, Allenberry Playhouse and many others. Last year, they appeared
together in a highly lauded performance of "I Do! I Do!" for the Trinity Players
in Waynesboro. Over the years, Kowallis and Yaukey have appeared together in
“The Music Man,” “Carousel,” “Oklahoma,” “My Fair Lady,” “Fiddler on the Roof,”
and “HMS Pinafore”. The program for this concert will include songs from “Man
of La Mancha,” Lady in the” Dark,” “Spamalot,” “Most Happy Fella,” “Fiddler on
the Roof,” and others.
They will be accompanied for this performance by pianist Jeffrey Noll. Tickets are $35 each and include refreshments. Advance reservations are required. All proceeds benefit the non-profit Cumberland Valley School of Music. For more information call 717-261-1220 or visit www.cvsmusic.org.
Gerald Kowallis began his professional music career with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and performed in a number of venues, most recently at Allenberry Playhouse. Favorite roles include the Major General in “The Pirates of Penzance,” Tevye in “Fiddler,” and Bellamy in “Fantastiks”. He taught music in the Waynesboro Area School District for 38 years.
Kay Yaukey has been active on the stage since her days as a student at Shippensburg University. Her resume includes roles at Totem Pole Playhouse, Allenberry Playhouse, and other area productions. She recently retired from the Waynesboro Area School District where she taught English and served as a guidance counselor.
Jeffrey Noll is well known in the area as an accomplished soloist and one of the most sought after piano accompanists, working with both vocal and instrumental musicians. He teaches piano at CVSM, where he also directs the Cumberbunds youth chorus and Voice and Drama Camp.
Rooted in the European custom of Salon or Chamber concerts, the CVSM musicales feature gatherings of a small number of musicians performing together in private homes. They promote an intimacy for both performer and listener that is not available in a larger concert hall setting.
The fourth musicale of the year will be “Leading Ladies,” held at the spectacular home of Hank and Jan Guarriello, 373 Craig Road , Greencastle on Saturday, May 5, 2007, at 7:00 pm. This grand home with its stately columns and sweeping staircases is a wonderful musicale location. Two CVSM alumni and faculty members, Lisa Turchi and Jenny Kreyl Shoeman, joined by pianist Jeffrey Noll, will present a program that will include songs from Broadway, opera, and cabaret. Turchi has performed in opera and musical theater productions in the United States and Europe. Kreyl Shoeman’s acting credits include appearances in New York, Philadelphia, and locally.
The last musicale of the season will be held at the beautiful home of Marty Walker and David Spang, 96 Woodland Way, Chambersburg, on Sunday, June 10 at 3:00 pm. The “Pandean Wind Trio” comprised of Morgan Jenkins (flute), Michael Hoover (clarinet), and Ed Stanley (oboe) will present a program of chamber music. Morgan Jenkins holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory and James Madison University and has performed with the Cumberland Valley Chamber Players among many others. She currently teaches at Penn State Mont Alto, Shippensburg University, HCC, and for CVSM at St. Maria Goretti High School, Hagerstown. Mike Hoover, who teaches clarinet for CVSM, is Principal 2nd Clarinet with the Maryland Symphony. Ed Stanley appears regularly as a member of the Appalachian Wind Quintet, among others.
Tickets for musicales are $35 per person for individual for Sunday musicales, and $50 for the Saturday night musicale at the Guarriello's. All proceeds go to help support the Cumberland Valley School of Music, a non-profit member of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts teaching music and drama in Chambersburg, Waynesboro, and Mercersburg, PA and Hagerstown, MD. For more information or to purchase tickets contact the Cumberland Valley School of Music at 717-261-1220.