JENNY KREYL SHOEMAN AND LISA TURCHI TO BE FEATURED PERFORMERS AT CVSM MUSICALE ON MAY 5
The Cumberland Valley School of Music will present “Leading Ladies,” its
fourth musicale of the season, on Saturday, May 5, at 7:00 pm at the spectacular
home of Hank and Jan Guarriello in Greencastle. This grand home with its
stately columns and sweeping staircases is one of the most beautiful homes in
Franklin County, and wonderful location to hear music.
Featured performers will be singers Lisa Turchi and Jenny Kreyl Shoeman, presenting a program that will include songs from a variety of songs ranging from Opera to Broadway, including pieces from such musicals as Jekyll and Hyde, Miss Saigon, Cabare, and Candide. Both Turchi and Kreyl Shoeman are CVSM alumni and faculty members who have gone on to forge professional careers in the performing arts. They will be accompanied by pianist and CVSM faculty member Jeffrey Noll.
Lisa Turchi has performed in opera and musical theater productions in the United States and Europe, including performances with Pittsburgh Opera, the Harrisburg Opera, New York City’s Gotham Chamber Opera.. She is a graduate of Carnegie-Melon University and holds a masters degree in vocal performance from Shenandoah University. Lisa teaches voice at CVSM and will be co-directing a new “Showstoppers” musical theater camp for teens this summer.
Jenny Kreyl Shoeman is a graduate of Temple University's Theater Department, and has a diverse background in singing and acting, having appeared in shows in New York, Philadelphia, and locally . She is also an internationally produced and published playwright. She lives in the Philadelphia area and is currently the Director of the Drama Department at the Renaissance Academy Charter School. Jenny will be directing or co-directing three acting camps for CVSM this summer, including Shakespeare “Spotlights” camp, drama for Voice and Drama Camp, and the “Showstoppers” camp for teens.
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 children’s 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 final 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 or visit their website at www.cvsmusic.org.