Three talented Lake County musicians who bill themselves as “The Lakeside Chamber Players” will appear in a CLPA-sponsored concert on Sunday, March 25 at Galilee Lutheran Church. They are pianist and composer Carolyn Bowen Hawley, flutist Catharine Shoup Hall and cellist Clovice A Lewis, Jr., who is also a noted composer. Their program will consist of the works of both classical and contemporary composers.
Hawley has a 40-year background as a concert pianist and teacher of piano. Starting at age 8, she has also written more than 100 works for voices and instruments, including her latest, a secular oratorio entitled Story of the World, set to the poems of Kenneth Klauss.
Hall took up the flute at age 7 and at age 22 moved from Southern California to the big island of Hawaii, where she helped to found the Hulihee Palace Band, as well as playing lead flute with the Kona Symphony Orchestra. She was also music director for many local music productions. She arrived in Lake County in 2002.
Lewis also started his career at a tender age, and completed his first symphony when he was just 17 years old. Entitled “Portraits of the Gulf Coast,” it was performed by the Gulf Coast Symphony as part of its Bicentennial Salute to American composers. He also became the youngest professor in the U.C. system when, at 21, he accepted a position in the music department at the Santa Barbara campus.
Galilee Lutheran Church is located on Soda Bay Road. The concert starts at 3 p.m., and admission is $15 for the general public and $10 for CLPA members.
