Concerts
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth:
make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise (Psalm 98:4 KJV)
Future Events
Duo Guitiano: Carlos Castilla and Amanda Virelles
Gems for Guitar and Piano
May 4, 2025 4:00 PM
Community Congregational Concerts presents husband and wife team Carlos Castilla and Amanda Virelles, performing solos and duets for guitar and piano. Having performed as a duo for over 20 years, they will present favorite works from their vast repertoire, from the Baroque to the 21st century.
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Camellia Chamber Music Project
Come to the Dance – January 26, 2025
Violinist Megan Kenny and Violist Holland Phillips presented a program of dance-themed repertoire, featuring the music of Chopin, Handel, Milhaud and more, and including the dance forms of the waltz, the sarabande, the mazurka, the polonaise, the jig and others.
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300 Years of Trumpet – October 27, 2024
Dr. Timothy Altman (trumpet), Dr. Mark Tollefsen (piano) and Dr. Joseph Van Hassel (percussion) presented a program of works including Baroque trumpet, Haydn’s Concerto in E-flat Major for trumpet and piano, a movement from Eric Ewazen’s Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1995), and works commissioned by Dr. Altman.
Review: Paul Murphy in Concert – July 14, 2024
Rev. Dr. Paul Greene Murphy is well known in the Sandhills as a musician of many talents. On piano, he played original compositions and his own arrangements of hymns and American popular music. On saxophone, he played a selection of spirituals, accompanied on piano by Robin Lynne Frye.
Review: Pembroke Singers in Concert – April 21, 2024
Pembroke Singers is the select chamber choir at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke and represents the university at major functions. The group was directed by Dr. Jaeyoon Kim and accompanied on piano by Dr. Seung Ah Kim. The program featured a variety of choral repertoire from Renaissance to contemporary composed by Bach, Handel, and many others, including some Spanish selections.
Dr. Jaeyoon Kim
Dr. Seung Ah Kim
Review: Organ Recital – Wes Lockfaw – January 14, 2024
Wes Lockfaw, Director of Music and Organist at Haymount United Methodist Church, Fayetteville
Something Old, Something New: Organ Music of the 17th-21st Centuries
Review: Opera Favorites Concert – October 8, 2023
Please enjoy a few photos below from our first Community Congregational Concert, An Afternoon of Opera Favorites.
The performers were Alina Cherkasova, Soprano; Robin Lynne Frye, Mezzo-Soprano; Robert Mobsby, Baritone, and Anastasia Bryant, Pianist.
