The Sundays On The Hill concert series presents three of Vermont’s finest classical instrumentalists

Sunday, July 14, 4 p.m. – WESTON – The Sundays On The Hill concert series is excited to announce that the Counterpoint Chorus will be performing wonderful concerts for the 26th year on July 14. All concerts will be held at the Old Parish Church on Route 100 in Weston. Admission is only $5 for adults, children under 12 are free. There is no reserved seating, no advance tickets and admission is paid at the door. For more information and a complete concert series listing, visit SundaysOnTheHill.org.

Counterpoint was founded by legendary choral conductor and arranger Robert De Cormier and is based in Montpelier. The ensemble is dedicated to performing choral chamber music and collaborating with music students in Vermont and beyond. Praised for “clarity, skill” and “sophisticated musical expressiveness,” they perform concerts throughout Vermont and the surrounding region. Counterpoint has recorded seven CDs on Albany Records and released four more CDs independently. Artistic Director Nathaniel G. Lew holds music degrees from Yale, Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Music and Director of the Honors Program at St. Michael’s College in Colchester.

Three of Vermont’s finest classical instrumentalists (violinist Laura Markowitz, cellist John Dunlop, pianist Annemieke McLane) join the singers of Counterpoint for this fascinating crossover of folk traditions and classical music: Johannes Brahms’ passionate “Gypsy Songs,” a collection of Ludwig van Beethoven’s settings of Scottish folk songs and folk song settings by Béla Bartók, and piano trio movements by Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann.