MUSIC CLUB PREPARES FOR UPCOMING CONCERT SEASON

MUSIC CLUB PREPARES FOR UPCOMING CONCERT SEASON IN SEPTEMBER

Now in its 84th year, the Fredericksburg Music Club has been providing quality performances for Texas Hill Country residents since its founding in 1937.

Mark Eckhardt, president of FMC, said they will kick off their new season with fall concerts beginning September. This year’s spring concert series was canceled due to COVID-19. • Sept. 10 – Daniel Hsu, a bronze medalist at the 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will open up FMC’s music season in September. • Oct. 10 – Nathaniel Mayfield a world-renowned baroque trumpet soloist, has presented master classes at such institutions as: The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, Laval University in Quebec, UT Austin, Baylor, TCU, Lausanne Conservatory Switzerland, and many others. He will perform with special guests on organ and trumpet. • Nov. 21 – Austin duo Albert and Gage will perform. Christine Albert and Chris Gage have been performing together since 1996 and have released six albums on MoonHouse Records. Their music is a mix of country, folk, blues and chansons.

Music lovers can watch the performances at 3 p.m. on the third Sunday of each month in the sanctuary of Fredericksburg United Methodist Church, 1800 North Llano Street starting in September.

Attendance at the concerts is free of charge, thanks to grants as well as private and corporate donations received through the mail or at the door of each performance.

The FMC’s goals since the non-profit organization was founded have been to provide the area with quality musical programs, to support music education and to make the gift of music available to everyone.

More information — including lists of the concert schedule for the fall season, past performers since 2005, board members and assistance on club members, patronage and donating online — is available on the FMC’s website fredericksburgmusicclub.com.

Concert Pianist Daniel Hsu, a 2017 Van Cliburn bronze medalist, will kick off the Fredericksburg Music Club’s 2021 season. He performed in 2017, when he was 20 years old in the sanctuary of Fredericksburg United Methodist

Church. — Standard-Radio Post file photo

Pianist Doug Montgomery’s concert, scheduled at the beginning of the pandemic in March of 2020, had to be canceled. The Music Club hopes to resume public concerts in May, if conditions allow. See www.fredericksburgmusicclub.com

for updates. — Standard-Radio Post file photo