PORT TOWNSEND — A formidable trio will celebrate the music of Samuel Barber this Sunday in a special performance to help AIDS orphans in Uganda.
Soprano Anneliese von Goerken, here from New York City, will sing, and pianists Lisa Lanza and William Doppmann will play at 3 p.m. at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave. Admission is a $10 donation.
This is a rare opportunity to hear the three together.
Lanza performs in Seattle and does solo recitals at the Rose Theatre that consistently sell out, and von Goerken, the featured soprano soloist in the PBS production of “Carmina Burana,” sings with opera companies across the nation.
As for Doppman, he has performed with symphonies from Seattle to Chicago to Tokyo, having started playing at age 10 with the Cincinnati Symphony.
Upon listening to his performance of the Barber piano sonata, a New York Herald Tribune reader called Doppman’s style “literally spine-tingling.”
On Sunday, the trio will offer Barber’s “Excursions” suite for piano, his “Hermit Songs” for piano and voice and his lush piece “Knoxville: Summer of 1915.”
All proceeds from the concert will go to support 31 AIDS orphans in a remote part of Uganda. These children, sponsored by Grace Lutheran Church, are totally dependent for their educations on the generosity of Port Townsend area residents, according to Lanza.
For more details, phone 360-385-4045.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-417-3550 or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
