2014 Winter and Spring Heart-Warming Community Concerts Kick Off Today at Kent Town

Music lovers throughout Adelaide will be delighted to hear that the popular music series Concerts at Kent Town will resume at 2pm today 16 July 2014.

From July the concerts will continue once a month until November and present a variety of music from classical to modern featuring professional and amateur musicians.

All concerts take place at the majestic Neo-Gothic Wesley Church Kent Town, cnr Fullarton Road and Grenfell Street, Kent Town, followed by a delicious afternoon tea included in the ticket price of $10

In homage to the Church's magnificent JE Dodd organ built in 1898, augmented and restored in 2012, each program features the organ played by a different organist.

Organist Andrew Ampt opens the 2014 Concerts at Kent Town season. Andrew, who in real life is an accountant in the city, admits to being a nervous teenager when he began playing.

Andrew has had a lifelong interest in the organ partly due to other family members being organists and also due to being attracted at an early age to the hymn playing style of the late James Thiele at the Bethlehem Lutheran church, Flinders Street in the city.

Andrew's formal organ lessons were first with Eric Thiele (while still at school) and later with James Govenlock.

"I began service playing as a nervous teenager at St John's Lutheran church at Unley," said Andrew "I have played for numerous Lutheran churches over the years, more recently at Bethlehem and St Stephen's churches in the city. In recent years I have also enjoyed writing final verse hymn harmonisations." Andrew's program includes works by Lemmens, Saint-Saens, Haydn, Bach and R Ampt (Andrew's big brother who is a Sydney City Organist).

Eclectica is a clarinet trio of three young female musicians in who studied together at the Elder Conservatorium of Music.

Anna Coleman, Amanda Home and Charise Altmann formed Eclectica in 2009 when they realised they had a mutual passion for playing and performing a wide variety of chamber music. The limited repertoire available for clarinet ensembles led them to commission new works by local composers.

In addition, to performing as a trio, the members have a long history of performing together in various combinations and ensemble settings. Including the Earin Festival, broadcast live on ABC Radio, Classic FM. They often perform as part the COMA (Creative Original Music Adelaide) Concert Series and the Pilgrim Church and Flinders University Lunch Hour Concert Series.

Eclectica's program is a mixture of music styles and eras both old and new with some works composed by new Australian composers. The program features works by R.M. Endreson, Steven Tanoto, Daniel Schricker and WA Mozart. The works by Tanoto and Schricker were composed for the Trio during their studies at the Elder Conservatorium.

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