Sunday, July 12 2009, 7:00 p.m.                            
Christopher Pouliot, piano
      Collaborative Pianist Christopher Pouliot is an active musician in the Boston area. He began his musical studies at The Longy School of Music studying with Ludmila Lifson and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he worked with Nigel Coxe and Estella Olevsky. Following this he studied with Irwin Gelber at The Boston Conservatory and collaborative piano with Shelia Kibbe at Boston University. He was a recipient of the Honors Performance Award at the Longy School of Music and a Performance Scholarship from the University of Massachusetts. Mr. Pouliot’s is passionate about the song repertoire and his knowledge of different styles
includes a vast array of music ranging from the 18th century to the present.
     He has worked extensively with baritone Michael Pelletier, soprano Theresa Bernard, mezzo-soprano Sarah MacLean, and soprano Leie Carmody. Mr. Pouliot was the former music director of St. Cecilia’s Church in Ashland and St. James the Great in Natick.
      My desire is to inspire an audience to experience a new musical adventure or to revisit an old favorite. My goal for each performance is to share my love and joy for each of these unique and beautiful masterpieces. Repetoire is chosen for its varied perspectives, For its joy, humor, energy, elegance, passion, and overall beauty. Each program is fifty to sixty minutes in length. Repetoire is chosen from the Baroque to the twenty-first century.

Suggested donation of $10 at the door.   
Elegant reception follows the concert.

Elizabeth Slayton attended the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Penn State University and Massachusetts College of Art. She has been painting all her life and exhibiting for more than 30 years, showing in solo and group shows throughout the US and abroad. Her paintings are included in private and corporate collections.
For several years Slayton has been painting large scale, non-traditional, realistic still life in oil on canvas. These paintings evoke the is-ness of things, the simplicity of things as they are in their particularity, their aliveness, luminosity, stillness and clarity. In these paintings, the objects expand beyond the edges of the canvas. This up-closeness creates a sense of immediacy, intimacy and participation.
She then continued further in this direction by moving in closer to the object, and in particular, to the onion. In doing so the paintings have become more abstract, expanding into another world of image, composition and design.
Most recently she has been working on canvases where she creates a raised, rough white surface which surrounds an embedded iridescent shape. One might associate these shapes to rivers, or pathways, stems, or bones, all of which are vessels of movement, life force or vital energy. Moving closer and closer to the object has now taken the work beneath the surface and into an interiority of aliveness. No longer viewing the object from the outside, this new work explores the inner movement of the life force itself, the vital energy that underlies manifestation. The outside appearance is no longer the referent for the work, but rather, the referent has become an intuitive awareness of inner aliveness.
 

July 17
Steve Kirby, Berklee College of Music

July 26
Singers and instrumentalists from Coro Allegro

August 14
Dave Phillip, piano
 

August 23
Zefiro

September 18
Mark Shilansky Trio

October 16
Josh Rosen and Stan Strickland

October 25
Musica Nuova

November 13
Patrice Monahan, jazz piano, vocals

November 22
Quilisma Consort