Zwei Gesänge, Op 91 for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano by Johannes Brahms

Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Chimacum
Jeannie Oneppo, soprano; Vincent Oneppo, clarinet; Lisa Lanza, piano
Soprano Jeannie Bennett Oneppo started as a child singing in church choirs and has gone on to perform as a soloist in recitals, with choruses and orchestras, and while touring Europe, Turkey, and China. She taught singing full time for many years, and was faculty at the Yale School of Drama. She earned her BME from Illinois Wesleyan and MM from the Yale School of Music.
Clarinetist and saxophonist Vincent Oneppo is a graduate of the Yale School of Music, where he later served in various administrative roles over the course of four decades. He has appeared as soloist with Yale ensembles in New Haven, at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and at Carnegie Hall in New York, and was a member of the New Haven and Bridgeport Symphony orchestras, Orchestra New England, and many other classical, pop, and jazz groups. Since moving to Washington in 2017, he has been a featured soloist at Chamber Music Northwest, and has performed with several other ensembles.
Pianist Lisa Lanza enjoys a rich life of music through solo performing, collaboration and teaching. Voted “Best Musical Performer of Jefferson County” in 2017, she has performed at the Hebden Bridge Piano Festival in UK and Music at Albignac, France. She earned a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Accompanying from the University of Redlands and has studied at the Guildhall with Paul Roberts and in Portugal with Maria João Pires. Lisa is pianist at Grace Lutheran Church and with the Rainshadow Chorale.