The 2018 Sunday Afternoons Live concert series continues on March 4 at 4 p.m., as the harp duo of Wendy Kerner and Teresa Mango bring their collaboration “A Two of Harps” to the First Church Auditorium.
Kerner is a Juilliard graduate who has appeared widely in concert venues including Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Museum, and the World Harp Congress in Paris. She is also the principal harpist with the Bridgeport, Norwalk and Ridgefield Symphonies. Kerner is a founding member of the Irish music group “Themselves,” and plays a wide range of classical, contemporary and popular music.
Mango has played with the Hartford, Albany, and Berkshire Symphonies, and teaches harp at several colleges and schools in the Northeast, including Hotchkiss, Deerfield, Taft, and Bard College at Simon’s Rock. She is a harp performance graduate of the Manhattan School of Music.
“A Two of Harps is a celebration of the fun of bringing together two magnificent instruments, with a total of 94 strings, to create the kind of enchantment that is the special province of harp music,” said Craig Symons, Director of Music at First Church.
The 2018 Season of Sunday Afternoons Live will conclude on March 11 with a performance by the Ron Petrides Jazz Quartet.
Tickets are $25 and are available at the door. As with all First Music & Arts programs, school-age youth are free. First Congregational Church is located at 108 Sound Beach Ave. Cutline: Wendy Kerner and Teresa Mango bring their collaboration “A Two of Harps” to the First Church on March 4.
