Sunday, April 23 at 2:00 p.m.

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SATORI will perform music for flute, violin, and cello, including compositions by John Antes.

 

SATORI is a classical chamber music ensemble, based in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, and playing both traditional and contemporary chamber music. The group is currently in its 27th season, with a repertoire ranging from baroque to 21st century selections.

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This concert in the Museum of the Moravian Historical Society will feature Rebecaa Brown, violin; Elizabeth Mendoza, cello; and Nora Suggs, flute. Their repertoire will include compositions by John Antes as well as other 18th-century works.

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Rebecaa Brown is a graduate of Drake University, with a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. She teaches and performs regularly with the Bach Festival Orchestra and the Allentown Symphony.

 

Elizabeth Mendoza received her Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory and her Master of Music degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory. She currently plays with Philadelphia’s Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra and the Chanticleer String Quartet, and serves as principal cellist with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, and the New Jersey Bay-Atlantic Symphony.

 

Nora Suggs is a graduate of Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine, and is the Artistic Director of SATORI. For over 20 years she has also performed with Two Part Invention, a flute and classical guitar duo. She has taught on the music faculty at Bethlehem’s Moravian College and at the Community Music School of the Lehigh Valley, and currently teaches privately. Dr. Suggs also plays shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute, and has received Shihan (Master) level performance and teaching accreditation on that instrument.

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