2022 – 2023 Concert Season
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U.S. NAVY SEA CHANTERS
Saturday, November 5, 2022 | 7:30pm
The U.S. Navy Sea Chanters are frequently found at the center of our most important national events, including inauguration day performances and state funerals. They regularly perform in the Washington, D.C. area and throughout the United States while on national tours. At home in Washington, they perform for the president, vice president, and numerous congressional, military and foreign dignitaries. Made up of many of this nation’s finest professional singers, the Sea Chanters have appeared on “Larry King Live” and “CBS This
Morning,” and collaborated with the Kansas City Symphony, Boston Pops, and Baltimore Orchestra.
Join us for a live and acoustic performance by the U.S. Navy Sea Chanters featuring Bradley Hills’ newly-rebuilt historic 1904 Steinway B Grand Piano.
Tickets (In Person and Virtual): While this concert is free, tickets are required. Donations for Bradley Hills Presents are gratefully accepted. This performance will be livestreamed and available On Demand through November 12, 2022. Links to the livestream and program will be sent out immediately prior to the concert via email to all concertgoers.
THE TEMPEST TRIO
Saturday, February 25, 2023 | 7:30pm
Amit Peled, Cello
Ilya Kaler, Violin
Alon Goldstein, Piano
BEETHOVEN | Piano Trio No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 11, “Gassenhauer”
STUTSCHEWSKY | Hasidic Fantasy
BRAHMS | Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87
Bradley Hills Presents is thrilled to welcome back cellist Amit Peled, and to welcome The Tempest Trio. Hailed for their “exceptional amount of presence” (Palm Beach Daily News) compared favorably to “the legendary trio… of pianist Arthur Rubinstein, violinist Jascha Heifetz, and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky,” this concert is sure to be a tour-de-force performance from one of America’s finest classical trios!
Tickets (In Person and Virtual): $40/30/15 for general admission, students, and children under age 15. $5 off if purchased in advance. This performance will be livestreamed and available On Demand through March 5, 2023. inks to the livestream and program will be sent out immediately prior to the concert via email to all ticketholders.
THE YALE WHIFFENPOOFS
Sunday, March 26, 2023 | 5:00pm
Bradley Hills Presents invites you to join us as we welcome The Yale Whiffenpoofs, the world’s oldest and most renowned collegiate a cappella group. Following their sold-out performance in 2019, Bradley Hills Presents is delighted to invite you to a night of jazz, oldies, classic rock, and everything in between.
Their characteristic white tie and tails, paired with their enthusiasm and humor, are icons all around the globe. Recent Whiffenpoof performance venues have included Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the White House, the Rose Bowl, and Lincoln Center. The Whiffenpoofs have also reached a television audience of more than 175 million in appearances on NBC’s “The Sing Off,” “The West Wing,” “The Today Show,” “60 Minutes,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Jeopardy!,” “Saturday Night Live,” and, “Glee,” and have performed for multiple sitting presidents of the United States.
Tickets (In Person and Virtual): $40/30/15 for general admission, students, and children under age 15. $5 off if purchased in advance. This performance will be livestreamed and available On Demand through April 5, 2023. Links to the livestream and program will be sent out immediately prior to the concert via email to all ticketholders.
THE RALEIGH RINGERS
Saturday, April 15, 2023 | 7:30pm
Based in Raleigh, NC, The Raleigh Ringers is an internationally-acclaimed concert handbell choir. Since its founding in 1990 they have been dazzling audiences with unique interpretations of sacred, secular, and popular music, including famous rock tunes arranged just for handbells!
Join us for The Raleigh Ringers’ triumphal return to Bradley Hills Presents following their sold-out performance here in 2016! Sure to delight the entire family, don’t miss this exciting multimedia concert!
Tickets (In Person and Virtual): $40/30/15 for general admission, students, and children under age 15. $5 off if purchased in advance. This performance will be livestreamed and available On Demand through April 23, 2023. Links to the livestream and program will be sent out immediately prior to the concert via email to all ticketholders.
THE SPIRITUAL BACH: A CONNECTION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
Saturday, May 13, 2023 | 7:30pm
The Spiritual Bach: A Connection Across Time and Space provides a moving musical experience juxtaposing the organ works of J.S. Bach and Negro spirituals. Both genres of music have a deep connection to the divine at their core, which fuels them with meaning beyond the music on the page and provides a common depth of sentiment – a spiritual connection. Don’t
miss this concert that will “move [you] to tears” (Delaware Today)!
Tickets (In Person and Virtual): $40/30/15 for general admission, students, and children under age 15. $5 off if purchased in advance. This performance will be livestreamed and available On Demand through May 21, 2023. Links to the livestream and program will be sent out immediately prior to the concert via email to all ticketholders.
More Information on the ‘Bradley Hills Present’ Concert Series
Bradley Hills Presents’ Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
In addition to following all federal, state, and local guidance, we will continue to take appropriate steps to ensure the health and safety of everyone attending our concerts in person. We expect that all of our concertgoers will be masked and vaccinated. Bradley Hills Presents is carefully monitoring the Covid-19 pandemic; as the public health emergency changes, so will our policies.
About
The concert series is an important means of connecting with the wider musical community, a source of mission and social outreach and a vital form of evangelization. The mission of Concerts at Bradley Hills is to provide world-class musical events in a wonderful acoustic setting, thereby sharing the joy of music with the public as a living ministry. Some of these concerts are also essential ways of aiding social justice ministries through the donation of proceeds to various charitable organizations.
History
A concert series at Bradley Hills was first created under the tenure of Donald S. Sutherland, director of music from 1971 to 1999. From 1972 to 1991, “Bradley Hills Presents” offered world-class concerts, featuring many famous musicians: Marie-Claire Alain, William Albright, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, David Craighead, Leon Fleisher, Judith and Gerre Hancock, Susan Landale, André Marchal, the National Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet, Martin Neary, Louis Robilliard, Ned Rorem, Albert Russell, Larry Smith, Donald S. Sutherland, Vernon de Tar, the Theatre Chamber Players, and Dame Gillian Weir.
With the revival of the concert series in 2009 Bradley Hills has once again opened its doors to talented performers as a mission to the wider music community.
Friends of Music
Friends of Music consists of all those who, through donation of their time and financial gifts, support the cause of concerts at Bradley Hills. Concerts sponsored by Friends of Music are supported solely through suggested donations and admission costs collected at all events, as well as the gracious financial contributions and volunteer efforts of Friends of Music.
Become a Friend of Music: If you would like to become a Friend of Music at Bradley Hills or receive email updates and mailings about future concerts:
- Please contact Friends of Music.
- For donations, please make checks payable to “Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church” for “Friends of Music.”
- Please join our Facebook group, “Concerts at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church.”