Meeting Schedule
10:30 a.m. Mix and Mingle 
11:00 a.m. Concert Program
12:15 p.m. Luncheon 

Performers

Anatolia Evarkiou-Kaku*, flute
Clare Longendyke*, piano

Michelle Mariposa*, mezzo soprano

*MCW member

The price of lunch is $40.00. For reservations made after noon on January 11, the price of lunch is $45.00. Members may register online, by email, or by phone. They may pay online by credit card or by check at the door. *Ask about our donated lunch program.*

Concerts are free to attend, but registration is required. To register for concert only attendance, contact Katherine Kinney, MCW Social Committee Chair at mcwluncheon@gmail.com or by phoning (773) 944-5554.

Luncheon Menu

Baked Breast of Chicken Parmesan

Tomato and Basil Relish, Mashed Yukon Gold Potatoes with Olive Oil

Oven Roasted Brussels Sprouts

OR

Grilled Vegetable Plate

Lentils, Broccolini and Tomatoes

Dessert: Chocolate Mousse Tart, Chocolate Macaron

*These entrees do not contain pork or shellfish*
*This menu does contain dairy*

Gluten free and vegetarian options are available; please indicate dietary restrictions at the time of registration.

Please note that luncheon seating is pre-assigned to specific tables. When making your reservations for any luncheon, please indicate the names of the members or guests with whom you would like to be seated. Tables will be filled at a seating capacity of eight (8) people.

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COVID-19 Safety Protocols

MCW is committed to the safety of our community during the ongoing pandemic. Masks are optional, but encouraged during the concert. Tables will be filled at a capacity of eight (8) people per table. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Meeting Order

10:30 am - Mix and Mingle

11:00 am - Concert Program

12:15 pm - Lunch

Featured Performers

Dr. Cate Hummel - flute

with collaborative pianist Cindy Trowbridge

Stephanie Chee - soprano

with collaborative pianist Karina Kontorovitch

Dr. Cate Hummel & Cindy Trowbridge

From Nocturnes for the Nativity for Solo Flute by Daniel Dorff (b. 1956)

   Nocturne on O Bambino

   Nocturne on Silent Night

Sonata in C major by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

   Largo

   Allegro

​​Sonata Simple by Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras

Stephanie Chee & Karina Kontorovitch

Wo bin ich? from Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdink

It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

Ich schwebe by Richard Strauss

Winter Wonderland

Winter by Dominick Argento

Longing for Home by Huang Zi

I’ll be home for Christmas

Cindy Trowbridge is a collaborative pianist performing throughout the Chicago area.   As a professor of music at College of DuPage, she teaches private and class piano and serves as staff accompanist.  Cindy also does extensive work as an accompanist for vocal and instrumental studios and recitals at Wheaton College.  She has served as the principal pianist for Credo Flute Summer Festival, Wheaton College Opera Music Theater program and DuPage Opera Theater.  Cindy has performed in recitals with renowned flutists Ian Clarke, Bonita Boyd, and Jennie Brown.  She has released a CD with the Carey Consort, and has been featured in several WFMT live broadcasts.    

Ms. Trowbridge holds a Master of Music from Indiana University, where she studied with Menahem Pressler, and a Bachelor of Music from DePauw University.  She studied at the Austro-American Institute in Vienna, Austria, and has performed in Austria and Great Britain.  

Dr. Cate Hummel loves performing, especially music that is not well known by both recognized and forgotten composers. She is active as a performing artist and clinician around the U.S. and internationally. Some memorable events have included being a guest artist at the Festival Internacional de Flauta: Perla del Pacífico in Guayaquil, Ecuador, playing and presenting at flute festivals and conventions around the US, playing the premiere of Douglas Townsend’s Sonatina for flute and piano (lost for 40 years), playing a debut recital in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, a recital Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center in New York, and on the Dame Myra Hess Series at the Chicago Cultural Center. She received her DMA and MM degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and BM degree from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts.  Dr. Hummel is Adjunct Professor of Flute at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, IL. As a clinician and scholar for Altus and Azumi flutes she travels to universities, high schools, music dealers, flute events educator conferences performing her ongoing series, Modern Masters, Hidden Gems and presenting on a wide range of topics including her research on the teaching of Marcel Moyse, good practice habits and flute pedagogy. She is best known for creating the pedagogy blog, Dr. Cate’s Flute Tips, at drcatesflutetips.wordpress.com especially for music educators about teaching flute, soon to be available in book form. Dr. Cate resides in Aurora, IL and teaches students from the Chicago area and online http://www.fluteline.com

Originally from Sunnyvale, CA, soprano Stephanie Chee is currently pursuing her Master of Music under the tutelage of Nova Thomas. A proud graduate of Northwestern University, Stephanie is absolutely delighted to return to Chicago! This season, she will appear as Valleto in Monteverdi’s L’incorazione di Poppea and Grace Davis in Weill’s Street Scene with the Shepherd School Opera, and make her orchestral debut, singing with the Fox Valley Orchestra. In the past, she has been seen as Aline in Honneger’s Les aventures du roi Pausole, La ninfa in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Phènice in Lully’s Armide, and Ida in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. Stephanie was recently awarded first place in the 2022 Fox Valley Collegiate Voice Competition, second place in the 2022 Upper College Treble Voices Division of the National Student Auditions, and the Farwell Trust Award in the 2022 Musicians Club of Women Voice Competition. In addition to singing, Stephanie has an active interest in languages, having spent the summer of 2021 at Middlebury’s German for Singers program and completed an independent study in 2020 on the variations in style and approach when dealing with different languages in music. 

Helaine Liebman, soprano

Teresa Kang, piano

1. Lied der Ophelia by Strauss

2. selections from Daughters of Britannia by Iain Bell - Morgause and Boudicca

3. Die Junge Nonne by Schubert

4. Songs of the Seasons by Margaret Bonds

Veena Akama-Makia, mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Allor, piano

Concert Pieces:

1. Mon coeur s'ouvre ta voix by Saint-Saëns

2. Oh, Glory-Shawn by Okphebolo

3. Go Figure by Blue

Helaine Liebman is a soprano based in Chicago. Her awards and scholarships include second place in the 2022 Central Region NATS Student Auditions, 2021 winner of the Lynne Harvey Foundation Award in honor of Virginia Cooper Maier from the Musicians Club of Women, first place in the 2021 NATS National Student auditions, 2020 Wisconsin District winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and the Joyce Reed Cope and Eckstein Scholarships from Northwestern University. In the 2021-2022 season, Helaine made her debut of Exsultate, jubilate by Mozart, Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La bohème, and covered Diana in If I Were You by Heggie. Most recently, Helaine covered the role of Donna Elvira at the Aspen Music Festival. Additionally, she graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Music in London and recently graduated from Northwestern University. Helaine continues her studies as a doctoral student at Northwestern University this fall.

Teresa Kang is a celebrated pianist who has performed all over the U.S., as well as in Europe and Asia. 

She has worked as a vocal coach and accompanist at the Opera on the James, Lynchburg, Virginia, the Italian Operatic Experience in Montecatini, Italy, as well as at the Opera Training Institute of Chicago in Evanston, Illinois. 

Teresa was selected to perform on two separate occasions for the Lunchtime Recital at the Piano Festival in Bishopsgate Recital Hall in London. She has also given numerous performances in Seoul, South Korea, and is proud to have performed at Green Mill as a part of the Emerging Artist Series in 1998. Teresa recently performed at Carnegie Hall in New York as part of the American Protégé Winner's Recital. She also performed at Ravinia Festival with DuPage Dance Company. 

Teresa was honored with the Nancy Wustman Award at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she is currently completing her doctorate work. She is a part-time instructor at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. She is an accompanist for opera workshop. She is also a lecturer at North Park University: she is a vocal coach and teaches art Song Literature class and ensemble class. 

Her credits as an accompanist include more than 30 operas, including Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, L’Elisir d’Amore, The Love for Three Oranges, Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Le Nozze di Figaro, Roméo et Juliette, La Boheme and La Traviata.

Cameroonian-American mezzo-soprano, Veena Akama-Makia,  joined Chicago Opera Theater as a Young Artist for the 2021-2022 season. At COT, the mezzo-soprano has covered roles in performances of Carmen (Bizet) and Becoming Santa Claus (Adamo). She will make her COT debut as Tawny Betty in the world premiere of Quamino’s Map (Wallen/Brevoort) and the role of Tree Spirit in The BeeKeeper (Lu/Rourke) as part of COT’s Vanguard Initiative. 

This Summer, she was a Tomita Young Artist with Finger Lakes Opera, where she performed the role of the Cherubino in The Three Little Pigs (Davies) and sang duets and arias in their summer scenes concert. She has recently performed in concerts with  Opera On Tap Boston and the NEMPAC Opera Project, notably their concert titled, “Juneteenth”: Opera In The Key Of Freedom. 

In 2019, she debuted the role of Mother and Grandmother in Little Red’s Most Unusual Day (Davies) at the Rochester Fringe Festival, and she made her MassOpera debut as Gloria in Dan Shore’s Freedom Ride. Additionally, she was the Alto Soloist in Liszt’s Missa Solemnis with the Eastman Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Akama-Makia has been honored with several awards, including being a Finalist in the Jesse Kneisel Lieder Competition, a Finalist in the 2020 Mildred Miller Competition, Semi-Finalist in the 2020 Premiere Opera Foundation, and NYIOP International Competition, Semi-Finalist in the 2020 Rochester International Vocal Competition, Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition and received a 2021 Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Illinois District.

She holds a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she sang Mezzo 1 in Tibetan Book of the Dead by Ricky Ian Gordon and Gertrude in Hansel und Gretel by Humperdinck. She earned her Bachelor of Music at the University of Central Arkansas.

Jennifer Allor has established herself as a pianist and vocal coach in the Chicago area and is currently entering her second year in the Chicago Opera Theater/Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University Professional Diploma and Young Artist Program. During the 2021-2022 season, she worked on productions of Carmen, Becoming Santa Claus (Adamo), The Beekeeper (Wang Lu), and the world premiere of Quamino’s Map 

(Errollyn Wallen) with COT. She also appeared with COT Young Artist singers in recitals and performances. For the summer of 2022, she joined Prague Summer Nights as apprentice coach for their production of Don Giovanni and served as pianist and coach for Soo Opera Theatre’s production of La Bohème. She has appeared as soloist with multiple orchestras including the Charlotte and Raleigh Symphonies. She holds a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Monday September 19th, 2022

Union League Club of Chicago

65 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL

Schedule

10:30 am Mix and Mingle

11:00 am Concert Program

12:15 pm Lunch

Artists

Ashley Ertz, Oboe*

Lillia Woolschlager, piano*

Charlene Kluegel, violin*

Katherine Petersen, piano*

Reserve for Lunch