RECITAL

                                                 7:30pm, August 21, 2004

                   To Benefit Little Lambs of the Good Shepherd School

Works by Mozart, Brahms, Bach, elgar, and more

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Saturday, August 21, 7:30 PM

Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

112 Middletown Rd & Crawford Corner Rd, Holmdel, NJ

732-842-4596  http://home.comcast.net/~little-lambs/

Refreshments will be served. A freewill offering will be collected.

Little Lambs of the Good Shepherd School, the preschool of Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Holmdel, will hold its second annual benefit concert on Saturday, August 21 at 7:30 pm at the church.  The talented performers include JO ELLEN MILLER, Soprano, MIRA KANG, Cello, and MIAE PARK, Organ.

Jo Ellen will perform works by Mozart in Latin and Italian, several Brahms songs in German, and a set of English songs.  Miae will accompany her on the organ, and her mother Pat Miller will accompany on piano.  Mira will perform Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 and Edward Elgar’s Salute d' Amor.  The finale will be Bach’s complete Cantata 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, sung in German with organ and cello accompaniment.

Jo Ellen is a 2005 candidate for Master of Music degree in vocal performance at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, attending on a full university scholarship.  She recently performed the role of Zerlina in Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni.  Last summer Jo Ellen performed professionally with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera in several musicals.  She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003 with a BFA in music - vocal performance. While at CMU she performed leading roles in the operas Gianni Schicchi and Die Fledermaus, and attended the solisti program of the Opera Festival of Lucca in Italy.  Jo Ellen is a graduate of Middletown HS South, having performed in many of the school’s plays as well as with many local theater groups such as Phoenix, Monmouth County Parks, and Premier. She won college scholarships from several local groups, including All-Shore Chorus and Monmouth Civic Chorus.

Mira Kang is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts at Rutgers University, where she was awarded a full scholarship and worked as a part-time lecturer.  Mira made her debut at the age of seventeen as a cello soloist with the Seoul Civic Orchestra, Korea.  The success of this performance brought her an appearance on an MBC Broadcast in Korea as a featured artist in a classical music program. Before coming to the US, she actively performed throughout Korea, including the “Young Performer's Ensemble Series” of the Seoul International Music Festival. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from Seoul National University.  She continued her study at the Manhattan School of Music for a Master of Music degree. In 1997 Mira made her New York debut recital in Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Artist International award. As a soloist and an ensemble player she actively performs throughout the Northeastern US and Europe. Until her very recent move to Columbia, NJ, Mira was associated with Monmouth Grace Church of Eatontown and had a local cello studio.

Miae Park is the Minister of Music at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, as organist and director of all the choirs, vocal and handbell.  She is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She holds Master of Music degrees in Organ and Church Music from New England Conservatory and Westminster Choir College.  She teaches piano lessons locally.  Last summer Miae performed an outstanding solo recital at Holmdel Community Church; this was the first benefit event for the Little Lambs School.

The Little Lambs School opened in 2003.  The school has grown rapidly to over 55 students registered for Fall 2004, in classes for 2 ½ years through Kindergarten enrichment.  Little Lambs is managed by Director Barbara Benson and Pastor David Louder and is dedicated to providing early learning with God’s love. The website is http://home.comcast.net/~little-lambs/.

The recital is free of charge.  A freewill offering will be collected to benefit the Little Lambs School.  Refreshments will be served afterward.  Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd is at 112 Middletown Road and Crawford Corner Road in Holmdel, phone 732 842-4596.