March 23, 2009 – St. Croix Landmarks Society will present the final concert as part of its Music at Whim, Candlelight Concert Series on Easter weekend, at 7:30 p.m., on April 10 and 11. Good Friday’s performance will take place after sunset, allowing worship activities to finish. These concerts provide both an avenue to raise funds as well as to carry out the organization’s mission to provide cultural performing arts/music education to the people of St. Croix and its visitors.
Please make reservations early, as seating is limited. Ticket prices for Friday night performances are $35; Saturday night performances are $45 and include a post-concert artist reception. Concertgoers can reserve a “Boxed Dinner on the Lawn” until noon on Friday before the concert for $20, which includes one beverage. To make reservations, call the Landmarks Society at 772-0598.
Marc Thayer, currently vice president for education and community partnerships with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, is a violinist with the Kingsbury Baroque Ensemble in St. Louis, and an American Voices faculty member. He taught and performed at the 2007 and 2008 Iraqi Unity Performing Arts Academy in Northern Iraq. He is on faculty and performs with the orchestra of the Guadalquivir Festival in Tarija, Bolivia. Thayer has performed with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL (and founded its education community program), the Festival International d’Aix-en-Provence in France, and Ars Flores Chamber Orchestra in Fort Lauderdale. Marc received a BM and MM in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with William Preucil and Zvi Zeitlin. An active violinist and teacher, Marc has performed with the San Diego, Syracuse, and Youngstown Symphony Orchestras, and as concertmaster of the Schlossfest Opera Orchestra in Heidelberg, Germany. He has served on the teaching faculties of the Summer Music Institute in Fort Lauderdale, the New World School of the Arts in Miami, and the Encore/Coda Summer Music Camp in Maine. Currently he serves on the teaching faculties of St. Louis University and the Community Music School of Webster University.
Maryse Carlin has performed throughout the United States and abroad, both as a pianist and harpsichordist. She made her harpsichord debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York under the auspices of Jeunesses Musicales. Since then, she has appeared at the Whitney Museum in New York, in Jordan Hall and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, under the auspices of the Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies, and as guest artist with the Boston Musica Viva, Fromm Foundation Concerts at Harvard University, and the Marlboro Music Festival. As a soloist with orchestra, Ms. Carlin has collaborated with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Roger Norrington, Nicholas McGegan, Raymond Leppard and José-Luis Garcia. In 1992 she performed as forte pianist on the “Great Performers at Lincoln Center: Mozart Marathon at Alice Tully Hall.” Her performance of the “Goldberg Variations” in Saint Louis was proclaimed "one of the most memorable performances of the year" by the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch. Recent concert appearances have taken her to France, Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Carlin lives in Saint Louis, where she directs the Kingsbury Ensemble and is on the faculty of Washington University and the Innsbrook Institute.
