September 2011
IBIS in LOVE
Our fall fundraiser featured IBIS couples and friends making music together. We were so fortunate this year to have as our venue the spectacular McLean home of our friends Jan and Elizabeth Lodal--who have a whole room dedicated to art and music making. We made some new friends, enjoyed good food and drink, and raised over $5000 towards our upcoming season. A heartfelt thanks to the Lodals! Our event also featured a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, as violinist Joel Fuller and pianist Edward Newman performed a touching rendition of the last movement of Messiaen's powerful Quartet for the End of Time.
And in other news, we bid a very fond (and sad) farewell to our beautiful cellist Amy Butler, who has moved north to New Jersey. She will be hard to replace! We wish her all the best.
May 2011
IBIS RECORDS Releases Mendelssohn Octet CD
A live performance recorded last spring at Resurrection Lutheran Church, this cd features IBIS core players augmented by friends from the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra and the National Symphony. Th e program: Vivaldi's Flute Concerto (The Goldfinch) with Adria Sternstein Foster on flute, Handel Concerto for Harp in Bb and Debussy Danses Sacree et Profane with Susan Robinson on harp, and the thrilling Octet for Strings of Felix Mendelssohn.
The CD should be available at CD Baby and on ITunes soon, but you can also email
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to get one.
January 2011
ANOTHER SOLD OUT SHOW WITH DAR
Our evening concert with Dar Williams sold out and a second performance was added. The audience loved the mix of strings and harp with Dar's thought-provoking beautiful songs and the standing room only crowd at the evening show rewarded us with an instant standing o! See some photos on our Facebook page.
See a video promo of the concert here.
August '10
SOLD OUT CONCERT WITH DAR WILLIAMS
Wow! Our collaboration with singer/songwriter Dar Williams at the Heritage Museum in Lexington MA generated a lot of press in the Boston Globe and elsewhere around town. Here's a great piece by James Reed that ran just before the concert. We also got a nice interview with the Lexington Minuteman and a half hour spot on Jay Moberg's show on WUMB. Plus we were the Globe West's Best Bet of the Week and featured in the Globe's Arts Section as "What to Do." Pretty exciting! But the packed house and thrilled audience was even more exciting. Here's what some attendees had to say:
"That was one of the best concerts I've ever seen in my life. And as a former radio station music director, I've seen a LOT of shows!"
"I was blown away by the your eclectic program, by your musicianship and by the arrangements which gave a sense of s--t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g right ...out of the box. Hats off to you, Joe, for your wonderfully expansive and adventurous arrangements of Dars compositions. They helped to showcase Dar at her best."
"The concert was incredible. Thank you to all of you for unlocking another layer of beauty in Dar's music."
June '10
WE WELCOME TWO NEW ADDITIONS TO THE IBIS FAMILY!
IBIS is pleased to announce that pianist Edward Newman, already a veteran of several IBIS concerts, has officially joined our artist roster. We are looking forward to more of Ed's great playing in a concert of music for piano trio in the spring of 2011.
Read more about Ed here.
And on the home front, we congratulate IBIS violinist Joel Fuller and his wife Susan Fuller (who has performed double duty on both violin and viola for IBIS) on the birth of their son Jonah, born on June 5, 2010. He has a beautiful head of hair and a perfect bow hold! We can't wait to meet him!
February '10
PLEASE NOTE: OUR MARCH 18th CONCERT HAS BEEN MOVED
TO FRIDAY, MARCH 19th
This concert will still take place at the
Lyon Park Community Center at 7:30 p.m.
Also, please note that we have added a date for our
Annual Concert for Children
September 09
 Joe Scheer will be the featured soloist for the opening of the Cape Ann Symphony's season on Saturday, September 26. Joe will be performing the Beethoven Concerto under the baton of Maestro Yoichi Udagawa. Here is a great article from the Gloucester (MA) Times about Joe, the "Fishin' Fiddler".
Our Annual House Party/Fundraiser!
Coming right up: Our annual House Party/Fundraiser!
This year: A Night in the Gardens of Spain
a Spanish themed event with sangria, tapas, and of course, appropriate entertainment.
September 11 at 7:30., $50 donation requested.
email
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for more info.
We are so grateful to La Tasca Restaurant of Clarendon for their generous donation of paella for our event, and of course, to our wonderful hosts, Bess and Michael Foley.
This event is SOLD OUT
IBIS to Play in Three Local Chamber Music Series
IBIS is happy to be the guest of 3 local chamber music series this season. Check our schedule for concerts at Providence Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, Resurrection Lutheran Church in Arlington, and the wonderful Waterford (VA) concert series, in a charming village a stone's throw from Washington, D.C.
Spring/Summer 09
IBIS Road Trip
IBIS had A LOT of fun this summer, playing a benefit concert for Wellfleet Preservation Hall on Cape Cod. Joel Fuller, his wife Susan, and Amy Butler all traveled out to Cape Cod, kids and dog in tow, to take part in this event. (And to go to the beach, eat great seafood and drink margaritas!)
We raised between $8000-9000 for this great cause, and performed works by William Grant Still, Debussy, Piazzolla, and Gershwin (arranged by our own Joe Scheer) for a large and very enthusiastic crowd. But for us the most fun was performing with my (Susan's) incredibly talented sister-in-law Dar Williams, with Joe's original arrangements of 6 of her songs. Stereo-Type says: "Dar Williams may be the best female singer/songwriter in America today" and we agree! (I think she's better than the boys too!) Playing with Dar was definitely one of the coolest things we've done, and we hope to repeat that show in DC. Here are some photos of one of our rehearsals.
Dar Williams
Annabelle Fuller catches a few z's
IBIS Violinist Joins NSO
Congratulations to IBIS violinist Joel Fuller, who recently won an audition to become the newest member of the National Symphony Orchestra violin section. An audition like this draws many many musicians from around the country and even the world. We are proud of Joel's accomplishment, and also very grateful that he will still be in the DC area and continuing to perform with IBIS.
Fall 08
IBIS HOLDS ITS FIRST ANNUAL FUNDRAISING BRUNCH
IBIS wants to thank all the supporters who came out for a great afternoon of music, food and champagne. They helped IBIS kick off its season and raise some money. About 45 fans old and new (including a number of attentive kids) enjoyed music for two violins and string bass. Joe did some new arrangements of jazz standards and he threw in a few musical jokes, and a few season previews. The audience was quite appreciative and a great time was had by all.
We thank Joel Fuller and the National Symphony's Rick Barber for their generosity and great music-making, as well as IBIS kid Lillie Scheer for sharing her vocal talents.
And we are indebted to our hosts, Peter de Boor and Geneva Moore, who made the event a great success.
Our Fall Fundraising Brunch will be an annual event--you won't want to miss the next one!
IBIS RELEASES A NEW CD!
IBIS is happy to announce the release of its latest CD: Out of Bounds: Jazz, Rags and Tangos for String Quartet. This is a live recording of our well-received concert of February 2008. CD's are available at all our concerts, or check out the "Purchase CDs" section of this website.
IBIS MEMBERS IN CONCERT
In October 2008, IBIS violinist Joel Fuller travels to Wisconsin to perform the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra.
The morning after our February 2009 Lyon Park concert, Joe Scheer and Susan Robinson take off bright and early for Newton MA, where they will both be featured soloists with the Newton Symphony Orchestra, James Orent conducting. Susan will be performing the Lyra Angelica for Harp and Strings of William Alwyn, and Joe will be the featured soloist in the Bruch Scottish Fantasy, with Susan in the orchestra playing the harp accompaniment.
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