The Music Program’s Friday Music Series brings an eclectic selection of musical talent to McNeir Hall on the Georgetown University campus this Fall. With music ranging from Tin Pan Alley standards to Baroque string music, Jazz and Pop, there truly is something for everyone.

Friday Music is a free concert series featuring artists of regional, national and international acclaim.  Concerts take place every Friday at 1:15 in McNeir Hall at Georgetown University.

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	September 19th Soprano Jennifer Ellis Kampani Soprano Jennifer Ellis Kampani performs a program of Tin Pan Alley selections and opera arias from Special Collections in Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library. "Offer(ing) a freshness of voice, fineness of timbre, and ease of production that place her in the front rank of early-music sopranos,” (andante.com) Jennifer Ellis Kampani is emerging as one of the leading interpreters of the Baroque repertoire. She recently made her debut with the Washington Bach Consort, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and the New York Collegium with Andrew Parrott conducting. A specialist in the music of Spain and Latin America, Jennifer has toured villancicos and zarzuela’s extensively with Richard Savino and El Mundo and has performed on programs with Andrew Lawrence-King. www.jenniferelliskampani.com
	September 26th The Hampton Trio Carnegie Hall alums, The Hampton Trio, play modern and classical chamber compositions by Beethoven, Ravel, and Damon Ferrante. Since its inception, the Hampton Trio has dedicated itself to championing works of living composers while giving enthralling performances of the established chamber literature. The individual performers are accomplished solo musicians in their own right, having performed at New York's Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the 92nd St. Y, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and at various prominent festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, the Rohm International Music Festival in Kyoto, Japan, the Nuits musicales in Nice, France, and New York's Focus! Festival. www.steeplechasearts.com/trio.htm
	October 3rd Lena Seikaly Jazz singer Lena Seikaly takes the stage for an afternoon of music by some of the genre’s great composers. Seikaly is a classical and jazz vocalist out of Washington D.C. with an ever-growing following in standard and traditional jazz circles nationwide. She has performed with Christian McBride, Benito Gonzalez, Raul Mascarenhas, Eddie Locke and Bob Draga, and has collaborated with hundreds of local and non-local musicians. She is the regular vocalist for six bands in the D.C. area, and has appeared numerous times at local festivals including the East Coast Jazz Festival and Crystal City Jazz Festivals. She has also performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Jubilee, the Eistedfodd Music Festival in Wales, several venues in Paris and Bretagne, France as part of a month-long tour, and has participated in the Jazz Aspen Snowmass program directed by McBride. In September of 2008, Lena became the newly appointed vocal jazz instructor at the prestigious Duke Ellington School of the Arts, a position funded by the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation. www.lenaseikaly.com
	October 17th Voting Songs: Past and Present Voting Songs: A selection of candidate and party songs from past campaigns performed by GU student musicians. Curated by Professor Patrick Warfield. Reception to follow at 2:30 in the lobby of the Davis Center for the Performing Arts. Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Patrick Warfield holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Indiana University and an undergraduate degree in clarinet from the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Wisconsin. At Georgetown, Dr. Warfield teaches classes on American popular music including surveys of rock, jazz, blues, and rap. Before coming to Georgetown Dr. Warfield served on the faculties of Towson University and the Peabody Conservatory. He has also delivered lectures for the Smithsonian, the Washington National Opera, and the Chicago Symphony
	October 24th Carsten Schmidt, piano, and James Wilson, cello. Carsten Schmidt, piano, and James Wilson, cello, present a program of contemporary works including the music of John Hilliard. Carsten Schmidt has performed extensively in Europe, North America and Japan. He is a professor of piano and harpsichord at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Mr Schmidt is also the Artistic Director of the Staunton Music Festival. For the past fifteen years, cellist James Wilson has consistently performed to the delight of audiences throughout the world. A devoted advocate for the arts and arts education, Mr. Wilson currently teaches cello and chamber music at Columbia University. As the Artistic Director of the Richmond Festival of Music, he has co-ordinated performances and out-reach activities throughout the Central Virginia area.
	October 31st The Silent Classic Film Der Golem with a Live Musical Score Halloween Movie Event! Hesperus performs live musical accompaniment to the classic 1920 silent film Der Golem. In the Jewish ghetto of 16th century Prague, Rabbi Löw gazes at the stars and sees portents of a great disaster to befall his community. Soon after this, the Holy Roman emperor, Luhois orders the jews to be expelled from the city. The Rabbi creates a clay golem as a protector for his people. He summons the demon Astaroth to learn the key to bringing the clay creature to life. The Golem saves the Jews from expulsion, but the lumbering creature is not easily controlled and when he runs loose, the whole of Prague is in danger of destruction. For more info about the film, click here. Hesperus is an eclectic early-music group whose repertoire spans the European medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, often fused with Appalachian, gospel, blues and more. www.classactsontour.com
	November 7th Osiris Molina, clarinet. Osiris Molina, clarinet, performs a selection of 19th- and 20th-century classical music. Dr. Osiris Molina is Instructor of Clarinet at The University of Alabama. A versatile musician, he has performed with many ensembles in Alabama, Michigan, and the New York-New Jersey tri-state area, including the Tuscaloosa, Huntsville, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Greater Lansing, Jackson, and Bridgeport (CT) symphony orchestras. His chamber music performances include the concert series at the Southampton Cultural Center (NY), the Banff Centre, and the Hot Springs Music Festival (AR), where his performance with the Festival Orchestra of the music of Edmond Dédé was released on compact disc on the Naxos label. www.music.ua.edu
	November 14th The Marcolivia Duo The Marcolivia Duo (violin/viola) presents masterworks by Baroque and 20th-century composers. Violinists Marc Ramirez and Olivia Hajioff, who together form the violin and violin/viola duo marcolivia, have concertized extensively throughout the United States, Russia, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, England, Canada, Mexico and Japan. They have performed chamber music at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, and with chamber music notables including Leon Fleisher, Awadagin Pratt and Edgar Meyer. The duo is on the faculty of Shenandoah University, Las Vegas Summer Music Festival and Dartington International Summer Festival, and are on the roster of the Millenium Stage at the Kennedy Center and the Touring Artists for the Virginia Commission for the Arts. www.marcolivia.com
	December 5th Annual Holiday Concert Friday Music’s Annual Holiday Concert featuring GU student groups. Curated by Professor C. Paul Heins. C. Paul Heins is adjunct professor of music at Georgetown, directing the Concert Choir and teaching piano and music theory. Heins is a 1996 graduate (B.Mus.) of Bowling Green State University and a 2000 graduate (M.Mus.) of the University of Maryland at College Park. His principal teachers have been Victoria Harris and Virginia Marks (piano), Judith Bentley and William Montgomery (flute), and Mark S. Kelly (conducting).