2024-2025 Concert Season
String quartet members
Kirsten Del Gaudio, Violin: Kirsten is a local violinist and teacher, originally from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She graduated high school from University of North Carolina School of the Arts and went on to continue her musical studies in New York City. She received her undergraduate degree in Violin Performance from The Manhattan School of Music and her Master’s in Arts from Queens College. Some of her most notable instructors were Patinka Kopec and Daniel Phillips. Since college, Kirsten has held multiple teaching positions, including faculty member of Queens College Preparatory Division, string faculty at Kellenberg Memorial High School, as well as currently managing her own private violin studio. Kirsten performs with many local orchestral groups including Arts on the Square in Harrisburg and Trinity Lutheran Concert Series in Camp Hill. She is also a current member of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Kirsten currently resides in Camp Hill with her husband James (a bassoonist), and four children, Juliana, Christopher, Elliot, and Grace.
Johanna Levi, Violin: Johanna Levi is an active violinist throughout the region, performing as a member of the York Symphony, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, and as a founding member of the Allegro Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster. She has also performed regularly with Harrisburg and Lancaster Symphonies as well as numerous productions at the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster. Chamber Music membership has included the Susquehanna University String Quartet and the Elizabethtown College Faculty Piano Trio where she also served as violin professor. Additionally as an educator, Ms. Levi taught in the school districts of Southern York County and Elizabethtown where she was awarded Outstanding New String Teacher in 2008. Her teachers include Peter Sirotin (Mendelssohn Piano Trio), Helen Kwalwasser (Temple University), Yumi Scott (Curtis Institute of Music), Susan Waterbury (Cavani Quartet), and Rebecca Henry (Peabody), as well as violin pedagogy studies with Mimi Zweig (Indiana University). Currently, Johanna lives in Selinsgrove, PA with her husband, Zachary, and their two sons.
Alison Koch, Cello: Ali Koch is a 2024 graduate of Messiah University with a major in Cello Performance and a minor in Education. She has been playing cello since age 9, and took part in many ensembles in her youth, such as Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestras, Hershey Symphony’s Festival Strings, and Cumberland Valley High School’s quartet and pit orchestra. Growing up, she was very involved in her church, playing cello for services, singing in the choirs, and playing in the handbell choirs. Ali attended PMEA district and regional orchestra festivals, and was awarded the CCMEA scholarship through the Cumberland County Music Educators Association’s County Orchestra. In 2021, she was the featured soloist with the Susquehanna Chorale’s Christmas concert tour for the world premiere of the Dan Forrest piece, “Let the Stable Still Astonish.” This past year, she won the Messiah University 2024 Concerto Competition and performed David Popper's Hungarian Rhapsody with the MU Symphony Orchestra. She currently manages a private studio of cello students while continuing to perform in the area.
Music to Feed the Soul
For 40 years, through our unique interpretive style, we have immersed our audience in our signature sound, One Voice, tethering our listeners to the music and enabling them to experience the wonder the composer intended. Over the years we have been fortunate, through the American Composers’ Choral Festival, to have worked with many well-known composers of sacred music from around the country, such as Mack Wilberg, Mark Hayes, Craig Courtney, Robert Lau, and K. Lee Scott. Our spring concert will feature familiar works by all of these talented musicians, some of which were written for and premiered by The Harrisburg Singers at the Festival, and will include inspirational selections such as My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, Come Home, and His Eye is on the Sparrow, among others.
We will also perform Schubert’s Mass in G, accompanied by string quartet. Schubert wrote the Mass in G, a short but beautifully melodic piece with soprano, tenor and bass soloists in only six days, but the work was not published until 18 years after his death. The overall character of the piece is devotional and contemplative, and it is loved by audiences around the world. Come join us for a concert of music to feed the soul.
Friday, May 2, 2025
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Hershey
8:00 PM, Pre-Concert 7:40 PM
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Saturday, May 3, 2025
Saint Joseph Catholic Church, Mechanicsburg
7:30 PM, Pre-Concert 7:10 PM
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Trinity Lutheran Church, Camp Hill
3:00 PM, Pre-Concert 2:40 PM