Live Music and Art honoring the Outer Cape Chorale

Reception for the Outer Cape Chorale, with Thom Dutton performing on his Celtic Harp and Maryalice Eizenberg and Cleber Stecei demonstrating oil painting. As it will be Valentine’s Day, Thom will present some classical pieces along with a selection of love songs. This will be an opportunity for all to meet members of the Outer Cape Chorale and to learn about this cherished community group. Winter’s chill will be further diminished by libations and nibbles from Mary’s Fine Provisions.

Work may be previewed at the Addison Art Gallery, 43 Route 28, Orleans and at addisonart.com. For more information and/or to reserve work, please email Helen Addison at helen@addisonart.com or call 508.255.6200.

Under the director of Allison Beavan, The Outer Cape Chorale is a welcoming, non-auditioned chorus that fosters joyful, excellent singing through diverse repertoire. The non-profit group brings the inspiration of choral music to the community at free concerts. With over 100 singers and accompanied by a live orchestra, The Outer Cape Chorale offers exceptional musical experiences for the public as well as its performers. Members of the Chorale will sing in Paris this June at the invitation of Elaine Hagenberg, composer of "Illuminare", which the Chorale performed last May.

The Outer Cape Chorale Chamber Singers, a small auditioned ensemble, presents free acapella concerts throughout the Lower and Outer Cape during summer months. They recently appeared at the American Revival event with YoYo Ma at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater.

A graduate of Houghton College, Thom began playing the harp because he could not carry his piano with him. Thus began a span of thirty-five years playing the harp at more than 1,400 performances. He has been heard in concert from northern Vermont to northern Florida. He has played for the Lord Mayor of Chester in England, as well as for fundraising concerts in Abingdon, England and Coedpoeth, Wales. Thom was a featured performer at the 1994 International Folk Harp Conference and has played at First Night celebrations for over twenty-five years, in three states.

He was named Millennium Harper of Cape Cod by Harping for Harmony for having performed in all 29 nursing homes and rehab facilities on Cape Cod.

Over the years, Thom has been recognized with multiple awards. His honors include the Judge's Overall Performance Award for Outstanding Musicianship at the New England Regional Folk Harp Competition and twice silver medalist at the Mid-Atlantic Folk Harp Competition. He has also received awards for playing incidental music for live theatrical productions: The Evelyn Lawson Award from the Association for Community Theater Excellence for "Eleemosynary" and a Certificate of Recognition Honoring Outstanding Achievement from the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters for Three Tall Women. Thom has recorded five critically acclaimed CDs and has published more than a dozen books of harp music.

An award-winning artist, Maryalice Eizenberg has been drawing and painting all of her life. She completed coursework at the Worcester and Spring?eld Fine Arts museums, earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree at Clark University, and studied with painters John Cosby, Donald Demers, Kim English,Daniel Keys, Gregg Kreutz, Joseph Paquet, and Charles Sovek. Dramatic patterns of light and color are what attract her most to a subject. It is her emotional response to these elements that she strives to share with the viewer.
Eizenberg has been featured in Cape Cod Life and Chatham magazines and "The Creative Spirit, Art in Chatham's Old Village.” Her work appears in Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: People and Places by Deborah Forman. She teaches at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, and is a member of Oil Painters of America, and Twenty One in Truro. Her work has been shown in museums on and o? the Cape. Her work is held in private collections in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Born in Brazil in 1976, Cleber Stecei began experimenting with abstract painting as a teenager. After arriving in the United States at the age of 19, he became inspired by the beautiful New England scenery and has since excelled in landscape painting. Stecei’s work is done from photographic references and on location (en plein air), allowing him to respond to the effects of natural light and atmosphere.

Stecei is a member of the Cape Cod Art Association and his work has been awarded numerous times, including a Best in Show. Since showing at the Addison Art Gallery, his work has enthralled collectors as well as judges and has been featured in respected regional and national art publications.