June 18, 2023

Music Box

June 18,2023

Taylan Dincer, cello, David Elyoussoufi, cello, Josef Elyoussoufi, piano,

Josef Elyoussoufi, piano, Chris Fenstermaker, piano and cello, Joe Smock, cello,

Jubal Joslyn, Tenor, Cathryn Wilkinson, Organ and Piano

The Music Box
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Third Sunday after Pentecost

Musicians

Taylan Dincer, cello
David Elyoussoufi, cello
Josef Elyoussoufi, piano
Chris Fenstermaker, piano and cello
Joe Smock, cello
Jubal Joslyn, Tenor
Cathryn Wilkinson, Organ and Piano

Prelude

O Magnum mysterium (O great mystery)……Tomas Luis de Victoria, arr. Folop

Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp Minor……Fréderic Chopin

5 Pieces for Cello and Piano……Sulkhan Tsintsadze
1. Arobnaya (Villain’s Song on a Carriage)

Offertory

Suite No. 1 for Cello Quartet, Opus 13……Aleksandr Kuznetsov
II. Andantino

Closing Blessing

An Iona Blessing: “The light of God to lead us”……arr. Philip Fox

All rights reserved. Text and music (c) 2021 Philip Fox. Published by Wild Goose Publications. This material is used non-commercially for worship.

Postlude

Canzon II……Giovanni Gabrieli, arr. N. Halsey

 

Welcome today to young musicians Taylan Dincer, David Elyoussoufi, Josef Elyoussoufi, Chris Fenstermaker, and Joe Smock, along with Aleksey Klyushnik, the director of the Youth Music Monterey Cello Quartet. The four cellists are part of the YMM Honors Orchestra, and students in Aleksey’s cello studio. They play in YMM Chamber Players, which he directs. The quartet has been performing at various venues on Monterey Peninsula since fall 2021.

Cellist Taylan Dincer graduated from Carmel High School and will attend UC Berkeley in the fall, studying Music and Cognitive Sciences.

Joe Smock is a graduate of York School and will attend the University of Washington to study Biochemistry and meteorology.

David Elyoussoufi just finished his sophomore year with Ocean Grove Charter School. He led the cello section of the Central Coast Section Orchestra in 2022 and won the Youth Music Monterey Honors Concerto Competition in 2023.

Josef Elyoussoufi is a piano student of Barbara Ruziska and graduated from York School. Josef was awarded a first prize for piano by the Music Teachers’ Association of California and selected for the final round of the Zeiter Piano Competition at the University of the Pacific.

Chris Fenstermaker has graduated from Pacific Grove High School. He will attend Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa where he will study both piano and cello.

Best wishes to each of them as they continue their education.