Friday, March 7, 2025 | 7:30pm
Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 3:00pm
Independent Presbyterian Church | 207 Bull St
(note different venue)
Keitaro Harada conductor
Jeana Melilli flute
Jacob Fuhrman harpsichord
Susan Conant recorder
BACH Overture & Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
TELEMANN Concerto for Recorder & Flute in E minor
BACH Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Susan Conant, specializes in playing chamber music on recorders, flutes and whistles. Her musical journey spans across ages and cultures as evidenced by her three current Charleston, SC based ensembles; Spartina Consort (Early Music), Porto Seguro, (Brazilian music) and Zephyr (Celtic). She has shared her chamber music in a variety of venues and concert series including Piccolo Spoleto, the Charleston Library Society, Forte Jazz Lounge, North Charleston Arts Festival, Brazil Fest at I’on, Fripp Island Friends of Music, Northern Illinois University, Morton Arboretum, the College of Charleston, McClellanville Arts Council, and UUC Santa Fe. Conant has played with the Charleston Symphony for Harry Potter Live #3, The Christmas Revels, Charleston Pro Musica and the Taylor Festival’s Celtic Christmas. Also a composer, arranger and conductor, Conant is a former Music Director for the Unitarian Church in Charleston and for the UU Society of Geneva, IL. She has published two discs of her own chamber compositions – Lowcountry Sojourn (2013) and A New Leaf (2006). She is also recorded on the Taylor Festival Choir’s, “Sing We Now of Christmas” (2010, MSR Classics) for which she arranged the title cut. Conant’s compositions dig into her roots including English and American folk music from summers growing up at Pinewoods Camp, Early Music studies under Susan Zimmerman and classical flute at the New England Conservatory with Claude Monteaux.
Jeana Melilli is the Principal Flute of the Savannah Philharmonic and Piccolo/Third Flute for the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, she has appeared with the Atlanta Symphony, Atlanta Opera, Charleston Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, and other orchestras throughout the Southeast. As a Baroque flutist, she is a founding member of Savannah Baroque and the Vista Ensemble in Columbia, South Carolina. Jeana is from Stockbridge, GA, and studied flute performance in at The Catholic University of America and for her masters at Northwestern. She also has a PhD in musicology, specializing in the music of Sicily in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Jacob Fuhrman is Organist and Director of Music at the Independent Presbyterian Church of Savannah, Georgia. He holds degrees in organ performance from Wheaton College, IL (BM, 2012) and the Eastman School of Music (MM, 2014; DMA, 2019). He has served on the faculties of the State University of New York at Geneseo and Georgia Southern University, and in various roles with the American Guild of Organists and Organ Historical Society. His research considers historical approaches to organ accompaniment of congregational singing in England and the Netherlands.