Virginia Tull Music and Fine Arts Series
2022-2023 Season - REMAINING CONCERTS
Jeff Brannon & Jon Brannon
Organists
Friday, April 28, 2023; 7:00 p.m.
Wake Forest Baptist Church Sanctuary
The Brannon brothers, both acclaimed organists, are delighted to be invited back to play an organ concert and are sure to delight the audience with their beautiful playing coupled with their brotherly competition and humorous banter. Jeff Brannon is a recent graduate of Bluefield University with a Bachelor of Arts in Church Music. He is currently serving as Music Associate and Organist at Bonsack Baptist Church in Roanoke, Virginia. In June 2021, Jeff worked as a music intern at Wake Forest Baptist Church under the guidance of Bryant Moxley. Jon Brannon is currently the Organist at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in Huntington, West Virginia and studied at Concord University. Jon is known best for playing the works of JS Bach for which he was given an award from the Rogers Organ Company.
2022-2023 Season - COMPLETED CONCERTS
Paul & Sophia Chandley
Ukraine Benefit Concert
Saturday, October 22, 2022; 7:00 p.m.
Wake Forest Baptist Church Sanctuary
Paul Chandley is from the mountains of east Tennessee and western North Carolina and was raised in Wake Forest. A child prodigy, he could read music notes before he could read words. Sophia Pavlenko-Chandley, born in Siberia and raised in Kiev, Ukraine, was also a child prodigy who wrote her first composition at age 5. Consummate solo performers, it was love at first sight when they met even though Sophia spoke little English and Paul spoke no Russian. The Chandleys have been a pro duo for 20 years. Characterized as “Four Hands, Two Pianos, One Heart,” they arrange all of their own music. Performances number a minimum of 24 concerts a year. Programs are for all kinds of audiences and range from classical to ragtime.
Admission to this event is FREE. Donations will be accepted and all proceeds from this concert will be donated to help the people of Ukraine with medical, food, and humanitarian support.
Triangle Brass Band
A Christmas to Remember
Tony Granados, Artistic Director
Sunday, December 18, 2022; 4:00 p.m.
Wake Forest Baptist Church Sanctuary
Using the traditional British brass band instrumentation of Cornets, Flugelhorn, Tenor Horns, Baritones, Euphoniums, Trombones, Tubas and Percussion, this all brass and percussion group is extremely versatile, performing music from virtually all genres, from classical transcriptions, to pop and jazz, movie and Broadway music, and, of course, original brass band literature. Members of the ensemble come from all walks of life, including lawyers, educators, IT professionals and retirees, to name a few. Continuing in the long-standing brass band tradition of amateur music making, players volunteer their time and talents to this unique type of band, and play just for the love of it. The Triangle Brass Band was formed in 1986 as a joint venture of the A.J. Fletcher Foundation and Capitol Broadcasting Company of Raleigh, NC, and was known as the WRAL British Brass Band in its early years. The band found immediate success in competition and are the current North American Brass Band Association’s 3rd Section Champions.
Palmetto Voices Spiritual Ensemble
Sonja Sepúlveda, Director
Saturday, January 28, 2023; 7:00 p.m.
Wake Forest Baptist Church Sanctuary
The legacy of the Spiritual lives on! The Palmetto Voices Spiritual Ensemble is made up of alumni of Dr. Sonja Sepúlveda from Salem College Choirs of North Carolina, Brewton-Parker College Concert Choir of Georgia, Women’s Chorus of Western Kentucky University, Carolina Alive of the University of South Carolina, the Sumter High Concert Choir of South Carolina plus other auditioned choral singers from 6 states. This choir features inter-generational singing and diversity of cultures. Formed in 2006, the choir strives to preserve the legacy of the Negro Spiritual and share the vision that this unique American choral art form is for everyone. The choir has sung for National, Southern and State American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) conferences, Carnegie Hall multiple times and toured Italy, Vienna and Greece.
2022-2023 Season - REMAINING CONCERTS
Jeff Brannon & Jon Brannon
Organists
Friday, April 28, 2023; 7:00 p.m.
Wake Forest Baptist Church Sanctuary
The Brannon brothers, both acclaimed organists, are delighted to be invited back to play an organ concert and are sure to delight the audience with their beautiful playing coupled with their brotherly competition and humorous banter. Jeff Brannon is a recent graduate of Bluefield University with a Bachelor of Arts in Church Music. He is currently serving as Music Associate and Organist at Bonsack Baptist Church in Roanoke, Virginia. In June 2021, Jeff worked as a music intern at Wake Forest Baptist Church under the guidance of Bryant Moxley. Jon Brannon is currently the Organist at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in Huntington, West Virginia and studied at Concord University. Jon is known best for playing the works of JS Bach for which he was given an award from the Rogers Organ Company.
2022-2023 Season - COMPLETED CONCERTS
Paul & Sophia Chandley
Ukraine Benefit Concert
Saturday, October 22, 2022; 7:00 p.m.
Wake Forest Baptist Church Sanctuary
Paul Chandley is from the mountains of east Tennessee and western North Carolina and was raised in Wake Forest. A child prodigy, he could read music notes before he could read words. Sophia Pavlenko-Chandley, born in Siberia and raised in Kiev, Ukraine, was also a child prodigy who wrote her first composition at age 5. Consummate solo performers, it was love at first sight when they met even though Sophia spoke little English and Paul spoke no Russian. The Chandleys have been a pro duo for 20 years. Characterized as “Four Hands, Two Pianos, One Heart,” they arrange all of their own music. Performances number a minimum of 24 concerts a year. Programs are for all kinds of audiences and range from classical to ragtime.
Admission to this event is FREE. Donations will be accepted and all proceeds from this concert will be donated to help the people of Ukraine with medical, food, and humanitarian support.
Triangle Brass Band
A Christmas to Remember
Tony Granados, Artistic Director
Sunday, December 18, 2022; 4:00 p.m.
Wake Forest Baptist Church Sanctuary
Using the traditional British brass band instrumentation of Cornets, Flugelhorn, Tenor Horns, Baritones, Euphoniums, Trombones, Tubas and Percussion, this all brass and percussion group is extremely versatile, performing music from virtually all genres, from classical transcriptions, to pop and jazz, movie and Broadway music, and, of course, original brass band literature. Members of the ensemble come from all walks of life, including lawyers, educators, IT professionals and retirees, to name a few. Continuing in the long-standing brass band tradition of amateur music making, players volunteer their time and talents to this unique type of band, and play just for the love of it. The Triangle Brass Band was formed in 1986 as a joint venture of the A.J. Fletcher Foundation and Capitol Broadcasting Company of Raleigh, NC, and was known as the WRAL British Brass Band in its early years. The band found immediate success in competition and are the current North American Brass Band Association’s 3rd Section Champions.
Palmetto Voices Spiritual Ensemble
Sonja Sepúlveda, Director
Saturday, January 28, 2023; 7:00 p.m.
Wake Forest Baptist Church Sanctuary
The legacy of the Spiritual lives on! The Palmetto Voices Spiritual Ensemble is made up of alumni of Dr. Sonja Sepúlveda from Salem College Choirs of North Carolina, Brewton-Parker College Concert Choir of Georgia, Women’s Chorus of Western Kentucky University, Carolina Alive of the University of South Carolina, the Sumter High Concert Choir of South Carolina plus other auditioned choral singers from 6 states. This choir features inter-generational singing and diversity of cultures. Formed in 2006, the choir strives to preserve the legacy of the Negro Spiritual and share the vision that this unique American choral art form is for everyone. The choir has sung for National, Southern and State American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) conferences, Carnegie Hall multiple times and toured Italy, Vienna and Greece.
