MGS presents Svyati Duo
**UPDATE**
We've had a slight change of plans, but the show will go on! Unfortunately, Rebecca Heppelwhite is not able to play Friday's concert. However, cellist Patricia Ryan will be stepping in to perform the same program.
Patricia Ryan is a Billboard chart-topping performing cellist based in Minneapolis, MN and has performed with some of the world's leading musicians including pianist Emanuel Ax, the Pacifica String Quartet, violinist Geoff Nuttall, violist John Largess, cellist Norman Fischer, Natasha Brofsky and Jean-Michel Fonteneau, and saxophonist Miguel Zenón. She is a core member of the Houston-based conductorless ensemble Kinetic Ensemble, Minnesota’s 10th Wave Chamber Collective and is a founding member of Trio Zenia. During her seven-year tenure in the Artaria String Quartet, she performed the complete Beethoven and Bartók String Quartet Cycles as well as faculty of the Artaria Chamber Music School and Stringwood Summer Music Camp. She is a Teaching Artist at Walker|West Music Academy, serving the Rondo Community in St. Paul, MN. Mrs. Ryan has completed a second Masters of Music at Rice University Shepherd School of Music on full tuition scholarship under the tutelage of Norman Fischer, an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music and a Masters of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Jean-Michel Fonteneau, and a Bachelors of Music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music with Tchaikovsky Competition laureate Nathaniel Rosen and Alexander Suleiman on full scholarship.
Julian Collings was educated as an organ scholar at Tonbridge School in Kent before gaining an organ scholarship to Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1999, studying under David Sanger and Thomas Trotter. He is currently Director of Music at St Cyprian's Church, Clarence Gate in London, a post which he combines with a busy international performing career as an organist and conductor. In addition to his schedule with Svyati Duo, he conducts three London choruses, appearing regularly at prestigious London venues including Smith Square and Cadogan Hall. Julian also regularly performs organ duets with Benedict Lewis-Smith as the Oxbridge Organ Duo.
Learn more about Svyati Duo here: https://www.svyatiduo.com/
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Art & Music class with Svyati Duo
Musings on Music 6:30pm on Friday, Oct 30.
Svyati Duo, organ & cello
Friday, October 30, 2026 - 7:30 pm
Christ United Methodist Church
Live Audience Tickets
Program
- Musique du Soir Pēteris Vasks b. 1946
- Two Invisible Landscapes Russell Hepplewhite b. 1982
- A good King chills out for Spring Robert Cockroft b. 1951 Julian Collings
- Papillon Gabriel Fauré 1845-1924
- Après un Rêve Gabriel Fauré
- Vitis Flexuosa Timothy Salter b. 1924
INTERMISSION
- Last Song of Summer Peter Matthews b. 1944
- Autumn Music Eric Sweeney 1948-2020
- Toccata La Vallée verte sur la theme ‘Pat le facteur’ Edward Marsh b. 1966 Julian Collings
- Pastorale Joseph Rheinberger 1839-1901
- Procession through a Black Hole Calvin Hampton 1938-1984
- Autumn Nocturne Peter Matthews
Program subject to change at the discretion of the artist(s).
This concert is made possible by the generous support of:
Bill & Alicia Allred
and
Johnson & Johnson
