Music At Noon, the concert series sponsored by Music At Morristown United Methodist Church, continues its 33rd season with a concert on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, featuring the husband-and-wife team of cellist Gerall Hieser and Anthony Cecere, on French horn.
The concert will be held in the church sanctuary, at 50 Park Place (on the Green). A light luncheon will be available for purchase before or after the concert (11:30 am to 1:30 pm). There is a suggested donation of $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and students are FREE. Free childcare is available during the concert. The sanctuary is handicapped accessible. For further information see the website or call 973-538-2132.
Praised for her beautiful tone and musicianship, cellist Gerall Hieser began her musical education in Newport News, Va., studying piano and singing harmony with her mother, also a cellist.
After moving to Pennsylvania she fell in love with the cello and studied with Metta Watts and Orlando Cole at the New School of Music in Philadelphia. Gerall continued studies with Mr. Cole earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Temple University. She received her Master of Music degree from the Mason Gross School for the Arts at Rutgers University as a student of Paul Tobias.
In the 1980s she began playing Southern Appalachian style fiddle and traveled to North Carolina and Virginia to study with some legendary old fiddlers including Tommy Jarrell. Gerall has played for square dances and has won a few fiddle competitions!
Ms. Hieser is a passionate and devoted cello teacher and maintains an active studio at her home in Bernardsville, and at Drew University. She is a founding member of the Madison String Quartet, and performs with the Gabriel Chamber ensemble as well. Gerall is the Assistant Principal cellist of the Westfield Symphony, and is Music Director of the Vermont Music and Arts Center, a summer program for adult amateur musicians.
Gerall is married to French Hornist Tony Cecere and they perform as a duo inventing new sonorities for cello and horn.
Anthony Cecere, French horn, graduated from the University of Michigan. He has been principal horn and soloist with the New Orleans Philharmonic, a member of the American Chamber Players of Washington, DC, and has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New Jersey and Boston Symphony Orchestras, and the New York Philharmonic.
His recording credits include concerti by Mozart and Haydn, Twilight Music for violin, horn and piano by John Harbison, and the Bach Mass in b minor and Christmas Oratorio with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. He has toured throughout Germany and France, and conducted master classes at numerous schools of music including Yale, Juilliard, the University of Missouri, the University of Arkansas, Idaho State University and the University of Seoul, South Korea.
Tony is currently a member of the Beauty and the Beast orchestra on Broadway and resides in Bernardsville with his wife, cellist Gerall Hieser.
Funding has been made possible in part by funds from the Arts Council of the Morris Area through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
For further information, please telephone 973-538-2132 or www.morristownumc.com.
