Lewes Chamber Players concert set March 10

The Lewes Chamber Players will present a concert of classical music by renowned composers at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 10, at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Second and Market streets, Lewes. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to the performance. As with other events sponsored by the St. Cecilia Music Guild, an outreach ministry of St. Peter’s to benefit Sussex County residents, this concert will be offered free of charge.

Led by violinist and founding member Sylvia Ahramjian, the ensemble will include pianist Hiroko Yamazaki, cellist Jacques-Pierre Malan, violinist Dana Weiderhold Allaband and violist Sarah Sutton.

The one-hour program will include Robert Schumann’s “Piano Quintet in E Flat Major,” Ernest Dohnanyi’s “Quintet in C Minor” and Antonio Dvorak’s “Quintet in A Major, Op.81.”

Ahramjian, a graduate of the Juilliard School, has been a soloist with orchestras and festivals in Asia, Europe and South America, as well as delighting audiences across the United States, including New York’s Carnegie Hall. She taught at Wilmington Music School and West Chester University before retiring.

Sutton has an international profile as a performer and teacher. She has appeared in prestigious venues as soloist and principal violinist in Europe and South America. Closer to home, she performs regularly with the Camerata Philadelphia.

Yamazaki has performed abroad and in the U.S., including appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Delaware Symphony. She is pianist for the Pyxis Piano Quartet, the ensemble in residence for both the Delaware Art Museum and Market Street Music in Wilmington, and currently serves in the master piano faculty with special distinction at the Music School of Delaware.

Malan, a South African now living in Baltimore, has degrees in musicology, jazz piano and cello performance from South African institutions, as well as the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. He is a co-founder of the Creative Concert Group project to make traditional masterpieces more accessible to people with hearing disabilities when performed in large concert halls.

Weiderhold Allaband has a violin and viola studio in Berks County, Pa., and is currently principal second violinist of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with orchestras in Venezuela, Romania and Cameroon, and in the U.S. at Carnegie Hall.