Join us for a concert featuring a variety of classical favorites, operatic selections, jazz, and beloved American show tunes featuring tenor, violin, and piano.
Violinist Cara Schlecker Ketter, tenor Christian Ketter and pianist Cole Anderson will present an exciting concert featuring a variety of beautiful classical favorites, operatic selections, jazz, and beloved American show tunes.
Tenor Christian Ketter, made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2014, featured in the Washington Post, as part of “The Song Continues” with American Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne. The 2013 winner of the Friedrich Schorr American Prize in Voice, Mr. Ketter has appeared as the tenor soloist with the Chicago Bar Symphony Orchestra & Chorus- in Bruckner’s Te Deum, making his Symphony Center debut with the orchestra again in 2015 at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and returning in 2023 under conductor and Chicago Symphony Principal-Trombonist Jay Friedman with the Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest in Berliotz’ Te Deum. Mr. Ketter’s music video of Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”- with violinist, Cara Schlecker and pianist, Cole Anderson is available on YouTube, and his classical recording “Beloved” is available online at iTunes & Amazon.
Violinist Cara Schlecker, alumna of The University of Michigan and the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, is an avid performer and teacher in the Chicagoland area. She is the current concertmaster of the West Suburban Symphony and former Member of The Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Ms. Schlecker has performed internationally in both the Rome Chamber Music Festival and the InterHarmony Festival of Hinterzarten, Germany. She made her Lincoln Center debut in 2012 and has had the pleasure of performing several times at both the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse and Le Poisson Rouge. She has been featured on Chicago’s classical station WFMT radio’s “Introductions.” She has performed and toured with artists such as Rod Stewart, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Chuck Leavell, Jo Dee Messina, the “Ten Tenors” of Broadway, and Martin Short, to name a few. Ms. Schlecker has served on faculty at Triton College and Sherwood Conservatory of Music at Columbia College Chicago. She currently maintains a private studio in Itasca.
Concert pianist Dr. Cole Anderson is dedicated to bringing life and vitality to music from all eras and styles, from the classics up to the most contemporary works. In addition to his activities as a performer Dr. Anderson also seeks to spread enjoyment and understanding of the greatest works in the piano repertoire through performance and analysis videos on his YouTube channel “The Independent Pianist'' (www.youtube.com/@TheIndependentPianist) New posts appear every Friday, and cover a wide variety of topics and repertoire. Dr. Anderson has appeared as a soloist across four continents, and has also worked extensively in collaborative settings—both with voice and with instrumentalists. Dr. Anderson received a B.M. in piano performance at Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied with renowned Beethoven specialist Peter Takács, and earned two Master’s Degrees at the University of Michigan in Piano performance and Chamber music performance, as well as going on to complete his doctoral studies at University of Michigan studying with Dr. Arthur Greene.
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