Jan. 21: Midday Musical Menu

The next luncheon concert is Wednesday (January 21) at 12:15 p.m. Violinist Vincent Phelan and pianist Stephen Phillips will perform Beethoven’s Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano and Saint-Saëns’s first violin sonata. Lunch is available in the May Room from 11:30 a.m. for $7.00.

Vincent Phelan is Concertmaster of the Butler Philharmonic and the Southwest Ohio Philharmonic Orchestras and has appeared as violin soloist with the Butler Philharmonic, the Middletown Symphony, the Blue Ash/Montgomery Symphony and the Clermont Philharmonic Orchestra.  Vincent holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). He received his doctoral degree from CCM in 2006.  In 1995 Vincent and his wife, Elizabeth Council-Phelan, founded the Corryville Suzuki Project, a high-level music education program that offers violin and viola instruction to students from Greater Cincinnati, Indiana, and Northern Kentucky.

Stephen Phillips is an active piano accompanist and chamber musician in the Cincinnati area.  He moved to Cincinnati from his native Rochester, New York to attend the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he completed his Master of Music degree in piano accompanying.  As a musician Stephen has held staff accompanying positions at several universities in Ohio and northern Kentucky, keyboard player positions at several churches, and has performed in recital as a soloist and as collaborator with instrumentalists and vocalists in multiple U.S. states.  He was the Chair of the successful Music on the Avenue recital series in northern Kentucky before it ended due to Covid-19.  Stephen had a successful career in financial services with Fidelity Investments as a Client Service Manager of 401(k) retirement plans for several large companies.