Gail Jennings and Andrew Jennings will open this summer’s recital series with music by Franck, Vaughan Williams, Mahler, Bach and Chuckerbutty.

Gail has recently retired after 31 years as organist at Bethlehem United Church of Christ in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gail attended the Mannes College of Music studying piano with Nadia Riesenberg and the Juilliard School studying composition with Roger Sessions and Hal Overton. She has studied organ with Phillip Steinhaus, Anthony Newman, and Marilyn Mason.

Andrew’s principal teachers were Ivan Galamian, Alexander Schneider, Pamela Gearhart, and Raphael Druian. He was a founding member of the Concord String Quartet, an ensemble that quickly gained international recognition by winning the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1972 and which performed more than 1,200 concerts throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.