Thursday, May 13th, 2010, at 7:30 PM

JP Concerts presents BEHOLD, a musical drama that portrays the events of Easter as witnessed through the eyes and words of the women who were there. Having seen the risen Jesus, Mary Magdalene invites us to rejoice in the reality of spiritual rebirth.

Let those with eyes to see, and ears to hear, BEHOLD.

Tickets for this special performance are $20 at the door, $15 for students.

BEHOLD was written and composed by Jim Grant in collaboration with the MAGDALENE ENSEMBLE:

Rachael Chagat, Soprano, Mary Magdalene graduated from the Longy School in Cambridge, MA with a Performance Diploma in Voice where she was a 2005 Honors Competition winner and a finalist in the 2007 Concerto Competition. There she studied with notable performers Jayne West, Daniel Helfgot, Warren Jones, and Lori Laitman. Ms. Chagat, an experienced soloist, also enjoys collaborating in chamber music and is a member of the Stratus Ensemble in Boston. She is a choral conductor and graduated with her certification from the Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary.

Janine Hawley, Mezzo-Soprano, Mary has achieved critical acclaim from New York to Tel Aviv including roles with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, New York City Opera, and the Boston Lyric Opera. She has performed with the Detroit, Colorado, and Louisville Symphonies, and in concert at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall and Weill Recital Hall.

Elizabeth Latifa Noor Anderson, Cellist, Angel was winner of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award as cellist of the Meliora Quartet and currently performs with the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center. In addition to degrees from Eastman and Juilliard, Elizabeth studied North Indian music and created the CD LATIFA NOOR of original improvisations for cello, voice and tamboura. Her ideal was expressed by Sufi musician and teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan when he said, “Someday music will be the means for expressing universal religion.”

Barbara McKenzie, Pianist, has toured extensively as a musical ambassador for the U.S. State Department and partnered with many well known American artists including the Borromeo, Audubon, & Miami String Quartets. She won 1st prize in the International Chamber Music Competition Paris, the Young Concert Artists Guild Competition New York and the International Brahms Competition Hamburg and lived and taught a decade in Germany before returning to her native NC as a state “artist-in-residence”. She is founder and artistic director of the American Music Festival & Chamber Music Wilmington.

Iris Anne Grant, Art Director/Set Designer/Second Organist/Logo Designer is a painter who specializes in sacred art for churches and other clients. Her work appears regularly in art shows and sacred spaces internationally. She teaches art at Lesley University and Cambridge College.

Jim Grant is a poet, meditation teacher and psychotherapist. As Playwright-in-Residence at Theater Workshop Boston he had four plays produced. He writes sacred music and his collaborative composition Murshid was performed at Maine Mountain Music Festival, in New Lebanon New York at the Abode of the Message, and in Mendocino California at the Mendocino Woodlands. He has a degree in World Religions from Temple University, he studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and holds a Doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology.