“While her nonprofit Listen for Life is dedicated to preserving musical cultures on a global scale, Bay Area pianist Donna Stoering is taking a more localized, but still tuneful, approach to addressing homelessness and hunger,” writes Anne Gelhaus in Wednesday’s (9/13) Mercury News (Calif.). “Concerts organized through Notes for Nourishment, a program affiliated with Listen for Life, raise money for community nonprofits of the organizer’s choice. The San Jose Chamber Orchestra is performing the first of three Notes for Nourishment concerts scheduled for this season on Sept. 17, with Stoering on board as a soloist. Other soloists are tenor Stephen Guggenheim, soprano Ronit Widmann-Levy and violist Erin Nolan. The concert is free, with donations going to Jewish Family Services Silicon Valley and the office of social ministry at San Jose’s Cathedral Basilica St. Joseph…. Two more Notes for Nourishment concerts are set for Oct. 22 and Nov. 19. ‘Each concert will have one or two recipients of the funds raised,’ says Barbara Day Turner, the chamber orchestra’s music director and conductor…. ‘Donna is an amazing pianist with a huge heart,’ [Guggenheim] says, adding that he hopes other musicians embrace Stoering’s mission. ‘It’s a wonderful outlet for performers to give back.’ ”
Posted September 14, 2017
