November 23, 2008 – Performance with The Savannah Children’s Choir

Performance with The Savannah Children’s Choir (www.savannahchoir.org) at the Telfair Museum’s Jepson Center for the Arts, a program of original and modern adaptations of Gospel, early American shape note and other traditional religious songs. 1:30 pm

For more information: http://www.telfair.org/jepsongospelbrunch/default.asp

Nov. 15, 2008 – Piano Technicians Guild Seminar Harpsichord 101

A crash course for PTG members, Harpsichord 101, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008 10 a.m-noon, at Asbury Memorial Methodist Church, Savannah, Georgia.

www.ptg.org
www.asburymemorial.org

October 26, 2008 – Performance with Ensemble Con Spirito

Performance with Ensemble Con Spirito (www.ensembleconspirito.org) at the Telfair Museum’s Jepson Center for the Arts, a program of Gospel, original and modern adaptations of early American shape note and other traditional songs. October 26, 1:30 pm
For more information: http://www.telfair.org/jepsongospelbrunch/default.asp

September 23rd, 2008 – Solo performance/discussion: “An Introduction to the Harpsichord”

Solo performance/discussion: “An Introduction to the Harpsichord”, at the Charles Ellis Montessori Academy’s Afternoon Musicale Series, a bi-monthly series bringing the best of Savannah’s musicians into the community. Free and open to the public. 3:30 pm.

http://ellispta.com

September 2008 – Lecture Recital on Music of Revolutionary Georgia

September 2008, Lecture Recital on Music of Revolutionary Georgia as part of the Coastal Heritage Society Revolutionary Perspectives Lecture Series. http://www.chsgeorgia.org, Savannah History Museum, 303 Martin Luther King Blvd, Savannah, GA date tba.

March 12, 2008 – Solo Harpsichord Concert United Methodist Church, Skidaway Island, Georgia

A private evening of harpsichord works by Farnaby, Byrd, Purcell, Galuppi and Handel will be held as part of a concert series at the United Methodist Church on Skidaway Island just east of historic Savannah, Georgia.

March 12, 2007
6:45 p.m.

Skidaway Island United Methodist Church
54 Diamond Causeway, Savannah, GA 31411

Feb. 9, 2008, Concert with Ensemble Con Spirito, Savannah, Georgia

Anne will play harpsichord and piano for an extraordinary group of women singers, Ensemble Con Spirito. They will perform arrangements of songs by Benjamin Britten, Palestrina, Savonarola, Hildegard von Bingen, Lully and others.

For more information, including location, time and ticket purchase,
See: www.ensembleconspirito.org

Nov. 16 & 17th 2007, Harpsichord Solo

Harpsichord Soloist in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the Savannah Sinfonietta

Nov. 16 and 17th, 2007, Savannah, Georgia, See website for time and location details: http://www.savannahorchestra.org

Complete Concert Program:

Masterworks III BACH, MOZART, O’CONNOR
BACH, Brandenburg No. 5
VIVALDI, Winter Concerto Op. 8
O’CONNOR, ‘Summer’ From American Seasons
MOZART, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor

May 20, 2007 Music for an 18th Century Drawing Room

May 20, 2007, 4 p.m. Savannah College of Art and Design, Kiah Hall, Martin Luther King Blvd, Savannah, Georgia

Anne will play harpsichord and fortepiano, and discuss musical life in private homes in England and the colonies in the 18th century, in an afternoon program for the English Speaking Union, Savannah, Georgia Chapter.

English Speaking Union website

Review from the ESU website
Our own Anne Acker was the speaker and performer for our meeting this month. To see Anne, one would hardly expect to see her moving pianos and other heavy musical instruments about, but that was exactly what she does for a living. Anne brought a Piano Forte and a Harpsichord to the meeting with her.
After our president Barbara O. Smith introduced her, Anne answered a few interesting questions about the instruments that she brought with her. These were beautiful pieces of woodworking craft that were either built or restored by Anne at her shop. Anne then began the meeting with what everyone present agreed was a stunningly beautiful demonstration of each instruments capability. It was actually more than that. It was a wonderful concert presented for our pleasure. Everyone sat spellbound while listening and watching Anne’s nimble fingers dance across the keyboards of the two instruments as she performed music by famed composers of the time. For a short time we could get the feeling of being back in the 18th century listening to a typical performance of the time. No one would have believed that just a month before, she had to postpone this performance due to a severely injured hand.
Anne, thanks a million for a wonderful meeting.

May 20, 2007 | In Lecture, Performance

March 29, 2007 Savannah Music Festival

Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia, 12:30 p.m. on March 29, 2007 at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Troup Square. http://savannahmusicfestival.org

Georgian On My Mind Anne plays a recital on harpsichord and fortepiano, and discuss on keyboards and music in Georgia, 1760-1820. Sponsored by the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Savannah Morning News.