Jamestown Concert Association

08/27/2025

08/27/2025

Accomplished Cellist to Give Recital at Opera House

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center presents Cellist Jolyon Pegis in a special recital on Fri., Aug. 29, at 7:30 p.m. He will be joined by Pianist Robert Frankenberry in a program that features the music of Schumann, Debussy, Prokofiev and more.

Pegis may be familiar to Opera House audiences as one of the Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival musicians for several years, as well as for a previous Opera House concert with violinist Maria Schleuning.

Pegis, who currently lives in Texas, hails from Rochester, NY. He is the winner of the Artists International Awards in New York and subsequently made his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. He since has appeared as a recitalist and chamber musician across the country. A champion of new music, he has worked with composers such as Gunther Schuller, Lukas Foss, Eric Heckard, and Don Freund. He was a member of the Arcadia Trio in residence at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival and has also been featured at the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival and the Anchorage Festival of the Arts. A frequent soloist with orchestras, he has appeared multiple times with the San Antonio, Virginia, Dallas, West Virginia and Chautauqua Symphonies. Pegis is currently Associate Principal Cellist with the Dallas Symphony as well as Principal Cello of the Chautauqua Symphony, and a member of the Grammy-nominated contemporary music ensemble Voices of Change.

Frankenberry enjoys a multi-faceted relationship with music as a singer, pianist, conductor, orchestrator, director, and occasional composer. On stage, he has performed a wide range of roles including Mozart (Amadeus), John Adams (1776), Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos), the title roles in Don Carlo, The Tales of Hoffmann, Faust, and W***y Wonka, and Orson Welles in Daron Hagen’s film opera Orson Rehearsed. At the piano, he regularly performs works by living composers with such groups as Pittsburgh’s IonSound and AnimeBOP, New York City’s The Phoenix Players and PRISM Players, and multi-city entelechron and Chrysalis Duo. He is currently Interim Concert and Communications Coordinator for the Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh.



Tickets to the show are $20 (Adults), $18 (Adults), and $10 (Students) and can be purchased in person at the Opera House Box Office or by phone at 716-679-1891, Tuesday-Friday, 12-4:30 p.m. They can be purchased online anytime at www.fredopera.org.

05/14/2025

Magnus Martensson, Swedish Concert Pianist and Comedian
In a Svenska Soiree in the FIrst Lutheran Church Parlors.
Food, singing, Svenska humor during the Soiree
A fun-time for all! A freewill offering will be received.
​Sunday, 8 June 2025 | 4:00 pm

05/14/2025

Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia on Saturday, May 31st at 1 PM at Lakewood Cinema 8 and the 1891 Fredonia Opera House

05/14/2025

Jamestown Area Community Orchestra
Saturday, May 24, 2025 (Memorial Day Weekend)
4:00 PM First Covenant Church
520 Spring Street, Jamestown

Marci Johnson, Guest Soprano, singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from the musical “Carousel”

Featuring the theme from Downton Abbey, and works by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Verdi & von Suppé

Free Admission with Free Will Offering

05/14/2025

Strauss' Salome on Saturday, May 17th at 1 PM at Lakewood Cinema 8 and the 1891 Fredonia Opera House,

04/23/2025

Memories of Ron McEntire in Music | Friday, 2 May 2025 at 6:30 pm

Sponsored by the Mozart Club of Jamestown and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, organist Judy Congdon will present an organ concert on Friday, May 2 at 6:30pm at St. Luke’s Church entitled “Memories of Ron McEntire in Music.” Ron McEntire (1949-2023), a talented musician and exceptional human being, served during his final years as Organist/Director of Music at St. Luke’s Church. Dr. Congdon was Ron’s organ teacher at Houghton University as he fulfilled a lifelong dream of completing a Master of Music degree in organ following retirement from his career in financial services. The program will include works by J. S. Bach and Cesar Franck that Ron played during his final decade, along with works by several American composers that capture aspects of Ron’s life and ministry.
A free will offering at the concert will help cover concert expenses.

11/16/2021

Friday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m., Ron McEntire, Brian Bogey, and Ron’s students - Andy Schmidt, Judd Demers, Madeline DeJoy - will give a concert at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 410 N. Main St., Jamestown, on the newly rebuilt Aeolean Skinner organ.

11/16/2021

Please join us for a wonderful, musical afternoon. The concert is free, however you may make a donation to help support the program if you so desire.