The HARLEM CHAMBER PLAYERS is an ethnically diverse collective of professional musicians dedicated to bringing high caliber, affordable, accessible live music to people in the Harlem community and beyond. Founded in 2008, The Harlem Chamber Players annually presents a rich season of formal live concerts, indoors, outdoors, and online. They also promote arts inclusion and equal access to the arts, bringing live music to underserved communities and promoting shared community arts and cultural engagement. The group was first inspired by the late Janet Wolfe, a long-time patron of minority musicians and founder of the NYC Housing Authority Symphony Orchestra. The Harlem Chamber Players have presented culturally relevant programs at numerous venues throughout the city and collaborated with many other arts organizations. The Harlem Chamber Players are also Artists-in-residence at the Harlem School for the Arts.
They have been featured on national radio at WQXR/WNYC at The Greene Space. The Harlem Chamber Players have also been mentioned in articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Musical America, and on NPR, NBC, and Here and Now on ABC.
To learn more about Harlem Chamber Players, please visit their website (www.harlemchamberplayers.org).
DR. LOURIN PLANT holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Wittenberg University, Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Choral Conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. He has served on the voice faculties of Sinclair College and Humboldt State University of California.
Now in the twenty-ninth year of his appointment at Rowan University, he has served as coordinator of the vocal/choral division, and conductor of the Rowan University Chamber and Concert Choirs, and Collegium Musicum (early music ensemble). His choirs have appeared in regional music conventions, four appearances at the NJ State Legislature, and three times at Carnegie Hall.
Dr. Plant appears as both countertenor and baritone throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West states. He has performed with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, New York City Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati May Festival, Dayton Opera, Amherst Early Music Festival, Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Philadelphia Ancient Voices, Voces Novae et Antiquae, Piffaro, Jim Thorpe Bach Festival, Northern Lights Music Festival, and in the touring ensembles of Michael Crawford, Russell Watkins, Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, and Barbra Streisand.
Dr. Plant’s scholarship presentations on African-American spirituals have been featured in state, regional and international conferences, and his articles have appeared in Classical Singer Magazine and the National Association of Teachers of Singing Journal of Singing.
Bassist DOUGLAS MAPP is at home in many musical styles ranging from classical to jazz to rock to Broadway to contemporary classical. The list of artists that he has performed, recorded and toured with includes Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Donnie McClurkin, Richard Smallwood, Natalie Cole, Randy Brecker, Sean Jones, Ernie Watts, Lana Del Rey, Earth Wind and Fire, and Jeff Majors.
He is Principal Bassist of the Reading and Kennett Symphonies and Assistant Principal of the Delaware Symphony. He performs regularly with some of the regions premiere ensembles including the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Philly Pops, Harrisburg Symphony, Opera Philadelphia. He performed for over twenty-five years with the Philadelphia based new music ensemble Relache. He has performed as substitute bassist with the Philadelphia Orchestra both at home and on tour. He has performed as a soloist with many of the groups with which he performs, including his spring 2015 performance of the Bottesini Grand Duo Concertante with the Reading Symphony.
He is Past President of the International Society of Bassists and chaired the 2015 ISB convention at Colorado State University. Mr. Mapp is a Professor of Jazz Studies at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ.
They have been featured on national radio at WQXR/WNYC at The Greene Space. The Harlem Chamber Players have also been mentioned in articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Musical America, and on NPR, NBC, and Here and Now on ABC.
To learn more about Harlem Chamber Players, please visit their website (www.harlemchamberplayers.org).
DR. LOURIN PLANT holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Wittenberg University, Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Choral Conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. He has served on the voice faculties of Sinclair College and Humboldt State University of California.
Now in the twenty-ninth year of his appointment at Rowan University, he has served as coordinator of the vocal/choral division, and conductor of the Rowan University Chamber and Concert Choirs, and Collegium Musicum (early music ensemble). His choirs have appeared in regional music conventions, four appearances at the NJ State Legislature, and three times at Carnegie Hall.
Dr. Plant appears as both countertenor and baritone throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West states. He has performed with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, New York City Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati May Festival, Dayton Opera, Amherst Early Music Festival, Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Philadelphia Ancient Voices, Voces Novae et Antiquae, Piffaro, Jim Thorpe Bach Festival, Northern Lights Music Festival, and in the touring ensembles of Michael Crawford, Russell Watkins, Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, and Barbra Streisand.
Dr. Plant’s scholarship presentations on African-American spirituals have been featured in state, regional and international conferences, and his articles have appeared in Classical Singer Magazine and the National Association of Teachers of Singing Journal of Singing.
Bassist DOUGLAS MAPP is at home in many musical styles ranging from classical to jazz to rock to Broadway to contemporary classical. The list of artists that he has performed, recorded and toured with includes Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Donnie McClurkin, Richard Smallwood, Natalie Cole, Randy Brecker, Sean Jones, Ernie Watts, Lana Del Rey, Earth Wind and Fire, and Jeff Majors.
He is Principal Bassist of the Reading and Kennett Symphonies and Assistant Principal of the Delaware Symphony. He performs regularly with some of the regions premiere ensembles including the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Philly Pops, Harrisburg Symphony, Opera Philadelphia. He performed for over twenty-five years with the Philadelphia based new music ensemble Relache. He has performed as substitute bassist with the Philadelphia Orchestra both at home and on tour. He has performed as a soloist with many of the groups with which he performs, including his spring 2015 performance of the Bottesini Grand Duo Concertante with the Reading Symphony.
He is Past President of the International Society of Bassists and chaired the 2015 ISB convention at Colorado State University. Mr. Mapp is a Professor of Jazz Studies at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ.