Concert by
Candlelight

Heather Adelsberger maintains an active career as a keyboard artist and conductor in the DMV area.  She is currently the Artistic Director of The Georgetown Chorale and serves as Director of Music Ministries at Grace Episcopal Church in Silver Spring, MD.

Denis Karp is an active freelancer throughout the Maryland/D.C. area and frequently records in studio as a member of The Washington Winds.  Mr. Karp is the flutist in The Charm City Winds and The Gallery Winds woodwind quintets.  He is the co-founder and co-director of the annual Gallery Winds Chamber Music Summer Camp and has served as a chamber music coach for the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra.  Mr. Karp teaches private flute lessons through a private studio, Prince George’s Community College, and the Baltimore School for the Arts TWIGS program, which provides free music lessons to Baltimore City students.

John Romano is the former (ret. 2016) bass clarinetist of The US Air Force Band in Washington DC. Prior to that, he completed his Bachelor's Degree in clarinet performance from Shenandoah Conservatory in 1991 and joined the Air Force Band of the Golden West at Travis Air Force Base in California in 1992 as a clarinetist. While in California, he visited many vineyards and did a lot of cycling, but also played in such ensembles as the Berkeley Symphony, Solano Symphony, California Wind Orchestra and San Francisco Concerto Orchestra. He also happened to buy a bass clarinet and, after learning to play it, returned to the East Coast in 2000 as the bass clarinetist for The USAF Band in Washington DC. John's military band career has taken him to 49 of the 50 states over the course of 24 years but he now resides in Winchester, Virginia where his days are occupied in attempting to keep his old house from collapsing or performing all over the country with the Atlantic Reed Consort or with his wife, Charlene Romano, as Duoromano.

Originally from Washington DC, Eddie Sanders III studied bassoon with Lewis Lipnick in his youth and Dr. Gene Griswold at Towson University. After completion of his bachelors of music at Towson University he won a position with the United States Air Force Band in 2000 and was appointed principal bassoon in 2002. He has also performed with the Maryland Symphony, The Annapolis Symphony, Baltimore Chamber Symphony, Richmond Symphony and the National Cathedral Choral Society Orchestra. He is also currently the contrabassoonist of the Apollo Orchestra. He made his Kennedy Center solo debut in 1999 performing the Weber Concerto for the finals of National Symphony Orchestra Concert Competition. He was also winner of the Yamaha Young Artist Competition in 1999. Eddie Sanders has been an active soloist and clinician at the University level throughout North America, Puerto Rico and Asia.