Music by Karl Henning, Oct 8 at King's Chapel

Jaya Lakshminarayanan, soprano; Peter H Bloom, flute; and Karl Henning, clarinet, join forces to present a program of Mr. Henning's works as this week's mid-day recital at King's Chapel in downtown Boston.

Karl Henning fell in love with the sound of the clarinet at age 10 and has been learning, practicing and creating music ever since in pursuit of the Muse.

Henning holds degrees in composition and clarinet performance. After his doctoral work, he lived for four years in and near St. Petersburg, Russia. There he studied the canals, bridges, cathedrals, white nights and starry winter skies of St. Petersburg. This was a period of informal arts study which he feels in many ways equal in importance to his years of formal training.

His music has been played and sung on three continents (North America, Europe and Australia). Karl has served at different times as Interim Choir Director and Composer-in-Residence at the Cathedral Church of St Paul in Boston, where he composed a 40-minute unaccompanied choral setting of the St John Passion.  Works recently completed include a short five-part unaccompanoed anthem for First Church in Boston; and It’s all in your head (not that that’s a bad place for everything to be), a suite for cello ensemble. Current projects include a full evening’s ballet based on Dostoyevsky’s novella White Nights; and Discreet Erasures for orchestra.

This recital program begins at 12:15 pm and lasts about 35 minutes.  Your suggested donation of $3 is given to the musicians.  Historic King's Chapel is located at 58 Tremont Street (at the intersection of Tremont & School Sts), in downtown Boston.  MBTA stops nearby include Park Street, Gov't Center and State stations. King's Chapel is wheelchair accessible.  For further information, please call King's Chapel, 617/227-2155 or visit http://www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html for the monthly recital schedule.