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Performer Bios
Alain Arvelo is an operatic lyric tenor born in New York City and based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He studied voice at Mars Hill University under the guidance of Dr. Joel Reed and currently studies with Raoul Simon Düsterhus. A passionate advocate for opera, He has appeared in a variety of staged productions, educational, community outreach and recitals both regionally across the United States and internationally. His operatic credits include roles in La Favorita, La Boheme, Werther L’italiana in Algeri, L’elisir d’amore, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, I puritani, Manon, and Lucia di Lammermoor.
Chad Fothergill is a keyboardist and historian who serves the church as a musician, teacher, writer, and composer. He is author of Sing with All the People of God: A Handbook for Church Musicians and has contributed both writings and compositions to several worship resources. Chad presently serves as Chapel Organist at Duke University Chapel, assists with weekday liturgies at Duke Divinity School, and is cantor to the Lutheran Summer Music community. Prior to his appointment at Duke, he was interim co-director of the Institute of Liturgical Studies at Valparaiso University, past editor of the ALCM journal CrossAccent, and taught at Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Delaware.
Dr. Carol Ann Barry holds degrees from Old Dominion University, the University of Louisville, and a DMA from James Madison University. A Rotary Fellow, she studied at the Göethe Institute and the Hochschule fur Musik in Hamburg, Germany. Her major teachers have included Lee Luvisi, Dr. Eric Ruple, Brian Ganz, Dr. James Litzelman, and Sophia Rosoff. She is the recipient of both the 2010 PTG Grant and the MTNA Foundation Teachers Grant. Dr. Barry has presented numerous lectures and pedagogy workshops and is passionate about the field of piano pedagogy. Her private studio is located in Cary, N.C, and she was a collaborative pianist for the vocal department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 3 years prior to focusing on lecturing and writing. In 2017, Dr. Barry founded Piano Pedagogues Key International, an educational piano pedagogy video and teaching materials company. Dr. Barry has served as President of the Cary-Apex Piano Teachers Association. She also acted as coordinator of the Ruggero the Fourth Friday Concert Series until the fall of 2024. Her current project on behalf of NCMTA is as an archivist for the NCMTA historical archives housed at UNC Chapel Hill. Her current writing project documenting her work with pianist Sophia Rosoff has included continued study with John Kamitsuka, one of the longest former students of Sophia Rosff, in New York City.
Founded in June, 2003, the Fourth Friday Concert Series, formerly know as the 4th Friday Mix, stands as one of our area’s longest-running concert series. We remain committed to providing free and inclusive concerts that welcome musicians with a passion for sharing their talents. All attendees, including children capable of listening attentively, are warmly welcomed. Fourth Friday Concerts typically feature 2-4 performers or performance groups, although special occasions may showcase a single performer or group for the entire concert.
