Evening of Spanish music at Barrington UMC

Barrington United Methodist Church Missions will present Belinda C. King and Steve Vazquez in a flute and guitar concert, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at the church, 98 Algonquin Road, in Barrington.

This special mission concert celebrates the success of Bethel United Methodist Church, a "Harvest 2020" church, which has been worshipping at Barrington United Methodist Church for nearly a decade and is transitioning to a new church home in Carpentersville.

Beginning at 5:30, Bethel UMC will provide refreshments characteristic of Puerto Rico and Mexico, and an opportunity to socialize before the program of Spanish music. Works by Caliendo, Villa-Lobos, Poulenc, Torrealba, Folk, Ibert and Piazzolla are planned.

A freewill offering will be taken during intermission to benefit the Bethel Church.

A native of Tampa, Fla., Belinda King has just returned from a benefit concert in Costa Rica. She has performed extensively in Michigan, Florida, Virginia and Illinois, and has a bachelor of arts degree in music education at the University of South Florida and a master's degree in music in applied flute performance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Currently on the faculties of William Rainey Harper College and The People's Music School in Chicago, Vasquez was self taught until he began his classical guitar studies under Steve Suvada at Harper. He completed a bachelor of music degree with Mark Maxwell at DePaul University and a master's of music degree with Anne Waller at Northwestern University.

Vasquez's solo and chamber repertoire spans music of the Renaissance to contemporary, including original compositions. He has performed throughout the Midwest with the Chicago Guitar Quartet, Chicago Guitar Camerata, Ensemble Español, Chicago guitarist Brian Torosian, as well as with rock bands Blue Eyed Jesus, Año Cero, Thing 3, Woolworthy and Dana Underwood Band.

Call (847) 836-5540 or visit BarringtonUMC.com.