06-07 SeasonChurch of St. Francis of Assisi
135 West 31st Street
New York, NY
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06-07 SeasonChurch of St. Francis of Assisi 135 West 31st Street New York, NY |
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The program includes music by William Byrd, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, and Francois Couperin.
Johannes Maria Bogner, born in Austria, studied with masters like Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Kenneth Gilbert and Arthur Haas. He has performed with the L´Orfeo Baroque Orchestra both as a soloist and continuo player at major festivals in Europe. He teaches harpsichord at the University of Music in Vienna. He has released two solo CDs (“Les Sentiments Bestiaux” and “Maria”).
Penitent sinners and unforgiving gods thrive in the cantatas of 17th-century Rome, where Luigi Rossi, Giacomo Carissimi, and Girolamo Kapsberger served a propaganda machine in the European Holy War. While works detailing the punishment of heretics flourished in this period, their message of religious intolerance and apocalyptic judgment tragically resonates today. Praised for "astonishing passaggi and ornaments executed to perfection" (Lute News, UK) Jessica Gould has also been noted for "crystalline sounds" and having "captured the heart of an enraptured English audience." She enjoys an active performance schedule in recital, concert and opera that includes appearances across Europe and the United States.
Music by the fascinating and prolific composer G. P. Telemann, showcasing brilliant and inspiring writing for both recorder and flute. The program includes his Sonata no. 5 in D Minor, Trietto no. 2 in G Major, and Trio Sonata in F Major, performed by Deborah Booth, recorder and flute; Louise Schulman, violin & viola; and Dongsok Shin, harpsichord.
September 13, 2006
Jessica Gould
Cantatas of Counter-Reformation Rome
Performers: Jessica Gould, soprano; Charles Weaver, lute; Carlene Stober, cello; and guest Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord.
September 20, 2006
Ensemble Breve
Totally Telemann!
Breve is a chamber music ensemble founded in NYC in 1985. The group performs music of all centuries, in historically-informed style, and also commissions contemporary works for its modern instrument forces.
Arias from Cantatas no. 97 and no. 51, and the Sonata in D major BMV 1028, originally conceived for gamba, but here arranged as a trio sonata for violin, gamba, and basso continuo. Performed by members of ARTEK, the early music ensemble in residence at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi. Performers: Robert Mealy, violin; Lisa Terry, viola da gamba; Jessica Tranzillo, soprano; Daniel Swenberg, theorbo; Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord.
Because of special services for the patronal feast at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, there will be no concert on this date.
Countertenor Jeffrey Mandelbaum presents Renaissance and early baroque songs by by John Dowland, Thomas Campion, and Henry Purcell, which run the gamut of emotional display from the
effervescent heights of "Awake, sweet love" to the dark depths of "Flow my tears."
Jeffrey Mandelbaum, countertenor, recently sang the title role in Giulio Cesare (One World Symphony), and covered the title role in Flavio (New York City Opera). He has also performed with Virginia Opera, Opera Pacific, Connecticut Opera Theater, West Side Opera, Allentown Symphony, Norwalk Symphony, Amor Artis, American Classical Orchestra, Vermont Mozart Festival, and Spoleto Festival USA. He is a winner in the Metropolitan Opera Competition (NY Districts).
Program: Members of ARTEK, the early music ensemble in residence at the Church of
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Gwendolyn Toth and Dongsok Shin, specialists in a variety of early keyboard instruments,
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A concert showcasing three Barbara's: soprano Barbara Hollinshead will be accompanied by harpsichordist Barbara Weiss. Ms. Hollinshead and Ms. Weiss both perform with many American early music
groups, including the Washington Bach Consort, Belladonna, ARTEK, Folger Consort, and others.
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Gavin Black will perform harpsichord music of Frescobaldi, organist of St. Peter's Cathedral
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Immanuel Davis studied baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet in Holland on a Fulbright Scholarship. He is currently Professor of Flute at the University of Minnesota.
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ARTEK features tenor Philip Anderson, who has been hailed for his "voice of liquid warmth and easy stage presence." Mr. Anderson made his Carnegie Hall debut in December 2002 singing Handel's Messiah. In addition to ARTEK, he is a member of My Lord Chamberlain's Consort and the Tiffany Consort.
The New York Continuo Collective will present musical settings of the epic poem Orlando Furioso (written by Arioso in 1516) by Berchem, Lasso, de Wert, d'India, and Cifra. Members of the NYCC will also present their own settings of stanzas in the spirit of the Renaissance "cantastorie" (singing story-tellers) who extemporized their own settings.
The New York Continuo Collective is a group of singers and instrumentalists exploring historical performance of 17th century Italian music.
Soprano Sofia Dimitrova will perform rarely heard early Baroque songs by the Dutch composer Contantijn Huygens and the English composer Nicholas Lanier.
Born in Varna, Bulgaria, Sofia Dimitrova has performed in Bulgaria, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and the USA, and has sung with The New York Continuo Collective, Choraulos, and ARTEK. She is a founding member of Point d'Arrêt. Ms. Dimitrova is a recent graduate of the Mannes College of Music, and was chosen to participate in Carnegie Hall's Bach Workshop under the direction of Ton Koopman in the fall of 2005.
The ancient themes of the Christmas season - Advent, Nativity, and Epiphany - find eloquent voice in a program of laude from 14th century Italy arranged for lute, psaltery, voices, and medieval harps. The lauda texts include mass movements, narractive poems, preaching and moral tales, and songs of praise and prayer.
Trefoil is a trio of modern minstrels practicing "an intricate, enigmatic vocal art" (The Philadephia Inquirer) since its founding in 2000. In recent seasons Trefoil has appeared at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters. as well as collaborating with the Newberry and Folger Consorts and Piffaro in various venues in Boston, Chicago, and Washington D.C.
A program of music from England, including medieval songs, music by Henry VIII, traditional broadside ballads, sacred ensembles, and carols.
My Lord Chamberlain's Consort was formed in 1997 to perform John Dowland's First Book of Lute Songs (dedicated to the Queen's Lord Chamberlain) for the 400th anniversary of its publication. My Lord Chamberlain's Consort performs annually in New York City at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, has been heard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters, and has made successful tours across the United States.
A program of beautiful songs for three voices, in French and Italian, by one of the master composers of the middle ages, Guillaume Dufay (c.1400-1474). Includes intricate rondeaux, ballades, and more.
Amy Bartram, Grace Check, and Beth Cullinane, vocalists
Machicoti, a medieval ensemble (Amy Bartram, artistic director) is dedicated to creating exhilarating interpretations of medieval music. The group, which debuted in 2003 at St. Francis of Assisi Church, has given many concerts of medieval music from France, including recent appearances in conjunction with the “Splendour of the Word” exhibition of manuscripts at the NY Public Library.
Compositions by Rossi, Bull, Handel, and J. S. Bach, borrowing materials from vocal, instrumental, and popular idioms, expand and enrich the expressive vocabulary of the harpsichord.
Ilya Poletaev leads a multi-faceted career as a classically trained pianist as well as a performer on early keyboards. He has appeared with the Toronto and Hartford symphony orchestras and at Caramoor, Sarasota, Norfolk, the Banff Festival of the Arts, The Orford Arts Center and Yellow Barn Music Festival. He is also active as a fortepianist. Poletaev is currently on the faculty of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
Works of Nicolas Vallet, Alessandro Piccinini, and Giovanni Antonio Terzi.
Grant Herreid, Daniel Swenberg, Charles Weaver, and Pat O'Brien: Ensemble Viscera was formed in 2002 as a plucked-string–based ensemble featuring lute, guitar, theorbo, cittern, and other instruments. Mining the manuscript and printed sources of Renaissance and Baroque music for lute and guitar ensemble, and inspired by intriguing literary accounts of such groups, Ensemble Viscera, with skillful dexterity and luscious, effervescent sonorities, captivates modern audiences with arrangements of their own devising, as well as those from surviving sources. The name Viscera itself puns on the ensemble's gut-strung instruments and their gutsy approach.
A program of duets by the great masters of the 17th and 18th centuries. A lesser-known motet by the nun-composer Chiara Margarita Cozzolani follows three duets by the better known 17th-century composer Claudio Monteverdi. The program ends with two duets by the high baroque master George Frideric Handel, written during his youthful years in Italy.
Teresa Wakim, soprano and Laurie Rubin, mezzo-soprano Teresa Wakim, soprano, has sung with Apollo’s Fire, Boston Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, and other ensembles. Laurie Rubin, mezzo-soprano, is preparing for solo recitals at Carnegie Hall and London’s Wigmore Recital Hall. Kate Bennett-Haynes, cello, performs as a member of the Arcturus Chamber Ensemble and the Clarion Music Society. Andrus Madsen, harpsichord, is the music director at Second Church in Newton, MA, and is the founder of Newton Baroque.
Infiorare presents a program of Spanish music performed by soprano, cornetto, recorder, Spanish cross-strung harp, theorbo, vihuela, and percussion. The journey begins in 17th-century Spain with traditional dances and sacred music, and ends with works by 20th-century masters Heitor Villa-Lobos and Joaquin Rodrigo, composed and arranged for voice and early instruments.
Jim Miller, director
Blossoming from James Miller's New York cornetto recital in 2002 and from collaborations as members of the New York Continuo Collective, Infiorare has appeared in numerous venues in New York, the Boston Early Music Festival, Historic Brass Symposium at Yale University, and at the New York Brass Conference at SUNY Purchase. The ensemble utilizes the unique colors of cornetto, harp, and voice performing inventive arrangements of medieval and baroque repertoire.
September 27, 2006
ARTEK
Bach Sonatas and Arias
Audiences love ARTEK concerts for their compelling musical settings of beautiful poetry and infectious dance rhythms that infuse the performances with vitality and spirit. Founded by director Gwendolyn Toth in 1986, ARTEK's singers and instrumentalists are all recognized virtuosos with a love for the early baroque music that is ARTEK's signature repertoire. ARTEK has been invited to perform at numerous international early music festivals and concert series, and has toured with the Mark Morris Dance Group throughout the United States and Europe. ARTEK has ventured into the theatrical realm with staged performances of early baroque operas and its own newly-devised musical theater show, "I'll Never See the Stars Again," set to music of Monteverdi, which the ensemble performed to acclaim at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. ARTEK will be featured on Symphony Space's Wall-to-Wall Opera in May 2007. Visit artekearlymusic.org for more information.
October 4, 2006
No Concert
(Feast of St. Francis)
October 11, 2006
Jeffrey Mandelbaum
English Songs
October 18, 2006
ARTEK
Baroque Solos and Duets
Music by Orazio Vecchi, Jacopo Peri, Alfonso Ferrabosco, Antonio Bertali, and Henry Purcell.
St. Francis of Assisi, will perform music by English and Italian baroque composers
on the cycle of life and death.
Artists: Jessica Tranzillo, soprano; Barbara Hollinshead, mezzo-soprano; Paul Shipper, bass;
Grant Herreid, lute; Christa Patton, harp; Daniel Swenberg, theorbo; Lisa Terry, gamba;
Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord
October 25, 2006
Toth/Shin Duo
Mozart
Mozart: Sonata for four hands in C major, K. 521
Johann Christian Bach: Sonata for four hands in A major
collaborate on a program of four hand music for Viennese fortepiano.
Mr. Shin performs regularly with the baroque ensemble Rebel, and Ms. Toth is the director of
ARTEK. They will perform on a copy of Mozart's own fortepiano.
November 1, 2006
No Concert
November 8, 2006
Barbara Cubed
Music of Strozzi
Arias by the 17th century Italian baroque composer Barbara Strozzi.
November 15, 2006
Gavin Black
Music of Frescobaldi
Harpsichord music of Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643).
in Rome and the leading Italian keyboard composer of the first half of the 17th century, including the famous Cento Partite sopra Passacagli. The music will be played on an original Italian harpsichord by an unknown maker of the late 17th century .
November 22, 2006
Immanuel Davis
Music for Baroque Flute
Three works by Hotteterre, Morel, and Telemann for flute, viola da gamba, and harpsichord.
November 29, 2006
ARTEK
Baroque Cantatas
G.F. Handel's Mi palpita il cor and Jean Joseph Mouret's Andromede et Persee.
December 6, 2006
New York Continuo Collective
Orlando Furioso
December 13, 2006
Sofia Dimitrova
Music from Holland and England
December 20, 2006
Trefoil
Medieval Christmas Music
December 27, 2006
My Lord Chamberlain's Consort
Music for Christmas and the Winter Solstice
January 3, 2007
Machicoti
Music of Guillaume Dufay
January 10, 2007
Ilya Poletaev
Harpsichord Recital
January 17, 2007
Ensemble Viscera
Music for Lute Ensemble
soprano, alto, tenor, and bass lutes.
January 24, 2007
Newton Baroque
17th- and 18th-Century Italian Duets
January 31, 2007
Infiorare
Music of Spain
This concert explores music from the court of King Louis XIII of France (1601–1643), focusing on the works of François Richard, a lutenist-composer working at court, and his book of lute songs from 1673, dedicated to Queen Anne. Works by Richard’s contemporaries Boësset, Moulinié, and Ballard will also be performed.
Amy Bartram, soprano, and Ekko Jennings, lute, presented their first concert together in 2001, and have since delved deep into lute song repertoire, exploring airs de cours, Elizabethan lute songs, the music of John Wilson, the Bottegari lute book, and more, on many concert series around New York City.
Alessandro Scarlatti composed many cantatas during his long service as music director at the cathedral of Santa Maggiore in Rome. These works have all the drama, melody, and instrumental interest of opera—without the length! Bacchanalia will perform Scarlatti's cantata "Io son per solo", as well as Antonio Vivaldi's "Solitudini amene, apriche collinette," for which he took Scarlatti’s form as his model. The program also includes one of Pietro Antonio Locatelli's flute sonatas, which are dazzling both in their virtuosity and in their truly Italian depth of feeling.
Bacchanalia is a dynamic early music group devoted to spirited interpretations of baroque and early classical music on period instruments. Focusing on repertoire for flute, strings and voice, Bacchanalia aims to re-create the intimacy and elegance of 18th-century performances. Bacchanalia has recently been heard on the MOSA Series, Sundays on the Island, and Music for the Spirit in New York City.
Because of special services for Ash Wednesday at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, there will be no concert on this date.
Named for Johann Heinrich Schmelzer's 1668 trio sonata "Die musikalische Fechtschule," this program highlights the musical whimsy and passion of the early Baroque. During this period the violin flourished, finding its virtuosic flair and soulful voice. With guest artist Claire Jolivet, baroque violin.
Acclaimed by the New York Times for its "energy and clarity" and "robust" playing, Repast performs baroque music on period instruments. Currently in residence at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, Repast has also appeared in the New York Early Music Celebration, the Lyceum concert series, and the Brooklyn Friends Meeting House. Repast was a finalist in the 2003 Early Music America/Naxos Recording competition.
February 14, 2007
Bacchanalia Baroque Ensemble
Italian Cantatas and Sonatas
Gabe Shuford, harpsichord; Laura Thompson, baroque flute;
Arlene Travis, soprano
February 21, 2007
NO CONCERT
(Ash Wednesday)
February 28, 2007
Repast Baroque Ensemble
The Musical Fencing School:
Dueling Violins in 17th-Century Italy and Austria
André O'Neil, baroque cello; Keri Mikkelson, harpsichord;
Charles Weaver, theorbo and guitar; Amelia Roosevelt, baroque violin
Venice, the most serene of cities (“La Serenissima”), reveals two distinct natures during this rich period in music history. The first, closely linked to the past, is dominated by the music of the Basilica of St. Mark’s. The second looks to the future, and is dominated by opera. Galileo’s Daughters will offer selections by Venetian composers Claudio Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi, and Alessandro Grandi.
Based in New York City, Galileo’s Daughters is the creation of musicians whose individual expertise in the worlds of early music, opera, jazz, drama, and musical scholarship bring freshness and immediacy to their performances. Since their debut concert in September 2001, Galileo’s Daughters has performed throughout the United States for such institutions as the College of Charleston; the Piccolo Spoleto Festival; the University of Notre Dame; the Mobile, Alabama Chamber Music Society, and the City University of New York Graduate Center. Inspired by Dava Sobel’s book Galileo’s Daughter, the group brings alive through music and readings the era of Suor Maria Celeste, whose letters to her famous father make vivid the spiritual and daily life of a 17th-century woman.
Members of ARTEK, the early music ensemble in residence at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, will perform selections from 17th-century sacred Italian solo motets and duets by the composers Monteverdi, Cavalli, Grandi, Rigatti, and Rovetta.
Audiences love ARTEK concerts for their compelling musical settings of beautiful poetry and infectious dance rhythms that infuse the performances with vitality and spirit. Founded by director Gwendolyn Toth in 1986, ARTEK's singers and instrumentalists are all recognized virtuosos with a love for the early baroque music that is ARTEK's signature repertoire. ARTEK has been invited to perform at numerous international early music festivals and concert series, and has toured with the Mark Morris Dance Group throughout the United States and Europe. ARTEK has ventured into the theatrical realm with staged performances of early baroque operas and its own newly-devised musical theater show, "I'll Never See the Stars Again," set to music of Monteverdi, which the ensemble performed to acclaim at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. ARTEK will be featured on Symphony Space's Wall-to-Wall Opera in May 2007. Visit artekearlymusic.org for more information.
Soprano Elizabeth Weigle and guitarist Daniel Lippel's program of songs by John Dowland and Manuel de Falla explores love from two sides. Dowland matches Cole Porter in his flair for double entendre, balancing deep emotion with cultivated detachment. De Falla's stormy Seven Spanish Songs reveal the internal passions of the soul.
Guitarist Daniel Lippel and soprano Elizabeth Weigle both enjoy active perfomance schedules, appearing with such groups as the American Bach Soloists, National Choral Society, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Flexible Music. Their premiere recording of Vineet Shende's Neruda songs will be released in Fall 2006. More information can be found at www.elizabethweigle.com and www.danlippel.com.
Civil authority in Quebec City, the capital of New France, was vested in the position of Royal Governor, appointed by the King of France. In addition to affairs of state, the Palace was also the setting for lavish entertainments. These soirees showcased the luster of the office of the King's representative. Since a number of Royal Governors had serious musical interest, guests at the Palace were treated to a variety of musicians playing upon recorders, flutes, oboes, violins, lutes, chamber organ, and harpsichord. The music for this program is based on extant 17th- and 18th-century inventories from New France, and includes arrangements of opera airs by Jean-Baptiste Lully and instrumental pieces by Chambonnieres and Clerambault, among others.
The Practitioners of Musick was founded several years ago by Messrs. Roan and Burkhalter to survey the musical riches of eighteenth-century Great Britain and Ireland and
both the Colonial and early Federal periods in America. Recent research has focused on musical life in New France from 1660 until the Fall of Quebec in 1759.
March 14, 2007
ARTEK
17th-Century Vocal Music: Part I
March 21, 2007
Elizabeth Weigle and Daniel Lippel
Songs of Dowland and de Falla
Elizabeth Weigle, soprano
March 28, 2007
The Practitioners of Musick
Music from New France
Practitioners of Musick founders
John Burkhalter and Eugene Roan
Soloists from the Choir of St. Francis, accompanied by members of ARTEK, the church's ensemble in residence, will perform music from a medieval mystery play, "Planctus Mariae" ("The Lament of Mary"). This liturgical drama, found in a fourteenth-century manuscript from the north of Italy, is rich in emotion, depicting the grief of Mary the Mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalen, Mary the mother of James, and the apostle John at the foot of the Cross.
Performers: The St. Francis Choir; soloists Nell Snaidas and Sofia Dimitrova, sopranos; Juli Borst, mezzo-soprano; Michael Reid, tenor; accompanied by Christa Patton, medieval harp and flutes; James Miller, medieval winds; Charles Weaver, lute; Michael Rigsby, vielle and medieval harp; Gwendolyn Toth, organ and hammered dulcimer.
To the lutenist-composers of the Elizabethan court, there was no sharp divide between popular and art music. Simple ballad tunes or repeating bass patterns with as few as two notes offered infinite possibilities for invention. This program explores artful solo settings of ballads whose texts include themes of love, separation, sickness, and revival.
Charles Weaver is a member of New York ensembles ARTEK and Repast, and frequently performs in recital with his duo partner, Elizabeth Baber. He has also appeared with the Orchestra of St Luke’s and the Richmond Symphony. He has accompanied and coached baroque operas with Ignoti Dei Opera, Peabody Chamber Opera, Maryland Opera Studio, the Juilliard Opera Center, and the Wooster Group. Upcoming concerts include appearances with Hesperus, PIFFARO, and the Folger Consort. The Washington Post has called his continuo playing "fine," his accompaniment "adept," and his solo playing “splendid.”
When Francis I assumed the French throne in 1515, he ushered in the Renaissance by importing Italian artists, poets, and musicians. This created an unprecedented explosion of French song. This duo program explores courtly and home music from Francis’s reign, from rustic voix de ville (vaudeville) songs to courtly polyphony.
Elizabeth Baber and Charles Weaver have collaborated on several programs exploring the vast repertoire of solo song from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and performed throughout the country. The Washington Post has praised their “impeccable performance” and “imagination in programming,” and the New York Times has described Baber’s voice as “truly lovely.”
Duo Marchand sings the praises of Music herself in the melodies and verses of 17th- and 18th-century England. The Elizabethan and Jacobean lute-song composers favored a simple musical treatment to set off the densely rhetorical verses of the Renaissance poets. The later Baroque masters Purcell and Handel took theatrical music to new heights of dramatic expression.
April 11, 2007
Charles Weaver
Elizabethan Lute Recital
April 18, 2007
Elizabeth Baber and Charles Weaver
Music from the Reign of François I
April 25, 2007
Duo Marchand
17th- and 18th-Century English Song
Duo Marchand takes its name from a family of court musicians that flourished in 17th-century France. In recent seasons, the duo has appeared at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale Center for British Art, the Cloisters, the Lute Society of America Conference and Seminar, and the New York Botanical Garden (in conjunction with the exhibit "The New Renaissance Garden").
The New York Continuo Collective will present Francesca Caccini's opera La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'Isola di Alcina (The Liberation of Ruggiero from Alcina's Island), first performed in Florence in 1625 to celebrate the visit of the future King Wladislaw IV of Poland. Important for being not only the first opera composed by a woman, but also the first Italian opera performed outside Italy, La Liberazione presents the story of the knight Ruggiero's escape from the magical island of the sorceress Alcina, drawn from Ariosto's famous epic poem, Orlando Furioso.
The New York Continuo Collective is a group of singers and instrumentalists (baroque harp, cello, gamba, theorbo, lute, guitar, and cornetto) exploring historical performance of the 17th century music from Italy. Under the direction of Grant Herreid, Pat O'Brien, Paul Shipper, and Jennifer Griesbach, the Collective conducts weekly sessions in performance practice, in which they examine rhetoric of text, gesture, ornamentation, and phrasing to create a common language for realizing this highly improvised music.
Violist Karen Marie Marmer of REBEL joins the Grenser Trio in "A Mozart Connection: Opera House to Bowling Alley," in the "Kegelstatt" Trio, written by a multitasking Mozart at work and play. Beethoven's salute to Mozart, his "Seven Variations on a Theme from The Magic Flute," begins the concert.
To find out more, please visit www.continuony.org.
May 9, 2007
The Grenser Trio
A Mozart Connection
With historical copies of 19-century clarinet, fortepiano, and cello, the Grenser Trio explores late-classical and early-romantic chamber music as it sounded to its first audiences. Present-day audiences hear the Trio in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and SUNY Stony Brook as well as the intimate Interchurch Center and Morris-Jumel Mansion.
Dongsok Shin and REBEL perform Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 in A Major, K.414, in the composer-sanctioned version with single strings. The Rondo in A Major, K.386, thought to be a rejected third movement of the concerto, fills out the program. Mr. Shin's fortepiano, by Philip Belt, is a copy of Mozart's concert instrument, originally made by Anton Walter.
Dongsok Shin has performed with ARTEK, Concert Royal, NY Collegium, and Early Music NY. He has toured throughout the Americas and Europe, been heard on many radio broadcasts, and has recorded for Bridge, Lyrichord, Newport Classic, Helicon, ATMA Classique and Dorian. He is a member of the internationally acclaimed ensemble, REBEL.
Members of ARTEK, the early music ensemble in residence at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, will perform selections from 17th century sacred Italian solo motets and duets by the composers Monteverdi, Cavalli, Grandi, Rigatti, and Rovetta.
Audiences love ARTEK concerts for their compelling musical settings of beautiful poetry and infectious dance rhythms that infuse the performances with vitality and spirit. Founded by director Gwendolyn Toth in 1986, ARTEK's singers and instrumentalists are all recognized virtuosos with a love for the early baroque music that is ARTEK's signature repertoire. ARTEK has been invited to perform at numerous international early music festivals and concert series, and has toured with the Mark Morris Dance Group throughout the United States and Europe. ARTEK has ventured into the theatrical realm with staged performances of early baroque operas and its own newly-devised musical theater show, "I'll Never See the Stars Again," set to music of Monteverdi, which the ensemble performed to acclaim at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. ARTEK will be featured on Symphony Space's Wall-to-Wall Opera in May 2007. Visit artekearlymusic.org for more information.
May 16, 2007
Dongsok Shin with REBEL
Mozart Piano Concerto
Jorg-Michael Schwarz, violin; Dongsok Shin, fortepiano; Karen Marmer, violin; John Moran, cello
May 23, 2007
ARTEK
17th-Century Vocal Music, Part II
