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Daphna Mor, recorder
Accompanied by acclaimed harpsichordist Gwendolyn Toth, Daphna Mor will play a varied recital of sonatas by Mancini and Bach as well as solos by van Eyck and Telemann. Praised by the Chicago Tribune for her astonishing virtuosity,” Ms. Mor is an internationally-renowned performer and educator who has collaborated with an impressive array of musicians of all styles including John Adams, Sting, and Pharoh's Daughters. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Boston Conservatory in 2000, where she earned the highest honors and was named Valedictorian of her class.
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Asteria
Asteria (Sylvia Rhyne, soprano; Eric Redlinger, tenor and lute) will perform Chansons of Busnoys. The material for this program is gathered entirely from the Dijon Chansonnier (MS 517), a remarkable collection of late medieval chansons from the 1460s-70s that is currently housed in the Bibliotheque Municipale in Dijon, France. For this concert, Asteria will highlight songs by Antoine Busnoys (1430-1492), a brilliant and prolific composer in the employ of Charles the Rash, the fourth and last Valois duke of Burgundy.
Asteria, who in 2004 won Early Music America’s first Unicorn Prize for Medieval and Renaissance Music, has become a fixture in the international Early Music scene, and has received critical acclaim from the New York Times, Early Music America, and others.
**FRIDAY, APRIL 23--SPECIAL CONCERT (Rescheduled from February, 2010)**
Ensemble Calandra
The newly-formed Ensemble Calandra (Sarah Moulton, soprano; Christa Pehl, traverso; Wendy Young, harpsichord) makes its debut performance as a part of the Midtown Concert Series, performing Johann Adolf Hasse’s (1699-1783) Quel Vago Seno, O Fille and Georg Philipp Telemann’s (1681-1767) Cantata for the Feast of the Three Kings.
Sarah Moulton has performed as a soloist with Ton Koopman at Zankel Hall, with New York City Opera in Candide, and in Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate at the historic St. Mauritius Church in Zermatt, Switzerland. Christa Pehl is a PhD candidate in musicology at Princeton University and has performed with groups such as Tempesta di Mare. Wendy Young has performed at many of America’s major concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Kennedy Center, and has been heard on local and National Public Radio. She has played for numerous commercials, and movie soundtracks, including the soundtrack for the Warner Bros. movie Interview with the Vampire.
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Alta Wind Trio
Alta Wind Trio will perform Flanders Field--Music from the Low Countries. Alta members Peter Braunfield, Daniel Green and Gwendolyn Winkel have been delighting audiences throughout the northeast with their historically informed performances of renaissance and baroque music on period instruments since 1983. This concert will include chansons and motets by Agricola (1446-1506), Des Pres (1450?-1521), Ghiselin (1491-1507), Isaac (1450?-1517), Crecquillon (1505-1557?), and others performed on period wind instruments.
