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Duo Appassionata
Fortepiano Music for Four Hands
ARTEK director Gwendolyn Toth and her husband Dongsok Shin, a duo of early keyboardists, kick off the season with a recital of virtuosic fortepiano duets, including a thrilling arrangement of Boccherini’s Fandango.
Dongsok Shin and Gwendolyn Toth concertize together as Duo Appassionata. Duo Appassionata displays their virtuoso talents in literature for two organs, two harpsichords, and fortepiano duet. Dongsok Shin has toured worldwide as the keyboard player of REBEL, including a Carnegie Hall performance with Renee Fleming. Gwendolyn Toth is director of the baroque ensemble ARTEK and has recorded organ music of Scheidemann and Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Martha McGaughey and Carlene Stober (treble and bass viols) explore music transcribed for two viols, “stolen” from literature for keyboard, flutes and violins. The centerpiece of the program will be a flute duet by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Sebastian's brilliant eldest son.
Martha McGaughey and Carlene Stober have been performing together in Empire Viols since 1998. The ensemble ("Excellent" -- Wall Street Journal) is in residence at Second Presbyterian Church in New York City and currently in its 10th anniversary season. Martha McGaughey was a founding member of Musical Assembly and guest with Phantasm, and appears on the Erato and EMI labels. She taught at Ecole Nationale de Musique (France), Eastman School of Music, Stanford University, and teaches at Mannes College of Music. Carlene Stober is continuo cellist for Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity and has appeared with Foundling, Concert Royal, Parthenia, Prairie Home Companion, Theatre for a New Audience, Early Music New York. She was principal cellist of the Tucson Symphony and member of the Delphi String Quartet.
Jolle Greenleaf (soprano) and Hank Heijink (lute) present selections from their upcoming CD, “Aupres du feu,” of airs sérieux by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704). Charpentier, a true genius of the French Baroque, is best known for his exceptional vocal writing in opera and large-scale sacred works. Here, his more intimate songs will be interspersed with exquisite lute solos by Robert de Visée (1650-1725).
Jolle Greenleaf and Hank Heijink, performing as AsproDolce, have appeared in the Netherlands, France, Costa Rica and Panama, notably in a fringe concert at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.
Hailed as “a golden soprano” by the New York Times, Jolle Greenleaf has established herself as a specialist in 17th- and 18th-century repertoire. Ms. Greenleaf has performed with many period instrument ensembles including Apollo’s Fire, Clarion Music Society, Concert Royale, NY Collegium, Parthenia. Operatic roles have included Dido and Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Amour and Céphise in Rameau’s Pygmalion, Sandrina in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera, Licori in Vivaldi’s La Fida Ninfa, and in the title role in Cavalli’s La Calisto. Some of this season’s highlights include performances of J.S. Bach’s Jauchzet Gott and St. Matthew Passion, Mozart’s C Minor Mass, Regina Coeli, and Exultate jubilate, works by Praetorius with Apollo’s Fire, and several virtuosic vocal programs with Tiffany Consort. Ms. Greenleaf is the voice teacher to the boys of St. Thomas Choir in NYC.
Lutenist Hank Heijink studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Toyohiko Satoh, Mike Fentross, and Nigel North after completing a master’s degree in computer science and a Ph.D. in behavioral science. He was the first theorbo player to work with the European Union Baroque Orchestra, during which time he worked with Roy Goodman, Paul Goodwin, and Fabio Biondi, and played at many of the major early music festivals and venues in Europe and in Japan. He has worked with leading European ensembles such as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and the Netherlands Bach Society. This season’s engagements include Dido and Aeneas with the Mark Morris Dance Group, a German cantata program with Concert Royal, and Cavalli’s La Didone with the Wooster Group.
Aaron Brown performs dazzling solo violin sonatas by masters of the 17th and 18th centuries. The program will include the Sonata Secunda (1629) by Dario Castello (c.1590-c.1630); the Quatorzieme Concert from the Concerts Royaux by François Couperin (1668-1733); and the “Crucifixion” sonata from the Rosary Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz von Biber (1644-1704).
Aaron Brown began violin studies at age 4, giving his first solo performance with orchestra at age 7. At age 17, Aaron moved to New York to attend the Juilliard School and later the Mannes College of Music, studying modern violin under Dorothy Delay, Catherine Cho, and Lewis Kaplan, and baroque studies with Nancy Wilson and Martha McGaughey. Aaron has performed with numerous baroque ensembles in the New York area, including ARTEK, the New York State Early Music Association, the Four Nations Ensemble, the Grand Tour Orchestra and Opera Lafayette. Aaron has appeared at most major New York venues including Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. He is the recipient of the Lord Mayors Performing Arts Scholarship (Australia) and was a finalist in the Australian National Youth Concerto Competition.
September 12
Empire Viols
Stolen Music
September 19
AsproDolce
Songs of Marc-Antoine Charpentier
September 26
Aaron Brown
Baroque Violin Recital
