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April 2019
Ronn McFarlane at The Cultural Center at the Opera House
Grammy-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane will be performing a selection of pieces on solo lute. https://www.ronnmcfarlane.com/
Find out more »English Country Dance with Seven Times Salt
Seven Times Salt will provide splendid live music for CDS-Boston’s Wednesday English Dance, this week celebrating with a post-NEFFA party at the Scout House. You’ll hear tunes popular from 1650 up to the present; some are elegant, some rowdy, some romantic, some playful. English Country Dance is social, community dancing. Friendly dance callers will teach all the dances; no experience is necessary. Dancers take a different partner for each dance of the evening, and join a “set” of couples. Each couple dances…
Find out more »SEATTLE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA AND BYRD ENSEMBLE – Handel’s Messiah
In association with Town Hall Seattle Alexander Weimann, Music Director Markdavin Obenza, Byrd Ensemble Artistic Director Handel’s most famous oratorio, unparalleled in both text and music, returns to Eastertide in a collaboration between Seattle’s Byrd Ensemble and the Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Weimann.
Find out more »Paul O’Dette and Ronn McFarlane at Northwestern University
For Two Lutes: Virtuoso Duets From Italy and England This concert is part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series They will be giving a masterclass earlier in the day at 2pm
Find out more »Bach Week Festival: ‘Baroque Bouquet: Bach, Vivaldi, and Soler’
The Chicago area's 46th annual Bach Week Festival opens with a concert including Antonio Soler's Fandango for harpsichord; J. S. Bach's Sonata in G Major for Harpsichord and Viola da Gamba, BWV 1027, Concerto in C minor for Violin and Oboe, BWV 1060R, and Cantata “O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit,” BWV 210; and Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto in F Major, RV 569. Soloists are Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano; Judith Kulb, oboe; John Macfarlane, violin; Anna Steinhoff, viola da gamba; and Jason Moy,…
Find out more »Bach Week Festival: ‘Bach or Not Bach’ Candlelight Concert
Baroque violinist Kiyoe Matsuura will make her Chicago-area Bach Week Festival debut in a Candlelight Concert with lutenist Joel Spears. Their program,"Bach or Not Bach," will focus on J. S. Bach’s Suite for Violin and Continuo, BWV 1025, and its origins in a work for solo lute by German virtuoso lutenist and composer Silvius Leopold Weiss, who visited the Bach household. They'll also perform Franz Joseph Haydn's Cassation in C Major, Hob. III:6.
Find out more »SEATTLE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA AND BYRD ENSEMBLE – Handel’s Messiah
In association with Town Hall Seattle Alexander Weimann, Music Director Markdavin Obenza, Byrd Ensemble Artistic Director Handel’s most famous oratorio, unparalleled in both text and music, returns to Eastertide in a collaboration between Seattle’s Byrd Ensemble and the Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Weimann.
Find out more »Paul O’Dette and Ronn McFarlane at Camerata Musica
For Two Lutes: Virtuoso Duets From Italy and England
Find out more »Pittsburgh Renaissance and Baroque Presents Quicksilver
Quicksilver’s Stile Moderno examines modern music as it was invented by virtuoso instrumental composers in 17th-century Italy. It is also an exploration of their new invention, the sonata: a pure instrumental work, with no agenda but the imagination of the composer. Led by co- directors and violin virtuosi Julie Andrijeski and Robert Mealy, this program of “new music” is virtuosic, experimental, unexpected, and deeply moving. Music by Castello, Fontana, Merula, Marini and more.
Find out more »Bach Week Festival: ‘Virtuoso Soloists’
This concert features Johann Sebastian Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1054; Ouverture No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067; and Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043. Soloists are pianist Sergei Babayan, praised by The New York Times for his “consummate technique and insight”; flutist Jennifer Gunn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and violinists Laura Park and Rebecca Benjamin, violin, who are alumni of the Music Institute of Chicago Academy Orchestra. Current string players…
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