Baroque Music Montana presents “Hymn of Thanksgiving: Beethoven’s Quartet Op 132,” with a period instrument string quartet. One of his final works, Beethoven composed this piece upon recovery from an assumed fatal illness, entitling it ‘a prayer from a convalescent to the Deity.’ Principally inspired by the renaissance composer Palestrina, Beethoven uses ancient harmonies, imitation, and organ-like writing to invoke the archaic church and holy reverence. Beethoven’s final string quartets are profound, transcendent works that revolutionized chamber music with unparalleled musical ingenuity, complexity, and emotional depth. Written when he was deaf, they are perhaps chamber music’s most revered works.
Musicians for this program include Los Angeles-based Andrew McIntosh, a Grammy-nominated violinist, violist, and composer, with compositional commissions from the LA Philharmonic and performances at Walt Disney hall to Miller Theatre and National Sawdust in NYC to Tectonics Festival Glasgow in Scotland. He is Professor at the California Institute of the Arts and a founding member of Wild Up, the Formalist Quartet, and Wadada Leo Smith’s Red Koral Quartet.
Violinist Carrie Krause resides in Bozeman as concertmaster of the Bozeman Symphony and artistic director of Baroque Music Montana. She has recently performed at St. Martin’s in the Fields in London, Utrecht Early Music Festival, and Carnegie Hall, and attended The Juilliard School.
Violist Maureen Murchie, concertmaster of the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra, and a member of the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, baroque and contemporary orchestras of Trinity Wall Street, Mark Morris Dance Company, Harry Connick Jr., El Mundo (Carnegie Hall, Feb 2023), and the Broadway pits of Tootsie, Parade, and Farinelli and the King. Maureen grew up in Sendai, Japan and has worked as a Japanese translator, interpreter, and editor.
Cellist Micheal Unterman is co-principal cellist of Tafelmusik in Toronto, and performs widely in Boston and NYC. He was a Fulbright scholar in Barcelona, and attended the New England Conservatory and The Juilliard School.
Baroque Music Montana (BaMM) presents tunes and tales inspired by history. BaMM presents over 50 concerts a year across Montana, has appeared on concert series from Seattle to Montreal, and has recorded two acclaimed albums.
