Video of the Gran Chacona, performed by members of Sinfonia New York with baroque dancers Carlos Fittante and Patricia Beaman on May 26, 2009 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
The Orchestra
John Scott, Conductor
Violin Dongmyung Ahn Rachel Evans Judson Griffin Marika Holmkvist Claire Jolivet Peter Kupfer Linda Quan Lisa Rautenberg Cynthia Roberts Amie Roosevelt Theresa Salomon Vita Wallace Nancy Wilson Marka Young Margaret Ziemnicka
Viola Andrea Andros Peter Bucknell Margret Hjalsted David Miller Ruth Siegler Alissa Smith Jessica Troy
'Cello David Bakamjian Christine Gummere Maxine Neuman Ben Wolff
Bass Dave Chapman John Feeney
Flute Ann Briggs Sandra Miller
Oboe Sarah Davol Washington McLain Marc Schachman Lani Spahr
Clarinet Diane Heffner Ed Matthew Nina Stern
Bassoon Marilyn Boenau Andrew Schwartz Tom Sefcovic
Horn Alex Cook Douglas Lundeen Aleks Ozolins
Trumpet Lou Hanzlik John Thiessen
Tympani Jim Baker
Keyboard Ed Brewer
Maxine Neuman & Christine Gummere
Ed Matthew, Nina Stern, Andrew Schwartz, Tom Sefcovic
Aleks Ozolins, Doug Lundeen, Lou Hanzlik, John Thiessen
JOHN SCOTT, conductor
Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England in 1956, John Scott received his earliest musical training as a Cathedral Chorister. While still in school he received diplomas from the Royal College of Organists and won major prizes in organ performance. In 1974 he was named Organ Scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where for four years he served as assistant to the legendary George Guest.
Having graduated from Cambridge University, Mr. Scott was appointed Assistant Organist at London’s two Anglican Cathedrals, Southwark and Saint Paul’s. He served the latter for a remarkable, unbroken tenure of 25 years, first as Assistant Sub-Organist in 1978, becoming Sub-Organist in 1985, and succeeding Christopher Dearnley as Organist and Director of Music in 1990.
John Scott
John Scott assumed his post of Organist and Director of Music at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City in September, 2004, succeeding Gerre Hancock who had held the post for 33 years. Mr. Scott’s first three seasons with the Choir included concerts of Haydn’s “Nelson” Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, both The St. John and St. Matthew Passions by J. S. Bach, Haydn’s Creation, a program of Bach Cantatas, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers and Coronation Mass, the Mozart arrangement of Messiah, and the Rachmaninov Vespers. All this is over and above the almost daily choral liturgy for which St Thomas Church is famed.
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