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L’Isle enchantée.

PattonWalkerHeadshots Peter Walker 2019 webOur program explores the pastoral repertoire published for the musette de cour during the century or so when it was fashionable, including solo suites with continuo, duets with another treble instrument (here a flute), and songs sung while playing the musette, as well as solo works for the baroque harp.

Peter Walker, musette de cour, voice
Christa Patton, baroque harp, flute

Christa Patton and Peter Walker collaborate frequently on repertoire ranging from medieval songs to renaissance dance tunes to baroque instrumental and vocal works, as well as music from many world piping traditions, ancient and modern. Their combined musical forces include harps, early woodwinds, voice, and nearly a dozen bagpipes.

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1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Arnie Tanimoto_Gwendolyn Toth_Adam CockerhamSuitte d'un Goût Étranger.

Join us for an afternoon of strange and foreign music, as seen through the eyes and ears of 18th-century France: Marin Marais' monumental collection of virtuosic character pieces from his fourth book of pièces de viole.

Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba
Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord
Adam Cockerham, theorbo

Gold medalist of the 7th International Bach-Abel Competition, Arnie Tanimoto is equally at home on the viola da gamba and baroque cello. Described by The New York Times as a “fine instrumental soloist” he has performed and recorded with Barthold Kuijken, the Boston Early Music Festival Ensemble, and the Smithsonian Consort of Viols. As a teacher, he serves on faculty at the Mountainside Baroque Summer Academy as well as maintaining a private studio. He holds degrees and certificates from Oberlin Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School, and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

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1:15 - 2:00 pm
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This concert will be livestreamed on our website, and on YouTube and Facebook, followed by an intimate chat on Zoom.

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96398757608
Meeting ID: 963 9875 7608

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Harmony of Nations.

FilamentCelebrating the free-flowing exchange of musical ideas among seekers and sages as well as the distinctive, newly inflected voices developed through the merger of seemingly disparate national styles. Highlights of the program will include Georg Muffat’s iconic violin sonata, chamber sonatas by Rosenmüller and Krieger, and music of the visionary Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.

Evan Few, violin
Elena Smith, viola da gamba
John Walthausen, harpischord

Filament is a chamber ensemble, formed in 2019, of Philadelphia-based period-instrument soloists. Comprising a core trio of violin, viola da gamba, and keyboards, its respective founding members are Evan Few, Elena Smith, and John Walthausen. As constituents of the global early music community, they regularly join the ranks of such ensembles as Apollo’s Fire, Bach Collegium Japan, Chatham Baroque, New York City Opera, Philadelphia Bach Collegium, Tempesta di Mare, Venice Baroque Orchestra, and the Washington Bach Consort. As an ensemble, they share their collective passion for the rich trio repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries with audiences in Philadelphia, the Delaware River Valley, and beyond. Recent preoccupations include music of Northern Germany and Scandinavia, and cross-cultural music-making in Northern Europe.

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1:15 - 2:00 pm
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This concert will be livestreamed on our website, and on YouTube and Facebook, followed by an intimate chat on Zoom.

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96398757608
Meeting ID: 963 9875 7608

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Naturally Expressed in Music: the pioneering musical style of J. E. Galliard.

Joseph JonesVirtuoso oboist Johann Ernst Galliard was one among many of talented young artists who emigrated to London in the first decades of the 18th century. We explore his lyric and danceable style through his bassoon sonatas, written at the height of his success as a composer of wildly popular pantomimes.

Joseph Jones, baroque bassoon
Charles Asch, baroque cello
Donald Livingston, harpsichord

A graduate of Juilliard's Historical Performance Program, Joseph Jones is in demand around the country as a historical bassoon and dulcian player. As a soloist he has been praised for his "warm singing tone" and "proved he could easily break the four-minute mile without missing a note." (Star Tribune)

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1:15 - 2:00 pm
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This concert will be livestreamed on our website, and on YouTube and Facebook, followed by an intimate chat on Zoom.


Joseph Jones is a graduate of The Juilliard School where he studied historical bassoon and dulcian. His playing has been praised for its "warm singing tone" and "Jones proved he could easily break the four-minute mile without missing a note" (Star Tribune). Ensembles he has worked with include ACRONYM, Boston Early Music Festival, Early Music New York, American Bach Soloists, Bermuda Philharmonic, Lyra Baroque Orchestra, and Les Arts Florissants at their festival in Thiré, France. While at Juilliard, Joe was a Morse Teaching Artist Fellow. He is also an American Fellow of the English Concert and a past recipient of a McKnight Foundation "Next-Step" grant. This season Joe is excited to be working with Lyra Baroque to develop new educational materials introducing baroque music to elementary school students.

Charles Asch performs cello recitals, chamber music recitals, and with orchestral ensembles in the Twin Cities and throughout Minnesota. He performs on a German baroque cello from the early 1700s, and a modern cello by Gary Davis in New England, 1996. He received his Master of Music degree from Juilliard in 2011, where he studied with Richard Aaron and Fred Sherry. He recently completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Tanya Remenikova.

Keyboardist Donald Livingston collaborates with musicians from across the musical spectrum. Founding director of the Twin Cities Early Music Festival and director of Ensemble Sprezzatura, he has performed with such ensembles as Bach Sinfonia (Washington DC), Musica Antigua (Panama City), La Donna Musicale (Boston), Lyra Baroque (St. Paul), Minnesota Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Phoenix Symphony, as well as with soloists and collaborators Cléa Galhano, Anton Nel, Jacques Ogg, Elisabeth Wright, Joel Frederiksen, Ryland Angel, Jed Wentz, Barthold Kuijken, and Dame Emma Kirkby. He recently left a positions as Lecturer of Organ and Harpsichord at the University of Texas Butler School of Music and organist at St. Martin's Lutheran Church to become organist at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis.

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Sentiment and Sympathy: Music of Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy and Ignatius Sancho.

The Raritan PlayersThe Raritan Players invite listeners into the salons and drawing rooms of eighteenth-century Paris and London. We present songs and keyboard music by the French composer and salon hostess Anne-Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, whose private concerts attracted listeners and participants such as Benjamin Franklin, Charles Burney, and Luigi Boccherini. And we explore songs by Ignatius Sancho, a formerly enslaved Bl​ack composer of African descent whose music seems designed to stimulate interracial fellowship, and whose writings later helped ignite the British abolitionist movement.

Sonya Headlam, soprano
Rebecca Cypess, square piano

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1:15 - 2:00 pm
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This concert will be livestreamed on our website, and on YouTube and Facebook, followed by an intimate chat on Zoom.

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A Mad, Burning Desire.

Burning River BaroqueThe right for women to legally appear on the English theater stage converged with early modern society’s fascination with mental illness. Mad songs consequently became quite popular, and singing them catapulted English soprano-actresses to fame as they portrayed characters who violently descended into lovesick madness on the Restoration stage.

Malina Rauschenfels, voice
Paula Maust, harpsichord (William Dowd 1980 French double harpsichord)

Burning River Baroque brings diverse communities together through vibrant musical performances that inspire engaging dialogues and meaningful social change. Their cutting-edge programs bring the vitality of Baroque music to life for contemporary audiences by demonstrating the profound connections between issues of the past and those of modern times.

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Meeting ID: 944 7426 5453

The 10-course lute: Music of Robert Ballard and Michelangelo Galilei.

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Robert Ballard (c.1572 – c.1650) was the most famous French lutenist of the first decades of the 17th century, and an important pioneer in the development of French Baroque musical style. Ballard's Italian contemporary Michelangelo Galilei (c.1575 – c.1640) spent much of his career at the musically cosmopolitan courts of Poland and Bavaria. While he was heavily influenced by French lute style, his music retains much of the harmonic intensity and rhythmic drive favored by Italian lutenists.

Richard Kolb, 10-course lute

Richard Kolb's CD of music by Robert Ballard has recently been released on the Centaur label (CRC 3747). He combines a career as a performer with scholarly research and publishing, and has lately finished editing the complete works of Barbara Strozzi, published by Cor Donato Editions. He has also recorded a CD of music from Strozzi's Opus 8 with soprano Elissa Edwards, to be released in late 2020. Kolb is Scholar in Residence for the NY Continuo Collective, and has held teaching positions at the University of Toronto, and the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), and Case-Western Reserve University.

 

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Sanguineus und Melancholius

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Richard KolbThe title represents the two extreme psychological states from ancient Greek medical theory: Sanguineus und Melancholius. We explore the Trio Sonata genre that vividly displays both melancholic and fiery constitutions, with works from Isabella Leonarda, Georg Friederich Handel, Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, and C.P.E. Bach.

Edson Scheid, violin
Isabelle Seula Lee, violin
Bálint Karosi, harpsichord/organ
Ana Kim, cello

Edson, Seula, Bálint, and Ana have first started playing together playing services at Saint Peter's Church in midtown Manhattan, where Bálint is Cantor, since 2016. They perform a wide variety of genres, repertoire ranging from Charpentier to living composers. Within the quartet, they have attended the Yale School of Music and the Juilliard School, where they have studied both Modern and Historical Performance. They perform regularly with ensembles within the NYC area including Trinity Wall Street Church, NY Baroque Incorporated, and outside of the country with groups like Les Arts Florissants, Il Pomo d'oro, and Bach Collegium Japan.

1:15 - 2:00 pm
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Music of the Spheres – Concert at Sanssouci.

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Bach Ensemble in New YorkMusic of the early Enlightenment and the late Baroque as heard at the palace of Frederick the Great. He was surrounded by many artists and musicians, and the musical events at Sanssouci were a mix of stylish works from the flutist Quantz, J.S. Bach, and C.P.E. Bach.

Mili Chang, flute
Isabelle Seula Lee, violin
Ana Kim, cello
Robert Warner, harpsichord

1:15 – 2:00 pm
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“…Mili Chang, whose traverso playing in the Credo’s Benedictus was fluid, elegant, and well, just lovely.” in her performance with Ton Koopman, the director of Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Mili has performed with many ensembles and with Grammy Award recipient and nominees’ violinist Monica Huggett, tenor Aaron Sheehan, and keyboardist Richard Egarr. She plays with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale Taipei, The Sebastians, Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, and St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Baroque Orchestra. She has been featured on WQXR, West Side Radio, and has performed at the venues such as Lincoln Center, Yale University, Columbia University, The National Center for Performing Arts in India, Banff Center in Canada, and National Concert Hall in Taiwan. Currently, she performs in the New York metropolitan area and teaches at New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

Hailed for her “marvelous” and “scintillating” performance, Isabelle Seula Lee is a celebrated violinist and a passionate historical performer. She is a founding member of New Amsterdam Consort and frequently performs with the New York Baroque Inc, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium Japan, Bach Collegium at Saint Peter’s, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and Teatro Nuevo. Her appearances as a soloist and chamber musician include Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Maly Hall and Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Glazunov Hall and Belosselsky Belozersky Palace in Russia, St. Petersburg State Capella Concert Hall, and New Zealand’s Fowler Center. Isabelle's performances have also been broadcast on live radio and television by WQXR in NYC, MediciTV, Estonian Cultural TV, WPBI, and Radio New Zealand. She is now primarily based in New York City and enjoys an active musical life as a violinist and baroque violinist across many musical styles and periods.

Indiana native Ana Kim is a versatile cellist based in New York, who actively performs on modern and historical instruments with various ensembles throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and France. She performs with ensembles including Les Arts Florissants, The Sebastians, American Classical Orchestra, and the Halle Orchestra. Ana has participated in festivals such as Yellow Barn, Verbier Academy, Music@Menlo, and International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove. She received a Doctorate at the University of Southern California and has studied Historical Performance at Juilliard. Her teachers include Janos Starker, Ralph Kirshbaum, Laurence Lesser, and Phoebe Carrai. With a keen interest in education and interacting with different communities, Ana has participated in outreach residencies with Kneisel Hall Festival in Maine and Listen Closely in New York, and educational programs with the American Classical Orchestra’s Classical Music for Kids. She has also taught in Pacific Union College and public schools in Napa Valley. She is currently teaching at Browning School in New York City.

Robert Warner is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School and has studied harpsichord with Arthur Haas and Peter Sykes. He is currently active in New York City and plays regularly with various chamber groups including Musicivic Baroque and Voyage Sonique. He is also the founder, director and harpsichordist of New Amsterdam Consort. 

Sarah Jane KennerThe Pandolfi Project.

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Save for a few details surrounding his employment and likely involvement in a murder, very little is known about the life of Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli. He left behind a very meager catalog; his twelve violin sonatas, about half his total surviving output, are unique, inventive, and often bizarre in nature, offering a rare glimpse into Pandolfi's eccentric world and personality.

Sarah Jane Kenner, violin
Adam Cockerham, theorbo
Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord
Matt Zucker, cello


Baroque violinist Sarah Jane Kenner has been hailed as a "fireworks soloist” (ConcertoNet) and performs throughout the United States and internationally. In 2018, she made her Lincoln Center solo debut as a winner of Juilliard’s Historical Performance concerto competition. She has performed with ensembles and festivals including The English Concert, New York Baroque Incorporated, TENET, The Sebastians, Teatro Nuovo, and the Festival dans les Jardins de William Christie, amongst many others. She can also be heard on the Academy Award-winning score of the 2019 film, “Joker”. 

Sarah Jane is based in New York City and holds degrees from Temple University, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Juilliard School. She is joined on this concert by fellow Juilliard alumni Adam Cockerham, Jeffrey Grossman, and Matt Zucker.

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1:15 – 2:00 pm
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Kevin DevineHistoria: Tales at the Harpsichord.

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A number of the works on this program – Susannah and the Elders, Pygmalion, The Kuruc Rebellion, Jacob’s Wedding – are examples of the birth of programmatic instrumental music during the early modern era. This resulted in some incredibly engaging and enigmatic harpsichord repertoire. Enjoy music from the 16th–18th centuries that will uncover riveting stories from the past.

Kevin Devine, harpsichord

Kevin Devine performs engaging, often unconventional programs in his home base of New York and beyond. Kevin has been invited to play on several recital series, including Harpsichord Heaven at the Flint Collection and Music Sources in Berkeley. This fall, he will pursue a graduate diploma at the Juilliard School.

 

1:15 – 2:00 pm
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André Laurent O'NeilGabrielli and Bach: The Scordatura Connection.

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A common cello tuning C-G-d-g in late 17th-century Bologna used by Domenico Gabrielli had become an exotic tuning by the time Bach employed it, once only, in his C minor Suite. This program contrasts two approaches to the cello as a solo instrument, just 1000 km and 30 years apart.

André Laurent O'Neil, cello

Baroque cellist André Laurent O'Neil has performed with renowned groups including the Handel & Haydn Society (Boston), New Trinity Baroque (Atlanta), New Belgrade Opera (Serbia), and Il Rossignolo (Italy). EarRelevant calls his newly-released complete Bach Suites recording “engaging, imaginative performances.” Ordering information on the double CD can be found at http://editionlilac.com/bach-suites.htm.

 

1:15 – 2:00 pm
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Antonio Soler: Sonatas from the Morgan Library & Museum.

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Rebecca PechefskyThe Morgan Library & Museum recently acquired a manuscript (Cary Ms. 703) that includes several newly discovered sonatas by the great Spanish keyboard composer Antonio Soler. This program will include three sonatas from Cary Ms. 703, as well as three from another manuscript also held by the Morgan Library. Two of the sonatas, R. 184 & 185, were also recorded for the first time by Rebecca earlier this year.

Rebecca Pechefsky, Italian harpsichord after an anonymous mid-eighteenth-century Florentine instrument 

Well-known as a harpsichordist in the New York area, Rebecca Pechefsky is a founding member of Brooklyn Baroque. Among her recordings for Quill Classics are the complete harpsichord music of François d’Agincour; Bach and His Circle; Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 and 2, and Johann Ludwig Krebs @ 300.

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1:15 – 2:00 pm
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Shadows of Haydn.

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Quartet SalonniereThis program explores the development of the string quartet by surveying the way composers from different national backgrounds conceptualized the genre: Franz Joseph Haydn from Vienna’s dominating taste for string quartets, Maddalena Sirmen from the Venice Ospedale’s education system, and Joseph Boulogne from an upper-class Parisian milieu.

Majka Demcak, violin/viola
Aniela Eddy, violin/viola
Natalie Kress, violin/viola
Cullen O’Neil, cello

Devotion to performance practices of the 18th and 19th centuries brings the spirit of Quartet Salonnières’ education, creativity and inclusivity to audiences world-wide. Founding-members violinists/violists Majka Demcak, Aniela Eddy, and Natalie Kress and cellist Cullen O’Neil met during their studies at The Juilliard School Historical Performance program.

 

1:15 – 2:00 pm
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This concert will be livestreamed on our website, and on YouTube and Facebook, followed by an intimate chat on Zoom.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94474265453

Meeting ID: 944 7426 5453

Canceled due to the blizzard.

While we had to cancel this Thursday's Live Stream, we are happy that the technology allows us to revisit past events, including an earlier appearance by Jude Ziliak at the Midtown Concerts and the final piece from last week's concert by the Quartet Salonnières. We offer links to recordings of those two events and hope to see you at our next live stream in two weeks.

Sonate guerrieri ed amorosi.

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Jude ZiliakMore than a century before Liszt’s and Berlioz’s names became synonymous with programmatic music, Giuseppe Tartini’s instrumental evocation of Tasso and Virgil was so powerful that he himself was reported to go into a mystical trance while playing. Jude Ziliak and Elliot Figg will present some of the earliest and most transporting program music ever written.

Jude Ziliak, violin
Elliot Figg, harpsichord

Violinist Jude Ziliak and harpsichordist Elliot Figg have been frequent collaborators in the decade since they met as students in Juilliard's Historical Performance program. Both active chamber musicians, Elliot is a member of Ruckus and ACRONYM, and Jude of Sonnambula and the American Bach Soloists.

 

1:15 – 2:00 pm
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This concert will be livestreamed on our website, and on YouTube and Facebook, followed by an intimate chat on Zoom.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94474265453

Meeting ID: 944 7426 5453

Fugitive Fantasies, Fantastic Fugue.

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Rozendaal and YoungLast year's program drew a dazzling array of colors, textures, tonalities, and affects from two bass viols in the works of three composer/performers of the 17th century. This season the duo ups the ante, offering Martin Davids' masterful transcription of J.S. Bach's Fugue in C Major from the Sonata III for solo violin. The piece is J.S. Bach's longest fugue, one of his most exciting, challenging, and beloved works.

John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba
Adam Young, viola da gamba

Violists da gamba John Mark Rozendaal and Adam Young, first performed as a duo in a Midtown Concerts program in January 2019. John Mark performs on the viola da gamba and the baroque cello with Trio Settecento, Brandywine Baroque and LeStrange Viols. Adam received his Master's degree in viola da gamba from The Juilliard School where he studied with Sarah Cunningham. A finalist in the 2018 Bach/Abel Wettbewerb in Köthen, Adam has performed with many New York City-based early music ensembles as well as in concerts in Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo and Russia.

 

1:15 – 2:00 pm
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Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94474265453

Meeting ID: 944 7426 5453

Viola of Love.

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Dan McCarthy

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A viol family instrument strung with sympathetic strings, the viola d'amore has always been an instrument that evokes a particular kind of aesthetic. Leopold Mozart described it sounding “especially charming in the stillness of the evening.” This tender sweetness is richly portrayed by many composers from Vivaldi to Bach as is deserved of an instrument called the viola of love.

Dan McCarthy, viola d'amore
Clifton Massey, countertenor
David Ross, baroque flute
Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba
Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord

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This concert will be live streamed on our website, and on YouTube and Facebook, followed by an intimate chat on Zoom.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94474265453
Meeting ID: 944 7426 5453


Dan McCarthy's playing has been described as “virtuosic” by Seen and Heard International. He was a part of the first class of baroque violists ever to be accepted into the historical performance program at The Juilliard School, where he also began playing viola d'amore. Dan has served as section violist with the Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, concertmaster of the Austin Baroque Orchestra, and tenor gambist with Parthenia. He has also toured extensively throughout North America, East Asia, and Europe with artists and groups including Jordi Savall, Masaaki Suzuki, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and American Bach Soloists. Here on the east coast he plays with Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Washington Bach Consort, New York State Baroque, Artek, REBEL, Clarion Music Society, Grand Harmonie, Teatro Nuovo, Queens Consort, and Academy of Sacred Drama. Artist Website

Clifton Massey, countertenor, was raised on a steady diet of country & western, bluegrass, and other close-harmony singing in Dallas, Texas. He has participated in the Ojai Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, and the early-music festivals of Berkeley, Boston, and Utrecht. As a soloist, he collaborates frequently with notable early music ensembles including the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and the American Classical Orchestra. He is an alumnus of the Grammy award-winning group Chanticleer. Highlights of recent seasons include performing with pop icon Madonna at the Met Gala, modern premieres of Bassani’s Giona and Stradella’s La Susanna with the Academy of Sacred Music, and performing in the inaugural two-month installation of Reich Richter Pärt at The Shed, a vibrant new venue in NYC.

David Ross is an historical flutist based in New York City. Since 2009 his training and career have focused exclusively in historical performance ranging from one-keyed baroque flutes to many-keyed flutes and piccolos from the Classical and Romantic periods. In the 2019-20 season he performed as soloist or principal flute with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Sebastians, Mercury, and plays 19th-century piccolo with Teatro Nuovo. David also performs flute and harpsichord recitals with Jeffrey Grossman and baroque flute duet recitals with Immanuel Davis.

Gold medalist of the 7th International Bach-Abel Competition, Arnie Tanimoto is equally at home on the viola da gamba and baroque cello. He was the first-ever viola da gamba major at The Juilliard School, where he soloed on both instruments. Described by The New York Times as a “fine instrumental soloist” Arnie performs in venues across the United States, Europe, and Japan. The recipient of a 2017 Frank Huntington Beebe Fund Fellowship he has also performed and recorded with Barthold Kuijken, the Boston Early Music Festival Ensemble, and the Smithsonian Consort of Viols.

Recognized as one of America's leading performers on early keyboard instruments, Gwendolyn Toth performs with equal ease on the harpsichord, organ, fortepiano, and clavichord. She has been heard in concert throughout North America, Europe and the Far East, and on radio networks in Holland, Germany, France, and America's National Public Radio. She has performed in early music festivals in Boston, USA; Utrecht, Holland; Regensburg, Germany; and the Czech Republic. She is the director and founder of New York City's virtuoso period instrument ensemble ARTEK. Gwendolyn is Director of Music at Immanuel Lutheran Church in New York City and is on the faculties of The Graduate Center, CUNY; Manhattan College; and Mount Saint Vincent College.

Solo Violin Sonatas of Ivan Khandoshkin.

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Francis LiuA violinist in the court of Catherine the Great, Ivan Khandoshkin (1747–1804) is believed to have developed his craft under the tutelage of the Italian violinists who dominated the court orchestra. This concert represents a rare opportunity to hear his Three Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 3, a haunting set influenced by Russian song, Italian virtuosity, and a cosmopolitan gallant style.

Francis Liu, violin

Violinist Francis Liu is well-acquainted with the Northeast Corridor train line, performing with period ensembles in New York (NYBI), Boston (Handel & Haydn), Philadelphia (Tempesta di Mare) and Washington, DC (National Cathedral). In performances of later Romantic repertoire, Francis has appeared with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, and Teatro Nuovo.

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1:15 – 2:00 pm
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Meeting ID: 944 7426 5453

Masters of the Baroque.

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IDaphna and Friends 2 Justin Lane croppednstrumental virtuosos of the Baroque period raised playing technique to new heights. Performers were, and still are, expected to express their creativity and knowledge of the style by ornamenting the music, as well as harmonizing and improvising over the figured bass line.

Daphna Mor, recorder
Martha McGaughey, viola da gamba
Arthur Haas, harpsichord
Daniel S. Lee, violin

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1:15 – 2:00 pm
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Music of the English Virginalists.

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Music of the late Renaissance English composers, who are now known as English Virginalists. The virginal, a small harpsichord, was a largely popular keyboard instrument of the period in England.

Elena Zamolodchikova, harpsichord (virginal)

Dr. Elena Zamolodchikova specialized in historical keyboard performance at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Juilliard School and Stony Brook University. She has performed in Russia, the United States, Italy, Germany, and Norway − collaborating with prominent early music colleagues including William Christie, Christopher Hogwood, Monica Huggett, and Nicholas McGegan.

 

1:15 – 2:00 pm
All concerts are free; no tickets or reservations are necessary.

This concert will be live streamed on our website, and on YouTube and Facebook, followed by an intimate chat on Zoom.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94474265453
Meeting ID: 944 7426 5453

Vivaldi versus Bach.

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VeritaItaly versus Germany — Vivaldi versus Bach.
Two most influential national styles of the Baroque era on one stage: Italian passion and virtuosity are confronted by German earnestness and sophistication.

We open our concert with the famous Vivaldi Trio Sonata in G minor executed by Guglielmo Dandolo Marchesi and Eugenia Ottaviano from Alinde Quartett and Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi and Alexander von Heißen from VERITÀ, bringing the two vibrant ensembles together for this performance. The program continues with an unknown, yet gorgeous trio sonata by Bach’s cousin, Johann Ernst, for flute, violin and basso continuo.

We conclude with the legendary Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 performed by three internationally recognized soloists: Alexander von Heißen on harpsichord, Guglielmo Dandolo Marchesi on baroque violin, and Taya König-Tarasevich on baroque flute.

Join us on Zoom after the concert. Which composer do you prefer: Vivaldi from Italy or Bach from Germany? We look forward to hearing your opinion!

Taya König-Tarasevich, baroque flute
Guglielmo Dandolo Marchesi, violin
Eugenia Ottaviano, violin
Erin Kirby, viola
Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi, cello
Juliane Bruckmann, violone
Alexander von Heißen, harpsichord

 

Recent Juilliard Historical Performance Alumna Taya König-Tarasevich is proud to premiere her brand new ensemble VERITÀ. Streamed directly from Germany for the Midtown Concert series, VERITÀ is honored to be collaborating with the Alinde Quartett for this project.

VERITÀ is an historically informed ensemble specializing in seeking truth through research, expression, and communication in music. From the Renaissance to the Romantic era, VERITÀ is committed to creating a musical home for everyone — a community that connects people by uniting music with a variety of art forms.

Following their critically-acclaimed debut release Lichtwechsel, the Alinde Quartett is building an unstoppable momentum. Check out their latest release of Schubert 200 The String Quartet Project on the Alinde Quartett website.

To join us on our journey of seeking truth, follow us on Patreon!

1:15 – 2:00 pm
All concerts are free; no tickets or reservations

This concert will be live streamed on our website, and on YouTube and Facebook, followed by an intimate chat on Zoom.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94474265453
Meeting ID: 944 7426 5453

GEMS is a non-profit corporation that supports and promotes the artists and organizations in New York devoted to early music — playing repertoire from the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical periods.