- Sunday, May 19
4:00 pm
- Chameleon Arts Ensemble: mystic moons and dream music
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston closes its 15th anniversary chamber music season with a celebration of the architects of modernism – three great innovators who were born into the Romantic tradition and revolutionized it during their lifetimes, giving generations of composers the sounds, the tools, and the inspiration for the future. Saturday, May 18 at 8 PM and Sunday, May 19 at 4 PM at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street. The program includes Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun) for chamber ensemble, Igor Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps (Rite of Spring) in his original version for piano four-hands, and Arnold Schoenberg’s landmark work Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. The Boston Globe called Chameleon an “all-star lineup of chamber musicians” and praised them for “a seriously awesome rendering, all fervently, gorgeously spun together.” For tickets and more information, visit http://www.chameleonarts.org/, call 617-427-8200, or email info@chameleonarts.org.
- $43, $33, $23; $5 off for students & seniors (Buy tickets)
- Saturday, May 18
8:00 pm
- Chameleon Arts Ensemble: mystic moons and dream music
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston closes its 15th anniversary chamber music season with a celebration of the architects of modernism – three great innovators who were born into the Romantic tradition and revolutionized it during their lifetimes, giving generations of composers the sounds, the tools, and the inspiration for the future. Saturday, May 18 at 8 PM and Sunday, May 19 at 4 PM at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street. The program includes Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun) for chamber ensemble, Igor Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps (Rite of Spring) in his original version for piano four-hands, and Arnold Schoenberg’s landmark work Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. The Boston Globe called Chameleon an “all-star lineup of chamber musicians” and praised them for “a seriously awesome rendering, all fervently, gorgeously spun together.” For tickets and more information, visit http://www.chameleonarts.org/, call 617-427-8200, or email info@chameleonarts.org.
- $43, $33, $23; $5 off for students & seniors (Buy tickets)
- Friday, May 17
8:00 pm
- The Philippine Madrigal Singers in concert
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- As one of the world’s highly acclaimed and consistently awarded choirs, the group was recently invited to participate in the American Choral Director's Association Conference in Dallas, Texas (2013), The America Cantat 7 in Bogota, Colombia (2013) and the World Symposium for Choral Music in Patagonia, Argentina (2011).
When asked about how the group feels about coming back to Boston, Choirmaster, Mark Anthony Carpio said, “We’re very excited to stop by Boston this year since we had such a receptive and enthusiastic audience last 2011, who appreciates and embraces culture, music and the arts.”
Carpio further expresses the group’s excitement by saying, “We look forward to singing in a very rich and diverse community. There is a lot of energy that constantly emanates from this innovative city, as well as a strong sense of community that appreciates music, culture and the arts, from the students, the locals to the academe; we look forward to learning from them as well as performing for them.”
This year, the group celebrates their 50th anniversary with the abovementioned highlights of their tour. Carpio said, “We performed works by Filipino composers and upcoming composers from around the world during the National Convention and Colombian Music Festival, and will be performing more of these world class works in our Boston concerts, definitely expect an evening to remember - one that's filled with entertainment, inspiration and beautiful music.”
This May, the Madz highlights their 50th year celebration of sharing their music to the most innovative corner of the world – Boston. You may purchase tickets at www.madzinboston.com. The group has also produced alumni that are across different parts of the world. Currently here in Boston, Philippine Madrigal Singers alumni Sherwin Su and Saunder Choi are also completing their studies at Emerson College and Berklee College of Music respectively.
- $30/$15 (Buy tickets)
- Sunday, May 12
7:00 pm
- Antonov-Kazantzev Duo Mothers Day Give the Gift of Music to your Mom
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Sergey Antonov, cello 2005 Winner of the ICMEC,
2007 Gold Medalist, International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Ilya Kazantsev, piano 2008 Winner of the ICMEC Gold Medal Winner of the Rubinstein International Competition in Paris
The program will include music of Grieg, Rachmaninoff and others.
Stay tuned for a complete program.
- $15 on line only $20 at the door (Buy tickets)
- Friday, May 3
8:00 pm
- Berklee College of Music presents: Mozart's Requiem, KV 626
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- "The Berklee College of Music Concert Choir
Mozart's REQIUEM, KV. 626
Performed with Full Orchestra
Concert Date: Friday, May 3 - 8:00 PM
For additional information please contact:
Ned Rosenblatt
617-747-6323
nrosenblatt@berklee.edu
http://www.berklee.edu/departments/voice.html"
- Free!
- Thursday, April 25
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Poetry Month Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- The month of April 2013 features readings by area poets. This week's poets are:
Beatriz Alba Del Rio
Daniel Tobin
Beatriz Alba Del Rio is a bilingual poet and lawyer. She has lived in Cambridge since 1982, a city she adores. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Beatriz won the 1st Prize of the 2002 Octavio Paz International poetry Contest (Poem: “Ser” = “To be”), the 3rd Prize of the 2003 Pablo Neruda International poetry Contest ( Poem “Tristesa de Abril”= “April blues”) and the 2004 Cambridge Poetry award with the poem Masks Over Masks in the category “female erotic poem” and her poem “Black Crows” was nominated in the category “female love poem.” Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies and literary magazines. Beatriz is a member of the New England Poetry Club and won a translation prize at the NEPC. As a lawyer, Beatriz represents abused and neglected children and parents, mediates conflicts between families, and does some international work. Beatriz’ mission as a lawyer is to help people to create better lives. Her poetry speaks of longings, of clash of cultures, of the oneness of us all. Her poetry is a song to love and life's absurdities and wonders.
Daniel Tobin is the author of six books of poems, Where the World is Made, Double Life, The Narrows, Second Things, Belated Heavens (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, 2011) and The Net (forthcoming, 2014) along with the critical studies and Passage to the Center and Awake in America. He is the editor of The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, The Selected Poems and Lola Ridge, and Poet’s Work, Poet’s Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art. Among his awards are the "The Discovery/The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, and creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently Interim Dean of the School of the Arts at Emerson College.
- donations accepted
- Monday, April 22
8:00 pm
- Berklee World Strings
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- The Berklee World Strings is devoted to the art of ensemble playing and the development of new music that features improvisation and the rhythmic capabilities of string instruments and players. This concert will draw from Indian, Ethiopian, Arabic, heavy metal rock and jazz sources. Conductors Simon Shaheen and Mimi Rabson will bring the music of Bruno Raberg, David Harris and Norm Zocher among others to this concert. Breathtaking soloists and dynamic ensemble playing have made Berklee World Strings the vehicle for the new generation of string players.
- FREE!
- Saturday, April 20
8:00 pm
- An Evening of Chamber Music
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Join us for chamber music works for violin, cello, and piano by
Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn.
Charles Lin, violin
Noah Lawes, cello
Timothy Blalock, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major (Op. 30, No. 1)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor (Op. 8)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor (Op. 49)
*No admission charge
*Reception afterwards
- Free!
- Friday, April 19
8:00 pm
- The Good, The Bad, and The Crazy: Madrigals of Gesualdo, Marenzio and Monteverdi
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- One committed a scandalous murder. One almost became a "gift" to the King of France. One, now famous for his operas, joined the priesthood.
Join us for an evening of daring harmonies, soaring melodies, and texts describing beauty, pain, and passion.
Elise Groves, Soprano
Hilary Anne Walker, Mezzo Soprano
Gerrod Pagenkopf, Counter Tenor
Marco De Oliveira, Tenor
James Dargan, baritone
- suggested donation $15
- Thursday, April 18
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Poetry Month Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- The month of April 2013 features readings by area poets. This week's poets are:
Mary Collins
Adnan Onart
Mary Collins has danced with the San Francisco Jazz Dance Company, with Flower Hujer in New York, and with the Opera Company of Boston as well as choreographing and performing in her own work. She studied art at Brown, Columbia, and San Jose State. Mary was an editor and has poems in the anthology Do Not Give Me Things Unbroken. She is represented by fifteen poems published in the how-to book Unlocking the Poem, written by Ottone Riccio and Ellen Beth Siegel. She has read her poetry at a number of venues in the Boston area including being the featured speaker at Books and More in Plymouth and at the Loring-Greenough House in Jamaica Plain. Mary reads regularly at the Marshfield Arts Fair which is held on Memorial Day weekend. She has also read at the Newton Free Library. Journal publications include Concrete Wolf, Gallery Behind the Falls, the Boston, Lincolnshire, England Proem, the new renaissance and Bellowing Ark.
A first generation immigrant poet of Crimean Tatar descent, born and raised in İstanbul Turkey, Adnan Adam Onart lives now in Boston, MA. His Turkish poems have been published in different magazines: Soyut, Yordam, Kardaş Edebiyatlar, Kırım andDergah. His work in English appeared in The Boston Poet, Prairie Schooner, Colere Magazine, Red Wheel Barrow, The Massachusetts Review and as Wallpaper in Poetry Motel. International Poetry Review published his translation (together with Victor Howes) from Edip Cansever, a Turkish contemporary poet. His dislocation and diaspora poems have been collected in a volume together with Kenneth Rosen's Cyprus’ Bad Period, as The Passport You Asked For. He earned the honorable mention of the 2007 New England Poetry Club Erikan Mumford Award. He is also the author of TURKISH: A Dictionary of Delight, edited by Roger Conover; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Second Printing, 2006 .
- donations accepted
- Sunday, April 14
1:30 pm
- Evidence of Things Not Seen: Renée Hites and friends in recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Nicholas Hebert, tenor
Renée Hites, mezzo-soprano
Johnathan Nussman, baritone
Rebecca Teeters, soprano
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Ned Rorem
Choral Dances from Glorianna: Benjamin Britten
a selection of Elizabethan madrigals
Four Motets: Thomas Tallis
Nicholas Hebert, tenor, has performed featured roles with the Boston Opera Collaborative, MetroWest Opera, and Juventas New Music Ensemble and has appeared as a featured soloist with the Grand Canonical Ensemble at MIT, Mount Holyoke Glee Club, LOSTWAX Dance, and the Vassar College Orchestra. He is also a member of the professional choir at First Church in Boston. He has performed in master classes with notable Broadway singer/actress Kelli O’Hara and composer Ricky Ian Gordon. In addition to his musical endeavors, Nicholas works with at-risk youth and hopes to dedicate his career to working with students in school-based mental health services.
Originally from Oakland, CA, Renée Hites, holds a degree from The Royal Conservatory of Brussels and The Boston Conservatory. An active performer in the Boston area, Renée has performed the roles of Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff, Alma March in Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Oberto in Handel’s Alcina, Second Lady in The Magic Flute and Mother Marie inDialogues of the Carmelites with Boston Opera Collaborative. Other credits include La Badessa in Suor Angelica and La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi. Renée is a student of Rebecca Folsom.
Jonathan Nussman is a baritone from Charlotte, North Carolina. In the New England area he has appeared with companies including Cape Cod Opera, Opera Boston, Guerilla Opera, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Intermezzo, and Longwood Opera as well as the Cambridge Symphony and Salam Philharmonic orchestras. He has been seen in productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, The Magic Flute, Cosi fan tutte, La Boheme, Tosca, The Rape of Lucretia, and Little Women. Jonathan received his B.M. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his M.M. from the Boston Conservatory. A dedicated performer of new music, he was the recipient of the vocal fellowship for the soundSCAPE New Music Festival in Maccagno, Italy, and has premiered full-scale operas, orchestral pieces and chamber works from composers from the Boston area and around the world.
Rebecca Teeters is an emerging soprano said to be a “moving performer worth watching.” She hails from Oklahoma but moved to Boston in 2006 to pursue her MM from the New England Conservatory. Her most notable credits include Carmen (Micaëla), Dido and Aeneas (Belinda), L'enfant et les sortilèges (La Bergère), L’Egisto (Semele), La Canterina (Gasperina), the world premier of The Beautiful Bridegroom (Terentia), Susannah (Susannah), La Serva Padrona (Serpina), The Bartered Bride (Ludmilla), Hansel and Gretel (Gertrude), and various scene work. Most recently Rebecca performed with Boston Opera Collaborative as Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème. Rebecca studies with Kevin Wilson.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, April 11
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Poetry Month Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- The month of April 2013 features readings by area poets. This week's poets are:
Ezekiel "Zeke" Russell
Holly Zeeb
Ezekiel "Zeke" Russell grew up in an artist's community in Central Maine surrounded by poets and lumberjacks. He has been writing poetry for the last 20 years, but has only been performing for the last seven or so. He helps to organize the Untitled Open Mic and Mill City Slam at "Brew'd Awakening" in Lowell. He was a member of the 2011 Lowell National Poetry Slam competition team and was the Grand Slam Champion that year. He has self published three chapbooks, and expects no one to be impressed by that. He works for Homestart inc., trying to end homelessness. He lives in Jamaica Plain with his partner Emily and their pug PJ and usually needs a hair cut.
Ellen Beth Siegel is a clinical psychologist and a former lawyer, with a degree from Harvard University. She began studying with Ottone M. Riccio in 1990, and has also studied at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Her poems have been published in Bellowing Ark (where she was a Featured Poet), The Christian Science Monitor, Concrete Wolf, Poetpourri, and The Warwick Anthology, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She was one of the co-Editors of Do Not Give Me Things Unbroken, a 2002 anthology of poems all written from one of Mr. Riccio’s assignments. She also compiled the 2009 how-to book of poetry assignments Unlocking the Poem. Her chapbooks Remembering Endymion and The Sweet Moth Kisses Never Traded have been finalists in various chapbook contests.
- donations accepted
- Saturday, April 6
8:00 pm
- Chameleon Arts Ensemble: to answer and resound
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Join the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston for a poignant chamber music program celebrating the legacy of teachers and students. Saturday, April 6 at 8 PM at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street. A great teacher inspires his students to embrace their true selves. Arnold Schoenberg made a tremendous impact on American music, working with more than a thousand young musicians here. He called himself “a pupil of Mozart” and instilled in his own students the value of classical technique and tradition, giving them the tools to cultivate their own unique voices. Chameleon pays tribute to this great pedagogue with a program tracing paths between him, his teachers, and his protégés. The concert features Mozart’s Quintet for piano and winds, K. 452, Alexander Zemlinsky’s d minor Piano Trio, Schoenberg’s String Trio, an astonishing work in which he captures both the harrowing experience of his heart attack and the peace and tenderness of his recuperation, and works by Schoenberg’s most innovative students John Cage, Earl Kim, and Lou Harrison. or tickets and more information, visit http://www.chameleonarts.org/, call 617-427-8200, or email info@chameleonarts.org
- $43, $33, $23; $5 off for students & seniors (Buy tickets)
- Thursday, April 4
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Poetry Month Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
The month of April 2013 features readings by area poets. This week's poets are:
Kemi Alabi
Tom Daley
Kemi Alabi, a writer and performer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is pursuing a joint degree in Philosophy & Political Science at Boston University. There she served a two-year tenure as president of spoken word collective Speak for Yourself, producing dozens of events while facilitating weekly writing and performance workshops. Kemi competed with BU’s first (and only) slam team, representing the university at CUPSI 2010. Since then, she’s performed in colleges, museums, poetry clubs, theaters, and protests throughout New England, occasionally flying home to teach creative writing at her high school alma mater. Taking first place in the Cantab Team Selection Slam, she will represent the venue in her first National Poetry Slam appearance this August.
Tom Daley serves on the faculty of the Online School of Poetry and teaches poetry writing at the Boston Center for Adult Education and poetry and memoir writing at Lexington Community Education. He is the author of Every Broom and Bridget, a play about Emily Dickinson and her Irish servants, which he performs as a one-man show. He has published poems in a number of journals including Fence, Harvard Review, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Ireland Review, Diagram, andRhino. He is a past recipient of the Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. - donations accepted
- Friday, March 22
8:00 pm
- The New Boston Duo in Concert
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- The New Boston Duo, a Gypsy Swing ensemble will perform in concert on Friday, March 22 at 8PM at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St. Recognized for ingenuity and unique style, The New Boston Duo transcends classical music boundaries. Violinist Elizabeth Burke and guitarist George Little channel jazz, rock, Celtic and Flamenco roots to resonate their Gypsy Swing core sound. Tickets are $20 General Admission $10 Senior/Student and may be purchased by visiting www.mktix.com/nbd or in person by cash, check, or credit.
Opening act features The Wicked Pickers an acoustic ensemble playing a high energy blend of jazz,swing, newgrass,and folk. They perform a broad range of styles with powerful vocals,ringing harmonies,and driving instrumentals.
www.newbostonduo.com
www.wickedpickers.com
- $20 General Admission $10 Senior/Student (Buy tickets)
- Saturday, March 16
8:00 pm
- Chameleon Arts Ensemble: a little phrase of eternal song
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston takes whimsical look at the old adage “good things come in small packages” with a chamber music concert of miniatures that make maximum impact. Saturday, March 16 at 8 PM at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street. The master of brevity, Anton Webern invested each gesture of his remarkable Three Pieces for cello and piano with a world of expression, and Antonin Dvořák translated fleeting thoughts and the spirit of folk music into his beloved “Dumky” Piano Trio. Also on the program is Robert Schumann’s Marchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures) for viola and piano, Helen Grime’s vivid and daring Seven Pierrot Miniatures, and Paul Hindemith’s Kleine Kammermusik (Little Chamber Music) for wind quintet. The Boston Globe hailed "planning a good chamber music program is an art unto itself, and few in town have mastered it as persuasively." Tickets are $23, $33, or $43 with $5 off for students/seniors. For tickets and more information, visit http://www.chameleonarts.org/, call 617-427-8200, or email info@chameleonarts.org
- $43, $33, $23; $5 off for students & seniors (Buy tickets)
- Friday, March 15
8:00 pm
- Les Bostonades present Spring Fever: Le Printemps
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- "Benefit Concert for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for Breast Cancer Research.
All proceeds will be donated to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Guest
Teresa Wakim - soprano
Emily Walhout - viola da gamba
Program:
A. Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E-Major, RV 269 ""La primavera"" (Spring)
M. Marais: Suite No. 7 in G-Major from Pièces de viole, troisième livre
J. B. de Boismortier: Cantata ""Le printemps"" (Spring) Op. 5
J. S. Bach: Sonata for violin and harpsichord in A-Major, BWV 1015
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G-Major, BWV 1049"
- General/$20; Senior/$15; Student/$10 (Buy tickets)
- Sunday, March 3
6:00 pm
- Arneis Quartet Silver Medal Winers of 2012 ICMEC
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- String Quartet op. 76 No. 5 Joseph Haydn
Five Pieces for the String Quartet Erwin Schulhoff
String Quartet op. 41 No.3 Robert Schumann
- $15 on line only $20 at the door (Buy tickets)
- Saturday, February 9
7:30 pm
- Of Lords and Ladies: A Concert to Benefit ARTZ, Artists for Alzheimer's
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Calliope, Boston’s collaborative choral/orchestral ensemble, will close their sixth season with Of Lords and Ladies, a benefit concert for ARTZ: Artists for Alzheimer’s, on Saturday, February 9th, 2013 at 7:30 PM at First Church, 66 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA (on the corner of Berkeley Street). Individual tickets for this performance can be purchased for $45 (premium seating), $35 (general admission), and $25 (seniors and students w/ ID) in advance through Calliope’s website: www.calliopemusic.org or by calling 617-759-2057, as well as at the door on the day of the performance. Discounted rates are available for groups of 10 or more.
This program plans to include arrangements of Singin' In the Rain, When I'm 64, Seventy-Six Trombones, the Sleeping Beauty Waltz, Baby, It's Cold Outside, Strike Up the Band, Good Ole Summertime, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, My Funny Valentine, and Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat, along with a My Fair Lady medley, a Cole Porter salute, the Barber of Seville Overture and selections from Die Fledermaus.
- $25-$45 (Buy tickets)
- Friday, February 8
7:30 pm
- To Buenos Aires with Love: Tango and More
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Join the COB as we explore the rich culture of Argentina with Alberto Williams’s colorful "Argentine Suite for Strings." Music by legendary tango artists Osvaldo Pugliese, Julian Plaza and Astor Piazzolla round out the program along with a new tango by Robert Edward Smith. Internationally-acclaimed tango dancers Armando Orzuza and Nuria Martinez share the stage with us once again. After the concert you are invited to join the performers and mingle in the lobby while sampling savory tapas, delicious wine and decadent chocolate. It’s the perfect way to start your Valentine’s Day celebration!
- $20-$45, students $10 (Buy tickets)
- Thursday, February 7
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Héloïse Degrugillier and Roy Sansom, recorders
Telemann: Duo 1 from the "Berlin" Duos
Roy Sansom: Twin Suction Vortex
CPE Bach: Duetto
Bach: Gigue from English Suite in F
Pete Rose: Pendulum
Héloïse Degrugillier has performed with many leading period ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Opera, Newport Baroque, Harmonious Blacksmith, Mercury Baroque, and the Dunya Ensemble. The Boston Musical Intelligencer recently exclaimed that her ”ability to balance the work’s considerable technical demands with a sensitivity to the dance-based style was especially noteworthy.”
Héloïse also enjoys an active teaching career, working with the Amherst Early Music Festival, Boston Recorder Society, Recorder Guild of New York, Pinewoods Early Music Week, and others. Originally from France, Héloïse studied recorder in the Netherlands and with Heiko ter Scheggett, Saskia Coolen, and in Spain with Pedro Memelsdorff.
Roy Sansom, recorder, has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, New World Symphony in Miami, BEMF Orchestra, New York City Opera and (most proudly) Emmanuel Music.Roy composes for the recorder, scores for films and makes recorders at the von Huene Workshop.
- donations accepted
- Sunday, February 3
4:00 pm
- Chameleon Arts Ensemble: music such as spirits love
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Join the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston for a timely chamber music program on the great theme of Love: Saturday, February 2 at 8 PM and Sunday, February 3 at 4 PM at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street. Love stories are universal subjects for artists – even the ones that don't end happily ever after! Johannes Brahms felt so much guilt after a botched affair that he wove her name into his rapturous G Major String Sextet, writing afterward: "I have freed myself from my last love." Thea Musgrave creates a portrait of the classic Commedia dell'Arte love triangle with Pierrot Dreaming for clarinet, violin & piano. Leos Janacek's Pohadka for cello & piano evokes scenes from a Russian fairytale of love and valor. Fang Man's potent and richly-layered Larkspur for flute, viola & harp, is inspired by the flower of the same name, signifying ardent attachment, levity, and lightness. Tickets are $23, $33, or $43 with $5 off for students/seniors. For tickets and more information, visit http://www.chameleonarts.org/, call 617-427-8200, or email info@chameleonarts.org.
- $43, $33, $23; $5 off for students & seniors (Buy tickets)
- Saturday, February 2
8:00 pm
- Chameleon Arts Ensemble: music such as spirits love
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Join the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston for a timely chamber music program on the great theme of Love: Saturday, February 2 at 8 PM and Sunday, February 3 at 4 PM at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street. Love stories are universal subjects for artists – even the ones that don't end happily ever after! Johannes Brahms felt so much guilt after a botched affair that he wove her name into his rapturous G Major String Sextet, writing afterward: "I have freed myself from my last love." Thea Musgrave creates a portrait of the classic Commedia dell'Arte love triangle with Pierrot Dreaming for clarinet, violin & piano. Leos Janacek's Pohadka for cello & piano evokes scenes from a Russian fairytale of love and valor. Fang Man's potent and richly-layered Larkspur for flute, viola & harp, is inspired by the flower of the same name, signifying ardent attachment, levity, and lightness. Tickets are $23, $33, or $43 with $5 off for students/seniors. For tickets and more information, visit http://www.chameleonarts.org/, call 617-427-8200, or email info@chameleonarts.org.
- $43, $33, $23; $5 off for students & seniors (Buy tickets)
- Thursday, January 31
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Paul Cienniwa, harpsichordist
Prelude and Fugue No. 9, E Major (WTC II), BWV 878: J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Suite No. 7, g minor, HWV 432: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Cited by the Huffington Post for his “inner sense of creative flow, fueled by an abundance of musical imagination and desire,” harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa has a burgeoning career as a soloist, recording artist, and ensemble player. He strives to bring the harpsichord to new audiences by creating a spiritual communion through focused interpretations intensified by memorized repertoire.
His playing of Francis Poulenc’s Concert champêtre was heralded by the New Bedford Standard-Times as “exquisite—no drama, no posturing—just consummate artistry and a superb performance of a marvelous concerto.” For his CD of the Bach Viola da Gamba Sonatas with cellist Audrey Sabattier-Cienniwa (Whaling City Sound), KBAQ radio (Phoenix, AZ) called his ability to accompany "spot-on...perfect". His recording with Grammy Award-winning uilleann piper Jerry O'Sullivan was called "drop-dead gorgeous" and named one of the top ten Irish traditional albums of 2010 by The Irish Echo.
A frequent chamber music collaborator, he played the complete Bach Violin Sonatas on Chicago’s WFMT radio with baroque violinist Rachel Barton Pine. As an orchestral continuo player, he plays with the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Providence Singers and Mastersingers by the Sea.
A resident of Fall River, Massachusetts, Paul Cienniwa leads an active musical life in southeastern Massachusetts and the Boston/Providence regions. For the 2012-13 season, he is serving as Chorus Master for the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. He has led Sine Nomine choral ensemble since 2006 and the chorus at Framingham State University since 2007. As organist and conductor, he is music director at First Church in Boston, where he leads the fully professional First Church Choir and can be heard weekly on WERS (88.9 FM) Boston.
Paul Cienniwa is represented by Concert Artists Cooperative. For more information, visit www.paulcienniwa.com and www.concertartistcooperative.com.
- donations accepted
- Sunday, January 27
1:30 pm
- The Choir of First Church in Boston in concert
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- The Choir of First Church in Boston
Paul Cienniwa, director
The Collins Family Memorial Concert
Three Songs for Chorus a capella: Philip Glass
Der 92. Psalm , D. 953: Franz Schubert
William Thorpe, baritone soloist
Sometimes I Feel: trad., arr. A. Parker and R. Shaw
Christina English, mezzo-soprano soloist
Emersonia, Op. 113 (concert premiere): Larry Thomas Bell
Love is the Spirit of this Church, Op. 85, No. 3 (concert premiere): Karl Henning
Isti sunt: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Late October (concert premiere): Paul Cienniwa
Leaves of Grass, Op. 100: Paul Creston
James Liu, baritone soloist
Larry Thomas Bell, speaker
Bob Winkley, pianist
- $20 suggested donation to benefit The Music of First Church in Boston
- Saturday, January 26
7:30 pm
- Voices Rising Presents: Songs for a Winter's Night
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- This season, shake the snow off your boots and join Voices Rising as we bring you "Songs for a Winter's Night." Experience the moods and textures of winter with us as we praise the beauty of snow, explore the mysteries of fire and ice, and suggest some warming antidotes to chilly weather. Selections will include musical settings of poems by Frost and Wylie, favorites by Tori Amos and Gordon Lightfoot, and a few old chestnuts of the season. Whether from Broadway or Bulgaria, our songs will warm up even the coldest winter night. For more information visit: http://www.voicesrising.org, call 617-396-7086, or email tickets@voicesrising.org
- Priority Seating $30; General Admission $22 / $18 in advance; Students/Seniors $10; Children 5 and u (Buy tickets)
- Thursday, January 24
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Asako Takeuchi, baroque violin
Héloïse Degrugillier, recorder
Andrew Arceci, viola da gamba
Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord
Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio sonata in G Major, BWV 1038
George Frideric Handel: Sonata in g minor, Op. 1, No. 6
Jean-Joseph Mouret: selections from Concert de Chambre & d'Airs a dancer
Touring extensively as a recitalist, orchestral and chamber player throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, Asako Takeuchi has performed internationally, both as a solo artist and as a member of ensembles such as the Wallfisch Band (UK), COLLEGIUM MUSICUM Den Haag (Netherlands), Arion Baroque Orchestra (Canada), The Bach Orchestra of the Netherlands. She works regularly with local Boston ensembles such as L'Academie, Cambridge Concentus, Les Bostonades, Exsultemus and Arcadia Players. With the award winning Den haag Piano Quintet, she performed classical and early romantic repertoire at festivals such as Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona in Spain and Abbaye aux Dames in Saintes, France. She has been a soloist with Orchestre Français des Jeunes Baroque under Christophe Rousset and Paul Agnew and had additional musical training at Fondazione Academia Montis Regalis in Italy and Fondation Royaumont in France.
Asako holds a Bachelor's degree from Berklee College of Music and studied baroque violin with Elizabeth Blumenstock at University of Southern California and with Kati Debretzeni, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Catherine Macintosh and Ryo Terakado at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, Netherlands. Besides performing, she enjoys researching Parisian music of late eighteenth century and has an active role in youth education in Arts.
Héloïse Degrugillier has performed with many leading period ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Opera, Newport Baroque, Harmonious Blacksmith, Mercury Baroque, and the Dunya Ensemble. The Boston Musical Intelligencer recently exclaimed that her ”ability to balance the work’s considerable technical demands with a sensitivity to the dance-based style was especially noteworthy.”
Héloïse also enjoys an active teaching career, working with the Amherst Early Music Festival, Boston Recorder Society, Recorder Guild of New York, Pinewoods Early Music Week, and others. Originally from France, Héloïse studied recorder in the Netherlands and with Heiko ter Scheggett, Saskia Coolen, and in Spain with Pedro Memelsdorff.
Developing a varied career as performer, composer, and scholar, Andrew Arceci performs regularly on viola da gamba, violone, and double bass throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In the United States, he has appeared with the Washington Bach Consort, Tempesta di Mare: Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, Cambridge Concentus, Musica Sequenza, and L'Académie. In the United Kingdom, he has appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Cöthen Baroque, and frequently with Oxford Baroque.
Festival highlights include the Washington Early Music Festival, Indianapolis Early Music Festival, the Shandelee Music Festival, and the 2011 FOCUS! Festival, where Mr. Arceci (with Joel Sachs, and the New Juilliard Ensemble) gave the North American premiere of Elżbieta Sikora’s Canzona: for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall. He will be appearing with Oxford Baroque at the Brighton Early Music Festival (UK) in October 2012.
In addition to performing and composing, Mr. Arceci has given lecture-recitals (with harpsichordist John McKean) through the Royal Musical Association in Hull, England, as well as the I Encontro Ibero-Americano de Jovens Musicólogos in Lisbon, Portugal.
Mr. Arceci received a B.Mus. in Double Bass, a B.Mus. in Viola da Gamba, and an Academic Concentration in Art History from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. He completed a M.Mus. in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School, and recently read for a Master of Studies (performance & musicology) at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Upcoming engagements include projects throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan.
Cited by the Huffington Post for his “inner sense of creative flow, fueled by an abundance of musical imagination and desire,” harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa has a burgeoning career as a soloist, recording artist, and ensemble player. A resident of Fall River, Massachusetts, he leads an active musical life in southeastern Massachusetts and the Boston/Providence regions. As organist and conductor, he is music director at First Church in Boston, where he leads the fully professional First Church Choir and can be heard weekly on WERS (88.9 FM) Boston. For more information, visit www.paulcienniwa.com.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, January 17
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Héloïse Degrugillier, recorder, and Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord
Degrugillier: Canario (2012)
Louis Couperin: Chaconne ou Passacaille, g minor
Handel: Sonata in F Major, HWV 369
Improvisation on the Folia
Héloïse Degrugillier has performed with many leading period ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Opera, Newport Baroque, Harmonious Blacksmith, Mercury Baroque, and the Dunya Ensemble. The Boston Musical Intelligencer recently exclaimed that her ”ability to balance the work’s considerable technical demands with a sensitivity to the dance-based style was especially noteworthy.”
Héloïse also enjoys an active teaching career, working with the Amherst Early Music Festival, Boston Recorder Society, Recorder Guild of New York, Pinewoods Early Music Week, and others. Originally from France, Héloïse studied recorder in the Netherlands and with Heiko ter Scheggett, Saskia Coolen, and in Spain with Pedro Memelsdorff.
Cited by the Huffington Post for his “inner sense of creative flow, fueled by an abundance of musical imagination and desire,” harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa has a burgeoning career as a soloist, recording artist, and ensemble player. A resident of Fall River, Massachusetts, he leads an active musical life in southeastern Massachusetts and the Boston/Providence regions. As organist and conductor, he is music director at First Church in Boston, where he leads the fully professional First Church Choir and can be heard weekly on WERS (88.9 FM) Boston. For more information, visit www.paulcienniwa.com.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, January 10
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Music’s Quill
(Timothy Johnson, tenor, & Timothy Burris, lute)
"Beauty Sat Bathing"
Robert Jones (c.1577-1617):
Beauty sat bathing
Dreams and Imaginations
Now what is love?
Francis Pilkington (1565-1638):
Beauty sat bathing
Now Peep, Bo Peep
John Dowland (1563-1626):
Loth to depart
William Corkine (fl.1610-1617):
Beauty sat bathing
Each lovely grace
Music's Quill was formed in 2000, when Timothy Neill Johnson and Timothy Burris met, and discovered their shared love of lute-accompanied song. In both formal concerts and educational events such as master classes, Music’s Quill shares with audiences the beauty of the lute song and its companion art, the rich tradition of 17th-century poetry. Their two-part recording of the songs of Philip Rosseter, lutenist to King James I, was the first complete recording of Rosseter's one and only book of ayres.
Reviews:
The Songs of Philip Rosseter, Part I
“The Maine-based duo of Timothy Neill Johnson and Timothy Burris brings a natural rapport and gentle delivery to these songs. Johnson’s lines are silky and warm; Burris’s accompaniment is placed simply and gracefully.” — Early Music America
Songs of Philip Rosseter, Part II
“Burris … plays with beautiful tone and is an absolutely first-class accompanist melodically, rhythmically and contrapuntally.”
“Johnson’s voice is light and clear, and his diction faultless.”
“The recording balance between the voice and the lute could not be bettered.” — The Lute Society Magazine
“Tim Burris and Timothy Neill Johnson perform these songs (and lute solos) with such grace and fluidity that it is as if they were one unit. Their playing and singing style are a perfect complement to Rosseter’s refined and charming songs. Johnson’s voice is warm and simple with perfect diction; Burris is a graceful and sensitive accompanist.” — Lute Society of America Quarterly
- donations accepted
- Thursday, January 3
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Peter Sulski, violin, and Michelle Graveline, harpsichord
Corelli: Sonata in D Major, Op. 5, No. 1
Bach: Sonata in G Major, BWV 1019
- Thursday, December 20, 2012
6:00 pm
- Winter Solstice Service
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Welcome winter! We embrace the seasons with candles and live Celtic music, seasonal poetry, and guided meditation for the season of snowy days and new beginnings.
guest musicians:
Elizabeth Alexander, violin
Mark Evans, concertina/voice
Greg Bacon, guitar/traverso/voice
George Arata, bouzouki/bones/voice
Pelham Norville, uilleann pipes
- Thursday, December 20, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Frederic Green, harpsichordist
J.S. Bach: Selections from "Kunst der Fuge," BWV 1080
Contrapunctus 1
Contrapunctus 3
Contrapunctus 10
Contrapunctus 8
Contrapunctus 11
Frederic Green is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clark University, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. Prior to that, while earning his Ph.D. in Physics at Yale University, he studied harpsichord with Britt Wheeler and Lola Odiaga in the Yale School of Music; subsequently, he studied with Edward Smith, and he is currently a student of James Nicolson. When not otherwise engaged in the rigors of his "day" job, he has over the course of the past decades built up a broad repertoire, with works ranging from Cabezón to Balbastre and most of the masters of the instrument in between. He gave a number of solo recitals while at Yale. More recently, he has played at the Longy School of Music and participated in a master class conducted by Menno van Delft.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, December 13, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Mary Oleskiewicz, traverso, and Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
Sonata in G major for flute and basso continuo, QV 1:109: Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773)
Sonata in D major for flute and obbligato keyboard, Wq. 83: C.P.E. Bach (1714–1788)
Sonata in E minor for flute and basso continuo, Lee 3:56: Franz Benda (1709–1786)
After winning first prize in the National Flute Association’s Baroque Flute Artist Competition, Mary Oleskiewicz quickly established herself as an international performer, teacher, and scholar of 18th-century music. An Associate Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts, and a recent Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she publishes on music at the German courts at Berlin and Dresden. Her critical editions of 18th-century chamber music have appeared with AR Editions, Breitkopf & Härtel, C.P.E. Bach: The Collected Works, and Steglein. She performs with numerous ensembles, including the Handel & Haydn Society, Newton Baroque, and the Qtango Orchestra and records for Hungaroton Classic and Naxos (BaroqueFlutist.org).
Andrus Madsen currently resides in Newton, Massachusetts where he is the Music Director at Second Church in Newton. He is the director and founder of the ensemble Newton Baroque, and plays with Exsultemus and Saltarello, and also appears from time to time with A Far Cry and Open Gate. He spearheaded a project combining the forces of Newton Baroque and Exsultemus to perform the entire Harmonischer Gottesdienst cantata cycle of Georg Phillip Telemann during the year of 2011. His recording of keyboard music by Pachelbel received significant critical acclaim: “Superb recordings of superb instruments by a musician who deserves to be better-known.” (Michael Barone of pipedreams)
- donations accepted
- Thursday, December 6, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Gavin Black, harpsichordist
Partita sopra l'Aria di Folia (First Book of Toccatas and Partitas): Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643)
Capriccio di Durezze (First Book of Capricci, Ricercari,& Canzoni): Frescobaldi
Partita sopra il cinque passi: Bernardo Storace (mid seventeenth century)
Cento Partite sopra Passacagli (First Book of Toccatas and Partitas): Frescobaldi
Gavin Black is Director of the Princeton Early Keyboard Center in Princeton, and has been active as a performer of Baroque keyboard music in the Princeton area and elsewhere for over thirty years. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1957 and lived mostly there until 1983. His recordings for PGM Recordings, Musical Heritage Society and Centaur Records have included organ and harpsichord music of Sweelinck, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Lübeck, the twentieth-century American composer Moondog and others. His upcoming recording of music of Frescobaldi will be released on Centaur. He studied organ and harpsichord with Paul Jordan and Eugene Roan and holds a Master of Music degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College. Gavin Black also writes a regular monthly column on issues of organ pedagogy for The Diapason.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Sonia Lee, harpsichordist
Nature and Mythology: A vivid and virtuosic program of harpsichord music inspired by nature and mythology.
Pasquini: Toccata con lo Scherzo del cucco
Fischer: Passacaglia, from Suite No. 9 “Uranie,” Musikalischer Parnassus (c.1738)
Poglietti: Canzon und Capriccio über das Henner und Hannergeschrey
Rameau: Les Cyclopes
Couperin: Le Rossignol-en-amour
Royer: La Marche des Scythes
A laureate of the Mae & Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition and the Montréal Baroque Galaxie-CBC Rising Star Competition, scholar-performer Sonia Lee enjoys a prolific concert and lecturing career, with engagements throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Her performances have been praised by critics as "masterly" (Aliénor News & Notes), "nicely rendered" (Early Music America Magazine), and "full of elegance and expression" (Cleveland Classical).
Performing on the harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, and organ, she has appeared at festivals, series, and conferences, including, among others, Rome Festival, Early Keyboard Music Cycle of Buenos Aires, Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe Series, Festival de Música Antigua de Costa Rica, National Music Museum Concert Series, Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series, KEK-Japan Concert Series, and Early Music Colorado Fall Festival. Her discography includes collaborations with the Classical Chamber Players, La Donna Musicale, and La Réunion Musicale, and her performances have been broadcast on Harmonia/WFIU, WGBH, WILL-FM, RTHK, and CBC/Radio Canada.
As a music historian, Dr. Lee has contributed articles to such publications as “Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century” and “Great Lives from History: Latinos.” She holds a D.M.A. in Historical Keyboard Performance and Literature from the University of Illinois, where she took additional doctoral work in Musicology and Library and Information Science. She is currently an adjunct music history faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University, and serves as the Vice President and the Newsletter Editor for the Historical Keyboard Society of North America. Her personal website can be viewed at http://www.sonialeemusic.com.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, November 15, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Asako Takeuchi, baroque violinist
Andrew Arceci, violist da gamba
Paul Cienniwa, harpsichordist
The Art of Rhetorical Music
“Passacaglia” from the Mystery Sonatas: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1676)
“John, Come Kiss Me Now”: Medieval English ballad, circa 1560
Violin Sonata No. 6, g minor: François Francoeur
Touring extensively as a recitalist, orchestral and chamber player throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, Asako Takeuchi has performed internationally, both as a solo artist and as a member of ensembles such as the Wallfisch Band (UK), COLLEGIUM MUSICUM Den Haag (Netherlands), Arion Baroque Orchestra (Canada), The Bach Orchestra of the Netherlands. She works regularly with local Boston ensembles such as L'Academie, Cambridge Concentus, Les Bostonades, Exsultemus and Arcadia Players. With the award winning Den haag Piano Quintet, she performed classical and early romantic repertoire at festivals such as Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona in Spain and Abbaye aux Dames in Saintes, France. She has been a soloist with Orchestre Français des Jeunes Baroque under Christophe Rousset and Paul Agnew and had additional musical training at Fondazione Academia Montis Regalis in Italy and Fondation Royaumont in France.
Asako holds a Bachelor's degree from Berklee College of Music and studied baroque violin with Elizabeth Blumenstock at University of Southern California and with Kati Debretzeni, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Catherine Macintosh and Ryo Terakado at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, Netherlands. Besides performing, she enjoys researching Parisian music of late eighteenth century and has an active role in youth education in Arts.
Developing a varied career as performer, composer, and scholar, Andrew Arceci performs regularly on viola da gamba, violone, and double bass throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In the United States, he has appeared with the Washington Bach Consort, Tempesta di Mare: Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, Cambridge Concentus, Musica Sequenza, and L'Académie. In the United Kingdom, he has appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Cöthen Baroque, and frequently with Oxford Baroque.
Festival highlights include the Washington Early Music Festival, Indianapolis Early Music Festival, the Shandelee Music Festival, and the 2011 FOCUS! Festival, where Mr. Arceci (with Joel Sachs, and the New Juilliard Ensemble) gave the North American premiere of Elżbieta Sikora’s Canzona: for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall. He will be appearing with Oxford Baroque at the Brighton Early Music Festival (UK) in October 2012.
In addition to performing and composing, Mr. Arceci has given lecture-recitals (with harpsichordist John McKean) through the Royal Musical Association in Hull, England, as well as the I Encontro Ibero-Americano de Jovens Musicólogos in Lisbon, Portugal.
Mr. Arceci received a B.Mus. in Double Bass, a B.Mus. in Viola da Gamba, and an Academic Concentration in Art History from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. He completed a M.Mus. in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School, and recently read for a Master of Studies (performance & musicology) at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Upcoming engagements include projects throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan.
Cited by the Huffington Post for his “inner sense of creative flow, fueled by an abundance of musical imagination and desire,” harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa has a burgeoning career as a soloist, recording artist, and ensemble player. A resident of Fall River, Massachusetts, he leads an active musical life in southeastern Massachusetts and the Boston/Providence regions. As organist and conductor, he is music director at First Church in Boston, where he leads the fully professional First Church Choir and can be heard weekly on WERS (88.9 FM) Boston. For more information, visit www.paulcienniwa.com.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, November 8, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Suzanne Cartreine, harpsichordist
Rameau: Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin, c. 1726
A native of Boston, Suzanne Cartreine performs regularly on harpsichord and piano. She most recently served as organist and Director of Music at the First Parish Church of Stow and Acton, where she conducted three choirs and led a thriving music program which engaged more than 100 volunteer musicians each year. She has played continuo with Musica Nuova (founding member), Canzonare, Walden Chamber Players, and the Discovery Ensemble. She has appeared as a soloist with the Boston University Baroque Orchestra under direction of Martin Pearlman, the Sounds of Stow Orchestra, and the Macalester College Symphony Orchestra. Solo and chamber recital venues include Bach Around the Clock and Trinity Artist Series (New Orleans), the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series, Bates College, MIT, Lincoln Laboratories, and SoHIP.
Suzanne holds a DMA in Historical Performance/Harpsichord from Boston University, a MMus in Piano Performance from Temple University (Pi Kappa Lambda), and a BA in physics from Macalester College (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude). Upcoming projects include performing the Goldberg Variations of J. S. Bach to inaugurate her new French double harpsichord by Allan Winkler.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, November 1, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Nicholas Dinnerstein, baroque cellist
J.S. Bach: Suites for Solo Cello (I and II)
Boston-based cellist, Nicholas Dinnerstein, works in a wide variety of musical styles and settings. As a baroque cellist, he has participated in Longy Baroque Institute and Amherst Early Music Festival. Nicholas is also a former member of Ensemble Solaire, a chamber group based around soprano and harpsichord works. As a performer on modern cello, he is a regular recitalist and has performed as part of local concert series at venues such as St. John's Church in downtown Boston and the Wellesley Public Library. Nicholas also performs as an orchestral musician and collaborates with songwriters and bands, recording and performing. For more information, please visit www.nickdinnerstein.com.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, October 25, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Mark Kroll, harpsichordist
Music of François Couperin (1668-1733)
Dixhuitème Ordre
Quatriême Ordre
Mark Kroll has maintained an equal balance between performing, teaching and scholarship throughout his career. He performs and teaches worldwide as a harpsichordist and fortepianist, has served as harpsichordist for the Boston Symphony since 1979, and he is currently Professor Emeritus at Boston University and Visiting Professor at Northeastern University.
Kroll’s books include Playing the Harpsichord Expressively, The Beethoven Violin Sonatas and Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician’s Life and World, and he has published editions of the music of Hummel, Francesco Scarlatti and Charles Avison. Mr. Kroll is currently writing a biography of Ignaz Moscheles, completing Geminiani’s opus 4 sonatas and concerti for the complete edition of Geminiani’s works, and revising the “Hummel” article for the New Groves Dictionary of Music.
As a harpsichordist, Mark Kroll has recently returned from two European tours, and a visit to Canada. In May he was in Prague as featured artist for the Prague Spring Festival and President of the Jury or the Prague International Harpsichord Competition, and he also played two recitals in Krakow and Katowice, Poland. In June he performed a lecture-recital at McGill University of Montreal, and in July he was in England to give a lecture-recital for the International Baroque Conference at the University of Southampton. His recording of Henri Dutilleux’s Les Citations with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players was released this spring.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, October 18, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Héloïse Degrugillier, recorder, and Emily Lau, singer
"Héloïse et Abélard"
Falling in love:
Quant je sui mis au retour: Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377)
Courtship:
Salterello II: Anon.
Opposition:
Ochi Dolenti Mie: Francesco Landini (1325-1397)
Secret Marriage:
La Quinte Estampie Real: Anon.
Divulgence:
Variation on a theme by Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340 – c. 1386): Anon.
Resignation:
In Sapientia: Anon.
Sorrow and Joy:
De Mia Farina: Anon.
Héloïse Degrugillier has performed with many leading period ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Opera, Newport Baroque, Harmonious Blacksmith, Mercury Baroque, and the Dunya Ensemble. The Boston Musical Intelligencer recently exclaimed that her ”ability to balance the work’s considerable technical demands with a sensitivity to the dance-based style was especially noteworthy.”
Héloïse also enjoys an active teaching career, working with the Amherst Early Music Festival, Boston Recorder Society, Recorder Guild of New York, Pinewoods Early Music Week, and others. Originally from France, Héloïse studied recorder in the Netherlands and with Heiko ter Scheggett, Saskia Coolen, and in Spain with Pedro Memelsdorff.
Emily Lau is a Boston-based recitalist, chamber musician, composer, and music director with diverse musical interests. She is the founding artistic director of The Broken Consort, a professional early music ensemble praised by the Boston Musical Intelligencier as "early music turns early magic", "extraordinary sonorousness", and "bewitched and beguiled". TBC embarking on its first national tour in the 2012-2013 season. As a singer, she has collaborated with professional groups such as Piffaro, Ensemble Trinitas (co-dir.), Parthenia, Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, Boston Early Music Festival EMA Festival Ensemble, Skylark Ensemble,Yale's Chamber Music Festival, Long & Away, Divisio, Istanpitta, Choir of the Church of the Advent, Canto Armonico, Tucson Chamber Artists, and many more. She has recorded for the Albany and Gothic labels.ting and relevant in the modern age.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, October 11, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Sarah Cantor, recorder
Fantasias by Georg Phillip Telemann (1681-1767)
Fantasia No. 12 in G minor
Grave-Allegro-Grave-Allegro, Dolce, Allegro, Presto
Fantasia No.6 in D minor
Dolce, Allegro, Spirituoso
Fantasia No. 1 in A Major
Vivace, Allegro
Fantasia No.2 in A minor
Grave-Vivace, Adagio, Allegro
Fantasia No. 9 in E Major
Affetuoso, Allegro, Grave, Vivace
Fantasia No.3 in B Minor
Largo-Vivace-Largo-Vivace, Allegro
"Sarah Cantor danced the music as much as played it with such joy and sprightly ease . . . Cantor's achingly delicate playing made for the warmest, loveliest moment of the entire evening"
-The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Sarah Cantor holds degrees in early music and Spanish from The Indiana University Early Music Institute and the Royal Conservatory in Holland, where she studied with Marion Verbruggen. Her many appearances as recorder soloist include concerto concerts and recordings for The Berkshire Bach Society, Boston Cecilia, and Sarasa. She is an active chamber musician and a founding member of The Hague Baroque Ensemble, Saltarello, Trio Tarantella and Sarasa. Sarah has worked as a dancer and musician for the Utah Shakespearean Festival and recorded for Circus Shmirkus. She has given early music workshops for the New England Conservatory baroque orchestra, Ars Longa ensemble in Cuba, and The American Recorder Society. Sarah taught dance and served as head of the early music programs at the Brookline Music School and the Putney Summer Arts program.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, October 4, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Timothy Burris, archlute and theorbo
Passacaglia in c: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644 - 1704), arr. Burris
Ceccona in F: Giovanni Zamboni (active 1718)
Pièces in C: Robert de Visée (ca 1655 – ca 1732)
Timothy Burris has performed throughout Europe and the US, both as a soloist and an accompanist. He has appeared in concert with such esteemed artists as the mezzo Jennifer Lane and the keyboardist Robert Hill, as well as under the baton of Peter Schreier and René Clemencic, among others. In a review of The Songs of Philip Rosseter, Part II, The Lute Society Magazine said of his skills as an accompanist: “Burris … plays with beautiful tone and is an absolutely first-class accompanist.”
In addition to solo recordings, he has done CD projects with Jennifer Lane and Tamara Matthews; Willeke te Brummelstroete; Timothy Neill Johnson; and Ensemble Pentacost, among others. He recently issued the CD Ciaconna, a collection of passacaglias and ciaconnas from the 17th and 18th centuries, including his own transcription of Bach's violin Ciaconna.
He has an especial interest in French poetry, something he nurtured during more than two years of private study with French professors at the universities of Amsterdam and Leiden. His dissertation research was done primarily at Dresden’s Sächsische Landesbibliothek, in the final stages with the generous support of a Fulbright fellowship (to the Technical University of Dresden).
Mr Burris taught lute for six years at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, and currently teaches at Colby College and the Portland Conservatory of Music (Maine).
Mr Burris holds a soloist's diploma from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and a Ph.D. from Duke University.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, September 27, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
Paul Cienniwa, harpsichordist
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in c minor, BWV 847 (WTC I)
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 846 (WTC I)
Scarlatti: Sonata in C Major, K. 461
Scarlatti: Sonata in b minor, K. 27
Scarlatti: Sonata in C Major, K. 513
Scarlatti: Sonata in d minor, K. 517
Cited by the Huffington Post for his “inner sense of creative flow, fueled by an abundance of musical imagination and desire,” harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa has a burgeoning career as a soloist, recording artist, and ensemble player. He strives to bring the harpsichord to new audiences by creating a spiritual communion through focused interpretations intensified by memorized repertoire.
His playing of Francis Poulenc’s Concert champêtre was heralded by the New Bedford Standard-Times as “exquisite—no drama, no posturing—just consummate artistry and a superb performance of a marvelous concerto.” For his CD of the Bach Viola da Gamba Sonatas with cellist Audrey Sabattier-Cienniwa (Whaling City Sound), KBAQ radio (Phoenix, AZ) called his ability to accompany "spot-on...perfect". His recording with Grammy Award-winning uilleann piper Jerry O'Sullivan was called "drop-dead gorgeous" and named one of the top ten Irish traditional albums of 2010 by The Irish Echo.
A frequent chamber music collaborator, he played the complete Bach Violin Sonatas on Chicago’s WFMT radio with baroque violinist Rachel Barton Pine. As an orchestral continuo player, he plays with the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Providence Singers and Mastersingers by the Sea.
A resident of Fall River, Massachusetts, Paul Cienniwa leads an active musical life in southeastern Massachusetts and the Boston/Providence regions. For the 2012-13 season, he is serving as Chorus Master for the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. He has led Sine Nomine choral ensemble since 2006 and the chorus at Framingham State University since 2007. As organist and conductor, he is music director at First Church in Boston, where he leads the fully professional First Church Choir and can be heard weekly on WERS (88.9 FM) Boston.
Paul Cienniwa is represented by Concert Artists Cooperative. For more information, visit www.paulcienniwa.com and www.concertartistcooperative.com. - donations accepted
- Thursday, September 20, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Asako Takeuchi, baroque violin
Andrew Arceci, viola da gamba
Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord
Johann Jacob Froberger: Selections from Duets for violin and viola da gamba
Marin Marais: Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
Touring extensively as a recitalist, orchestral and chamber player throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, Asako Takeuchi has performed internationally, both as a solo artist and as a member of ensembles such as the Wallfisch Band (UK), COLLEGIUM MUSICUM Den Haag (Netherlands), Arion Baroque Orchestra (Canada), The Bach Orchestra of the Netherlands. She works regularly with local Boston ensembles such as L'Academie, Cambridge Concentus, Les Bostonades, Exsultemus and Arcadia Players. With the award winning Den haag Piano Quintet, she performed classical and early romantic repertoire at festivals such as Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona in Spain and Abbaye aux Dames in Saintes, France. She has been a soloist with Orchestre Français des Jeunes Baroque under Christophe Rousset and Paul Agnew and had additional musical training at Fondazione Academia Montis Regalis in Italy and Fondation Royaumont in France.
Asako holds a Bachelor's degree from Berklee College of Music and studied baroque violin with Elizabeth Blumenstock at University of Southern California and with Kati Debretzeni, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Catherine Macintosh and Ryo Terakado at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, Netherlands. Besides performing, she enjoys researching Parisian music of late eighteenth century and has an active role in youth education in Arts.
Developing a varied career as performer, composer, and scholar, Andrew Arceci performs regularly on viola da gamba, violone, and double bass throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In the United States, he has appeared with the Washington Bach Consort, Tempesta di Mare: Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, Cambridge Concentus, Musica Sequenza, and L'Académie. In the United Kingdom, he has appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Cöthen Baroque, and frequently with Oxford Baroque.
Festival highlights include the Washington Early Music Festival, Indianapolis Early Music Festival, the Shandelee Music Festival, and the 2011 FOCUS! Festival, where Mr. Arceci (with Joel Sachs, and the New Juilliard Ensemble) gave the North American premiere of Elżbieta Sikora’s Canzona: for Viola da Gamba and Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall. He will be appearing with Oxford Baroque at the Brighton Early Music Festival (UK) in October 2012.
In addition to performing and composing, Mr. Arceci has given lecture-recitals (with harpsichordist John McKean) through the Royal Musical Association in Hull, England, as well as the I Encontro Ibero-Americano de Jovens Musicólogos in Lisbon, Portugal.
Mr. Arceci received a B.Mus. in Double Bass, a B.Mus. in Viola da Gamba, and an Academic Concentration in Art History from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. He completed a M.Mus. in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School, and recently read for a Master of Studies (performance & musicology) at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Upcoming engagements include projects throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan.
Cited by the Huffington Post for his “inner sense of creative flow, fueled by an abundance of musical imagination and desire,” harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa has a burgeoning career as a soloist, recording artist, and ensemble player. A resident of Fall River, Massachusetts, he leads an active musical life in southeastern Massachusetts and the Boston/Providence regions. As organist and conductor, he is music director at First Church in Boston, where he leads the fully professional First Church Choir and can be heard weekly on WERS (88.9 FM) Boston. For more information, visit www.paulcienniwa.com.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, September 13, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Judith Conrad, Clavichordist
Music of Juan Bautista Cabanilles on the 300th anniversary of his death
(September 6, 1644-April 29,1712)
performed on a triple fretted clavichord, C/E-c''' with split sharps for a chromatic bass
built by Andreas Hermert of Berlin in 2001 after the Jerzy Wojcek 1688 instrument in Stockholm
Diferencias de Follias
Tiento 18, seventh mode, por A la mi re
Song: El Galan que Ronda las Calles
Pange Lingua, fifth mode punto alto
Gallardas 3
Judith Conrad is music director at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Kingston, RI, where she gives a series of early music concerts, and is founder-director of the Delight Consort which plays largely music of the Renaissance and Early Baroque. She has been performing on clavichord since 1985, mainly in small intimate informal venues appropriate to the instrument. She gave a clavichord concert of Music from the Jacques Attaigngnant 1531 publications as a fringe event at the Boston Early Music Festival last year, and has played three times at the Magnano International Clavichord Symposium in Italy. She played an all-Sweelinck program at the Russell Collection in Edinburgh on the clavichord formerly known as ‘Pretorius’. A graduate of Harvard University, she studied piano with Theodore Lettvin in Boston, and also studied with Freeman Koberstein at Oberlin Conservatory. She is a member of the Hymn Society of America and the Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie, and has a page on her website entitled “Clavichordists for World Peace”. She also plays recorders and sackbut and directs an amateur recorder ensemble, the Fall River Fipple Fluters, and plays second trombone in a community band.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, September 6, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Early Music Thursdays
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- The Broken Consort
Emily Lau, artistic director/voice/percussion
Camila Parias, voice
Clare McNamara, voice/vielle
Peter Walker, voice/multiple instruments
Brian Kay, lute
Niccolo Seligmann,vielle
Walking with the Giants: Colors of the Italian Trecento
La Manfredina: Anonymous
La Rotta: Anonymous
Per Sparverare: Jacopo da Bologna
Kyrie: Francesco Landini
Partesi con dolore: Francesco Landini
Gloria: Anonymous
Nessun ponga: Francesco Landini
Salterello IV: Anoymous
The Broken Consort was founded in 2010 by Emily Lau and a group of graduate music students seeking to redefine the standard conception and presentation of early music.
In three-seasons’ time, the group has presented a variety of early music programs in Boston, Baltimore, and Vancouver. TBC has performed and studied intensively with Sequentia, has appeared on ECAT-Boston, and is currently connecting and collaborating with some of the most exciting young and experienced musicians in the early music world.
With our repertoire firmly rooted in the medieval period, we enjoy cross-programming with later music, including that by living composers. Our coming seasons will see more frequent collaborations with dancers, poets, actors, and visual artists.
TBC is thrilled to spend our 2012-2013 season on tour to Altanta, Cleveland, Phoenix, Tucson, and New York City. We will also be expanding our educational outreach initiatives, including a week-long residency at a middle school in Miami, masterclasses and workshops at various universities, and presenting at correctional facilities in the Greater Boston area.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, May 24, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Works in Progress series
Carson Cooman, organist
Craig A. Penfield: Concerto in C Major (1967)
Jim Dalton: Canonic Fugue and Variations on "Free at Last" (2005)
Ronald Perera: Full Sun (2011)
Denis Bédard: Suite du deuxième ton (2009–10)
Carson Cooman is an American composer with a catalogue of works in many forms: ranging from solo instrumental pieces to operas, and from orchestral works to hymn tunes. He is in continual demand for new commissions, and his music has been performed on all six inhabited continents. His work is published primarily by Musik Fabrik and Lauren Keiser Music Publishing (orchestral/instrumental music) and Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. (organ/choral music). Cooman’s music appears on over twenty-five recordings, including fifteen complete CDs on the Naxos, Albany, Artek, Altarus, Raven, MSR Classics, and Zimbel labels. Cooman’s primary composition studies have been with Bernard Rands, Judith Weir, Alan Fletcher, and James Willey, and he holds degrees from Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. As an active concert organist, Cooman specializes exclusively in the performance of new music. Over 130 new works have been composed for him by composers from around the world, and his performances of the work of contemporary composers can be heard on a number of CD recordings. Cooman is also a writer on musical subjects, producing articles and reviews frequently for a number of international publications. He serves as an active consultant on music business matters to composers and performing organizations. For more information, visit www.carsoncooman.com.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, May 17, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Boston Opera Collaborative series
Christina English, mezzo-soprano, with pianist Justin Williams
Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und leben, Op. 42
Mezzo-soprano Christina English made her Carnegie Hall debut in Weill Recital Hall performing Malcolm Peyton's Songs from Walt Whitman. Recent operatic engagements include Ruggiero (Alcina), Meg (Little Women), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), and Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro). An active ensemble singer, she is heard each Sunday morning on WERS 88.9 FM with the professional choir at First Church Boston, regularly performs with Boston-based Lorelei Ensemble, and is Alto Artist in Residence with Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline. Her 2011-12 season includes performances with Lorelei Ensemble, Metropolitan Chorale, Opera Boston, and Cape Cod Opera. In July 2012 she returns to the Boston Opera Collaborative stage, performing the role of Public Opinion in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld.
Ms English was awarded Second Prize in Voice in the 2009 Grieg Festival Young Artists Competition in Florida, performing selections from Grieg's Haugtussa. She is a sought after interpreter of contemporary works, and was invited by composer John Heiss to perform his Songs from James Joyce in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, as well as by Mohammed Fairouz to sing his Three Shakespeare Songs at the Kaufmann Center. Recital repertoire includes song cycles by Xavier Montsalvatge, Robert Schumann, Igor Stravinsky, and Erik Satie. She has been a Young Artist with the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center and the Seagle Music Colony. Additional training and performance includes OperaWorks, Operafestival di Roma, MetroWest Opera, Riverside Theatreworks, and Crittenden Opera Studio.
Christina earned her Master of Music from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Carole Haber. A native of San Jose, CA, she earned her B.A. in Music and a minor in dance from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Australian- born pianist Justin Williams completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at the Manhattan School of Music. While completing his studies, he was on the faculty of the Brooklyn /Queens Conservatory of Music and was in demand as a collaborative artist appearing at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, at Merkin Concert Hall and the Washington Performing Arts Complex and in international venues in Australia, Taiwan and Turkey. Since 2006, Mr Williams has been based in Boston and is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music and is the musical director of the Undergraduate Opera Studio. He has been a staff pianist at the Centro Studi Lirica festival and the Villecroze summer institute and continues to appear as a collaborative artist in the United States and abroad.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, May 10, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- American Century Music series
David Russell, cellist
Roger Sessions: Six Pieces for Violoncello (1966)
Roger Zahab: reaching after (2002)
Cellist David Russell is a busy performer in the Boston area, serving as Principal Cello of Opera Boston and the Hingham Symphony and making regular appearances with such ensembles as Pro Arte Chamber orchestra of Boston, the New England String Ensemble, Cantata Singers and Ensemble and Emmanuel Music. He served as Assistant Principal 'cello with the Tulsa Philharmonic and on the teaching faculty of Oklahoma City University from 2001 to 2003. A strong advocate and performer of new music, Mr. Russell has performed with such ensembles as Phantom Arts Ensemble for American Music, Dinosaur Annex, Collage New Music, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Music on the Edge, AUROS Group for New Music, Firebird Ensemble, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, and the Fromm Foundation Players at Harvard. Mr. Russell obtained his D.M.A. in 'cello performance at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Akron and Brandeis University. He was appointed to the teaching faculty of Wellesley College in 2005 and currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, May 3, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Harpsichord Recital series
Akiko Enoki Sato, harpsichordist
J.- H D'Anglebert, after Lully:
Ouverture de Cadmus
Chaconne de Phaeton
A. Forqueray:
La Leclair
La Rameau
La Sylva
Jupiter
Akiko Enoki Sato received advanced training in harpsichord and figured bass with Hank Knox at McGill University's Early Music Program. Akiko has been heard as soloist and continuo player in Japan, Canada and US. She is now residing in Boston with her husband, Toshi and their cat Hana. Akiko is a founder of early music ensemble Les Bostonades. They regularly perform French 17th and 18th century repertoires as well as Italian and German baroque music. She also performs with Boston based ensembles and she regularly plays continuo for graduate students. Before she become a harpsichordist, Akiko was an organist and earned Master's Degree in Organ Performance from Cleveland Institute of Music and Sacred Music degree from Southern Methodist University.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, April 26, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Works in Progress series
Héloïse Degrugillier, recorders
Emily Lau, singer, reciter, percussion
Telemann: Fantasia 10
Balliett: Hello, Ease (2012)
Dowland/van Eyck: Can she excuse my wrongs
Degrugillier: Canario (2012)
Héloïse Degrugillier has performed with many leading period ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Opera, Newport Baroque, Harmonious Blacksmith, Mercury Baroque, and the Dunya Ensemble. The Boston Musical Intelligencer recently exclaimed that her ”ability to balance the work’s considerable technical demands with a sensitivity to the dance-based style was especially noteworthy.”
Héloïse also enjoys an active teaching career, working with the Amherst Early Music Festival, Boston Recorder Society, Recorder Guild of New York, Pinewoods Early Music Week, and others. Originally from France, Héloïse studied recorder in the Netherlands and with Heiko ter Scheggett, Saskia Coolen, and in Spain with Pedro Memelsdorff.
Emily Lau is a Boston-based singer, composer, and director. Equally devoted to early music and later repertoire, she has recently collaborated with ensembles across the country such as Parthenia, Istanpitta, Piffaro, Tucson Chamber Artists, Blue Heron, Diviso, and many more. As the Artistic Director of the eclectic ensemble, The Broken Consort, she is actively exploring ways to make classical music exciting and relevant in the modern age.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, April 19, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Boston Opera Collaborative series
Rebecca Teeters, soprano, and Yukiko Oba, piano
John Dowland: In darkness let me dwell
Michael Praetorius: Lo, how a rose e’re blooming
Thomas Campion: I care not for these Ladies
Libby Larson: Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII
Rebecca Teeters is an emerging soprano said to be a “moving performer worth watching.” A native of Oklahoma, Rebecca earned her Bachelor’s from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2006 and after moving to Boston, received her Master’s in vocal pedagogy from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2008.
She received wonderful reviews for her portrayal of Micaëla in Carmen with the Boston Opera Collaborative and again recently for her solo recital given at First Church of Boston, in which was said, “We are fortunate to have the opportunity to have musicians of Teeters’ caliber among us...."
Most recently she performed the role of Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème with Boston Opera Collaborative. Some of her other notable stage credits include Forester's Wife/Owl in The Cunning Little Vixen, Quartet in Little Women, Mrs. Anderssen in A Little Night Music, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas , La Bergère in L'enfant et les sortileges, Semele and Fedra in L’Egisto, Gasperina in La Canterina, Terentia in the world premiere of The Beautiful Bridegroom by Dan Shore, Susannah in Susannah, Serpina in La Serva Padrona, Ludmilla in The Bartered Bride, Gertrude in Hansel and Gretel, Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana and various scene work from Le Nozze di Figaro, Dialogues of the Carmélites, The Consul, Die Fledermaus, Summer and Smoke, Alcina, La Rondine, Old Maid and the Thief, L'elisir D'amour, Cosi fan tutte , Don Giovanni, and HMS Pinafore.
Rebecca has been an active member of Boston Opera Collaborative since 2009 and currently serves as the Executive Director for this young opera company. She has also been a member of the First Church of Boston’s professional ensemble since 2008.
She has performed in numerous master classes, concerts, and recitals in Boston and Oklahoma including master classes with renowned sopranos, Renée Fleming and Leona Mitchell. Rebecca currently studies with Kevin Wilson.
Ms. Yukiko Oba began playing the piano at the age of six in her native Japan. She received a Bachelor’s degree from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. Currently, Yukiko Oba, pianist, has been a member of the accompanying staff of The Boston Conservatory since 1996. She has performed extensively as an accompanist for recitals, chorus, master classes and composer’s project. Master classes this past season include Kristine Brewer, Dawn Upshaw, Sondra Kelly and Kurt Phinney. She has performed with many singers in Boston, including soprano Elisabeth Phinney, baritone Victor Jannett and Robert Honeysucker. She is a member of USATF.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, April 12, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- American Century Music series
In Memoriam: Milton Babbitt (1916-2011)
Curtis Macomber, violin, & Jeffrey Means, snare drum
Homily for Snare Drum (1987)
Melismata for Violin (1982)
Jeffrey Means has been hailed as a musician displaying “outstanding gifts and accomplishments” by the Boston Globe, and as a “sure conductor, his hand seemingly unfazed” by Seen and Heard International. Means pursues a parallel career as a conductor and percussionist. He is a ubiquitous presence in Boston's contemporary music community, and regularly leads the Firebird Ensemble, Ludovico Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, and Xanthos Ensemble. Means is Artistic Director of Sound Icon, a large ensemble dedicated to contemporary music. As a percussionist, Means has performed with the Boston Philharmonic, Atlantic Symphony, Emmanuel Music, Back Bay Chorale, Worcester Chamber music Society, and many others. In 2009, Means was one of two conductors selected to study with Pierre Boulez in Lucerne, Switzerland. In 2008, Means led the opening concert of the Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music, a four-day festival featuring Boston's finest new music ensembles. Last season, he led the opening concert of Boston's Celebrating Boulez festival – the program featured Boulez's seminal Le marteau sans maitre. Means was a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center in 2005. He holds a BM and MM from New England Conservatory. At NEC, he received the 2005 John Cage Award , the 2006 Tourjee Alumni Award, and the 2008 Gunther Schuller Medal. He has recorded for Mode, Albany, New World, and Navona records.
Violinist Curtis Macomber is one of the most versatile soloists/chamber musicians before the public today, equally at home in repertoire from Bach to Babbitt. As member of the New World String Quartet from 1982-93, he performed in virtually all the important concert series in this country, as well as touring abroad. He is the violinist of Da Capo, a founding member of the Apollo Trio and the newest member of the Manhattan String Quartet. His most recent recordings include: a solo recording (“Casting Ecstatic”), on CRI; the complete Grieg Sonatas on Arabesque; an all Steve Mackey record (“Interior Design”) on Bridge, and the complete Brahms Sonatas, also for Bridge. Mr. Macomber is presently a member of the chamber music faculty of the Juilliard School, where he earned B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees as a student of Joseph Fuchs. He is also on the violin faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, and has taught at the Tanglewood, Taos and Yellow Barn Music Festivals.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, April 5, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Harpsichord Recital series
Paul Cienniwa, harpsichordist, with Maja Tremiszewska, pianist
Handel: The Harmonious Blacksmith
Poulenc: Concert champêtre
Paul Cienniwa is director of music at First Church in Boston. Following his undergraduate studies at DePaul University with harpsichordist Roger Goodman and organist Jerome Butera, he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University, where he was a student of Richard Rephann. He has also studied harpsichord with Peter Watchorn, John Whitelaw and David Schrader. As a scholar, he been awarded Belgian American Educational Foundation and Fulbright grants, and his musicological articles have appeared in American and European journals, including Early Music and Ad Parnassum. For more information, visit www.paulcienniwa.com.
A native of Poland, Maja Tremiszewska performs as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist in various venues, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, Symphony Hall in Boston and Tsai Performance Center. She is a winner of the First International Chamber Music Competition of New England and the Boston University Soloist Competition. Currently she is pursuing a doctorate degree in Collaborative Piano at Boston University.
- donations accepted
- Sunday, March 25, 2012
1:30 pm
- Tenor Nicholas Hebert sings “Songs My Mother Taught Me: Folk Idioms of Britten and Dvorak”
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Nicholas Hebert, tenor
Bretton Brown, pianist
Songs My Mother Taught Me: Folk Idioms of Britten and Dvorak
Benjamin Britten: selections from Complete Folk Song Arrangements:
Volume 2: France
La Noël passée
Il est quelqu’un sur terre
La belle est au jardin d'amour
Qaund j’étais chez on père
Antonín Dvořák: Ciganské Melodie
Má píseň zas mi láskou zní
Aj! Kterak trojhranec můj přerozkošně zvoní
A les je tichý kolem kol
Když mne stará matka zpívat
Struna naladěna
Široké rukávy a široké gatě
Dejte klec jestřábu ze zlata ryzého
Benjamin Britten: selections from Complete Folk Song Arrangements:
Volume 1: British Isles
The Salley Gardens
Little Sir William
The Ash Grove
Volume 3: British Isles
Come you not from Newcastle?
The Plough Boy
Volume 4: Moore’s Irish Melodies
At the mid hour of night
O the sight entrancing
The last rose of summer
Tenor Nicholas Hebert has distinguished himself as a versatile and comedic actor, at home in both classical and contemporary repertoire. Recent roles include a world premier as The Traveller in Boston-based composer Frank Pesci's The System of Soothing, Bardolfo (Falstaff), Schoolmaster and Mosquito (The Cunning Little Vixen), Don Basilio (The Marriage of Figaro), and Mr. Erlanson (A Little Night Music), all with the Boston Opera Collaborative (BOC), as well as Monostatos (The Magic Flute) with MetroWest Opera.
Nicholas received his BA in Biology from Vassar College in May 2009, while studying voice with mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger. Partial roles include The Count (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Narciso (Il turco in Italia), The First Sailor (Dido and Aeneas), Romeo (Romeo et Juliette) and Snout, The Wall (A Midsummer Night’s Dream).
He has performed in master classes with notable Broadway singer/actress Kelli O’Hara, and composer Ricky Ian Gordon. Nicholas currently studies with Patty Thom.
Bretton Brown is pursuing his master’s degree at New England Conservatory as a student of Vivian Weilerstein and Cameron Stowe. He has played Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in Jordan Hall, and has performed with Lisa Saffer, the Discovery Ensemble, and the second violinist of the Harlem Quartet. Brown has previously attended the Music Academy of the West, where he worked with Marilyn Horne and Warren Jones, and will be a vocal piano fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center this summer. Prior to attending NEC, he received his bachelor’s degree from Yale where he received prizes for music and poetry.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, March 22, 2012
6:00 pm
- Vernal Equinox Service
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- music by saxophonist Marcus Monteiro and bassist Michael Lavoie
Click here for more information.
- Thursday, February 16, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston Opera Collaborative series
Amy Dancz, soprano, and Yukiko Oba, piano
C'est l'extase: Euphoric Music of Strauss and Debussy
Claude Debussy (1862-1918):
C'est l'extase
Noel des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons
Apparition
Richard Strauss (1864-1949):
Die Nacht
Schlagende Herzen
Presentation of the Rose from Der Rosenkavalier, with Courtney Miller, mezzo-soprano
Morgen!
Amy Dancz, soprano, has sung Sandman and Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel) with Boston Lyric Opera outreach, Chorus (Macbeth) with BLO, Nannetta (Falstaff, cover), Despina (Così fan tutte), Nella (Gianni Schicchi). She was a featured soloist with Chorus Pro Musica's Summer Sings of Haydn's Mass in the Time of War and The Creation. She currently studies with Carole Haber.
Ms. Yukiko Oba began playing the piano at the age of six in her native Japan. She received a Bachelor’s degree from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. Currently, Yukiko Oba, pianist, has been a member of the accompanying staff of The Boston Conservatory since 1996. She has performed extensively as an accompanist for recitals, chorus, master classes and composer’s project. Master classes this past season include Kristine Brewer, Dawn Upshaw, Sondra Kelly and Kurt Phinney. She has performed with many singers in Boston, including soprano Elisabeth Phinney, baritone Victor Jannett and Robert Honeysucker. She is a member of USATF.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, February 9, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- American Century Music series
Thomas James Wible, flutist, and Ayako Yoda, pianist
Eldin Burton: Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1948)
Michael Colquhoun: Charanga (1993)
Aaron Copland: Duo for Flute and Piano (1971)
Flutist Thomas J. Wible has been recognized for his accomplishments across the world. As a soloist he has performed throughout the United States and Eastern Europe, including appearancesat the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany; Dvorak Hall in Prague, Czech Republic; Franz Liszt Hall in Budapest, Hungary; and Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, PA. As a First Prize Winner of the 2011 Alexander & Buono International Flute competition, Thomas gave his Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall debut in October of 2011. Other recent awards and honors include Grand Prize Pittsburgh Concert Society Artist Competition, 2nd Prize National Flute Association Piccolo Artist Competition, 3rd Prize New York Flute Club Young Artist Competition, and Semi-Finalist Concert Artist Guild International Competition. In the summer of 2011 he was a guest artist at the International Festival of Music in Santa Fiora, Italy. Mr. Wible is currently a fellow in the Artist Diploma Program at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts where he is a pupil of Ms. Geralyn Coticone.
Ms. Ayako Yoda began playing the piano at the age of nine in her native Japan. She has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician not only in the United States, but also Japan, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany. She has collaborated on various recitals with Kenneth Olsen, assistant principal cello of the Chicago Symphony, John Ferrillo, principal oboist of Boston Symphony, and principal players from the Montreal, Toronto, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras in the New England area. As a composer, Ms. Yoda was the grand prize winner of the PTNA Composition Competition in Tokyo, Japan. She holds awards from the New England Conservatory Honors Piano Competition and numerous awards from the YAMAHA Keyboard Competition allowing her to perform respectively at Jordan Hall and Tokyo’s most prestigious Suntory Hall.
Ms. Yoda received a Bachelors of Music in Composition from the Kunitachi College of Music in Japan, a Masters of Music in Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory, studying with Jacob Maxin and an Artist Diploma from the Boston University College for the Arts where she studied with Anthony di Bonaventura and Shiela Kibbe.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, February 2, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- Works in Progress series
Ina Zdorvetchi, harp
Hanus Trncek: Fantasy on Themes from Bedřich Smetana's Vltava (The Moldau)
Liszt/Zdorovetchi: Consolation No. 3 in D-flat Major
Liszt/Renie: "Un Sospiro", Caprice Poetique
Elias Parish-Alvars: Serenade, Op. 83
Parish-Alvars: Introduction, Cadenza & Rondo, from the Fantasy on Italian Airs
Hailed “hypnotizing” and “one of the most acclaimed harp virtuosos of her generation”, Ina Zdorovetchi has performed as soloist with orchestras in Europe, North America and the Middle East, has given recitals (solo & chamber music) in Carnegie Hall, World Harp Congress, American Harp Society National Conference and recorded for SONY, Naxos, Albany Records and WGBH-Boston. Having won the top prize, the chamber music award and the Propes prize at the 17th International Harp Contest in Israel (the world’s most prestigious harp competition), Ina is currently the principal harpist of the Boston Lyric Opera and a faculty member at The Boston Conservatory and Wellesley College.
- donations accepted
- Sunday, January 29, 2012
1:30 pm
- Baritone James Liu sings Schumann
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- James Liu, baritone
Mark Whitlock, piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Liederkreis, Op. 24
Arabeske in C, Op. 18
Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Baritone James Liu is a physician with varied musical interests. He has announced and produced classical music programming at WHRB. He has sung in many choruses, currently the Cantata Singers, Cappella Clausura, and the Choir of First Church Boston. He has sung solos in the St. Matthew Passion, Judas Maccabeus, Les Noces, Howells's Requiem, Carmina burana and Messiah. His art song repertoire includes Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, Dichterliebe, Histoires naturelles and Don Quichotte à Dulcinée. He has appeared with Indian Hill Music, Lowell House Opera, Harvard Early Music Society, Opera del West, Boston Opera Collaborative, and Opera Boston. Roles include The Magic Flute (Second Man in Armour), The Marriage of Figaro (Antonio, Almaviva), Verdi's Otello (Montano) and Falstaff (Pistola), La cambiale di matrimonio (Norton), Carmen (Zuniga cover), L'elisir d'amore (Belcore cover), and John Eccles's Semele (Jupiter). He is indebted to his voice teacher, Frank Kelley, and to his infinitely patient wife who makes all of this possible.
Mark Whitlock received his undergraduate training as a pianist at the Crane School of Music, where he studied with Gary Busch and earned a bachelor's degree in piano performance. Subsequent studies were with David Hagan, Steven Drury, and his current teacher Alys Terrien-Queen. He plays solo and chamber music, and has collaborated with James Liu on some seventy art songs, most notably the song cycles of Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, and Schumann's Dichterliebe.
In his other life as a Boston area professional piano technician, he is currently in charge of concert pianos in Jordan Hall and does additional work in Symphony Hall and Boston Conservatory's Seully Hall. His experience also includes an apprenticeship in piano technology at the Crane School, freelance work as a technician in Albany, NY and five years as a full-time technician at the New England Conservatory of Music.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, January 26, 2012
6:30 pm
- Sing for your Supper!
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- On Thursday, January 26 at 6:30pm, the First Church Music Committee is sponsoring a Spaghetti Supper and Hymn Sing to benefit the refurbishment of First Church's "Houghton Handbells." Come sing your favorite hymns and enjoy a hearty winter meal!
First Church’s handbells are officially known as the “Houghton Handbells,” cast by Whitechapel, London. Mabel Houghton collected and rang these bells, intending them to go to First Church for continued hearing. After a series of concert and hymn sing fundraisers several years ago, the Handbell Restoration Fund has $1017. About $2000 is needed to bring the handbells to proper playing condition. The restoration includes replacement of the clappers, replacement of handles, a thorough cleaning and tuning. This is standard maintenance for a set of handbells. Another $2000 is needed to purchase proper cases for the bells, insuring their longevity and protection from damage.
This is a fun event for people of all ages and is open to the public. The cost of the meal is $10; wine will be served for an additional $3. Cash donations are also requested to raise money for the fund. A 50/50 raffle will also be held.
- Thursday, January 26, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- Harpsichord Recital series
Paul Cienniwa, harpsichordist
Forqueray: Troisième Suite
Paul Cienniwa is director of music at First Church in Boston. Following his undergraduate studies at DePaul University with harpsichordist Roger Goodman and organist Jerome Butera, he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University, where he was a student of Richard Rephann. He has also studied harpsichord with Peter Watchorn, John Whitelaw and David Schrader. As a scholar, he been awarded Belgian American Educational Foundation and Fulbright grants, and his musicological articles have appeared in American and European journals, including Early Music and Ad Parnassum. For more information, visit www.paulcienniwa.com.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, January 19, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston Opera Collaborative series
Erin Smith, soprano, and Yukiko Oba, piano
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Selections from Ariettes Oubliées:
1. C'est L'extase
2. Il pleure dans mon coeur
5. Green
6. Spleen
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Selections from Sieben Frühe Lieder:
1. Nacht
3. Die Nachtigall
5. Im Zimmer
6. Liebesode
7. Sommertage
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
1. Allerseelen
2. Freundliche Vision
3. Morgen!
4. All mein gedanken
5. Ich Schwebe
Soprano Erin M. Smith is equally at home performing opera, oratorio, new music and musical theatre. Favorite operatic roles include Vixen (The Cunning Little Vixen), Contessa Almaviva, Pamina, and Despina (cover). She has appeared in productions with Boston Opera Collaborative, MetroWest Opera, Opera Del West and was a Young Artist with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre from 2008-2009.
Ms. Yukiko Oba began playing the piano at the age of six in her native Japan. She received a Bachelor’s degree from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. Currently, Yukiko Oba, pianist, has been a member of the accompanying staff of The Boston Conservatory since 1996. She has performed extensively as an accompanist for recitals, chorus, master classes and composer’s project. Master classes this past season include Kristine Brewer, Dawn Upshaw, Sondra Kelly and Kurt Phinney. She has performed with many singers in Boston, including soprano Elisabeth Phinney, baritone Victor Jannett and Robert Honeysucker. She is a member of USATF.
- donations accepted
- Monday, January 16, 2012
8:00 pm
- Larry Bell 60th Birthday Concert and CD Launch
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- On Monday, January 16, 2012, at 8:00 p.m., church member Larry Bell will present a 60th Birthday Concert of his music newly released on a Double CD called “In a Garden of Dreamers” at the First Church in Boston. The CD, recorded entirely at First Church, will be available that evening for purchase, as well.
The concert program consists of four song cycles--"Fall," "Winter," "Spring," and "The Echolocations of Cellos"--from The Seasons, as well as Partita No. 1 and Serenade No. 2. The Partita will be played by Paul Cienniwa, who also performs in the "Spring" song cycle (with baritone Philip Lima) and the Serenade trio (with recorder player Aldo Abreu and cellist Sam Ou).
The concert also features tenor Thomas Gregg, mezzo-soprano Bethany Tammaro Condon, and soprano Natalie Polito.
Admission is $30, which includes both the double CD and the concert, $15 for the concert only, and $5 for Students and Seniors. A reception will follow.
- Monday, January 16, 2012
4:00 pm
- Ties That Bind: A Different Kind of Musical Celebration for Martin Luther King Day
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- Marshall Hughes and friends present their annual MLK Day concert:
A collection of music and words from authors including King, Langston Hughes and Harper Lee. To be inclusive is what King wanted; not to be iconized by one group, but celebrated by all. Every MLK musical event begs the audience to be white, and the singers to put on a show. That is not what Ties That Binds seeks to deliver. We seek tp be inclusive of all races, denominations and intergenerational. We seek to be inclusive ot the words of Martin Luther King by having audience participation through not only his words, but words of great thinkers throughout the times. This inclusivity has been shared with audiences who come back because of the eclectic nature of the program.
- $10, $ 5 for students and seniors
- Thursday, January 12, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- American Century Music series
Virginia Eskin, pianist
Marion Bauer (1887-1955): Six Preludes for Solo Piano, op. 15 (1922)
Prelude No. 2
Prelude No. 1
Prelude No. 4
Bauer: From the New Hampshire Woods, Op 12 (1922-23)
No. 3 Pine Trees
No. 2 Indian Pipes
No. 1 White Birches
Ruth Crawford (1901-1953): Preludes for Piano (1924-28)
No. 7 Intensivo
No. 9 Tranquillo
No. 8 Leggiero
Virginia Eskin, a California native and long-time Boston resident, is an extremely versatile solo pianist, chamber player and lecturer, known for both standard classical repertoire and ragtime, and a long-time champion of the works of American and European women composers. Ms. Eskin has performed as a soloist with many orchestras, including the Annapolis, Buffalo, Louisville, New Hampshire, Rochester, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Utah Symphony Orchestras, the Boston Classical, the Israel Sinfonietta, and the Boston Pops. She has also performed as a soloist with the New York City and Boston Ballet Companies, at Morgan Library in New York and Jordan Hall in Boston, and in concert halls and museums throughout the United States and Europe.
Ms. Eskin created and hosted “First Ladies of Music,” a 13-program radio series sponsored by Northeastern University and produced by WFMT, Chicago, carried by over 100 radio stations in the United States and abroad. She holds the appointment of Visiting Artist, Northeastern University Department of Music, and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Keene State College (NH) to recognize her contributions to women's music.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, January 5, 2012
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- Harpsichord Recital series
Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichordist
Louis Couperin: Prélude – Changement de mouvement – Suite de prélude; Allemande; Gavotte
Adrian Self: Chaconne for Harpsichord (1985)
Carson P. Cooman: Journeybook II (2010–11), a folio for harpsichord
Jeffrey Grossman’s extensive musical activities include frequent performances as a harpsichordist, pianist, and conductor. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Harvard College, the Juilliard School, and Carnegie Mellon University. Jeffrey performs with numerous groups in the New York metropolitan area, including the Sebastian Chamber Players, Fire and Folly, and PHOENIXtail. He recently returned from Montpellier, France, where he served as chef de chant and fortepianist for an opera production with music director Fabio Biondi. He can be heard on the Naxos, Albany, Métier, and MSR Classics record labels, and currently resides in New York City. http://www.jeffreygrossman.com
- donations accepted
- Saturday, December 24, 2011
5:30 pm
- Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- Wednesday, December 21, 2011
6:00 pm
- Winter Solstice Service
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- with Celtic music by
Áine Minogue
- Thursday, December 15, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston Opera Collaborative series
Mezzo-soprano Hilary Anne Walker sings
Bach Cantata #35, Geist und Seele
Paul Cienniwa, organ obligato
Asako Takeuchi & Cynthia Miller Freivogel, baroque violins
Harold Lieberman, baroque viola
Zoe Weiss, baroque cello
Hilary Anne Walker, mezzo soprano and Maine native, is quickly establishing herself as a dynamic and physical performer. The young lyric mezzo blends her personality and bright vocal color to create memorable performances in the greater Boston area. Recent roles include Cherubino and Betty Parris in the Pulitzer Prize Award Winning opera The Crucible, with the Boston Opera Collaborative. This past year she joined the Opera Boston ensemble where she sang in their productions of Fidelio, which starred Christine Goerke and Maria Padilla with Barbara Quintiliani.
In addition to her operatic work, Ms. Walker enjoys recital work and performing with other ensembles. She was amongst a select group of singers who participated in the International Baroque Institute at Longy this July. This past October she gave an all Baroque recital at First Church of Boston with tenor James Onstad and harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa.In 2008, Ms. Walker earned her Masters from New England Conservatory, where she began her studies with DAnna Fortunato. Before moving to Boston, she earned her B.A. in music from Vassar College where she studied with Mary Nessinger and Karen Holvik.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, December 8, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- American Century Music series
Artem Belogurov, pianist
George Chadwick (1854-1931): Les Grenouilles (Humoresque)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937): Selections from Five Poems after Omar Khayyam, Op. 41
George Whiting (1840-1923): Humoreske
Ethelbert Nevin (1862-1901): Etude in a form of Scherzo, Op. 18, No. 2
John Knowles Paine (1839-1906): Fuga Giocosa, Op. 41, No. 3
Known equally for his "verve, wit, and delicatesse" (Boston Musical Intelligencer) and his "infinite tenderness" (Evening Odessa), Artem Belogurov has an extensive repertoire, ranging through three centuries of solo and chamber works. He has a particular affinity for the Viennese classical style, in which he is distinguished by his use of improvisatory ornamentation. His interest in period pianos of all kinds extends through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is also a discerning advocate of contemporary music, and collaborates (both as a performer and as an editor) with a number of composers. In 2009 he had the honor of performing the Boston premiere of Elliott Carter's Caténaires for solo piano.
Artem received his early training at the Stolyarsky School of Music in Odessa, Ukraine, majoring in music theory, piano performance, and composition. In 2009, he received his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston, where his primary teachers were Gabriel Chodos, Patricia Zander, and Victor Rosenbaum. He has also studied with Peter Serkin.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, December 1, 2011
12:15 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Harpsichord Recital series
Nickolai Sheikov, harpsichordist
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Suite in E Major (HWV 430)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757): Three Sonatas
Since his 2009 Boston debut, Nickolai Sheikov has been described by the Boston Music Intelligencer as “an excellent harpsichordist”. In 2011, Sheikov set his New York stage debut by performing a rare duo concert with internationally renowned harpsichordist Elaine Comparone. Outside of the Baroque repertoire spectrum, Sheikov has been working closely with leading contemporary composers such as Elodie Lauten and Robert Baksa amongst others. Nickolai holds degrees in harpsichord performance from New England Conservatory, where he studied with John Gibbons.Additionally, Sheikov participated in a number of master classes with Gustav Leonhard, Menno van Delft and Jaap Schröder (chamber music).
- donations accepted
- Thursday, November 17, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Boston Opera Collaborative series
Renée Hites, mezzo-soprano
Yukiko Oba, pianist
Songs of the Americas
Colombia
Gitana; En la Playa: Luis Calvo (1882-1945)
The United States
Selections from the Hermit Songs: Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Argentina
Triste, Zamba: Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
La flor de aguapé; La Rosa y el Sauce: Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000)
Brazil
Vida Formosa; Manda, Tiro, Tiro, Lá: Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Mezzo-soprano Renée Hites grew up in Oakland, CA where she began her music career taking piano lessons. When she was 11 years old, she joined the San Francisco Girls Chorus and thus began her love of singing. Ms. Hites most recently performed the roles of Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff and Alma March in Mark Adamo's Little Women, as well as covered the role of Henry Ford in the newly commissioned opera Light and Power. Her past appearances include La Ciesca in Gianni Schicci, La Badessa in Suor Angelica, Oberto in Alcina, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, Mother Marie in Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Rosina in The Countess of Seville. Ms. Hites holds both a Masters and Bachelors of Music degrees from The Boston Conservatory. She also received a first prize in concert and opera singing at The Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She currently studies with Dr. Rebecca Folsom.
Ms. Yukiko Oba began playing the piano at the age of six in her native Japan. She received a Bachelor’s degree from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. Currently, Yukiko Oba, pianist, has been a member of the accompanying staff of The Boston Conservatory since 1996. She has performed extensively as an accompanist for recitals, chorus, master classes and composer’s project. Master classes this past season include Kristine Brewer, Dawn Upshaw, Sondra Kelly and Kurt Phinney. She has performed with many singers in Boston, including soprano Elisabeth Phinney, baritone Victor Jannett and Robert Honeysucker. She is a member of USATF.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, November 10, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
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- American Century Music series
Claremont Trio
Emily Bruskin, violin
Julia Bruskin, cello
Donna Kwong, piano
Charles Wakefield Cadman: Piano Trio in D Major, Op.56 (1913)
Widely regarded as the premier piano trio of its generation, the Claremont Trio is sought after for its thrillingly virtuosic and richly communicative performances. First winners of the Kalichstein- Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Claremonts are consistently lauded for their "aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth, and exuberance" (Palm Beach
Daily News).
During the 2011-12 season the Claremont Trio opens the brand new hall at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with a series of three concerts. Equally passionate about the standard repertoire and the music of our time, the Claremonts pair three world premiere commissions by Sean Shepherd, Helen Grime and Gabriela Lena Frank with a survey of trios by Mozart and Mendelssohn to celebrate this exciting new venue. Their
busy touring schedule also includes concerts for Friends of Chamber Music-Denver, the Sanibel Music Festival, New York’s Rubin Museum, Harvard Musical Association, Chamber Music Society of Bethlehem, Boise Chamber Music Series, American Century Music in Boston, Concerts at the Point, and the Brooklyn Public Library. As Central Virginia Ensemble in Residence, the Claremonts also begin a visiting residency at Longwood University, Randolph College, Sweet Briar College and Hampden Sydney College.
For more information about the Claremont Trio and to read their blog, please visit www.claremonttrio.com.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, November 3, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Harpsichord Recital Series
Giuseppe Schinaia, harpsichordist
J.J. Froberger: Lamentation faite sur la mort très douloureuse de sa majesté impériale Ferdinand 3me
J.-H. d'Anglebert: Chaconne in C major (from Pièces manuscrit)
J.-H. d'Anglebert: Tombeau de M. de Chambonnières
J. Duphly: Chaconne in F major (from 3me Livre de Pièces de clavecin)
Born in Rome, Giuseppe Schinaia studied piano and composition at the Rome Conservatory of Music and later turned to early music, following courses of C.Ferrero, B. van Asperen, P. Hantai A. Frigè and C. Rousset. He has extensively performed in Italy and the US both in recitals and ensembles as a soloist and continuo player on the organ and the harpsichord. He is author of vocal and instrumental music and has recently published revisions of French early music compositions for both Musedita and Armelin publishers. Giuseppe Schinaia is currently tenured professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
- donations accepted
- Thursday, October 27, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Works in Progress series
Patrice Newman, piano
Chopin: Scherzo #2 in b-flat minor, op. 31; Scherzo #3 in c# minor, op. 39
Pianist Patrice Newman specializes in chamber music and art song. New York concerts include Hudson Highlands Music Festival, Peconic Chamber Orchestra and a Weill Recital Hall chamber music debut as a winner of the Artists International competition. Recent appearances with members of the Cassatt Quartet, Amelia Trio, Worcester Chamber Music Society. CDs: Lukas Foss’ The Prairie and Dominick Argento’s Jonah and the Whale with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP). Degrees from the Hartt School and Boston University, studies with Grant Johannesen, former Mannes College of Music collaborative pianist. Patrice currently co-directs Chamber Music Mystic and teaches at Connecticut College.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, October 20, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Boston Opera Collaborative series
Olga Lisovskaya, soprano
Boris Fogel, piano
Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky: Nadbuzhanska Barkarola
Marko Kropyvnytsky: Doshik
Mykola Lysenko: Sadok Vyshnevyy kolo haty
trad. Ukrainian, arr. Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky: Chom, chom ne pryjshov?
Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky: Solovyinyy Romans
trad. Ukrainian, arr. Leonid Kaufman: Oj, ne svity, misyachenku
Georgi Majboroda: Goya, goya, from "Milana"
trad. Ukrainian: Gandzia
Olga Lisovskaya has been hailed by critics as “the wonderful coloratura soprano...[with]...flexibility to caress the highest range notes” and “superb breath control." Most recently, she sang the role of Serpina with the Boston Vocal Arts Studio and the role of Amy in "Little Women" with Boston Opera Collaborative. She has performed as a soloist with Divas World Produductions, Longwood Opera, Worcester Opera, Masterworks Chorale, New England Light Opera, Opera New Hampshire, Lakes Region Opera Company, and Opera Providence among others. For more information, visit www.olgalisovskaya.com
Boris Fogel was the main accompanist for the Moscow Concert organization for 30 years. He travelled the world accompanying the Soviet Union’s most popular artists. Since moving to the U.S., Mr. Fogel continues to have a very busy schedule. He is in high demand as an accompanist among professional singers and instrumentalists. A few years ago, he published his successful book “A Concertmeister’s Notes."
- Thursday, October 13, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- American Century Music series
Lydian String Quartet
Daniel Stepner, violin
Judith Eissenberg, violin
Mary Ruth Ray, viola
Joshua Gordon, cello
John Harbison: String Quartet No. 2 (1987)
Since its formation, in 1980, the Lydian String Quartet’s exquisite artistry has inspired
critical acclaim worldwide. Their interpretive mastery of traditional works and special
flair for contemporary repertoire has also won prizes at international festivals and earned
the prestigious Naumburg Award for Chamber Music.
The LSQ’s compelling performances of the quartet literature — performances that are
superbly integrated, marvelously assured, and unfailingly elegant — are the result of the
ensemble’s thorough exploration and deep understanding of each composer's expressive
language and craft.
Through concerts, recordings, workshops, lectures, and master classes, the Lydians bring
to life music which spans two-and-a-half centuries. Their programming of old and new,
formal and informal, helps to build new audiences for the spiritually refreshing world of
chamber music.
The members of the Lydian String Quartet (Daniel Stepner, violin; Judy Eissenberg,
violin; Mary Ruth Ray, viola; Joshua Gordon, cello) are on the faculty of Brandeis
University, in Waltham, Massachusetts.
For more information, visit www.lydianquartet.com.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, October 6, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Harpsichord Recital Series
Matthew Hall, harpsichordist
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Suite in d minor, Second Book (1707)
Matthew Hall studied music and linguistics at Harvard, and completed his master’s degree in musicology at the University of Leeds (UK) on a Fulbright Scholarship with a dissertation on the keyboard music of Charles Dieupart. He is now organist at Church of Our Saviour, Brookline, and is pursuing doctoral studies at Boston University. He is in his third season as assistant conductor Amherst Early Music Festival Opera. Matthew is also an editorial assistant at the Packard Humanities Institute, Cambridge, publishers of C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Works. He contributes regularly to Harpsichord & Fortepiano magazine and Early Music Performer and has published research in peer-reviewed journals.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, September 29, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Works in Progress series
Dinnerstein/Tsai Duo
(Nick Dinnerstein, cello; Pei-yeh Tsai, piano)
Rachmaninoff: Études-tableaux, op. 33
No. 2 in C Major
No. 5 in d minor
Prokofiev: Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major, Op. 119
Boston-based cellist, Nick Dinnerstein, works in a wide variety of musical styles and settings. As a recitalist, he has performed solo and chamber works at venues across the country, from St. John's Church in Boston to the New York Historical Society to Illinois State University. He has also participated in Greensboro Music Festival in Vermont and the Thailand International Composition Festival. As an orchestral player, Nick has performed with Boston Ballet, Cape Cod Symphony, and the National Lyrica Opera, among others. He also teaches, and records and performs with local bands and songwriters.
Pianist Pei-yeh Tsai, a native of Taiwan, came to the United States ten years ago to pursue her passion for classical music through performance and teaching. Ms. Tsai has appeared in concert at esteemed venues such as Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall and internationally at Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow and Taipei National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She has also won prizes in international solo and chamber music competitions. Currently at Boston University, Ms. Tsai will be graduating soon with a Doctorate of Musical Arts in piano performance.
- Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:00 pm
- Autumnal Equinox Service
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- with blues music by
Paul Rishell and Annie Raines
- Thursday, September 22, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Works in Progress series
Akiko Kobayashi, violin
Claudia Kobayashi, piano
Bach: Sonata No.4 in C minor, BWV 1017
Prokofiev: Five Melodies for Violin and Piano, op.35bis
Ysaÿe: Sonata for Solo Violin No.3 in D minor, op.27, "Ballade"
Sarasate: Introduction and Tarantella, op.43
Akiko Kobayashi, praised at the IBLA Grand Prize Competition for her “remarkably precise and honest playing, with no artificial effects,” has appeared as a soloist with the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Suginami Kokaido Chamber Orchestra, and InterharmonyFestival Orchestra. Recital appearances include Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall; Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York; and Bach-Archiv in Germany. She graduated with a double degree in biology and music from Yale University and a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music. Her teachers include Sidney Harth, Victor Aitay, Zvi Zeitlin, and Felix Galimir. For more info, visit http://akikokobayashi.net.
Claudia Kobayashi made her Tokyo debut with the Aurora orchestra performing the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.3. Her solo and chamber appearances include the Ginza Energy Concert Hall, Higashi-Murayama Concert Hall in Tokyo, the Romanian Atheneum, and the Centro Culturale in Italy. She graduated with a degree in law from Keio University and worked at the Takata Automobile Company in Japan. Mrs. Kobayashi has studied with Elena Shematoff-Hutchins and pursued further studies at the Juilliard School with Asaff Weismann and Julie Jordan and chamber music with Victor Aitay, Concertmaster Emeritus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
- Thursday, September 15, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Thursday Mid-Day Recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Boston Opera Collaborative series
Anne Byrne, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Place, piano
"An Afternoon in Deutschland"
Hugo Wolf:
"Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag' erhoben"
"Nun laß uns Frieden schließen"
"Das verlassene Mägdlein"
"Ich hab in Penna einen Liebston wohnen"
Gustav Mahler- Selections from Ruckert Lieder
"Liebst Du um Schönheit "
"Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen"
"Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder!"
Anne Byrne is a mezzo soprano from Endwell, NY. She graduated with a Masters in Music from New England Conservatory in May 2011. She was most recently seen as a vocal mentor and performer with the Mssng Lnks program in Roxbury, MA and is looking forward to to singing with the ensemble of Opera Boston in their fall production of Béatrice et Bénédict. She currently studies with Carole Haber.
Nicholas Place is an active collaborative and new music performer throughout New England. He is Music Director for “Inspired Voices “ chorus in Maine and MD Open Theatre Project in Boston. His awards and degrees include Bowdoin International Music Festival; MM, performance The Boston Conservatory; MM, collaborative piano TBC, expected 2012.
- donations accepted
- Thursday, May 19, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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- donations accepted
- Thursday, May 12, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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- donations accepted
- Thursday, May 5, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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- donations accepted
- Thursday, April 28, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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- donations accepted
- Thursday, April 21, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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- donations accepted
- Sunday, April 10, 2011
1:30 pm
- Soprano Rebecca Teeters in recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- “Words of Women: songs on texts by Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf and the Wives of Henry VIII”
with pianist Michael Strauss
Program
Dominick Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
John Duke: Six Poems by Emily Dickinson
Libby Larsen: Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII
Click here for more information.
- $15/$10 suggested donation
- Sunday, March 20, 2011
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
- The Pennies in concert!
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- After they play for our 11am service, The Pennies will be giving a short concert in the sanctuary.
Click here for more information on The Pennies.
- Sunday, March 6, 2011
1:30 pm
- Soprano Christine Teeters in recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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Soprano Christine Teeters sings “The Music of Royalty”
with pianist Michelle Alexander and tenor Ethan Bremner
Schumann: Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart
Handel: Furie terribili! (Rinaldo)
Mozart: Al destin, che la minaccia (Mitridate, re di Ponto)
Britten: Be Kind and Courteous; Come, now a roundel (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Corigilano: They are always with me (The Ghosts of Versailles)
Verdi: Je viens solliciter de la Reine une grâce (Don Carlos)
Satie: Je te veux; La diva de l'Empire (Cabaret Songs)
- $15/$10 suggested donation
- Thursday, February 24, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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freewill offering
- Thursday, February 17, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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freewill offering
- Sunday, February 13, 2011
1:30 pm
- NEC Vocal Jazz Ensemble
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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About the ensemble...
The NEC Vocal Jazz Ensemble is an exciting new group comprised of current students at the New England Conservatory of Music. Each member is an established soloist, yet all of them have extensive experience in various award-winning choirs. The group performs an eclectic repertoire from traditional jazz, modern popular, world music, and avant garde. This material is arranged by the vocalists themselves as well as some of the most well-respected musicians and conductors in the world. The concept of the group is to showcase unique, individual talents while creating a seamless blending of the voices. The ensemble appreciates the opportunity to perform outside of the conservatory and is grateful for your attendance.
Performers...
Director: David Devoe.
Singers: Tommy Boynton, Tomas Cruz, Allegra Levy, Michael Mayo, Richard Saunders, Katie Seiler, Sami Stevens
- $15/$10 suggested donation
- Thursday, February 10, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
freewill offering
- Thursday, February 3, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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freewill offering
- Thursday, January 27, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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freewill offering
- Thursday, January 20, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
freewill offering
- Thursday, January 13, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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freewill offering
- Sunday, January 9, 2011
1:30 pm
- Tenor Ethan Bremner sings Schubert's Die Schoene Muellerin
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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- $15/$10 suggested donation
- Thursday, January 6, 2011
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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freewill offering
- Thursday, December 30, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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freewill offering
- Thursday, December 23, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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freewill offering
- Thursday, December 16, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
freewill offering
- Thursday, December 9, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
freewill offering
- Thursday, December 2, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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freewill offering
- Thursday, November 25, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
freewill offering
- Thursday, November 18, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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freewill offering
- Thursday, November 11, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
freewill offering
- Thursday, November 4, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
freewill offering
- Thursday, October 28, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
freewill offering
- Thursday, October 21, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Harpsichord recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
freewill offering
- Thursday, October 14, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Chopin recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
freewill offering
- Sunday, October 10, 2010
1:30 pm
- Sunday vocal recital
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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- $15 general/$10 student/senior/military
- Thursday, October 7, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Chopin recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
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- freewill offering
- Thursday, September 30, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Chopin recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
- freewill offering
- Thursday, September 23, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Chopin recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
- freewill offering
- Thursday, September 16, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Chopin recital series
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First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
- freewill offering
- Thursday, September 9, 2010
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
- Chopin recital series
-
First Church in Boston:
66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA
(MAP)
- Click here for more information.
- freewill offering
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