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On April 22 and 23, Chatham Baroque will carry out in The Pleasure of Bach, a live performance honoring the late Bach scholar Don O. Franklin, whose contributions to Bach efficiency and scholarship left an indelible mark on Pittsburgh and the larger early music neighborhood. Chatham Baroque shall be joined by a few of Franklin’s favourite collaborators for this musical tribute.

A pillar of the College of Pittsburgh Division of Music, Franklin additionally served as president of the American Bach Society for 4 years and was founding editor of Bach Views. He was beloved by his undergraduate and graduate college students, who in 2018 collaborated with Bach students from across the nation to publish Compositional Decisions and That means within the Vocal Music of JS Bach, a quantity of essays collected in tribute to his half century Franklin. “an eminent chief in American Bach research.” In 1991 Franklin co-founded Pitt’s standard sequence “Bach and Baroque,” which ran for 16 years. He additionally led the Heinz Chapel Choir for 5 years, vastly increasing their repertoire and main them on their first worldwide tour.

Chatham Baroque has an extended historical past with Franklin, together with participation in its “Bach and Baroque” sequence and collaboration on a preferred Bach Birthday Bash program held every March.

“Bach is such an necessary composer within the Baroque world, and we have now a wealthy historical past of performing his works in Pittsburgh, due to Franklin’s legacy. For Bach’s birthday, we needed to deliver collectively a bunch of artists who knew him and carry out a few of Bach’s most beloved works,” stated co-artistic director Andrew Fouts.

“We began with Cantata 170, Vergngte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlustas, our cornerstone for this system, with Kristen Dubenion Smith (mezzo-soprano) and Justin Wallace (harpsichord, chamber organ). Then I considered two Bach organ concertos that might the skills of oboist Kathryn Montoya and violinist Emily Eng had been highlighted.”

The Pleasure of Bach program will embody instrumental and vocal works by the Baroque composer, comparable to the attractive cantata Vergngte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust for alto, oboe, strings and continuo (BWV170). the Concerto for Two Violins (BWV1043); and the Concerto for Oboe and Violin (BWV1060r).

Chatham Baroque Inventive Administrators Andrew Fouts (violin), Patricia Halverson (viola da gamba) and Scott Pauley (theorbo) shall be joined by a particularly proficient group of visitor musicians together with;

• Acknowledged for her “velvet legato and heat that embraces the sound” (Washington Classical Overview) and “verse-mezzo of extraordinary magnificence” (The Washington Submit), mezzo Kristen Dubenion-Smith enjoys an energetic profession in oratorio and sacred vocal corridor music, specializing within the music of the Center Ages, Renaissance and Baroque durations. Along with her work as a live performance soloist, she was the primary girl to be provided a place within the Males’s and Boys/Ladies Choirs at Washington Nationwide Cathedral and performs repeatedly with the Cathedra, Chantry, the Washington Bach Consort and the Grammy-nominated Choir Clarion. He’s co-founder of Eya: Ensemble for Medieval Music.
• Baroque oboist Kathryn Montoya seems with quite a lot of orchestral and chamber music ensembles, together with the Boston Early Music Competition Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Wiener Akademie, Pacific Musicworks, and Apollo’s Fireplace. Current initiatives embody the Globe’s Tony Award-winning productions of Twelfth Evening on Broadway, live shows and grasp lessons in Shanghai, and a tour and Grammy-winning recording of Charpentier: La couronne de fleurs – La descente d’Orphe aux enfers with the Boston Early Competition. Montoya was featured on NPR’s “Efficiency In the present day” and could be heard on the Erato, Naxos, CPO, NCA, Analekta and Dorian Sono Luminus labels.
• Alice Culin-Ellison is a flexible historic performer with skilled expertise in music from the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and modern eras. Primarily a violinist, she additionally performs viola, medieval viola and rebec and Renaissance violin and viola and has studied baroque dance. She is the co-founder of Incantare: ensemble of Violins and Sackbuts and was beforehand the inventive director of Bourbon Baroque. Her skilled engagements additionally embody the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s fireplace, Chatham Baroque, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and the Charlotte Bach Akademie. As a soloist, he has led opera productions of Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Purcell’s King Arthur.
• As a violinist and baroque, Emily Eng enjoys a diverse musical life in chamber ensembles and orchestras with intestine or metal in her palms. Her work has included engagements with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Nationwide Ballet Orchestra, Academy Live performance Sequence, Soundstreams, Canadian Opera Firm and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Eng spent three consecutive residencies in a cottage on the Banff Centre, and from 2003 to 2004 was co-artistic director of the Parkdale Folks’s Live shows, a chamber music sequence on the Gladstone Resort.
• Swiss violinist Chiara Fasani Stauffer performs music starting from the Baroque to the twenty-first century and has carried out on three continents, together with with Apollo’s Fireplace, Washington Bach Consort and Sebastians. He has appeared on “A Prairie Residence Companion” as a part of the East 4th Avenue Quartet, recorded successful jazz album with saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio’s Transcendental Orchestra, and carried out reside on WCLV radio as a part of the brand new music group FiveOne Experimental Orchestra. . She is the co-founder and inventive director of Time Canvas, a chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing modern music to folks throughout a broad cross-section of society.
• A music theorist and performer specializing within the seventeenth and 18th centuries, Paul Miller teaches at Duquesne College and his analysis has been revealed in various educational journals. As a performer, he has appeared on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York, the Library of Congress, the Nationwide Cathedral in Washington, D.C., the Darmstadt Worldwide Competition of New Music, the Bethlehem Bach Competition, and the Hawaii Performing Arts Competition, in addition to with ensembles comparable to El Mundo and Tempesta di Mare and with collaborators together with Grammy nominees Richard Savino and Jory Vinikour.
• Tracy Mortimore enjoys a diverse profession enjoying extensively on fashionable and historic double basses and violins. As an early music specialist, Mortimore has collaborated with Santa Fe Professional Musica, Washington Bach Consort, Musica Professional Rara, Insurgent, Tafelmusik, Opera Atelier, Toronto Consort, Wolftrap Opera, NYSEMA, Pegasus, Chatham Baroque, Folger Consort, Apollo’s Fireplace , Clarion and Aradia Ensemble – with whom he has remodeled 45 recordings on the Naxos label. He’s additionally energetic on this planet of free improvisation and modern classical music, each as a performer and composer.
• Justin Wallace has a multi-faceted profession as a harpsichordist, organist and composer. Primarily based in Pittsburgh, he performs with Chatham Baroque, The Dukes Music, Quantum Theatre, Music Mundana, Pittsburgh Camerata and at Shadyside Presbyterian Church, the place he has been assistant organist since 2013. Taking part in historic keyboards introduced him to Charleston, SC ; Birmingham, AL; Quito, Ecuador? Leipzig, Germany; and Royaumont Abbey, the place he studied with the acclaimed French harpsichordist Blandine Verlet. Justin’s compositions have been carried out nationally and broadcast by American public media Pipedreams. He holds levels from the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory and the Eastman Faculty of Music.

Chatham Baroque

Bach’s pleasure

Saturday, April 22, 7:30 p.m., Calvary Episcopal Church, Shadyside
Sunday, April 23, 2:30 p.m., Calvary Episcopal Church, Shadyside

Tickets are $40 for adults, $35 for seniors (65+) and $20 for college kids. Subscribers and advance ticket purchasers will obtain a hyperlink to a video-on-demand of this system following the reside efficiency. For tickets and knowledge, go to chathambaroque.org.