2011-201238th Season
Saturday, May 26, 2012, 8:00pm
Lisa Sangita Moskow
sarod
- with special guest Lucian Balmer, violin
Lisa Sangita Moskow, virtuoso sarod player and East-West composer, will present an evening of her own compositions and collaborations with violinist Lucian Balmer. Both musicians have one foot in the classical traditions of the East and West with the other in the entrancing and inspiring milieu of spiritual world music. Sangita Moskow performs on electric sarod (a multi-stringed lute from North India), and studied extensively with the recently passed Ali Akbar Khan. Lucian Balmer is Assistant Concertmaster of the Mill Valley Philharmonic and studied violin for 20 years under Benjamin Spilman and Calvin Murasaki.
Monday, June 4 - Sunday, June 10, 2012
Trinity Chamber Concerts is a proud host of the
2012 Berkeley Festival Fringe
Since 1975 the San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS) has presented high quality concerts, up-to-date publications, and some of the best education programs available anywhere. All this has contributed to the Bay Area’s reputation as one of America’s leading centers for the performance of early music. The biennial Berkeley Festival is a week of concerts and workshops by distinguished early music performers from around the world.
An exciting part of the festival is the Fringe, self-produced concerts by ensembles, some from the Bay Area and some traveling here for the festival. Trinity Chamber Concerts will host many of these Fringe concerts. Make sure to check out the complete schedule of festival events, as they take place at several venues.
Monday, June 4, 2012
11:00am: Les Graces
3:00pm: BABO: Bay Area Baroque Orchestra
- Frances Blaker, conductor, with special surprise guest performers drawn from the community of Bay Area (and beyond) professional baroque musicians.
Music for orchestra by Lully, Bach, Handel and others. BABO consists of dedicated amateur musicians eager to explore the music and performance styles of the Baroque era. This concert will be the second bi-annual BABO Pro-Am performance in which BABO will be joined by professional baroque musicians from the Bay Area and further afield to give a rousing and unforgettable performance. Don’t miss the fun and musical excitement!
5:00pm: Ensemble Artemisia
- Catherine Webster, soprano
- Maia Silberstein and David Wilson, violins
- Elisabeth Reed, cello
- Katherine Heater, harpsichord
La Gioia della Primavera - Songs and sonatas of early seventeenth-century Italy. Works by Monteverdi, Castello, Marini, and Uccellini.
8:00pm: Franklin Lei
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
12:00pm: Ensemble Vermillian: Bach and Leclair
- Frances Blaker, recorders
- David Wilson, Baroque violin
- Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, Baroque cello
- Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord
- William Simms, theorbo and Baroque guitar
Trio and solo sonatas by two masters of the Baroque era, Johann Sebastian Bach and Jean Marie Leclair. Unusual harmonies and compelling melodies are two of the characteristics of compositions by these two masters, yet their music stands as opposite pillars of baroque music. Ensemble Vermillian brings you a handful of spectacular pieces perfect for a mid-day concert.
3:30pm: Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin & Janine Johnson, fortepiano
Two of the bay Area’s great talents join forces in a delightful and impassioned performance of Sonatas for violin and fortepiano, featuring Mozart Sonatas in C major KV 303, A major KV 526, and Schubert’s Sonata in a minor Op. 137 #2.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
12:30pm: Vinaccesi Ensemble
Il disinganno degli amanti: music of the northern Italian Baroque
- Nanette McGuinness, soprano
- Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano
- Jonathan Smucker, tenor
- Kirk Eichelberger, bass
- Sarge Gerbode, archlute
- Farley Pearce, Baroque cello
- Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord
Northern Italy was a hotbed of musical endeavors in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the Vinaccesi Ensemble mines that fertile field for continuo arias, duets, and trios by Monteverdi, Strozzi, Cavalli, and–of course–the quirky and creative Benedetto Vinaccesi.
The Vinaccesi Ensemble was formed in 2008 by Bruce Wetmore, Kindra Scharich, and Nanette McGuinness and first performed as part of the 2008 Berkeley Early Music Fringe Fest. The Ensemble recorded Vinaccesi\’s extant solo cantatas in 2011, with the generous support of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music\’s Musical Grant Program.
2:30pm: Janine Johnson, harpsichord
Harpsichordist Janine Johnson will present a joyous and moving rendition of Bach’s Aria with 30 Variations (Goldberg Variations) on a replica of the 1722 J.H. Gräbner harpsichord by John Phillips. Sure to be a Festival highlight!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
11:00am: Farallon Recorder Quartet
- Annette Bauer, Letitia Berlin, Frances Blaker, Louise Carslake, recorders
- Jennifer Paulino, soprano
- John Lenti, lute
At the heart of the program will be English Renaissance music drawn from their recent CD From Albion’s Shores, which includes music by the great 16th century lutenist John Dowland and his famous contemporary William Byrd. Spanish music by Diego Ortiz and Antonio Cabezon, German music by Ludwig Senfl and Heinrich Finck, French chansons by Josquin des Prez, and Italian songs by Bartolomeo Tromboncino and Jacob Obrecht complete this whirlwind musical tour.
1:00pm: David Wilson
3:00pm: Bertamo Trio
- Letitia Berlin, recorder
- David Morris, viola da gamba
- Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord
Trios and Solos from the 18th to the 21st Centuries: Music of Telemann, Fischer, Maute and Blaker. Solos and trios from Telemann’s Essercizi musici, and works commissioned by new composers for the recorder including Matthias Maute and Frances Blaker.
Friday, June 8, 2012
12:00pm: Flauti Diversi
Boismortier! The Complete Opus 37 Trio Sonatas
- Frances Feldon, traverso
- David Morris, viola da gamba
- Katherine Heater, chamber organ
Flauti Diversi presents a program of the complete trio sonatas from Joseph Bodin de Boismortier’s Opus 37 (1732), a Parisian collection of charming works displaying Boismortier’s unique style of composition, which was an amalgam combining French elegance with fiery Italian figuration in the Allegros and Vivaces and aria-like melodies in the Largos and Adagios. He was very specific in his orchestration featuring flute, viol and chamber organ together. Contemporary controversy pitted French against Italian for supremacy of musical style; the melding of the two styles in his work illustrates his musical world view.
TBD: Lars Johanesson
Saturday, June 9, 2012
10:30am: Bradamante: Breakfast with Bradamante
- Shirley Hunt, baroque cello
- Elinor Frey, baroque cello
Bradamante, meaning wild lover in Italian, is the dazzling new duo collaboration between cellists Shirley Hunt and Elinor Frey. Bradamante, legendary female knight of the great epic poem Orlando Furioso, is the ancestor of the powerful and music-loving d’Este family, Italy’s first great patrons of the cello in the 17th century. With Bradamante as their inspiration, Shirley and Elinor celebrate the brave and passionate spirit of the first famous composer-cellists.
TBD: Lars Johanesson
3:00pm: Howard Kadis
Saturday, June 9, 2012, 8:00pm
Sabbaticus Rex
- Karen Stackpole, gongs, percussion
- Cornelius Boots, shakuhachi, taimu shakuhachi, throat vocals
- Mark Deutsch, Bazantar
Sabbaticus Rex is an ensemble rooted in the supremacy of sound over music, the triumph of tone over time and thought. This process uses haunting and beautiful acoustic instruments and methods: overtone gongs, shakuhachi (bamboo Zen flutes), Taimu (bass) shakuhachi, and throat-singing. The group is completely acoustic; no electronics or amplification. This is sound, but not music. It is primordial easy-listening for dinosaurs: slowly shifting elemental improvisations from fat flutes and huge gongs, completely acoustic.
This concert will feature the group in their trio configuration with the addition of Mark Deutsch. Mark is the inventor of the Bazantar, an upright bass with dozens of sympathetic strings (similar to a sitar in this aspect). The design of the Bazantar is rooted in nonlinear mathematical patterns that exist in sound and are found universally in the natural world, including the over-tone series, fractals, the golden mean, seashells, and the Fibonacci series.
This concert will also be a CD release concert for the second Sabbaticus Rex album, and the first to feature the trio configuration.
Saturday, June 23, 2012, 8:00pm
Festival of Contemporary Music
The 10th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music holds its opening night as part of Trinity Chamber Concerts. The concert will feature prize-winning pieces from the On and Off the Keys solo instrumental and chamber music composition competition. This includes music for string quartet by Lucas Floyd, music for percussion by Ted Moore, a quartet for two guitars, cello and percussion by Luke Schwartz, flute and harp music by Greg Steinke, a piano trio by Davide Verotta, a piano quartet by Stephen Yip and more.
