2011-2012 Season
Join Gallery Concerts for our 23nd Season of Seven Chamber Music
performed on
Authentic Instruments of the 17th, 18th, and Early 19th Centuries
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October 8, 9 The Gallery Baroque Players Le Nuove Musiche Program Linda Tsatsanis , soprano; Ingrid Matthews, violin; John Lenti, lute and theorbo; Jilon Stoppels Dupree, Italian harpsichord
Avant-garde music of the Early Baroque, with airs and madrigals from Monteverdi’s operas and Caccini’s Le nuove musiche, lute songs by Dowland, and stile fantastico works for violin |
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November 26, 27 Opus 20 String Quartet Viennese Classics Program Adam LaMotte and Cecilia Archuleta, violins; Laurel Wells, viola; Nathan Whittaker, violoncello
Seattle’s incomparable Op. 20 String Quartet will enchant you with sparkling works from Classical Vienna by Haydn and Mozart, and one of Luigi Boccherini’s sensuous string quartets, all performed on period instruments. |
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December 10, 11 Ensemble Electra A Baroque Christmas Program Catherine Webster, soprono; with Vicki Boeckman, recorder; Tekla Cunningham, violin; Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord
Lyric soprano Catherine Webster, recently moved to Seattle, joins the captivating Ensemble Electra in a jubilant European tour of vocal and instrumental chamber music for the holiday season. |
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January 7, 8 Duo Amadeus Sturm und Drang Program Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Tamara Friedman, pianist
You’ll encounter some “stormy weather” as Duo Amadeus—violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock (concertmaster of San Francisco’s renowned Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra) and pianist Tamara Friedman—explores the highly emotional Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) music of J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, played with a 1660 Guarneri violin and a 1795 Viennese fortepiano. |
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Special Guest Concert February 25, 26 The Dutch Masters Trio All-Star Bach Wilbert Hazelzet, flute; Jaap ter Linden, cello; Jacques Ogg, harpsichord
Three of The Netherlands’ internationally acclaimed early-music stars visit Seattle to offer a virtuosic concert of the timeless chamber music of Johann Sebastian Bach. |
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March 17, 18 The Gallery Baroque Players The Feminine Muse Linda Melsted and Tekla Cunningham, violin; Margriet Tindemans, viola da gamba, Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord
Seattle’s donne virtuose perform the voluptuous chamber music of Isabella Leonarda, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and other superb women composers of the Baroque era. |
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April 14, 15 Trio Paradies Schubert contra Beethoven Cecilia Archuleta, violins; Page Smith, cello; Tamara Friedman, ca. 1820 Viennese grand fortepiano
Imagine having Beethoven as your competitor! Franz Schubert composed in the shadow of the giant Beethoven—and two distinctive brands of musical Romanticism were the result. Trio Paradies perform for you three transcendent chamber works by these two Viennese Masters, including Schubert’s panoramic B-major Trio. |
(All programs subject to change)
All concerts performed in the
intimate, acoustically superb
Queen Anne Christian Church, 3rd Avenue West and West
Lee Street,
on the top of Queen Anne Hill (near Trader Joe’s)
Saturdays at 7:30 pm (NEW TIME!) and Sundays at 3 p.m.
