Showcasing the Twin Cities classical and early music scene since 2011 www.thebaroqueroom.com 2018 19 Season
THE BAROQUE ROOM Programs & Series 2018 2019 Harpsichord Recital Series $25 ADULTS $5 STUDENTS Monday, December 10 7:30 P.M. JEFFREY GROSSMAN, HARPSICHORD WITH DAVID ROSS, TRAVERSO Including Froberger s Suite No. 12 with the famous lament for Ferdinand IV and J. S. Bach s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030 for traverso and Tuesday, March 12 7:30 P.M. JACQUES OGG, HARPSICHORD Dedication concert for The Baroque Room s new John Phillips German Graebner double manual Saturday, April 6 7:30 P.M. ZWEIKAMPF: FAYTHE VOLLRATH AND STEPHEN GAMBOA, HARPSICHORD Including transcriptions of Bach and Vivaldi and modern works for one and two s Saint Paul Classical Music Crawl Saturday, April 27 1:00 7:00 P.M. Hear virtually the entire Saint Paul classical music scene in one day! FIFTEEN-MINUTE PERFORMANCES on the hour and half hour. Each group will perform four times. With CLASSICAL MPR GUIDED TOURS! www.saintpaulclassical.com Twin Cities Baroque Instrumental Program July 28 August 4, 2019 This program offers advanced students and young professionals unique opportunities to study and perform with some of the world s most respected international artists in early music. Held at the Augsburg University Department of Music, this program provides world-class instruction in an engaging environment. Visit www.tcbip.org for more details. Lunchtime Concert Series Admission is FREE. All concerts are one hour long. Friday, October 26 12:00 P.M. CLASSICAL GUITAR GIANTS Momcilo Moma Aleksandric, guitar Friday, November 2 12:00 P.M. LA LAPOPLINIERE : MUSIC OF RAMEAU, J. S. BACH, AND OTHERS Julie Elhard, viola da gamba, with SungAe Song, traverso, and Seulgee Lee Nelson, Friday, November 16 12:00 P.M. VOICE OF THE BAROQUE Friday, November 23 12:00 P.M. ROMANCE: GERMAN AND FRENCH SungAe Song, flute, with Casey Rafn, piano Friday, December 7 12:00 P.M.* Naturally Expressed in Music: The Pioneering Style and Popular Success of Johann Ernst Galliard Joseph Jones, baroque bassoon Friday, January 25 12:00 P.M. FAÇADES & DUPLICITIES ViolMedium: Eric Miller and Phillip Serna, violas da gamba Friday, February 1 12:00 P.M.* BEFORE SCHUBERT HAYDN S SONGS Clara Osowski, mezzo soprano Friday, February 15 12:00 P.M. BAROQUE BASSOON: THEN AND NOW Friday, March 15 12:00 P.M.* THE TRANSFORMING TRIO SONATA Marc Levine, baroque violin Friday, March 22 12:00 P.M. THE SWEET VIOLIN: MUSIC OF LECLAIR AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES Friday, May 10 12:00 P.M. A MOTHER S DAY MUSICAL FEAST Jennifer Lang, violin, with Asako Hirabayashi, piano/ Friday, May 17 12:00 P.M. LONELY DANCES Elizabeth York, violin Friday, June 7 12:00 P.M. THE SOLO VIOLIN IN CONCERT Omar Chen Guey, violin *The new LYRA LECTURE RECITALS are joining the Lunchtime Concert Series. For details about each lecture visit www.lyrabaroque.org. The Baroque Room programming is supported, in part, by the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Lowertown Future Fund, Saint Paul Cultural STAR, and individual donors.
Ticket prices and concert details can be found online at www.thebaroqueroom.com. Also presented on the Lunchtime Concert Series. See front of brochure for details. Thursday, September 20 7:30 P.M. Saturday, November 24 7:30 P.M. The UW-Whitewater Piano Trio performs masterpieces by Mozart and Brahms SungAe Song, flute, with Casey Rafn, piano ROMANCE: GERMAN AND FRENCH UW-WHITEWATER PIANO TRIO E Saturday, October 27 3:00 P.M. FRE SHOSTAKOVICH, BACEWICZ, AND MENDELSSOHN Comparing the works of Shostakovich and Bacewicz, who lived and worked around the same time, followed by Mendelssohn Saturday, October 27 7:00 P.M. CLASSICAL GUITAR GIANTS Momcilo Moma Aleksandric, guitar Dedicated to the most distinctive composers in the history of classical guitar Saturday, November 3 7:30 P.M. LA LAPOPLINIERE : MUSIC OF RAMEAU, J. S. BACH, AND OTHERS The Romantic journey of music by German and French composers Saturday, December 1 7:30 P.M. Sunday, December 2 3:00 P.M. A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS s Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano, Ginna Watson, violin, vielle, harp, and rebec, and Phillip Rukavina, lute An intimate concert of carols, fiddle tunes, and lute songs Sunday, December 16 7:00 P.M. CD RELEASE PARTY: THE COMPLETE J. S. BACH GAMBA SONATAS Tulio Rondón, viola da gamba, and Tami Morse, Hear live performance excerpts from the CD and celebrate with the artists Saturday, January 19 7:00 P.M. FREE Julie Elhard, viola da gamba, with SungAe Song, traverso, and Seulgee Lee Nelson, BEAMISH, BEETHOVEN, AND HAYDN Masters of the High Baroque: flute and gamba sonatas of J. S. Bach, Rameau s Pièces de Clavecin, a Leclair flute sonata, and more Featuring the work of Scottish composer Sally Beamish as well as quartets by Haydn and Beethoven Saturday, November 17 7:30 P.M. Sunday, November 18 3:00 P.M. VOICE OF THE BAROQUE Clara Osowski, mezzo soprano Arias by Bach, Handel, and Caldara Saturday, January 26 7:30 P.M. FAÇADES & DUPLICITIES ViolMedium: Eric Miller and Phillip Serna, violas da gamba Beguiling curiosities and excursions for dueling gambas
Ticket prices and concert details can be found online at www.thebaroqueroom.com. Saturday, February 16 7:30 P.M. Sunday, February 17 3:00 P.M. BAROQUE BASSOON: THEN AND NOW Joseph Jones, dulcian and baroque bassoon Early baroque works for dulcian by Frescobaldi, Castello, and Selma, along with late baroque bassoon music by Telemann Sunday, March 17 3:00 P.M. FRENCH WORLD 2 Seulgee Lee Nelson, Following up last year s French World with music of J. S. Bach and Couperin Saturday, March 23 7:30 P.M. Sunday, March 24 3:00 P.M. THE SWEET VIOLIN: MUSIC OF LECLAIR AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES Kayo Saito, baroque violin Trio sonatas by Leclair from Op. 4 and 13, a J. S. Bach organ trio sonata in D Minor, and a Rameau concerto Saturday, March 30 3:00 P.M. MOZART, SHAW, AND BRAHMS with guest Coca Bochonko, viola FREE The imaginative Entr acte by Pulitzer- prize winning composer Caroline Shaw and viola quintets by Mozart and Brahms Also presented on the Lunchtime Concert Series. See front of brochure for details. Sunday, May 12 4:00 P.M. A MOTHER S DAY MUSICAL FEAST Jennifer Lang, violin, with Asako Hirabayashi, piano and Songs by or inspired by women and the feminine spirit with works by Asako Hirabayashi and Janika Vandervelde Friday, May 17 7:00 P.M. TWOS AND THREES: MUSIC OF HINDEMITH AND BRAHMS Tamara Gonzalez, violin Mike Alexander, horn Miryana Moteva, piano Music for piano, violin, and horn by Johannes Brahms and Paul Hindemith Saturday, May 18 7:30 P.M. LONELY DANCES Elizabeth York, violin Works for solo violin by J. S. Bach, Ysaÿe, and Lera Auerbach Saturday, May 25 7:30 P.M. INSPIRED BY JAZZ: RAVEL, GERSHWIN, AND PIAZZOLLA Gloria Shih, piano, and Marc Levine, violin Featuring Gershwin s Three Preludes for solo piano, selections from Piazzolla s Tango Etudes, and Ravel s Violin Sonata No. 2 Sunday, June 9 3:00 P.M. THE SOLO VIOLIN IN CONCERT Omar Chen Guey, violin Masterpieces for violin by Bach, Paganini, Ysaÿe, Bartok, and Milstein
About THE BAROQUE ROOM The Baroque Room is part of an inclusive movement to provide an affordable performance venue for chamber musicians and to create a diverse and stable early music scene in the Twin Cities. Located in the Lowertown neighborhood of downtown Saint Paul, The Baroque Room was designed with an especially resonant acoustic appropriate for early music. The Baroque Room s instruments include William Dowd double-manual French Klinkhamer single-manual Iberian Flentrop Chamber Organ Mason & Hamlin grand piano (on loan from Dorothy Horns) The Baroque Room offers Administrative services to renting musicians Wall space to showcase the work of local artists A display featuring facsimiles of letters from The Schubert Club Museum collection The Baroque Room produces Harpsichord Recital Series Lunchtime Concert Series Saint Paul Classical Music Crawl Twin Cities Baroque Instrumental Program The Baroque Room was created with support from the Lower town Future Fund, Saint Paul Cultural STAR, and private donations. All concerts are subject to change. Additional concerts may be added and others canceled. Visit www.thebaroqueroom.com and join our mailing list for up-to-date concert listings and announcements. VISITING THE BAROQUE ROOM Location The Baroque Room is located at 275 East 4th Street at the corner of 4th and Wall Streets in downtown Saint Paul. Enter the Northwestern Building on 4th Street and find us on the second floor. Parking For parking information visit www.thebaroqueroom.com and click on Parking/Directions at the top of the page. You may use the parking app Passport to pay for street parking and lots.