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Early Music Festival 2010 |
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Weekend 1: Chamber Music
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Paula Fagerberg, historical harpist, kicks off our chamber music weekend Friday evening with music for solo harp, performing “The Glory of the Baroque Harp” on triple harps of the period. Paula will be taking us on a tour of music from the end of the Renaissance through the High Baroque, stopping along the way in several countries and styles, from sacred to street dance.
Friday, March 12, 7:30 p.m., Jubilee! Community, Asheville
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Baroque/world music innovator Gerald Trimble, viola da gamba, returns to the festival in collaboration with percussionist River Guerguerian for a program exploring the roots of Baroque and Renaissance improvisation in the eastern world. The program will feature virtuosic improvisations on music at the crossroads of Baroque, Celtic, Middle Eastern, and Jazz, performed on original instruments dating from as early as 1708. "Guerguerian made magical sounds" -The New York Times Bio (River) Listen (Gerald) website (River) Saturday, March 13, 7:30 p.m. St. Matthias Episcopal, Asheville |
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The wonderful Belgian mezzo-soprano Francisca Vanherle will making her Echo debut along with returning favorite Muses’ Delight (Barbara Weiss harpsichord, Gail Schroeder viola da gamba, and Gesa Kordes baroque violin), and Paula Fagerberg, in a program of early Italian song by the likes of Caccini, Frescobaldi, Strozzi, Castello, Carissimi, and more.
Saturday, March 13, 3:00 p.m. Jubilee! Community, Asheville |
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Closing the chamber music portion of the festival, we’re fortunate to welcome the unique trio Trefoil, consisting of Drew Minter: countertenor and harp; Mark Rimple: countertenor, lute, harp; and Marcia Young: soprano and harps. These three exceptional and well-traveled musicians join forces for their program In the Chamber of the Harpers: Late Medieval Music from the Iberian Peninsula. The New York Times: “otherworldly harmonies”; the Washington Post: “both hearty and ethereal”; the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “masterful and exquisite presentation” program
Sunday, March 14, 3:00 p.m. Jubilee! Community, Asheville
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