Echoing Air “Hark, How the Songsters”

A Tribute to Henry Purcell Guest Artist Concert Sunday, March 11, 2012, 3:00PM St. John’s Episcopal Church

Program

Sound the Trumpet from Come ye Sons of Art Henry Purcell Mr. Medley and Mr. Rickards (1659-1695) Music For a While Henry Purcell

Mr. Medley Sweeter Than Roses Henry Purcell

Mr. Rickards Love’s Goddess Sure Henry Purcell

Mr. Medley Sweetness of Nature from Love’s Goddess Sure Henry Purcell

Company Many, Many Such Days from Love’s Goddess Sure Henry Purcell

Company Chaconne Henry Purcell

Mr. Collier and Ms. Ahn The Self Banished John Blow

Mr. Rickards (1649-1708)

A Hymne to God the Father Pelham Humphrey Mr. Rickards (1647-1674) O Dive Custos Auricae Domus Henry Purcell

Mr. Medley and Mr. Rickards

-----Intermission----- Ground in G Henry Purcell

Mr. Gerber Evening Hymn Henry Purcell

Mr. Medley “Deth” for solo viol Tobias Hume Ms. Kyprianides (1569-1645) Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell John Blow

Company Hark How the Songsters from Timon of Athens Henry Purcell

Company

The Tallahassee Bach Parley 2011-2012 Membership As of Feb. 20, 2012:

Bach Circle ($1000+) Michael & Kelly Beck Dr. Stephen & Elizabeth Richardson

Handel Circle ($500–999) Mimi Jones & Bill Brubaker Marguerite Foxon William P. & Karyl Louwenaar Lueck

Vivaldi Circle ($250–499) John & Nancy Barfield Melissa & Charles Brewer Dr. Armand & Suzanne Cognetta Ronald A. Kanen Dennis G. King Esq. Dr. Gordon & Jenny Low Nora K. Loyd Tom & Ava Prebys William & Jeanne Ryder

Telemann Circle $100–249) Wendy & Lester Abberger Nancy E. Bivins Dr Kathleen Butler Betsy Calhoun & Michael Corzine Grace & Alan Dakan Jon & Beverly Dalton Barbara Jorgenson & Robert Dempsey Woody & Charlotte Dudley Fran Dwyer Tanja L. Jones & Todd D. Engelhardt Jan & Larry Everett Gary & Ellen Fournier Judith Greaves Linda & Fred Hester Jim, Julie & Anne Leftheris Denis & Bobbie Markiewicz Mr. & Mrs. E.K. Mellon Kate Muldoon & Bill Miller Roger Ponder don't list in program Adonica Gieger & Dana Preu Thomas & Jean Souter Mary Helen Sukhia Ralph V. Turner John & Virginia Walker Mr. Michael Yoon & Dr. Jessica Yoon

Rameau Circle ($50–99) Fred Boska Laura & Barnett Cook Marie E. Cowart James C. & Rochelle Davis Karen W. Dix Stan & Carol Fiore John Fraser Ben & Beth Fusaro Patricia Gosen Christine M. Hazelip Gayle Muenchow & Richard Hopkins Dr. Tann H. Hunt Edwin W. Jr & Donna Irby John A. Knoblauch Kyunghee Lee Dawn & Louis Martz Betsy & Stephen Masterson Caroline Mathews Charles E. Milsted Walter & Marian Moore Marjorie Morgan June L. Noel James Mathes & Margaret Pendleton Barbara Petersen John, Gloria, Lori & AJ Pullen Penny Gilmer & Sanford Safron Nella Schomburger Sean Singleton Francis & Karen Skilling Dr. Patricia H. Stanley Diane L. Stuart Erica & Robert Thaler In memory of Helen Walker Theresa D. Westerfield Barbara Mason White Michael & Patricia Wilhoit Ken Winker Purcell Circle $25–49 Bill & Patty Applegate Christopher Baker Betty Boop Michael Buchler Fenn Cawthon Tom & Norene Chase

(Purcell Circle cont.) Marcie Praetorius & Parker Collins Mary Lama Cordero Pamela & Donald Crosby Patricia Curtis Janice S. Dann Ellie Dann Peter & Gloria DeAngelis Ginny Densmore Virginia Dix Laura A. Dunaway Janine C. Edwards Martha A. Fenner Janet Findling Mark & Lisa Foltz Lois K. Friedman Susan Drake & Charles Futch Paula Gerson Mary Anne Gray Sue Gross Nancy Thompson Harnage Roy Silverman & Nina Hatton Leslie Johnson Barbara & Fred Jones Dr. Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker Von A. Klink Gudrun Gaar & Robbie Laub Peggy Lentz Dr. Jean Marani Tom & Lynda McCaleb David and Rosa McNaughton Lesley Fellows Mendelson Jennie Myers Joyce Pugh Jane Quinton Joan H. Raley Michael Buchler & Nancy Rogers Sue Scribner Betty Serow Renee LaPointe & Michael Smith Lawrence & Robyn Stevenson Joanne Taylor Katya & Tom Taylor Larry & Sandy Updike Mike & Kathleen Wright

The Tallahassee Bach Parley Board of Directors: Erica Thaler, President Lester Abberger Charles E. Brewer, Vice President Nancy Barfield Ava Prebys, Treasurer Michael Corzine Julie Leftheris, Secretary Stephen Richardson

Kathleen Wright

Upcoming events:

Tomorrow morning: Voice Masterclass Steven Rickards will coach FSU College of Music students

Monday, March 12, 9:00–11:00AM, Dohnányi Recital Hall, free and open to the public

Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 with Melissa Brewer and Miriam Barfield, violas

plus Bach Cantata 150 with Tucker & Mary Biddlecombe and friends June 3, 2012, 3:00PM, St. John’s Episcopal Church

Today’s Guest Artists

Echoing Air Early Music Vocal Ensemble with Baroque Instruments

Steven Rickards, Countertenor Nathan Medley Countertenor

Jeffrey Collier, Recorder, Me Jung Ahn, Recorder

Thomas Gerber, Harpsichord Christine Kyprianides, Viola da gamba

ME JUNG AHN (recorder) was born in Seoul, South Korea. She started to play the recorder at the age of nine and afterwards gave many solo recitals and won numerous 1st prizes in the national competition for solo recorder. In 2004 and 2007, she had her solo recitals in a Kumho Young Artist Concert as a gifted recorder player. In 2009 she graduated (summa cum laude) from Seoul National University, where she earned a bachelor of music in music theory. Prior to that, in fall 2006, she completed a year in the Historical Performance program at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied the recorder with Daniel Brüggen and Peter Holtslag. She has attended many intensive master classes with such artists as Dan Laurin, Matthias Maute, Kees Boeke, Saskia Coolen, and Carin van Heerden, in Korea, Austria, England, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and the U.S.A. At the Amherst Early Music Festival 2008, she received a Scholarship Award and gave a solo performance. She also participated in the International Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg in summer 2010, performing actively among world-wide recorder players. She has earned a Master of Music in recorder in the Early Music Institute at Indiana University, studying with Han Tol and Michael McCraw, where she has performed often as soloist with the IU Baroque Orchestra and in Concentus, and given recitals and chamber music concerts. Having been recognized as a deserving student, she received the Willi Apel Early Music Scholarship Award from IU in 2010. She was selected to participate in Early Music America’s 2011 Festival Ensemble in Boston Early Music Festival, representing IU. She has become an associate instructor in the Pre-college Recorder Program. In addition to teaching recorder, Mee Jung is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in musicology at IU.

JEFFREY COLLIER (recorder) received his Bachelor’s degree in music from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he performed with the Emory Early Music Consort. Now a resident of Indianapolis, he has performed on baroque flute and recorder with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Voltaire. He studied baroque flute with Barbara Kallaur and has participated in many intensive workshops and masterclasses with such artists as Christopher Krueger, Michael Lynn, Eva Legene, Janet See, and Stephen Preston. Collier has performed with ensembles throughout the Midwest and Southern United States, including the Tallahassee Bach Parley, the Miami Bach Society, the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana (BACH), Nashville's Belle Meade Baroque, Winston-Salem's Piedmont Chamber Singers, and Ensemble Capriole in Williamsburg. Reviews have praised his "pure and focused playing". Collier can be heard on the Four Winds label. THOMAS GERBER (harpsichord) is a founding member of—and harpsichordist in—two period instruments Baroque groups: the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, in residence at the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center at the University of Indianapolis, and the chamber music group Ensemble Voltaire, which is ensemble-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis. Both organizations present annual local concert series. The Baroque Orchestra plays throughout Indiana, and Ensemble Voltaire has toured the United States and Canada since 1988. Mr. Gerber is assistant professor of music and humanities at Marian College, Indianapolis, and also serves on the faculties of the University of Indianapolis, where he teaches harpsichord and coaches the student baroque ensemble, and Butler University, where he teaches music history. Mr. Gerber is harpsichordist of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra as well as of the liturgical early music ensemble Musik Ekklesia. He has appeared at the Early Music Festival of St. Louis and the Bloomington Early Music Festival, as well as with other period instrument early-music groups, such as Catacoustic Consort, the Callipygian Players, Anaphantasia, Pills to Purge Melancholy, Ars Antigua Chicago, and Haydn-by-the-Lake. He can be heard on the Dorian, Concordia, and Catalpa Classics labels. After receiving music degrees from Hillsdale College and Ball State University, Mr. Gerber went on to earn a Master of Music degree in harpsichord and early music performance practice from Indiana University. His harpsichord teachers have included Fernando Valenti, Anthony Newman, and Elisabeth Wright. CHRISTINE KYPRIANIDES (viola da gamba) was a leading Baroque cellist and gambist in Germany, performing with Huelgas Ensemble, Musica Antiqua Köln, Das Kleine Konzert, Diapente Consort, Collegium Carthusianum, Accademia Filarmonica Köln, Les Arts Florissants, Ganassi-Consort, Les Adieux, and the La Roche and Finchcocks String Quartets, and she has been a long-time collaborator of fortepianist Richard Burnett in

England. Her recording credits include over 70 albums for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Sony, Harmonia mundi, RCA, Capriccio, Virgin Classics, Globe, etc., as well as radio and television productions for the major German radios, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands, and Radio France. Kyprianides holds degrees in performance from the Peabody and New England Conservatories, and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and was awarded the Gregor Piatigorsky Cello Prize at Tanglewood. Most recently she completed the Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches Baroque cello. She has also held faculty positions at the Lemmens Institute (University of Louvain), the Musikhochschule of Cologne, and the Dresden Academy of Early Music, and has given seminars in historical performance practice at the Catholic University of Santiago de Chile, the Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires, the Conservatory of Church Music in Halle/Saale, the Early Music Summer Seminar in Wallonia, among others. Dr. Kyprianides is a member of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Voltaire, continues to perform in Europe, and is active as a scholar. NATHAN MEDLEY (countertenor) is rapidly becoming one of the leading young countertenors of his generation. His upcoming season includes a debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in John Adams’ new oratorio The Gospel According to the other Mary. Other operatic credits include the roles of Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dema in Cavalli's L'Egisto, and Ottone in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. The latter of which he covered at the Juilliard School on short notice. As Ottone, Medley won praise from Cleveland critics for an interpretation "sung with baroque perfection." Mr. Medley has worked under the direction of Stephen Stubbs, La Scala's Umberto Finazzi, Sally Stunkel, Jonathon Field, Webb Wiggins, and Danielle Patelli. In addition to the standard baroque concert repertoire, Mr. Medley frequently commissions and performs modern works in an effort to broaden public awareness of the countertenor voice type. In 2008, Medley became a Presser Scholar and began a study of pedagogical approaches to the countertenor voice type and 20th-century countertenor repertoire. He has appeared in master classes with Marilyn Horne, Emma Kirkby, and Ellen Hargis. Nathan received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory in voice and historical performance. Nathan is also and active teacher with students of all ages and skill levels. He is an adjunct professor of voice at Marian University, and also teaches at the University of Indianapolis. He can be heard singing weekly with the Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys. STEVEN RICKARDS (countertenor) has received international acclaim as one of America's finest countertenors. He recently took part in the premiere of John Adams's oratorio El Niño at the Châtelet Opera in Paris. Subsequent performances of the work

have featured the Adelaide Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, the Tokyo Symphony, and the Malmo Opera (Sweden). Rickards has appeared internationally with Joshua Rifkin and the Bach Ensemble, as well as with The American Bach Soloists, Chanticleer, Ensemble Voltaire, the Gabrieli Consort, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, the New London Consort, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Santa Fe Opera, and the symphony orchestras of Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and St. Louis, and Tokyo. He has sung at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York, in France as a soloist with The Festival Singers under the direction of Robert Shaw, and with Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices. Rickards was the soloist in the American premiere performance of Michael Nyman's Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. He has recorded for Chanticleer, Decca, Dorian, Four Winds, Gothic, Harmonia Mundi, Koch, Newport Classics, Smithsonian, and Teldec. Rickards can also be heard on the Naxos label where, with lutenist Dorothy Linell, he recorded two solo albums of the songs of John Dowland and Thomas Campion. Rickards currently lives in Indianapolis where he teaches singing at Butler University and the University of Indianapolis. He sings regularly with The Choir of Men and Boys at Christ Church Cathedral. He received his doctorate from Florida State University. His book Twentieth Century Countertenor Repertoire was recently published by Scarecrow Press.

This program sponsored in part by the City of Tallahassee, Leon County, and the Council on Culture & Arts.

The Tallahassee Bach Parley would like to thank all of our donors and volunteers for their support, especially St. John’s Episcopal Church, Betsy Calhoun and Lindsay Hardy for hosting this concert, Loren Rice for designing the posters, Erica Thaler for help with publicity, Patty Herrington for distributing posters, and First Presbyterian Church for housing our library and archives.

The Tallahassee Bach Parley provides accommodations for persons with disabilities. Please notify the music director at 850-224-8025 or musicdirector@tallahasseebachparley.org at least five working days prior to a concert if accommodation for disability or if this program in an alternative format is needed.