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faculty artist series
Arthur Haas harpsichord
with gold and glitter
Morse Recital Hall January 20, 2017 • Friday at 7:30 pm
Faculty Artist Series
Arthur Haas harpsichord with
Caroline Giassi baroque oboe Daniel S. Lee baroque violin Martha McGaughey viola da gamba January 20, 2017 • Morse Recital Hall “Joyous Music for These Times”
Georg Philipp Telemann 1681–1767
Trio Sonata No. 3 in G minor, from Essercizii musici, TWV 42:g5 I. Mesto II. Allegro III. Andante IV. Vivace
Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683–1764
Pièce de clavecin en concert No. 1, RCT 7 I. La Coulicam. Rondement II. La Livri. Rondeau Gracieux III. Le Vézinet. Gaiment sans vitesse
François Couperin 1668–1733
Sonade L’Espagnole, from Les Nations (1726) Gravement et mesuré – Vivement Affectueusement – Légèrement – Air tendre Badinage vite intermission
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Dietrich Buxtehude 1637–1707
Trio Sonata in A major, Op. 2, No. 5, BuxWV 263 Allegro Violin solo: Concitato Viola da gamba solo: Adagio Allegro – Adagio – Poco presto
Arcangelo Corelli 1653–1713
Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 5, No. 8 I. Preludio. Largo II. Allemanda. Allegro III. Sarabanda. Largo IV. Giga. Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
Trio Sonata in G major, BWV 1039 I. Adagio II. Allegro ma non presto III. Adagio e piano IV. Presto
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Gold and Glitter Shining a Light on Baroque Music From the canals of Venice and music salons in German courts to the bright candlelit halls of Versailles, the early music ensemble Gold and Glitter shines a new light on 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces of the Baroque era. Our aim, through great attention to detail and emphasizing historical performance practices, is to perform this music with flair, virtuosity, and passion in order to understand the composers’ intentions and convince audiences to love this music as much as we do. The members of the ensemble, all with different backgrounds, studied in Europe and the United States and now perform and teach all over the world. Their love and respect for this music brought them together in this great exploration of music from Bach’s time and before.
as Empire Viols, and Aula Harmoniæ. Along with many solo and chamber concerts throughout North America, he recently toured in Korea and Peru, and in 2014 and 2016 was featured in concerto performances with the China National Symphony in Beijing. He has recorded harpsichord music by JeanHenry D’Anglebert, Forqueray, Purcell and his contemporaries, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, François Couperin, and most recently the three books of Pièces de Clavecin of J.Ph. Rameau. Annual summer workshop and festival appearances include the International Baroque Institute at Longy, The Portland (ME) Bach Festival, and the Amherst Early Music Festival, where he served as artistic director of the Baroque Academy from 2002–2011. Mr. Haas is Professor of Harpsichord and Early Music at Stony Brook University and Visiting Professor of Harpsichord at the Yale School of Music.
Arthur Haas, harpsichord Caroline Giassi, baroque oboe Arthur Haas is one of the most soughtafter performers and teachers of Baroque music in the United States today. He received the top prize in the Paris International Harpsichord Competition in 1975 and then stayed in France for a number of years as an active member of the growing European early music scene. While in Paris, he joined the Five Centuries Ensemble, a group acclaimed for its performances and recordings of Baroque and contemporary music. He is a member of the Aulos Ensemble, one of America’s premier period instrument ensembles whose recordings of Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann, and Rameau have won critical acclaim in the press, as well
Caroline Giassi, a native New Yorker, began her musical studies on a Cracker Jack box violin at the age of three. She soon switched to the oboe which eventually led her to graduate studies at the Yale School of Music, where she worked under the guidance of Stephen Taylor. While at Yale, she found her musical home in historical performance and was the first and only wind player to join the Yale Baroque Ensemble. Caroline also holds degrees in comparative literature and oboe performance from the University of Michigan and a master’s in historical performance from The Juilliard School. She has performed with William
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Christie and Les Arts Florissants (Festival dans les Jardins de William Christie), Philharmonia Baroque, Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, The Sebastians, New York Baroque Inc., Pegasus Early Music, and 4x4 Baroque. In addition to freelancing, Caroline is an American Fellow of the English Concert and a teaching artist through S’Cool Sounds, a New York based K-5 music education program. Daniel S. Lee, baroque violin Period violinist Daniel S. Lee enjoys a varied career as a soloist, leader, chamber musician, and teacher. Praised for his “ravishing vehemence” and “soulful performance” (The New York Times), he has performed as a soloist and concertmaster with Early Music New York, New York Baroque Incorporated, Quodlibet Ensemble, San Francisco Bach Choir, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and Yale Schola Cantorum. He has founded and co-directs the Sebastians, a period ensemble lauded for its “wellthought-out articulation and phrasing” (Early Music Review) and “elegant string playing” (Early Music Today). As a violino piccolo specialist, he frequently appears as a soloist in Bach’s first Brandenburg Concerto and the BWV 140 Cantata, and has given the modernday premiere of his own transcription of Johann Pfeiffer’s concerto. He is on the violin, viola and chamber music faculty at Connecticut College and the University of Bridgeport.
Martha McGaughey, viola da gamba Martha McGaughey spent many formative years in Europe where she studied both with Jordi Savall at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, and with Wieland Kuijken in Brussels. While living in Paris she was a member of the Paris-based Five Centuries Ensemble, known for its performances of both early and contemporary music. She has performed with the Waverly Consort, Concert Royal, the Aulos Ensemble, and the New York Collegium. Ms. McGaughey has collaborated with the British viol consort Phantasm in several concerts and on a CD of the consort music of William Byrd. She is a founding member of the New York-based Empire Viols. She has also recorded for the Fonit Cetra and Erato labels and for EMI. Ms. McGaughey has taught at the Ecole Nationale de Musique in Angoulême (France), at the Eastman School of Music, and at Stanford University. Since 1986 she has been on the faculty at The Mannes College of Music in New York. She has twice been a Regents’ Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, and teaches regularly at Amherst Early Music and at other summer workshops including the Viola de Gamba Society of America’s Annual Conclave.
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