Robert Blocker, Dean
faculty artist series
Daniel S. Lee, violin and violoncello da spalla and Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord Wednesday, September 11, 2019 | 7:30 pm | Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
Virtuosic New Italian Music of the 17th Century
Dario Castello 1602–1631
The following 3 pieces will be performed as a set: Sonata prima, from Sonate Concertante in Stil Moderno, Libro II (1621)
Giovanni Battista Fontana c. 1589–1630
Sonata quinta, from Sonate a 1. 2. 3. per il violino, o cornetto, fagotto, chitarone, violoncino o simile altro istromento (1641)
Marco Uccellini c. 1603/10–1680
Sonata No. 10, from Sonate over Canzoni, Op. 5
Giulio Caccini 1551–1618
Amarilli, mia bella arranged by Peter Philips (1560/1–1628)
Giuseppe Colombi 1635–1694
Partite sopra il basso di Ciaccona for solo cello (da spalla)
Antonio Maria Bononcini 1677–1726
Sonata No. 9 in G for violoncello (da spalla) and continuo I. Largo II. Allegro III. Adagio IV. Allegro
Program, cont Girolamo Frescobaldi 1583–1643
Cento partite sopra passacagli
Giovanni Antonio Leoni c. 1600–c. 1652
Sonata No. 1, from Sonate di violino a voce sola, Libro 1, Op. 3 (1652)
Arcangelo Corelli 1653–1713
Sonata in C major, Op. 5, No. 3 (1700) I. Adagio II. Allegro III. Adagio IV. Allegro V. Allegro
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Artist Profiles Daniel S. Lee, violin
Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord
Praised by The New York Times for his “ravishing vehemence,” period violinist Daniel S. Lee has appeared as a soloist and leader with Early Music New York, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, and the Quodlibet Ensemble, among other groups. As the core violinist of the Sebastians, he won the Audience Prize at the 2012 Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition and was a finalist at the 2011 York Early Music International Competition. A piccolo violin specialist, he has performed as a soloist in performances of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 and Cantata No. 140 (Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme) and has given the modern-day premiere of his own transcription of Johann Pfeiffer’s concerto. Lee earned a bachelor of music degree from The Juilliard School, a master of music degree and an artist diploma from the Yale School of Music, and a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Connecticut. He has given lectures and master classes at the Manhattan School of Music, Connecticut College, Purchase College (SUNY), the University of Kansas, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches early music and chamber music at the Yale School of Music.
Keyboardist and conductor Jeffrey Grossman specializes in vital, engaging performances of music of the past, through processes that are intensely collaborative and historically informed. As the artistic director of the acclaimed baroque ensemble the Sebastians, this season Grossman directs concerts including Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Handel’s Messiah from the organ and harpsichord, both in collaboration with TENET Vocal Artists, and performs Bach’s six sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord with Daniel S. Lee. In recent seasons, Grossman has performed with TENET, the Green Mountain Project, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Quodlibet, the Boston Early Music Festival, and numerous other ensembles across the country. For the past twelve seasons, he has also toured parts of the rural United States with artists of the Piatigorsky Foundation, performing outreach concerts intended to bring live classical music to underserved communities, most recently in Wyoming and southeast Alaska. Grossman can be heard on the Avie, Gothic, Naxos, Albany, Soundspells, Métier, and MSR Classics record labels. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Harvard College, the Juilliard School, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Upcoming Events Hannah Lash & Friends Faculty Artist Series Faculty composer Hannah Lash is joined by the chamber ensemble loadbang for a performance of Lash’s Music for Eight Lungs and The Shepherdess and the Fairy Tale. 7:30 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall free sep 17
Sofya Gulyak, piano Horowitz Piano Series “A fearless pianist, never afraid to scale the most technically demanding heights of the repertoire and equally proud to wear her heart on her sleeve.” — The Guardian 7:30 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall Tickets start at $23, students $11 sep 18
Peter Oundjian, principal conductor Yale Philharmonia A performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, featuring YSM faculty members. 7:30 p.m. | Woolsey Hall Tickets start at $12, Yale faculty/ staff $8, students $5 $3 surcharge at the door sep 20
sep 24 Brentano String Quartet Oneppo Chamber Music Series The Brentano String Quartet, the School’s ensemble-in-residence, performs new music by Martin Bresnick that was inspired by the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. 7:30 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall Tickets start at $28, students $13 sep 27 Ignacio Berroa Trio Ellington Jazz Series “The only Latin drummer in the world in the history of American music who intimately knows both worlds: his native Afro Cuban music as well as jazz.”— Dizzy Gillespie 7:30 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall Tickets start at $22, students $10 Robert Blocker, piano Horowitz Piano Series Bach’s Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme and works by faculty composer Christopher Theofanidis, Brahms, Mozart, and Ravel. 7:30 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall Tickets start at $15, students $7 oct 2
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