Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents
LINA TUR BONET violin KENNETH WEISS harpsichord
in
A Musical Bounty: Riches from 18th Century Europe
15 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven 14 February 2016 3:00 p.m.
Upcoming performances in the 2015-2016 series March 6 - Alexei Lubimov, piano 3:00 pm April 10 - Smithsonian Chamber Players 3:00 pm Vera Beths, violin Nicholas Cords, viola Kenneth Slowik, violoncello Robert Nairn, double bass Charles Neidich, clarinet Dominic Teresi, bassoon with William Purvis, horn
Special Performances February 17 5:30 pm
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Mark Kroll, harpsichord
Tickets should be ordered by telephone from the Yale School of Music box office at (203)432-4158 or over the Internet at: www.yale.edu/music Tickets -
$25.00 each, reserved seating $20.00 each, senior citizens & Yale staff $10.00 each, students This concert is made possible by the generous support of the Associate Members of the Collection The George P. O’Leary Fund The Lawrence S. Wilkinson Fund
Cover Graphic Detail of painted soundboard (angels and garland surrounding gilt rose) Harpsichord by Andreas Ruckers, Antwerp, 1640 The Belle Skinner Collection Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments Accession No. 4878.1960
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Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents
LINA TUR BONET violin
KENNETH WEISS harpsichord
A Musical Bounty:
Riches from 18th Century Europe Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre Sonata in D minor for violin and continuo (1665-1729) Adagio Presto Adagio Presto Domenico Scarlatti Four Sonatas for harpsichord (1685-1757) K. 213 K. 519 K. 56 K. 545 Antonio Vivaldi Sonata for violin and continuo in C minor, RV 7 (1678-1741) Preludio Allemandia Aria Vivace INTERVAL Luigi Boccherini Sonata no. 5 for keyboard and violin, G. 29 (1743-1805) Allegro Molto Cantabile Presto Assai Georg Friedrich Händel Suite in F Major for harpsichord (1685-1759) Adagio Allegro Adagio Allegro Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017 (1685-1750) Siciliano Allegro Adagio Allegro Harpsichord by François Etienne Blanchet the Elder, Paris, c. 1740
About the Performers Lina Tur Bonet received her early musical training from her father, Anto-
nio Tur. She studied with Chumachenco, Pichler and Kurosaki, receiving further guidance from Tibor Varga, Franco Gulli, Shmuel Askenasi, Rainer Kussmaul and Erich Höbarth. Today, Ms. Bonet is a professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Zaragoza. She has been a guest soloist at numerous festivals (including Styriarte, Herne, Granada, Lufthansa London, Aranjuez, Musika-Música Bilbao, San Sebastián, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Palau de Valencia and Munich Residence Week). She has a particular interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose passions and cantatas she has performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and in major Latin American theatres. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, the Potsdam Music Festival, the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, the Philharmonie in Saint Petersburg, and the Palau de Barcelona. She has been the leader of the Clemencic Consort, Il Complesso Barocco, Concerto Köln, the Bach Consort Wien, and the Munich Hofkapelle. She has played regularly with ensembles including Les Musiciens du Louvre, Les Arts Florissants, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra Mozart Bologna under the direction of Claudio Abbado, Daniel Harding, and John Eliot Gardiner, amongst others. She has worked with Menahem Pressler, Patrick Demenga, Thomas Brandis, members of the Casals Quartet, Christoph Hammer, Hiro Kurosaki and Kenneth Weiss. Her recording of the sonatas of Jacquet de la Guerre with Kenneth Weiss and Patxi Montero received a 5* DIAPASONS alongside numerous other awards.
Kenneth Weiss is an American harpsichordist with an active career as a solo-
ist, conductor, chamber musician, and teacher. He was harpsichordist and assistant conductor to William Christie with Les Arts Florissants, taking part in numerous recordings and staged operas. He has since performed solo recitals around the world, appears as a duo with the violinist Fabio Biondi, and regularly conducts The English Concert, Concerto Copenhagen, and the Orchestre de Rouen. He performs frequently in the New York area with the Chamber Music Society, and in solo recitals. His recordings for Satirino records include Bach’s Goldberg Variations and partitas, Rameau harpsichord transcriptions, Scarlatti sonatas, two CDs devoted to Elizabethan keyboard music—A Cleare Day and Heaven and Earth, and Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. In the 2014-15 season, he performed Bach’s WellTempered Clavier in Tokyo, at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, and at the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron. Born in New York City, he attended the High School of Performing Arts and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied with Lisa Goode Crawford, Joseph Schwartz, and William Porter. He later studied with Gustav Leonhardt at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Mr. Weiss is an active jurist at international competitions and frequently gives master classes and courses in Israel, Spain, and Italy. He has held teaching positions at the Norwegian Academy of Music, the Barcelona Conservatory, and The Juilliard School. He currently teaches at the Paris Conservatory and the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva.