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2009 - 2010 Season Events
 From our Director
Welcome to ARTEK's twenty-fifth season of concerts.
Spring Concert:
Venice to Vienna
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Friday, Mar. 19 at 8 pm
All Saints' Church
16 All Saints' Dr., Princeton, NJ
Sunday, Mar. 21 at 4 pm
Immanuel Lutheran Church
122 East 88th St., NYC
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An exploration of the birth of the sonata, from its origins as "modern
music" in early seventeenth-century Venice to the fantastic and
virtuosic inventions of the brilliant violinist-composers working in
late 17th-century Vienna.
Featuring violinist Robert Mealy with
with Daniel Swenberg (theorbo), Charles Weaver (lute and guitar), Motomi Igarashi (violone and lirone), and Gwendolyn Toth (harpsichord and organ).
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Program
Sonata per violino e violone - Giovanni Paolo Cima (c.1570–1622)
Diminutions on Frais et Gailliard Giovanni Bassano (c.1558–c.1617)
Sonata prima, per soprano solo - Dario Castello (fl. early 17c)
Sonata seconda - Giovanni Battista Fontana (c.1571–c.1630)
Sonata terza - Fontana
Sonata seconda, La Luciminia contenta - Marco Uccellini (1603–1680)
Sonata quarta - Uccellini
Sonata seconda per soprano solo - Castello
Chiacona - Antonio Bertali (1605–1669
Sonata quarta, La Castella - Giovanni Pandolfi Mealli (c.1630–c.1670)
Sonata Representativa (1669?) - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704)
Sonata terza in F major - Biber
Sonata terza in G minor - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620–1680)
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Past Events from 2009-2010
Graveyard Music
Friday, Oct. 30 at 8 pm
All Saints' Church
16 All Saints' Dr., Princeton, NJ
Saturday, Oct. 31 at 8 pm
Bargemusic
Fulton Ferry Landing under the Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn, NY
Witches, spirits, ghosts and death . . . a fun program to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve, with original poetry and exquisite Renaissance and baroque music from Italy and England.
ARTISTS: Jessica Tranzillo, Barbara Hollinshead, Drew Minter, Philip Anderson, Michael Brown, Peter Becker, Christa Patton, Daniel Swenberg, Charles Weaver, Gwendolyn Toth.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Vespers of 1610
Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 8 pm
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
980 Park Avenue at 84th Street
A dazzling gala performance honoring the 400th anniversary of the publication of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 is the highlight of ARTEK’s 25th anniversary season. Don’t miss the most spectacular New York City performance in 2010 of this sublime masterpiece: a collaboration of thirty-one of the finest baroque specialists of today, with an extraordinary complement of authentic seventeenth-century instrumentalists and outstanding American singers. Performed at Venetian pitch (A=465) using 17th-century meantone temperament.
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With four collaborating ensembles:
 
ARTEK Piffaro
 
Parthenia Gallery Voices
Artists:
Jeessica Tranzillo, soprano; Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano; Barbara Hollinshead, mezzo-soprano; Lawrence Lipnik, countertenor, viol, recorder; Roger Isaacs, countertenor;
Philip Anderson, tenor; Michael Brown, tenor; Matthew Smith, tenor;
Steven Combs, baritone; Peter Becker, bass; Charles Weaver, bass, guitar, lute;
Enrico Gatti, violin; Vita Wallace, violin;
Lisa Terry, viol; Beverly Au, viol; Roamund Morley, violone; Motomi Igarashi, violone and lirone; Joan Kimball, recorder, dulzian, shawm; Robert Wiemkin, recorder, dulzian;
Christa Patton, recorder, harp;
Grant Herreid, lute, recorder; Daniel Swenberg, theorbo;
Michael Collver, cornetto; James Miller, cornetto;
Greg Ingles, sacbut; Erik Schmalz, sacbut; Thomas Zajac, sacbut, recorder;
Mack Ramsey, sacbut, recorder;
Dongsok Shin, organ, harpsichord; Gwendolyn Toth, organ, harpsichord, conductor.
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