baroque orchestra

The

Jacques OggArtistic Director

2018–2019 Season

C O N C E R TP R O G R A M S

THE LYRA BAROQUE ORCHESTRAbrings a rare freshness, color, and dimension to the glorious music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through its performanceson period instruments. The region’s only baroque orchestra, Lyra combines the talents of renowned local early music specialists and international guest artists, under the inspiring artistic leadership of Jacques Ogg.

Lyra’s mission is to inspire and enrich the community throughexceptional performances of baroque music on historic instruments.

More information about Lyra’s music, history, and people at lyrabaroque.org

CONCERT IA Sumptuous Keyboard Feastwith Sungyun Cho, Donald Livingston,and Jacques Ogg | keyboards

Friday, August 10, 2018, 7:30 PMMount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, MinnesotaPre-concert talk begins at 7:00 pm

Saturday, August 11, 2018, 3:00 PMSundin Hall, Hamline University, St. Paul, MinnesotaPre-concert talk begins at 2:30 pm

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714–1788Concerto for Two Harpsichords in F Major, Wq. 46

Allegro spirtuoso • Largo • Allegro assai

Concerto for Harpsichord and Fortepiano in E-flat Major, Wq. 47Allegro di molto • Larghetto • Presto

INTERMISSION

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791Concerto for Three Keyboards in F Major, KV. 242

Allegro • Adagio • Rondeau: Tempo di minuetto

SUNGYUN CHO began her musical stud-ies in Seoul, South Korea, at the Seoul Arts High School and at the Yonsei University with Professor Kwak Tong-soon. From there she went to the Royal Conservatory of The Hague where she studied harpsichord performance and chamber music with such internation-ally renowned pedagogues as Jacques Ogg, Patrick Ayrton, and Ryo Terakado. Cho is a sought-after performer who has given recitals in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Korea, Japan, Bolivia, Peru, Columbia and Chile. As an ensemble player, Cho is a member of Tokyo Baroque and Animaccordi, directed by Ryo Terakado, and she regularly plays with the Belgian ensemble Il Gardellino. As a teacher, she has been an assistant for the harpsichord studio at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and has been invited to present guest lectures and master classes in many music festivals. She is music director of the DaeJeon Early Music Festival and teaches at YONSEI University in Seoul. Her recordings include Bach’s Gold-berg Variations on the Belgian label Passacaille, as well as Scarlatti Sonatas and the Telemann Paris Quartets.

Keyboardist DONALD LIVINGSTON collaborates with musicians from across the musical spectrum. He has performed with such ensembles as Bach Sinfonia (Washington DC), Musica Antigua (Panama City), La Donna Musicale (Boston), the Lyra Baroque Orchestra, Glorious Revolution Baroque, Minnesota Orchestra, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well as with soloists and collaborators Cléa Galhano, Immanuel Davis, Jacques Ogg, Elisabeth Wright, Joel Frederiksen, Jed Wentz, Barthold Kuijken, and Dame Emma Kirkby. He has sung as a member of the Rose Ensemble, as well as with the Pro Arte Singers under the direction of

Thomas Binkley and Paul Hillier at the Historical Perfor-mance Institute of the renowned Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University where he studied organ and histor-ical keyboard performance. He is currently organist at St. Martin’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Austin, where he is Lecturer of Organ and Harpsichord at the University of Texas Butler School of Music and continuo harpsichordist with the Austin Baroque Orchestra.

Rustic and Refined

with Zelenka, Biber and Bach's Brandenburg No.2

Saturday, October 20 w 3pm Sunday, October 21 w 3pm

Brilliant Vivaldi and Bach

with star mezzo-soprano, Meg Bragle

Saturday, April 6 w 3pm Monday, April 8 w 7pm

Bach's Italian Inspiration

Cantatas and Concertos by Marcello, Vivaldi, Geminiani, and Bach

Monday, May 13 w 7pm

Andrew Altenbach, Artistic Director Antonello Hall at MacPhail Center for Music w $30 Adults, $10 Students Tickets and Information: www.mnbach.org

One of the most prominent and influential modern masters of harpsichord and fortepiano, JACQUES OGG performs worldwide as a soloist and continuo player. He was a mem-ber of one of the world’s leading period-instrument ensem-bles, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, directed by the late Frans Brüggen. He works regularly with baroque orchestras around the world, most recently in Brazil, South Korea, and Spain, and also performs regularly as part of the Dutch Masters Trio with flautist Wilbert Hazelzet and cellist Jaap ter Linden.

Highly sought after as a pedagogue, Mr. Ogg is a harpsichord professor at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, one of the world’s foremost institutes for ear-ly music. He co-directs the Baroque Instrumental Program—an intensive sum-mer music course in the Twin Cities—and has been the artistic director of the Lyra Baroque Orchestra since 2000. His discography includes more than sixty re-cordings with labels such as Philips, Sony, EMI, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, and Glossa. Fono Forum, Germany’s largest music magazine, named Mr. Ogg’s CD of Bach’s Goldberg Variations the finest recording of this work presently available.

CONCERT IIVivaldi’s Seven Seasonswith Luís Otávio Santos | baroque violinand Cléa Galhano | recorder

Friday, October 12, 2018, 7:30 PMMount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, Minnesota

Saturday, October 13, 2018, 7:30 PMLutheran Church of the Redeemer, St. Paul, Minnesota

Sunday, October 14, 2018, 3:00 PMSt. Edward’s Episcopal Church, Wayzata, Minnesota

Pre-concert talk begins 30 minutes before each performance.

Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741

La Primavera (Spring) in E Major, RV. 269Allegro • Largo • Allegro Pastorale

Il Gardellino (The Goldfinch), RV. 428Allegro • Cantabile • Allegro

L’Estate (Summer) in G Minor, RV. 315Allegro non molto • Adagio e piano—Presto e forte • Presto

La Tempesta di mare, RV. 433Allegro • Largo • Presto

INTERMISSION

L’Autunno (Autumn) in F Major, RV. 293Allegro • Adagio molto • Allegro

La Notte, RV. 439Largo • Allegro • Largo • Allegro • Largo • Allegro

L’Inverno (Winter) in F Minor, RV. 297Allegro non molto • Largo • Allegro

Born in Brazil, LUÍS OTÁVIO SANTOS comes from a family of musicians and began his studies at an early age—first on the piano, and then on the violin. His interest in baroque music took him to the Netherlands in 1990 to study baroque violin at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Sigiswald Kuijken, and harpsi-chord with Jacques Ogg. At eighteen, he was among the main members and solo-ists of La Petite Bande, a Belgian baroque orchestra that still has a leading role in the early music movement. With this group, he toured extensively in Europe, Asia, and South America, and also made more than seventy CDs and television record-ings. His reputation as a baroque violin virtuoso earned him leading positions in other important European ensembles, such as Le Concert Français, Ricercar Consort, Nederlandse Bach verening, Il Fondamento, and Complesso Barocco.

Santos has made several acclaimed solo recordings, including one of the Bach sonatas for violin and harpsichord with Pieter-Jan Belder for the Dutch CD label Brilliant. In 2005 he received the Diapason d’Or for his recording of Jean-Marie Leclair sonatas for the label Ramée. From 1997 to 2001, he was professor of baroque violin at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Italy. He was also a guest teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, as assistant to Sigiswald Kuijken, from 1998 to 2005.

In his home country of Brazil, Santos is the Artistic Director of the Festival Internacional de Musica Colonial Brasileira e Musica Antiga de Juiz de Fora, which he founded in 1990. During its twenty-five years, the Festival has garnered several national awards. Its recordings of Brazilian Colonial Music were awarded the Brazilian Ministry of Culture’s IPHAN prize for the preservation of Brazil’s heritage and cultural past, and several scholarly publications and previously un-published works have also been performed during the event. Santos is currently the director of the early music department of the School of Music of São Paulo (EMESP), where he also teaches baroque violin. He received a doctorate in music from UNICAMP (University of Campinas), and he is increasingly invited to con-duct modern orchestras in Brazil, in repertoire ranging from opera to symphonic.

Brazilian recorder player CLÉA GALHANO is an internationally renowned performer of early, contemporary, and Brazilian music. She has per-formed in the United States, Canada, South Amer-ica, and Europe as a chamber musician, collabo-rating with recorder player Marion Verbruggen, Jacques Ogg, Belladonna, Lanzelotte/Galhano Duo, and Kingsbery Ensemble. As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, New World Symphony, Musical Offer-ing and the Lyra Baroque Orchestra.

Among key music festivals, Galhano has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Tage Alter Music Festival in Ger-many, and at Wigmore Hall in London, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall in New York, and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome. She was featured in the 2006 Second International Recorder Congress in The Netherlands, in 2007 and 2013 at the In-ternational Recorder Conference in Montréal, and in 2012 at the ARS International Conference in Portland, Oregon. She gave her Weill Hall debut in 2010 and her sec-ond Weill Hall recital in 2013 with the renowned Cuban guitarist Rene Izquierdo.

Galhano studied in Brazil at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, at the Royal Conser-vatory of The Hague, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, earning a LASPAU, Fulbright Scholarship, and support from the Dutch govern-ment. As an advocate of recorder music and educational initiatives, she served for six years on the national board of the American Recorder Society, and she is the Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest. She has received the prestigious McKnight Fellowship Award, as well as the Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Collaborative and Arts Initiative.

Currently, Galhano is the Executive Artistic Director of the St. Paul Conser-vatory of Music, a faculty member at Macalester College, and Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest. She was also recently appointed Adjunct Lecturer in Recorder at the Historical Performance Institute at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington.

MATA Festival; Costanza in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata with the American Classi-cal Orchestra; Schoenberg’s Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten with the Brooklyn Art Song Society; Queen of Sheba in Handel’s Solomon with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra; and Britten’s Les Illuminations with NOVUS NY.

Among Sarah’s recording collaborators are tUne-yArDs, John Zorn, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Paola Prestini, and Bang on a Can All-Stars Stars (Julia Wolfe’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning work Anthracite Fields). Sarah is a featured soloist on numerous GRAMMY®-nominated albums including New York Polyph-ony’s Sing Thee Nowell and The Clarion Choir’s recording of Maximilian Stein-berg’s Passion Week. She also appears as a soloist on the premiere recording of Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music.More at www.sarahbrailey.com.

Mezzo-soprano CLARA OSOWSKI, who sings “from in-side the music with unaffected purity and sincerity” (UK Telegraph), is an active soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe. Recognized for her excellence in Minnesota, Clara was a recipient of the prestigious 2018-2019 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Musicians administered by MacPhail Center for Music.In international competition with pianist Tyler Wottrich, in March of 2017, Clara became the first ever American prize winner when she placed second at Thomas Quast-hoff’s International Das Lied Competition in Heidelberg, Germany. In Septem-ber, the duo was also one of four to reach the finals in the prestigious Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation Song Competition in London, and Clara was awarded the Richard Tauber Prize for the best interpretation of Schubert Lieder. She recently won the Radio-Canada People’s Choice Award and third place in the song divi-sion at the 2018 Concours Musical International de Montréal.2018-2019 season highlights include debuts with the Aspen Festival Chamber Orchestra, Mid-Columbia Symphony, Tulsa Signature Symphony, and the Mobile Symphony Orchestra.

Active also as an educator, Clara has enjoyed giving masterclasses and con-vocations  at several universities, including Syracuse University, Muhlenberg College, Concordia College (Moorhead), and North Dakota State University. She was also the guest artist in residence at Indiana State University’s 50th Contem-porary Music Festival celebrating the music of Libby Larsen and served on facul-ty at Aspen Music Festival’s Professional Choral Institute in collaboration with Seraphic Fire. Clara currently studies voice with Emma Small of Minneapolis.In addition to performing, Clara serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Source Song Festival, a week-long art song festival in Minneapolis, Minneso-ta. This festival strives to create and perform new art song, and cultivate an edu-cational environment for students of song, including composers, vocalists, and collaborative pianists.  Please see www.claraosowski.com for more information.

CONCERT IIIBach’s Christmas Oratoriowith the Bach Society of Minnesota,

Matthias Maute, Artistic DirectorSarah Brailey | soprano Clara Osowski | mezzo-soprano Nicholas Chalmers | tenor Jonathan Ten Brink | baritone

Friday, December 7, 2018, 7:30 PMMount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, Minnesota

Saturday, December 8, 2018, 7:30 PMSt. Mary’s Chapel, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

Sunday, December 9, 2018, 3:00 PMSt. John’s Lutheran Church, Corcoran, Minnesota

Pre-concert talk begins 30 minutes before each performance.

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750Weihnachts-Oratorium (Christmas Oratorio), BWV 248

Parts I, II, IV, and VI

Hailed by The New York Times for her “radiant, liquid tone,” “exquisitely phrased,” and “sweetly dazzling” singing, soprano SARAH BRAILEY is in growing demand across all genres of classical music. She has performed Steve Reich at Carnegie Hall, Handel’s Messiah with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and with Kanye West and Roomful of Teeth at the Hollywood Bowl.

Highlights of Sarah’s current and recent seasons include Bach’s St. John Passion with St. Thomas Fifth Ave-nue; Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Colorado Symphony; George Benjamin’s Dream of the Song with

the Lorelei Ensemble and Boston Symphony; Bach’s B Minor Mass and Purcell’s Fairy Queen with the Handel and Haydn Society; Webern’s Op. 13, 14, and 25 with Trinity Wall Street; Zweite Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with the Clarion Music Society; Ligeti’s Clocks and Clouds at the Tanglewood Festival of Con-temporary Music; Bach’s Magnificat with Musica Angelica; various John Zorn works at venues worldwide including the Louvre Museum, Sarajevo Jazz Fest, and November Music in s-Hertogenbosch; a Nico Muhly world premiere for the

NICHOLAS CHALMERS, tenor, is thrilled to once again sing with the Bach Society of Minnesota and the Lyra Baroque Orchestra. He has sung with The Rose Ensem-ble, the Minnesota Bach Ensemble, Glorious Revolution Baroque, The Singers-Minnesota Choral Artists, and the Minnesota Chorale. Recent solo engagements include the Oratorio Society, the Schubert Club, the Church Music Association of America, the St. Mark’s Cathedral Concert Series, Minnesota Center Chorale, and Border CrosSing.

Nicholas received a B.M. in music from St. Olaf Col-lege, where he was section leader of the Saint Olaf Choir under the direction of Anton Armstrong, as well as an M.M. in Choral Conducting at the University of Minnesota, where he conducted several campus ensembles and held a Teacher’s Assistant position in the music theory department. Nicholas is the Director of Choirs at Chesterton Academy in Edina and is Director of Music at Annuncia-tion Church in South Minneapolis. He is also Artistic Director of the Mirandola Ensemble, which presents programs of rarely performed early music from the Medieval and Renaissance eras strategically juxtaposed with the compositions of 20th and 21st century composers. Sought after as an educator and clinician, during the 2018-2019 academic year Nicholas is piloting a high-school choral residency program in collaboration with Minnesota Public Radio’s Class Notes Artists program. 

JONATHAN TEN BRINK is an exciting Baritone active in opera, concert, and chamber music. His “big voice” that “rumbles like foghorns” (Pioneer Press) is regarded as “rich” (Madison Magazine), “heartwarming” (Examiner), and “possessing considerable agility” (Grand Rapids Press).

He has performed more than 25 opera roles and given hundreds of performances in the concert setting across 30 states. A frequenter of the chamber music scene, Ten Brink enjoys the collaborative process of creating a mean-ingful experience for performer and listener alike.An adept and creative teacher, Ten Brink brings out the best in his students. He takes a personal interest and tailors his pedagogical approach based on the specific needs and goals of the individual. His students have been accepted into graduate studies in voice, hold teaching positions, and had successful careers in Classical vocal performance, in Musical Theater, and as recording artists.Ten Brink holds degrees from Calvin College (BA), Bowling Green State Universi-ty (MM), and the University of Minnesota (DMA). He has taught voice at Shorter University, Crown College, North Central University, and Concordia College.

Bach, Baroque & BeyondSeason III with Matthias Maute

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Bach and the Forbidden Citywith Gao Hong, Chinese Pipa Master

Friday, October 5, 2018 | 7:30pmSundin Music Hall, St. Paul, MN

Saturday, October 6, 2018 | 7:00pmWillmar High School, Willmar, MN

Sunday, October 7, 2018 | 3:00pmCalvin Presbyterian Church, Long Lake, MN

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio collaboration with Lyra Baroque Orchestra

Friday, December 7, 2018 | 7:30pmMount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN

Saturday, December 8, 2018 | 7:30pmSt. Mary’s Chapel, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN

Sunday, December 9, 2018 | 3:00pm St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran, Corcoran, MN

Bach’s Passion collaboration with Choral Arts Ensemble

Friday, March 15, 2019 | 7:30pmSundin Music Hall, St. Paul, MN

Saturday, March 16, 2019 | 7:30pmLourdes Chapel At Assisi Heights, Rochester, MN

Sunday, March 17, 2019 | 3:00pmCentral Lutheran Church, Winona, MN

CONCERT IVMusic for Baroque SpasWilbert Hazelzet | baroque flute

Friday, February 1, 2019, 7:30 PMMount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, Minnesota

Saturday, February 2, 2019, 7:30 PMLutheran Church of the Redeemer, St. Paul, Minnesota

Pre-concert talk both nights begins at 7:00 pm

George Frideric Handel 1685–1759Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 8 in C Minor

Allemande • Grave • Andante—Allegro • Adagio • Siciliana • Allegro

Johann Joachim Quantz 1697–1773Flute Concerto in G Major

Allegro • Arioso • Allegro vivace (Presto)

INTERMISSION

Georg Philipp Telemann 1681–1767Sabbato (Saturday) from the “Pyrmonter Korwoche”

Vivace • Presto • Dolce • Allegro • Vivace • Allegro • Vivace

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050

Allegro • Affettuoso • Allegro

Since 1970 WILBERT HAZELZET has been dedicated ex-clusively to the baroque transverse flute. He specializes in ancient instrumental techniques and the performance of music from the eighteenth century according to contempo-rary treatises about flute playing and singing.

Considered by many as the world’s leading baroque flute player, Hazelzet has been a member of Musica Anti-qua Köln. With this world-famous ensemble he appeared in Japan, India, China, the US, Canada, and across Europe, from Finland to Portugal and from Ireland to Russia. He now forms permanent duos with Jacques Ogg, harpsichord,

and with Joachim Held, lute, and is a frequent guest with ensembles throughout Europe and North America. He is first flautist of Ton Koopman’s Amsterdam Ba-roque Orchestra and on the faculty of the Berwick Academy of the Oregon Bach Festival and the Baroque Instrumental Program in the Twin Cities.

Hazelzet has made recordings for numerous radio and TV stations all over the world and for several recording companies such as DGG, Erato, Harmonia Mundi, and Glossa. He is a Professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Tilburg, and Utrecht.

ROCHESTER MUSIC GUILD Dedicated to Music Appreciation, Education, and Performance

– Today and Tomorrow * Sponsors a Scholarship Competition for Young Musicians - our exciting annual tradition for over 50 years!

* Supports the Rochester Symphony and Chorale and other nonprofit music groups in the community.

* Provides free educational events throughout the year. * Proudly endorses Lyra Baroque and our longtime partnership.

All made possible by the generous donations of our members.

Visit our website at: rochestermusicguild.org

Early Music DaySaturday

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

651-224-2205www.thespcm.org

Join us in creating (and learning about) a fully staged, semi-reconstruction of the

Intermedio of 1589, one of the first masterworks of the Baroque

age in music theater. Music will be sent out two

months in advance. After a day of rehearsal we will

perform the work, fully staged (including Baroque dance) in the

new performance space at The Summit Center for Arts and

Innovation.

Register online at www.thespcm.org

SCHEDULE:

10am–5pm: Workshop & rehearsal

7pm Opera performance:free and open to the public

1524 Summit Ave.St. Paul, Minnesota 55105

The La Pellegrina Project

FACULTY:

PHILLIP RUKAVINAMusic Director

JULIE ELHARDCoordinator and string coach

KATHY LEE, vocal coach

JANE PECK, lead dancer

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CONCERT VDivine Bach & HandelJohn Rommereim | director Maria Jette | soprano Angela Young Smucker | mezzo-soprano Roy Heilman | tenor Thomas Meglioranza | baritoneand the Grinnell Singers

Sunday, March 10, 2019, 2:00 PMBucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell, Iowa

Saturday, March 16, 2019, 7:30 PMSt. Paul Conservatory of Music Concert Hall, St. Paul, Minnesota

Sunday, March 17, 2019, 3:00 PMChrist United Methodist Church, Rochester, Minnesota

Pre-concert talk in Rochester and St. Paul begins 30 minutes before the performance.

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750“Lutheran” Mass in A Major, BWV 234

Kyrie eleison • Gloria in excelsis • Domine Deus • Qui tollis • Quoniam • Cum sancto spiritu

INTERMISSION

George Frideric Handel 1685–1759Dixit Dominus, HWV 232Chorus—Dixit Dominus Domino meoAria (alto)—Virgam virtutis tuae emittet Dominus ex SionAria (soprano)—Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae splendoribus sanctorumChorus—Juravit DominusChorus—Tu es sacerdos in aeternumSoloists and chorus—Dominus a dextris tuisChorus—Judicabit in nationibusDuet (sopranos) and Chorus—De torrente in via bibetChorus—Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto

The GRINNELL SINGERS, under the direction of JOHN ROMMEREIM, are a group of people who are diverse in terms of their backgrounds, interests, and talents, but who are united in their love of singing and their dedication to the choral art. They perform music from a variety of traditions and locales—from Brahms to Bluegrass, and from Renaissance England to twenty-first century New York. They work hard to craft the very best musical performances, and as they pursue these high ideals, they are committed to fostering an environment that is welcoming and supportive for each and every member. The ensemble regular-ly contributes to the community in the form of volunteer projects.

Each year, the Grinnell Singers complete a concert tour during the first week of spring recess. In past years, they have completed tours to Finland, Estonia, Russia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Last year’s tour took them to New Orleans, with concerts along the way in Des Moines, Lawrence, Kansas City, Tulsa, Dallas, and New Orleans. Their last project with Lyra was Carl Heinrich Graun’s Der Tod Jesu in 2017.

Soprano MARIA JETTE’s wide-ranging career has encom-passed everything from early Baroque opera to world premieres, in the United States and abroad. Her orchestral resumé includes The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Hous-ton, Kansas City, San Luis Obispo, Santa Rosa, Charlotte, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Austin, Marin and San Antonio Sym-phonies, New York Chamber Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Musica Angelica; plus Berkshires Opera, Roanoke Opera, Sacramento Opera, and the sadly defunct Ex Machina Antique Music Theatre in her home base of Minneapolis-St. Paul. There, she’s often heard with VocalEssence (led by conduc-tor Philip Brunelle), Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Minnesota Sinfonia, The Schubert Club, and the Lyra Baroque Orchestra.

A regular guest over many seasons at the San Luis Obispo Mozart and Oregon Bach Festivals, the Maverick Chamber Series and the Oregon Festival of Amer-ican Music, she’s often heard nationally on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.

Maria is an ecumenical recitalist: her programs range from songs of Grieg or Fauré through Edwardian parlor music and Latin American chamber music, liberally interspersed with Tin Pan Alley and the Great American Songbook. She’s performed her own productions of Seuss/Kapilow’s Green Eggs & Ham and

Gertrude McFuzz for over fifty thousand kids throughout the country, with pit bands, symphony orchestras, and even just piano and train whistle!

For more information– including her two recordings with pianist Dan Chouinard–In Our Little Paradise: Lyrics of PG Wodehouse and The Siren’s Song: Wodehouse and Kern on Broadway—please visit www.mariajette.com.

ANGELA YOUNG SMUCKER has earned praise for her “rich, secure mezzo-soprano” (Chicago Tribune). Her performances in concert, stage, and chamber works have made her a highly versatile and sought-after artist. She has been recognized for her fine artistry in the repertoire of J.S. Bach and has performed all of his major works, as well as numerous cantatas.

Ms. Smucker is a regular soloist with the Bach Col-legium San Diego and the long-standing Bach Cantata series at Grace Lutheran Church in Chicago. She has been a featured soloist under the direction of Bach

scholars Helmuth Rilling and Hermann Max, and has performed at Leipzig’s St. Thomaskirche with the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra. She was also a Virginia Best Adams Master Class Fellow (Carmel Bach Festival) and has been a featured soloist for the Oregon Bach Festival Discovery Series, as well as Master Class in Conducting.

Concert work from past seasons includes Mozart’s Coronation Mass (Music of the Baroque), Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival), Haydn’s Creation (Oregon Bach Festival), Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience under the baton of Philip Brunelle, Mozart’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Israel in Egypt, and Duruflé’s Requiem. She has also appeared on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, WFMT’s Impromptu, and WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. Ms. Smucker is a founding member of the Haymarket Opera Company, Chicago’s 17th and 18th century opera troupe, and has worked exten-sively as a chamber artist. She holds degrees from Valparaiso University and the University of Minnesota.

Tenor ROY HEILMAN frequently sings in a broad spectrum of styles from the Renaissance to the present but has primarily made a name for himself as tenor soloist in the music of the Baroque and Classical eras. Having been taught to be a versatile musician, he has also premiered many new works.

Heilman has been associated with many excellent en-sembles, including the Rose Ensemble, the Lyra Baroque Orchestra, the Oregon Bach Festival Berwick Chorus, Vox Humana, Glorious Revolution Baroque, and the recently Grammy-nominated South Dakota Chorale. As a singer of Baroque music, he spends much of his time singing in small ensemble settings with period instruments. With

the Twin Cities’ Consortium Carissimi, he recorded three albums of pieces by Italian Baroque composers Carissimi and Graziani, which were released on the Naxos label in 2016. Also in 2016 with Consortium Carissimi, he performed the title role in Bernardo Pasquini’s opera Il Tirinto, which had lain dormant since the seventeenth century.

Heilman last appeared with Lyra in 2017, as tenor soloist in a rare perfor-mance of Carl Heinrich Graun’s Der Tod Jesu, with guest conductor Simon Carrington. Other recent performances include Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Britten’s St. Nicolas, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and J.S. Bach’s Easter Oratorio, St. John Passion, and Mass in B Minor.

Heilman received his musical training from Gustavus Adolphus College, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Music with Honors in Performance, and from The New England Conservatory of Music, with a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children, where he is usually caught up in musical or outdoor pursuits. He can always be found at RoyHeilman.com.

THOMAS MEGLIORANZA is an award-winning bari-tone, with the Walter W. Naumburg and Concert Artists Guild competitions among his accolades. Highlights from recent seasons include an all-Hugo Wolf recital at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, performances of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with pianist Reiko Uchida, Winterreise with fortepianist David Breitman, the role of Lord Henry in Lowell Liebermann’s The Picture of Dorian Gray with Odyssey Opera, the role of Wreck in Bernstein’s Wonderful Town with the Seattle Symphony, and Bach’s solo bass cantatas with the Lyra Baroque Orchestra.

In addition to Messiahs, Carmina Buranas, and Bach passions with many orchestras in the United States, Meglioranza has sung Copland’s Old American Songs with the National Symphony, Eight Songs for a Mad King with the LA Philharmonic, Bach cantatas with Les Violons du Roy, and John Harbison’s Fifth Symphony with the Boston Symphony. His operatic roles include Pierrot in Die tote Stadt, Chou En-Lai in Nixon in China, and Prior Walter in Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America. With pianist Reiko Uchida, he has given recitals around the world and recorded albums of Schubert lieder, Winterreise, and Fauré’s La bonne chanson. His discography also includes orchestral songs of Virgil Thomson with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, songs of Louis Karchin with the Orchestra of the League of Composers, and Bach cantatas with the Taverner Consort.

Meglioranza was born in Manhattan, grew up in northern New Jersey, and graduated from Grinnell College and the Eastman School of Music.

CONCERT VIGerman GiantsMarc Destrubé | baroque violin

Friday, April 26, 2019, 7:30 PMMount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, Minnesota

Saturday, April 27, 2019, 7:30 PMSundin Hall, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota

Sunday, April 28, 2019, 3:00 PMSt. Edward’s Episcopal Church, Wayzata, Minnesota

Pre-concert talk begins 30 minutes before each performance.

Christoph Graupner 1683–1760Ouverture in A Major, GWV 474

Ouverture • Air • Menuet • Air en Bourée • La Calma • Air • Air en Polonese • La Timidità • Gigue

Carl Heinrich Graun 1704–1759 Harpsichord Concerto in C Minor, GraunWV Bv:XIII:50

Allegro • Larghetto • Allegro

INTERMISSION

Johann Gottlieb Graun 1703–1771Violin Concerto in D Minor, GraunWV:XIII:75

Allegro • Adagio • Allegro assai

Georg Philipp Telemann 1681–1767Ouverture in B-flat Major “Les Nations,” TWV 55:B5

Ouverture • Menuets I & II • Les Turcs • Les Suisses • Les Moscovites • Les Portugais • Les Boîteux & Les Coureurs

Canadian violinist MARC DESTRUBÉ is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster, and director/conductor of orchestras and divides his time between performances of the standard repertoire on modern instruments, and performing baroque and classical music on period instruments. His teachers in-cluded Harry Cawood, David Zafer, Steven Staryk, the great Hungarian pedagogue and quartet leader Sandor Végh, and Norbert Brainin of the Amadeus Quartet.

Destrubé is first violinist with the Axelrod String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the Smithsonian Insti-tution in Washington D.C., playing on the museum’s exceptional collection of Stradivari and Amati instru-ments. As a concertmaster he has played under Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Helmuth Rilling, Christopher Hogwood, Philippe Herreweghe, Gustav Leonhardt and Frans Brüggen. He is co-concertmaster of the Orchestra of the 18th Century, with whom he has toured the major concert halls and festivals of Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, including directing the orchestra in performances at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts and appearing as soloist in Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante in concerts in The Netherlands, Austria, and Belgium for the Haydn year. He was concertmaster of the CBC Radio Orchestra from 1996 to 2002, and is concertmaster of the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra.

A highly respected teacher, Destrubé has been a visiting artist/faculty at the Paris, Moscow and Utrecht Conservatoires, Indiana University, Case West-ern University, Australian National University, Sydney Conservatorium, the MacPhail School, the Banff Centre, and the University of Victoria. He is artistic director of the Pacific Baroque Festival (Victoria, Canada), and Artistic Advisor to the New York City ensemble Dorian Baroque.

2018–2019 Musicians

ViOLinLucinda Marvin,

ConcertmasterLindsey BordnerTheresa ElliottMargaret HumphreyJennifer LangMarc LevineSpencer MartinConor O’BrienKayo SaitoMiriam Scholz-CarlsonJoanna SheltonMary SorlieGinna WatsonElizabeth York

ViOLaJennifer KalikaSpencer Martin Ginna WatsonCheryl Zylla

cELLOCharles AschLaura HandlerEva LymenstullTulio Rondón

bassE dE ViOLOnJulie Elhard

bassJosh SchwalbachSara Thompson

FLuTEImmanuel DavisPaul JacobsonDavid Ross

ObOELot DemeyerKathryn MontoyaStanley KingEllen Rider

bassOOnJoseph Jones

rEcOrdErCléa Galhano

TruMpETAlexis BasqueThomas PfotenhauerBob Rieder

HOrnAlexis BasqueMike NelsonHeidi Wick

TiMpaniPeter Kogan

HarpsicHOrdJacques Ogg

OrGanBruce Jacobs

sTaFFJacques Ogg, Artistic DirectorJohanna Lorbach, Executive

DirectorMaura Dunst, Communications

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MaJOr FundErs This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Min-nesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

TribuTEsIn honor of Maura DunstMary Goodrich

In honor of Mary GoodrichJill Goodrich

In honor of Paul JacobsonSally S. Levy

In honor of Johanna LorbachCléa GalhanoJena & Paul McDonnellJackie Santa

In honor of Lucinda MarvinLester & Dianna HorntvedtJay Fishman

In honor of Ellen RiderMartha Wallen

In honor of Ginna WatsonDon & Sue Wester

MEMOriaLsIn memory of Marlene CaseEsther Pfeifer

In memory of Tony FlygareLincoln Davis

In memory of Georgiana RiderMartha Wallen

In memory of Erika SitzPaul Sitz

In memory of Carl VolzLydia Volz

Lyra Annual ContributorsLyra is grateful to many generous donors for their support of our 2018–2019 season.

For more information about donating to Lyra, please contact Johanna Lorbachat info@lyrabaroque.org or 651-321-2214.

Rochester Chamber Music Society 2018-2019 Season Sep 15: Pianist Reed Tetzloff Oct 20: October Recollections: In Memory Of… Dec 1: RCMS String Orchestra Jan 19: Kassler’s Quartet Feb 23: RCMS Chamber Jazz Consortium Apr 6: Fanfare and Fireworks!

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