A Project of the Anacortes Arts Foundation
2023-2024 Concert Series
UPCOMING CONCERTS:
Maturation: Four Equal Music Partners
Friday, May 17, 2024 – 7:00 pm
It was a simple idea, four equal voices – but it developed into the extraordinary. Works for string quartet by Purcell, Bach, and Haydn, culminating in Beethoven’s epic Op. 132. Artists featured on this concert are Aisslinn Nosky and Maureen Murchie, violins; Adam Lamotte, viola; and Nathan Whittaker, cello.
Tickets: $30 (children under 18 free)
Cash or check only on day of performance / no credit cards
Location: Croatian Cultural Center, 801 Fifth St, Anacortes.
Aisslinn Nosky, violin
Maureen Murchie, violin
Adam Lamotte, viola
Nathan Whittaker, violoncello
PREVIOUS 2023-2024 CONCERTS
All Mozart with the Classical String Quartet
Friday, November 17, 2023 – 7:00 pm
The Classical Quartet expands into The Classical Quintet to bring you Mozart’s lovely String Quintet in C major, K. 515. Acclaimed guest artist Elizabeth Blumenstock of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will lead the ensemble of Cecilia Archuleta, Lindsey Strand-Polyak, Laurel Wells, and Meg Brennand playing on rich, clear period instruments. Also on this program is Mozart’s virtuosic G-major Duo for Violin and Viola, K. 423, and his highly expressive D-minor String Quartet, K. 421.
Implementation: Music Basics to the Artistically Complex
Friday, January 12, 2024 – 7:00 pm
What if something simplistic is applied so exceptionally, with such impossible precision, that it becomes anything but simple? Brazilian violinist Edson Scheid harnesses the fire and fury of the impossible in artistic creations of Corelli, Locatelli, and Paganini. Joining him on the program is cellist Nathan Whittaker.
Duo Amadeus
Friday, February 9, 2024 – 7:00 pm
Celebrated violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, playing her 1660 Andreas Guarneri violin, and Tamara Friedman, on her fine replica of a 1795 Anton Walter fortepiano, will treat you to a feast of duo and solo sonatas, with a rare Assagio for solo violin by Johan Helmich Roman; C.P.E. Bach’s soulful Violin Sonata in C minor, Wq. 78; Ludwig van Beethoven’s jocular Fortepiano Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 31, No. 3; and the incomparable Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s tempestuous Violin Sonata in G major/minor, K. 379.
Time Stands Still
Friday, February 23, 2024 – 7:00 pm
Anacortes Early Music is bringing a Pacific MusicWorks concert to Anacortes. Baroque violinist Tekla Cunningham, Baroque harpist Maxine Eilander, GRAMMY-winning lutenist Stephen Stubbs, and soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah will be joined by Pacifc MusicWorks young artist of the year, viola da gambist Tess Roberts, in a survey of the golden age of English song – where Time may indeed Stand Still. While Shakespeare was defining English poetry and drama, Dowland was doing the same for English song. After Dowland, the influence of the Italians led to the magnificent achievements of Henry Purcell. The richness of music from 17th century Britain also set the tone for our own Appalachian tradition.
Tomkins/Friedman Duo
Friday, April 26, 2024 – 7:00 pm
Praised for her “playing at a level of deep-seated feeling,” Tanya Tomkins, one of the principal violoncellists of San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, makes her first appearance in Anacortes playing with Tamara Friedman. Ms. Friedman will be playing on her richly toned replica of an 1804 Nannette Streicher early Romantic grand piano. This dynamic duo will take you on a musical journey through J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G major for Unaccompanied Cello, BWV 1007; Beethoven’s magisterial Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 69; and Schubert’s seldom-heard masterpiece, the Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D. 821. A unique, “must-hear” concert!
About AEM
The Anacortes Early Music Concert Series is a project of the Anacortes Arts Foundation and has brought historically informed performances featuring world-renowned musicians and rising stars to Anacortes for almost two decades. Historically informed performance (period performance) is an approach in Western music which adheres to the knowledge, as it is currently known, of the instruments and performance practice of the period in which the music was conceived. Access to examples of earlier musical instruments and historical treatises are the basis on which period performance is formed. Instruments corresponding to the period of the music being performed are used, as well as techniques and aesthetics of the period.
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Anacortes Early Music Concert Series
Barbara P. King, Chairperson
Barbara King is a retired professional church organist, harpsichordist, and pianist. Ms. King was a longtime leader in the American Guild of Organists, the Western Early KeyBoard Association, and music teacher organizations in Ohio and California. Prior to moving to Anacortes she was harpsichordist with the Southern California Harmonia Baroque.
To Support the Anacortes Early Music Concert Series
Concert admissions at the door cannot cover the costs of the high level programming presented by Anacortes Early Music. Donations make it possible. Please mail your donation, made out to the Anacortes Arts Foundation, to 801 Fifth St, Anacortes WA 98221. Note in the memo line that the donation is for the Anacortes Early Music series. Thank you for your much appreciated support!
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