NEC Baroque Orchestra

NEC: Burnes Hall | Directions

255 St. Botolph St.
Boston, MA
United States

NEC students perform orchestral music from the Baroque period.

The Pratt Early Music Performance and Residency Series for Early Music, established by Harold I. and Frances G. Pratt at NEC in 2019, seeks to invite and engage the NEC community with performers and scholars in the Historically Informed Performance field.  Masterclasses, symposia, and performances by nationally and internationally recognized scholars and performers are funded through this endowment.  In addition, the Performance and Residency and Series aims to provide NEC students with the opportunity to study early music and historically-informed performance with experts in the field, as well as to expand the historical instrument collection at NEC.

Tonight's concert is led by guest director, Ingrid Matthews.

This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community herehttps://necmusic.edu/live.

  1. Anonymous, 18th c. | Gallop

  2. Dario Castello | Sonata XV from Sonate Concertate in Stil Moderno, Livro II

  3. Biagio Marini | Passacaglio

  4. Jean-Baptiste Lully | Suite from Le Triomphe de l’Amour

    Ouverture
    Menuet I                
    Menuet II
    Borée
    Entrée d’Apollon
    Entrée des Quatres Vents
    Entrée de Mars et des Amours

  5. Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber | Partita III in A Minor from Mensa Sonora

    Gagliarda: Allegro
    Sarabanda
    Aria
    Ciacona
    Sonatina: Adagio

  6. Biber | Sonata III from Sonatae tam Aris quam Aulis Rervientes

  7. Henry Purcell | Suite from King Arthur

    Overture
     Aire
     Aire
     Hornpipe
     Chacone

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    About Ingrid Matthews

    Ingrid Matthews is well established as one of the premier baroque violinists of her generation. She won first prize in the Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music in 1989, and was a member of Toronto’ss Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra before founding the Seattle Baroque Orchestra with Byron Schenkman; she served as its Music Director from 1994 to 2013.  Matthews has performed extensively around the world with many of today's leading early music ensembles, appearing as a soloist and/or guest director with groups including the New York Collegium, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Bach Sinfonia (Washington DC), Ars Lyrica (Houston), Musica Angelica (Los Angeles), New Trinity Baroque (Atlanta), and numerous others, and is currently a member of the esteemed Bay Area ensemble Musica Pacifica. Matthews has won high critical acclaim for a discography ranging from the earliest Italian violin music through the Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach (“the finest complete set of these works,” according to Third Ear’s Classical Music Listening Companion). She has taught at Indiana University, the University of Toronto, Oberlin College, the University of Washington, the University of Southern California/ Los Angeles, and the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She also plays jazz and swing styles and is active as a visual artist.https://www.ingridmatthews.co.

    Ensemble

    First Violin  
    Ingrid Matthews
    Yixiang Wang
    June Chung
    Masha Lakisova
    Jordan Hadrill
    Chiung-Han Tsai

    Second Violin
    Emma Boyd
    Anatol Toth
    Olga Kaminsky
    Mitsuru Yonezaki

    Viola           
    Sachin Shukla
    Inácia Afonso
    Yeh-Chun Lin
    Nicolette Sullivan-Cozza

    Cello
    Sarah Tindall
    Nicholas Tsang Man To
    Jonah Kernis
    J. Aleander Smith

    Bass
    Isabel Atkinson

    Natural Trumpet
    Max Ignas
    Alexandra Richmond

    Harpsichord
    Ian Watson