Pratt Early Music Residency Concert

The Pratt Early Music Residency and Performance 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 Residency and Performance 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.

Joseph Lanza directs tonight's concert.

Joseph Lanza

This season marks violinist Joseph Lanza's thirty-sixth as Concertmaster of the former Orchestra London, now known as London Symphonia. While continuing a busy schedule of orchestral, chamber music and solo playing on modern violin, he has steadily developed a parallel carrier in historical performance on baroque violin for more than 25 years. Joseph studied baroque violin with Jeanne Lamon, Stephen Marvin, and with Marilyn McDonald at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute. Frequently engaged by Tafelmusik since 1996, Joseph has made three guest appearances directing the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Baroque and Classical repertoire. He has led workshops on historical performance for modern orchestral players with the Orchèstre de la Francophonie in Montreal and with the National Academy Orchestra. Joseph has directed London Symphonia in baroque and classical programmes on numerous occasions. Joseph has taught early music performance at Western University since 1995; this is his eighth year as director of the school's Early Music Studio.