NEC Baroque Orchestra
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 here: https://necmusic.edu/live.
Anonymous, 18th c. | Gallop
Dario Castello | Sonata XV from Sonate Concertate in Stil Moderno, Livro II
Biagio Marini | Passacaglio
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 AmoursHeinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber | Partita III in A Minor from Mensa Sonora
Gagliarda: Allegro
Sarabanda
Aria
Ciacona
Sonatina: AdagioBiber | Sonata III from Sonatae tam Aris quam Aulis Rervientes
Henry Purcell | Suite from King Arthur
Overture
Aire
Aire
Hornpipe
ChaconeAbout 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