[NEohioPAL] Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, June 15-29, Features Parisian Music from Lully to Rameau

Wed Jun 11 07:22:50 PDT 2008

Media Contact Only:

Marci Janas, Director of Conservatory Media Relations

440-775-8328 (office); 440-667-2724 (cell); marci.janas at oberlin.edu

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

OBERLIN BAROQUE PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE’S 37th SEASON FEATURES PARISIAN  
MUSIC FROM LULLY TO RAMEAU

Internationally acclaimed historical performance musicians and  
scholars convene June 15 through June 29 for concerts and lectures at  
the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. A schedule of public concerts,  
including both faculty and student presentations, is included.

OBERLIN, OHIO (June 11, 2008)— The Oberlin Baroque Performance  
Institute (BPI), America’s premiere summer workshop for baroque  
musicians, begins Sunday, June 15, 2008, bringing two weeks of  
baroque concerts, lectures, and events—many of which are free and  
open to the public—to Northeast Ohio. Structured around the theme  
“Music in Paris, 1632-1764: From the Birth of Lully to the Death of  
Rameau,” this summer’s program celebrates music in the French capital  
during the lifetimes of two of the greatest masters of the French  
baroque: Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau.

For the musicians who participate in BPI, the annual institute is an  
opportunity to receive intensive instruction in a large variety of  
baroque instruments as well as lessons in voice, choral conducting,  
and baroque ornamentation. Days and evenings are packed with private  
lessons, master classes, ensemble coachings, lectures, informal open  
discussions, enormously popular classes in baroque dance, and  
concerts featuring BPI’s faculty, including members of the Oberlin  
Baroque Ensemble.

The public is also invited to attend these concerts and hear BPI’s  
world-class faculty and students. Special faculty concerts will be  
held on Fridays, June 20th and 27th; admission is $10. Free BPI  
“Student Showcase” concerts will be held on Saturdays, June 21st and  
28th. The public is also welcome at weekday lectures and “Faculty  
Fringe” recitals, held daily Monday through Thursday at 1:30 p.m.  
throughout the institute. All events are held on the campus of the  
Oberlin Conservatory of Music at 77 West College Street in Oberlin,  
Ohio. Free parking is available throughout the Oberlin College campus.

BPI is led by Artistic Director Kenneth Slowik. A conductor and  
cellist, he is also the director of the Smithsonian Chamber Music  
Society and a member of the Castle Trio and the Axelrod Quartet, and  
serves on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Music  
and the Domaine Forget International Academy in Quebec. The core  
faculty of BPI is comprised of the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble: flautist  
Michael Lynn, violinist Marilyn McDonald, cellist/viola da gamba  
player Catharina Meints, and harpsichordist Webb Wiggins. All are  
Oberlin Conservatory faculty members.  They are joined by  
distinguished guests from around the world, who will teach and  
perform throughout the institute.

Two Friday evening faculty concerts afford special opportunities for  
audiences to hear programs composed entirely of baroque music written  
or heard in Paris. The first concert, on Friday, June 20, at 8 p.m.,  
in Kulas Recital Hall, opens with a solo harpsichord arrangement of  
the overture to Lully’s Armide, performed by Webb Wiggins with dancer  
Julie Andrijeski. The program continues with French cantatas and  
chamber music, as well as composer Johann Schobert’s Trio, one of the  
first pieces to introduce the fortepiano to Parisian musical life.  
The concert will conclude with a large ensemble performance of  
François Couperin’s programmatic L’Apothéose de Lulli, or “Apotheosis  
of Lulli.” Of particular interest to baroque scholars and  
enthusiasts, the concert will utilize two different tuning standards,  
with the first pieces performed at “low French pitch,” a full whole  
step lower than modern pitch, and the remainder at “standard” baroque  
pitch (A=415).

The second faculty concert, on Friday, June 27, at 8 p.m., in Warner  
Concert Hall, opens with another performance (this time with the  
original orchestral accompaniment) of the Lully Passacaille d’Armide,  
with Paige Whitley-Bauguess as the solo dancer. A suite from Maris’  
opera Alcione precedes Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s festive Te Deum in  
D Major. Marilyn McDonald opens the second half of the program with  
Jean-Marie Leclair’s virtuosic Concerto in C Major, Op. 7, No. 3. The  
concert will conclude with a suite from Rameau’s opera Naïs,  
illustrating that composer’s masterful handling of orchestral  
instrumental color.

For more information on any of the above events, contact Anna  
Hoffmann, Program Administrator, at 440-775-8044. Additional  
information on BPI and Oberlin’s Summer Programs can be found at  
Oberlin.edu/con/summer.

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and situated amid  
the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the  
oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States.  
Renowned internationally as a professional music school of the  
highest caliber and pronounced a “national treasure” by the  
Washington Post, Oberlin’s alumni have gone on to achieve illustrious  
careers in all aspects of the serious music world. For more  
information about Oberlin, please visit www.oberlin.edu.

Calendar listings for all public events follow.

CALENDAR LISTINGS

FACULTY CONCERT I

Friday, June 20, 2008, 8 p.m.

Julie Andrijeski, dancer

David Breitman, fortepiano

Max van Egmond, baritone

Penelope Jensen, soprano

Catharina Meints, viola da gamba

Cynthia Roberts, violin

Gonzalo Ruiz, oboe

Kenneth Slowik, cello

Jane Starkman, violin

Webb Wiggins, harpsichord

Program:

Jean-Baptiste Lully: Passacaille d’Armide (d’Anglebert harpsichord  
version)

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Actéon

Michel de la Barre: Trio Sonata in G Major

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Thétis

Marin Marais:  Suite in D Major, from Pièces de viole, Book III

Johann Schobert: Piano Trio in F Major, Op. 16, No. 4

François Couperin: : L’Apothéose de Lulli

Kulas Recital Hall

77 West College Street

Oberlin, Ohio

Admission: $10 at the door

Reserve in advance by calling

440-775-8044

FREE PARKING

FACULTY CONCERT II

Friday, June 27, 2008, 8 p.m.

Paige Whitley-Bauguess, dancer

Max van Egmond, baritone

Penelope Jensen, soprano

Marilyn McDonald, violin

Program:

Jean-Baptiste Lully: Passacaille d’Armide (orchestral version)

Marin Marais: Suite from Alcione

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum in D Major

Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 7, No. 3

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Suite from Naïs

Warner Concert Hall

77 West College Street

Oberlin, Ohio

Admission: $10 at the door

Reserve in advance by calling

440-775-8044

FREE PARKING

Lectures and/or

“Faculty Fringe” Recitals

Mondays - Thursdays, June 16-19 & June 23-26

Kulas Recital Hall, 1:30 p.m.

FREE

BPI STUDENT SHOWCASES

Saturdays, June 21 & June 28

Kulas Recital Hall, 2 p.m.

FREE

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Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
  and Editor, Oberlin Conservatory Magazine
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH  44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
Voice: 440.775.8328
Fax: 440.775.5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu

Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
  and Editor, Oberlin Conservatory Magazine
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH  44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
Voice: 440.775.8328
Fax: 440.775.5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu

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