The Violin Comes of Age: Italian and German Virtuoso Violin Music and Cantatas circa 1700

The Canzonetta Baroque Ensemble

Saturday, May 28, 2022
@ 8:00 pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter

This performance is part of the Catskill Mountain Foundation Piano Performance Museum's Concerts & Conversations Series.

Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Piano Performance Museum presents The Canzonetta Baroque Ensemble, “The Violin Comes of Age” on Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 8:00 PM at the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter, NY.

By the beginning of the 17th century the violin had outgrown the limits of its traditional role as a dance band instrument, and quickly became established as the preferred instrument for virtuoso soloistic playing as well as the mainstay of most instrumental ensembles. Successive generations of violinists expanded the instrument's technical range, and famous violin virtuosi were highly sought after in the cultural centers of Europe. Yet for several generations the violin retained something of a reputation as an upstart of questionable lineage, and it was not until final decades of the 17th century that violin music achieved a status comparable to that of its aristocratic cousins the viols, or of vocal music. The violin's rise in status has been credited largely to the achievements of Archangelo Corelli in Italy and Heinrich Biber in Germany. Yet their performances on the violin were equalled, and sometimes surpassed by those of a number of contemporaries, notably Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, Johann Jacob Walther, and Johann Paul von Westhoff, who until recently been relatively neglected.

The Canzonetta Ensemble will present a program of virtuoso violin sonatas of the late 17th century by Corelli, Lonati, and Walther, with cantatas with violins by Steffani and Alessandro Scarlatti, featuring acclaimed violin virtuoso Theresa Salomon and mezzo-soprano Tracy Cowart, with Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord, John Mark Rozendaal, cello, and director Richard Kolb, theorbo.

Academy of Fortepiano Performance Guest Artist Concert

Pierre Goy and Friends: A Fortepiano Concert

Saturday, June 18, 2022
@ 8:00pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter

Pierre Goy returns from Switzerland for his second concert at the Doctorow Center. He will be joined by some of the young artists who are attending the AFP workshop.

Mr. Goy has become known as one of the most versatile and thoughtful performers on historical instruments. Having studied with prominent European teachers, including Fausto Zadra, Esther Yellin, and Vlado Perlemuter, he is equally at home playing Romantic virtuoso repertoire as 18th century music for the harpsichord and clavichord. His discography includes piano music by Chopin, Liszt, and Mozart, as well as harpsichord music by A.L. Couperin. Pierre Goy is the creator of the Rencontres Internationales Harmoniques which has brought together instrument makers, musicians, musicologists and museum curators around historic instruments every two years since 2002.

Pierre Goy teaches piano at the Conservatory of Vevey and at the Conservatory of Lausanne, where he also shares his passion for early music by organizing seminars on ancient instruments. At the Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve, he teaches clavichord and pianoforte in the Department of Early Music.

The Academy of Fortepiano Performance is funded in part by donations from private individuals and the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation.

About the Academy of Fortepiano Performance
The Academy of Fortepiano Performance was co-founded by fortepianists Audrey Axinn, Maria Rose, and Yi-heng Yang in 2017 to provide an inspiring and practical immersion into the world of historical performance for students, professionals, amateurs, and audiences. Hosted by the Catskill Mountain Foundation Piano Performance Museum in the idyllic mountain setting of Hunter, New York, the intimate performance hall, impressive piano museum, and comfortable student lodging are all in close proximity to each other and just 2 1/2 hours north of New York City. The Academy is open to students, professionals, and adult amateurs.

Hunter International Music Festival

The American String Quartet

Saturday, July 30, 2022
@ 8:00pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter

“…luxurious, beautifully sculpted performances”
— THE NEW YORK TIMES

Internationally recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous. The Quartet celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2019, and, in its years of touring, has performed in all fifty states and has appeared in the most important concert halls worldwide. The group’s presentations of the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Bartók, and Mozart have won widespread critical acclaim, and their MusicMasters Complete Mozart String Quartets, performed on a matched quartet set of instruments by Stradivarius, are widely considered to have set the standard for this repertoire.

Sylvan Winds Ensemble

Saturday, September 10, 2022
@ 7:30pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Village of Tannersville

Hailed by the New York Times for "…its venturesome programming and stylishness of performance," the Sylvan Winds has appeared under the auspices of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and the Caramoor International Music Festival. Chosen to perform at the NY Governor’s Arts Awards, the ensemble has presented imaginative and scintillating programs of chamber works for winds in such places as Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the White Mountains, the Cape Cod and Skaneateles Festivals, Rutgers University’s Summerfest, Amherst College, the Chicago Chamber Music Society and the Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul, Korea. They have recorded for the Koch Classics, and CRI/New World, and North/South labels, and have enjoyed collaborations with such distinguished artists as Gerard Schwarz, Ransom Wilson, the Guarneri String Quartet, pianist Claude Frank, radio personality Robert Sherman, and actor Louis Zorich.

Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra

Music for Harp & String Orchestra

Robert Manno, Conductor
Jacqueline Kerrod, Harp
Sato Moughalian, Flute

Saturday, November 26, 2022
@ 8:00pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter

The Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra returns to the Doctorow Center for a Thanksgiving weekend concert, including Ralph Vaughan Williams: Variants on Dives and Lazarus for Strings & Harp; Sir Edward Elgar: Sospiri for Strings & Harp; Claude Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane for Harp & String Orchestra; Robert Manno: Petit Voyage en Nostalgie for Flute, Harp & String Orchestra; Howard Hanson: Serenade for Flute, Harp & String Orchestra; Jacqueline Kerrod: New Work for Harp & String Orchestra (Premiere); Jean Sibelius: Elegie from King Christian Suite II; and, Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

Since 2000 the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra under the direction of composer/conductor, Robert Manno has earned accolades and national attention through the many broadcasts of its live performances from the Windham Chamber Music Festival and Catskill Mountain Foundation over American Public Media’s Performance Today. The orchestra is comprised of the finest musicians from the New York area and includes current and former members of the MET Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, NYC Opera Orchestra, NYC Ballet Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Albany Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and many other esteemed New York area ensembles.

Robert Manno is Co-Director of the Windham Chamber Music Festival, an award-winning composer, and an acclaimed conductor whose many performances from the Windham Festival and the Catskill Mountain Foundation have been featured nationally on “Performance Today.” The Atlanta Audio Society has described him as “a composer of serious music of considerable depth and spiritual beauty.”