"Images and Dreams of Love and Life in the French Baroque"
Note: There will be a docent-led tour of program-themed works of art at 2 PM. For tour reservations, call 839-6262, Ext. 2216, or email ghastings@ncmamail.dcr.state.nc.us by Aug 3. Space is limited.
DATE: August 7 2005, 3 PM (2 PM Tour)
SITE: NC Museum of Art Map
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh
TICKETS: $10 General Public; $8 NCMA Members & Students
INFORMATION & TICKET SALES
- NCMA Box Office (919) 715-5923
- Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (919) 821-2030
PROGRAM
Sally Sanford and Catherine Liddell, who have performed together for nearly 20 years, founded the trio Ensemble Chanterelle, which specializes in 17th-century dramatic and virtuosic literature. They made their New York recital debut in 1984 with Ensemble Chanterelle as first-prize winners of the Concert Artists Guild International Award.
Liddell graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and holds the soloist diploma from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland. A noted specialist in continuo accompaniments on the theorbo, Liddell's most recent compact disc is "La belle violée" for Centaur Records. She has performed with Aston Magna, the Boston Camerata, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Tafelmusik and the Handel and Hayden society, among others.
Sanford, one of the foremost American specialists in historical vocal styles and techniques, is equally at home in lieder and oratorio and has a repertoire ranging from the 12th century to the 20th century. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where she studied literature and music, Sanford studied performance practice at Stanford University. She has recorded for Albany Records, Musical Heritage Society, Lyrachord and Harmonia Mundi Germany, among others.
Brent Wissick is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he has taught cello and chamber music at UNC-CH since 1982, including string quartets, trios, baroque ensembles, cello choir and viol consorts. He also teaches the string methods classes for music education students and team-teaches a first-year seminar on the Physics of Music with Professor Laurie McNeil. Mr Wissick has a special interest in music, instruments and performance practices of the 17th and 18th centuries, but also gives regular performances of 20th century works such as the Britten Suites as well as 19th century variations on opera melodies by cellist composers.
A founder of the faculty group Ensemble Courant at UNC-CH, he now performs with several different groups outside of North Carolina including the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Chanterelle in Boston , Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, American Bach Soloists in California, Folger Consort in Washington,DC, Dallas Bach Society, Concert Royal in New York, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Collegio di Musica Sacra in Poland. A graduate of the Crane School of Music at Potsdam College, NY and Penn State University ( MM cello, 1978) he also studied with John Hsu at Cornell University and was an NEH Fellow at Harvard in the 1993 Beethoven Quartet Seminar. He has taught at the College of St Scholastica in Minnesota (1978-82), Chautauqua Institution and the 1997 Aston Magna Academy at Yale. He is currently President of the Viola da Gamba Society of America.
Mr Wissick's concerts and teaching have taken him throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He can be heard on several record labels including Koch International, Albany and Titanic.
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