Bach Before and Beyond Music for Two Jennifer Morsches and Phoebe Carrai, cellos Sunday, November 22nd at 3:00 pm

Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Canzona XV a Due Bassi detta la Lievoratta

Domenico Gabrielli (1651-1690) Canon a due Violoncelli

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Aria no.3 “Wer bist Du” from BWV 132 Aria no.4 “Stürze zu Boden” from Cantata BWV 126

Johann Sebastian Bach Sarabande from Suite no. 2 in d minor Sarabande from Suite no. 1 in G major

François Couperin (1668-1733) XIIIe Concert à 2 instruments a L’unisson Vivement - Air - Sarabande - Chaconne

Jean Thomas (18th century) Sonata 3 Adagio - Allemande - Grave - Allegro

Friederich August Kummer (1797-1879) Duet no. 1 in C Major Allegro - Andantino - Allegro scherzoso Phoebe Carrai followed her path to Salzburg, Austria to do post graduate studies in early music with Niklaus Harnencourt, after finishing her studies at New Conservatory in Boston. She became a member of Musica Antiqua Köln in 1993, making 40 discs for Deutsche Gramophone and teaching at the Hillversum Conservatory in Holland. Ms. Carrai taught at the Conservatory of the Arts in Berlin, Germany, for sixteen years and is now on the faculties of the Juilliard School, and the Longy School of Music of Bard College. She is director of the Harvard Baroque Chamber and directed The International Baroque Institute at Longy for 25 years. She was a jurist in both 2012 and 2016 at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig and teaches at Aria camp, The Bach Suites workshop in Albany, Amherst Early Music festival and with her Juilliard colleagues at the Piccola Accademia in Montisi, Italy. In addition to and solo appearances, Ms. Carrai performs regularly with Juilliard Baroque, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, The Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chamber ensemble, Göttingen Händel Festival Orchestra and Ensemble, and The Arcadian Academy. Ms. Carrai’s recording of the six Bach suites for solo Violoncello and Duets of August Kummer can be found on the Avie label. She joined forces with cellist, Beiliang Zhu and recorded a duo cello CD called “Out if Italy“ that was released on Avie Records in 2019. She has also recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Gramophone, Aetma, Telarc, Decca, and BMG. Ms Carrai plays on a restored Italian cello made in ca. 1690.

Jennifer Morsches enjoys an international career as a versatile cellist, acclaimed for playing with “intelligence and pathos” (The Strad) and a “fine mixture of elegance and gutsiness” (Gramophone). Especially inclined towards historical performance, she is the principal cellist of Florilegium since 2000, with whom she performs around the globe and has recorded multiple award-winning discs for Channel Classics Records. She is Co-Artistic Director of Sarasa Ensemble, based in Cambridge, MA, highly acknowledged for its outreach in youth detention centres in the Boston Metropolitan Area. World premieres of chamber music include pieces by Julian Grant, David Matthews, Michael Wolpe and Ben Zion Orgad. She is a founding member of Richter Ensemble, tracing and focussing on the interdependence of today’s music with the past. A long-time member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Siècles and Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, she has toured and recorded with eminent artists such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sir András Schiff, Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Roger Norrington, Dame Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, David Zinman, François-Xavier Roth, and Philippe Herreweghe. Jennifer graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, First Group Scholar from Smith College with degrees in Music History and German Literature, and was awarded the Ernst Wallfisch Prize in Music. She received her Master’s and Doctorate in Cello Performance as a scholarship student of Timothy Eddy at the Mannes College of Music and SUNY at Stony Brook in New York. Recipient of the CD Jackson Prize for outstanding merit and contribution at Tanglewood, she was featured on Wynton Marsalis’s educational music videos with Yo-Yo Ma. Awarded a Finzi Travel Scholarship and residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Jennifer has focussed research on the ambiguous history of the five-string piccolo cello. www. jennifermorsches.com Please show your support with a donation! To donate, text the word GIVETUIT to 44321

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