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BIO - GRAPHY Tapestry Tapestry made its debut in Jordan Hall with a performance of Steve Reich’s Cristi Catt, soprano, has performed with Tehillim, deemed “a knockout” by The Boston Globe. The trademark of the leading early music groups including En- Boston-based vocal ensemble is combining medieval repertory and contem- semble PAN, Revels, Boston Camerata porary compositions in bold, conceptual programming. Critics hail their rich and La Donna Musicale. Her interest in the distinctive voices, their “technically spot-on singing” and their emotionally meeting points between medieval and folk charged performances. The LA Times writes “They sing beautifully separately traditions has led to research grants to Por- and together with a glistening tone and precise intonation” and The Cleve- tugal and France, and performances with land Plain Dealer describes Tapestry as “an ensemble that plants haunting HourGlass, Le Bon Vent, Blue Thread, and vibrations, old and new, in our ears.” Most recently, Tapestry has expanded their repertoire to include works of impression- ists including Debussy, Lili Boulanger and Vaughan Williams for a US tour in celebra- tion of the 100-year anniversary of World War One Armistice, culminating with a per- formance at the National Gallery in Wash- ington DC. Their newest program, Beyond Borders, builds on their impressionistic discoveries and expands to works of Duke Ellington, Samuel Barber, and Leonard Ber- nstein programmed with early music and folk songs. Concert appearances include the Utrecht Early Music and the Maastricht Musica Sacra Festivals, Regensburg’s Tage Alter Musik, the Flanders Festivals of Gent and Brussels, a Banco Republico tour of Co- Photo by Susan Wilson lombia, Le Donne in Musica, Rome; Jordan Hall, Boston; Hildegard von Bingen Sympo- sium at the, University of Oregon, Eugene; Kalamazoo Medieval Conference, MI; Frick Collection and Rockefeller University, NY; Harvard University, Da Camera of Hous- ton; Early Music Concert Series, Boulder; Denver’s Newman Performing Arts Center; Da Camera Society LA; Stanford Telltale Crossings. She teaches at the New University, Museum Concert, Cleveland, festivals in Ottawa and Montreal, and England Conservatory and Berklee College many others. Tapestry also performed under the baton of Marin Alsop with of Music and serves as musical director for the Colorado and Cabrillo Festival Symphonies. The ensemble toured Latvia various productions. and performed at the Moscow Conservatory. Recent performances include American Dreams at the Library of Congress and New York City’s Frick Collec- Daniela Tošić, mezzo-soprano, a native of tion and Between Heaven and Hell at the Bucerius Foundation in Hamburg, former Yugoslavia, met Laurie Monahan which was broadcast by the Norddeutsche Radio. The ensemble was founded and Cristi Catt during her graduate studies at the Longy School of Music and is in residence at First Church Congregational at Longy School of Music of Bard College. in Cambridge MA. Over the years she has worked with Ensem- ble P.A.N., Blue Heron, La Donna Musicale, Tapestry has made 4 recordings with Telarc International: Angeli, Music of An- HourGlass, Balmus, Rumbarroco, and Tell- gels; Hildegard von Bingen: Celestial Light; Song of Songs—Come into my tale Crossings. Her most recent collabora- Garden; and The Fourth River. To date Tapestry has made 2 recordings with tion is with marimbist Sylvie Zakarian creat- German Label, Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG): Sapphire ing programs about immigrant experience. Night and Faces of a Woman. Sapphire Night won the Echo Prize, Germany’s highest honor for a recording and The Fourth River is a past winner of Chamber Tapestry has performed with orchestras, Music America Recording of the Year. choruses, and chamber ensembles. The core ensemble collaborates with extraordinary Laurie Monahan, mezzo-soprano, co-founded Ensemble Project Ars Nova guest artists including percussionist Takaaki (P.A.N.), and also appeared with Sequentia for many years.Laurie worked with Masuko, vocalists Clare McNamara and the Studio der Frühen Musik at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. Deborah Rentz-Moore. Currently, Tapestry She was a frequent soloist with Newberry Consort, Boston Camerata, Boston is touring with multi-instrumentalist Shira Cecilia Society, and Cantata Singers among others. Laurie teaches at Berklee Kammen, clarinetist James Falzone, and College of Music. pianist Arsentiy Kharitonov. tapestryboston.com GUEST ARTISTS Tapestry Clarinetist, composer, and improviser James Falzone is an acclaimed member of the international jazz and creative music scenes, a veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician, and an award-winning composer who has been commissioned by chamber ensembles, dance companies, choirs, and symphony orchestras around the globe. Educated at Northern Illinois University and New England Conservatory, James is also a respected educator and scholar and has been on the faculty of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Deep Springs College, North Central College, and was a fellow at The Center for Black Music Research. At present James is the Chair of Music at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. Multi-instrumentalist and occasional vocalist Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music. A member for many years of the early music Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, the Balkan group Kitka, the King’s Noyse, the Newberry and Folger Consorts, the Oregon, California and San Fran- cisco Shakespeare Festivals, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to providing music on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Israel, Morocco, Latvia, Russia and Japan, and on the Colorado, Rogue, Green, Grande Ronde, East Carson and Klamath Rivers. A prizewinner of national and international competitions, pianist and composer Arsentiy Kharitonov has been heard in solo recitals and with orchestras in Russia, Europe, Asia, and the USA. “His style is unlike any of his contemporaries, and harkens back to earlier times...Trumping some of the more prominent musical gymnasts, there is genuine poetry here and a rare sincerity issuing, it seems, from the deeper reaches of the human heart.”(New York Observer) Arsentiy Kharitonov recorded multi-CD series of piano music by Leo Ornstein, as well as the chamber music by Robert Kahn, all of which have been released internationally by Toccata Classics (London, UK). Mr. Kharitonov recorded masterpieces by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and Scriabin on Hartshorn Classical, and works by Bach/Siloti, Schubert, Mussorgsky, and Kharitonov on Sound Atlas. Praised for her “lushly evocative mezzo” and “attentive and precise” musicianship, Clare McNamara brings her signature vocal quality and sensitive interpretation to a wide variety of repertoire throughout the United States and abroad. The 2018 recipient of the prestigious St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award, Clare has performed at Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall, among other world- renowned venues. Hailed for her “deep, honeyed voice” (Graham Watts, Ballet.co Magazine) and “low tones of awesome resonance” (Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe), mezzo-soprano Deborah Rentz-Moore performs with some of the most celebrated ensembles in North America, including the Handel & Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, The Boston Camerata, The Boston Early Music Festival, Aston Magna, New York Collegium, Magnificat, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. tapestryboston.com RE- VIEWS Tapestry Simply Perfect! Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt The singing wants nothing in purity or fervor. Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner Singing in lovely, impeccably delivered harmony or in effortless, mind-boggling, complex counterpoint, the women of Tapestry delivered the Hebrew psalm texts in stirring fashion. (Marin) Alsop and (the Colorado Symphony) offered an ideal accompaniment. Marc Shulgold, Rocky Mountain News An ensemble that plants haunting vibrations, old and new, in our ears. Donald Rosenberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer Tapestry wants to engage listeners, rather than merely soothe them. Ken Keuffel, JR., The Arizona Daily Star The group is remarkable for beauty of sound, exact tuning and precision…an extraordinary blend, but the sound never dissolves into anonymity. Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe Tapestry’s CDs have been characterized by a particularly stimulating approach to programming. Barry Witherden, Classic CD The ensemble’s measured, precise tones weave gorgeous patterns… the ensemble’s sound is strong and certain, even fierce in its conviction. Tapestry is fast carving a formidable reputation as one of Rebecca Lindwall, Cedar Rapids Gazette North America’s most polished ensembles. Jonathan Webster, Classic CD These well-matched but subtly nonidentical voices were like something gemlike seen in a clear but shifting light. Hypnotically beautiful…inexhaustible cornucopia of Richard Buell, The Boston Globe sensual pleasures. Jonathan Saville, San Diego Reader They sing beautifully separately and together with a glistening tone and precise intonation, and they like to This is an outstanding performance, such as I have rarely shift gears. heard. Richard Ginell, LA Times Mary Berry, Gramophone ...these particular voices, brightly colored, well-focused The performance was a knockout.