Program

Sound the Trumpet from Come ye Sons of Art Mr. Medley and Mr. Rickards (1659-1695)

Music For a While Henry Purcell Mr. Medley

Sweeter Than Roses Henry Purcell Mr. Rickards

Love’s Goddess Sure Henry Purcell Mr. Medley

Sweetness of Nature from Love’s Goddess Sure Henry Purcell Company

Many, Many Such Days from Love’s Goddess Sure Henry Purcell Company

Chaconne Henry Purcell Mr. Collier and Ms. Ahn

The Self Banished John Blow Mr. Rickards (1649-1708)

A Hymne to God the Father Pelham Humphrey Mr. Rickards (1647-1674)

Echoing Air O Dive Custos Auricae Domus Henry Purcell Mr. Medley and Mr. Rickards

“Hark, How the Songsters” -----Intermission-----

A Tribute to Henry Purcell Ground in G Henry Purcell Mr. Gerber

Evening Hymn Henry Purcell Mr. Medley

“Deth” for solo viol Tobias Hume Ms. Kyprianides (1569-1645)

Guest Artist Concert Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell John Blow Company Sunday, March 11, 2012, 3:00PM Hark How the Songsters from Timon of Athens Henry Purcell St. John’s Episcopal Church Company

The Tallahassee Bach Parley 2011-2012 Membership The Tallahassee Bach Parley Board of Directors: As of Feb. 20, 2012: Erica Thaler, President Lester Abberger Charles E. Brewer, Vice President Nancy Barfield Bach Circle ($1000+) Rameau Circle ($50–99) (Purcell Circle cont.) Michael & Kelly Beck Fred Boska Marcie Praetorius & Parker Collins Ava Prebys, Treasurer Michael Corzine Dr. Stephen & Elizabeth Richardson Laura & Barnett Cook Mary Lama Cordero Julie Leftheris, Secretary Stephen Richardson Marie E. Cowart Pamela & Donald Crosby Kathleen Wright Handel Circle ($500–999) James C. & Rochelle Davis Patricia Curtis Mimi Jones & Bill Brubaker Karen W. Dix Janice S. Dann Marguerite Foxon Stan & Carol Fiore Ellie Dann William P. & Karyl Louwenaar Lueck John Fraser Peter & Gloria DeAngelis Ben & Beth Fusaro Ginny Densmore Vivaldi Circle ($250–499) Patricia Gosen Virginia Dix John & Nancy Barfield Christine M. Hazelip Laura A. Dunaway Melissa & Charles Brewer Gayle Muenchow & Richard Hopkins Janine C. Edwards Dr. Armand & Suzanne Cognetta Dr. Tann H. Hunt Martha A. Fenner Ronald A. Kanen Edwin W. Jr & Donna Irby Janet Findling Dennis G. King Esq. John A. Knoblauch Mark & Lisa Foltz Dr. Gordon & Jenny Low Kyunghee Lee Lois K. Friedman Nora K. Loyd Dawn & Louis Martz Susan Drake & Charles Futch Tom & Ava Prebys Betsy & Stephen Masterson Paula Gerson William & Jeanne Ryder Caroline Mathews Mary Anne Gray Charles E. Milsted Sue Gross Telemann Circle $100–249) Walter & Marian Moore Nancy Thompson Harnage Wendy & Lester Abberger Marjorie Morgan Roy Silverman & Nina Hatton Nancy E. Bivins June L. Noel Leslie Johnson Dr Kathleen Butler James Mathes & Margaret Pendleton Barbara & Fred Jones Betsy Calhoun & Michael Corzine Barbara Petersen Dr. Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker Grace & Alan Dakan John, Gloria, Lori & AJ Pullen Von A. Klink Jon & Beverly Dalton Penny Gilmer & Sanford Safron Gudrun Gaar & Robbie Laub

Barbara Jorgenson & Robert Dempsey Nella Schomburger Peggy Lentz Woody & Charlotte Dudley Sean Singleton Dr. Jean Marani Fran Dwyer Francis & Karen Skilling Tom & Lynda McCaleb Upcoming events: Tanja L. Jones & Todd D. Engelhardt Dr. Patricia H. Stanley David and Rosa McNaughton Jan & Larry Everett Diane L. Stuart Lesley Fellows Mendelson Gary & Ellen Fournier Erica & Robert Thaler Jennie Myers Tomorrow morning: Voice Masterclass Judith Greaves In memory of Helen Walker Joyce Pugh Steven Rickards will coach FSU College of Music students Linda & Fred Hester Theresa D. Westerfield Jane Quinton Monday, March 12, 9:00–11:00AM, Dohnányi Recital Hall, free and open to the public Jim, Julie & Anne Leftheris Barbara Mason White Joan H. Raley Denis & Bobbie Markiewicz Michael & Patricia Wilhoit Michael Buchler & Nancy Rogers Mr. & Mrs. E.K. Mellon Ken Winker Sue Scribner Kate Muldoon & Bill Miller Betty Serow Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 Roger Ponder don't list in program Purcell Circle $25–49 Renee LaPointe & Michael Smith with Melissa Brewer and Miriam Barfield, violas Adonica Gieger & Dana Preu Bill & Patty Applegate Lawrence & Robyn Stevenson Thomas & Jean Souter Christopher Baker Joanne Taylor plus Bach Cantata 150 with Tucker & Mary Biddlecombe and friends Mary Helen Sukhia Betty Boop Katya & Tom Taylor June 3, 2012, 3:00PM, St. John’s Episcopal Church Ralph V. Turner Michael Buchler Larry & Sandy Updike John & Virginia Walker Fenn Cawthon Mike & Kathleen Wright Mr. Michael Yoon & Dr. Jessica Yoon Tom & Norene Chase JEFFREY COLLIER (recorder) received his Bachelor’s degree in music from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he performed with the Emory Early Music Consort. Today’s Guest Artists Now a resident of Indianapolis, he has performed on baroque flute and recorder with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Voltaire. He studied baroque flute with Barbara Kallaur and has participated in many intensive workshops and masterclasses with Echoing Air such artists as Christopher Krueger, Michael Lynn, Eva Legene, Janet See, and Stephen Early Music Vocal Ensemble with Baroque Instruments Preston. Collier has performed with ensembles throughout the Midwest and Southern United States, including the Tallahassee Bach Parley, the Miami Bach Society, the Baroque Steven Rickards, Countertenor Artists of Champaign-Urbana (BACH), Nashville's Belle Meade Baroque, Winston-Salem's Nathan Medley Countertenor Piedmont Chamber Singers, and Ensemble Capriole in Williamsburg. Reviews have Jeffrey Collier, Recorder, praised his "pure and focused playing". Collier can be heard on the Four Winds label. Me Jung Ahn, Recorder Thomas Gerber, Harpsichord THOMAS GERBER (harpsichord) is a founding member of—and harpsichordist in—two Christine Kyprianides, Viola da gamba period instruments Baroque groups: the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, in residence at the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center at the University of Indianapolis, and the chamber

ME JUNG AHN (recorder) was born in Seoul, South Korea. She started to play the music group Ensemble Voltaire, which is ensemble-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal recorder at the age of nine and afterwards gave many solo recitals and won numerous 1st Church, Indianapolis. Both organizations present annual local concert series. The Baroque prizes in the national competition for solo recorder. In 2004 and 2007, she had her solo Orchestra plays throughout Indiana, and Ensemble Voltaire has toured the United States recitals in a Kumho Young Artist Concert as a gifted recorder player. In 2009 she and Canada since 1988. Mr. Gerber is assistant professor of music and humanities at graduated (summa cum laude) from Seoul National University, where she earned a Marian College, Indianapolis, and also serves on the faculties of the University of bachelor of music in music theory. Prior to that, in fall 2006, she completed a year in the Indianapolis, where he teaches harpsichord and coaches the student baroque ensemble, Historical Performance program at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she and Butler University, where he teaches music history. Mr. Gerber is harpsichordist of the studied the recorder with Daniel Brüggen and Peter Holtslag. She has attended many Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra as well as of the liturgical early music ensemble Musik intensive master classes with such artists as Dan Laurin, Matthias Maute, Kees Boeke, Ekklesia. He has appeared at the Early Music Festival of St. Louis and the Bloomington Saskia Coolen, and Carin van Heerden, in Korea, Austria, England, Hungary, the Czech Early Music Festival, as well as with other period instrument early-music groups, such as Republic, and the U.S.A. At the Amherst Early Music Festival 2008, she received a Catacoustic Consort, the Callipygian Players, Anaphantasia, Pills to Purge Melancholy, Ars Scholarship Award and gave a solo performance. She also participated in the International Antigua Chicago, and Haydn-by-the-Lake. He can be heard on the Dorian, Concordia, and Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg in summer 2010, performing actively among Catalpa Classics labels. After receiving music degrees from Hillsdale College and Ball State world-wide recorder players. She has earned a Master of Music in recorder in the Early University, Mr. Gerber went on to earn a Master of Music degree in harpsichord and early Music Institute at Indiana University, studying with Han Tol and Michael McCraw, where music performance practice from Indiana University. His harpsichord teachers have she has performed often as soloist with the IU Baroque Orchestra and in Concentus, and included Fernando Valenti, Anthony Newman, and Elisabeth Wright. given recitals and concerts. Having been recognized as a deserving student, she received the Willi Apel Early Music Scholarship Award from IU in 2010. She was CHRISTINE KYPRIANIDES (viola da gamba) was a leading Baroque cellist and gambist selected to participate in Early Music America’s 2011 Festival Ensemble in Boston Early in Germany, performing with Huelgas Ensemble, Musica Antiqua Köln, Das Kleine Music Festival, representing IU. She has become an associate instructor in the Pre-college Konzert, Diapente Consort, Collegium Carthusianum, Accademia Filarmonica Köln, Les Recorder Program. In addition to teaching recorder, Mee Jung is currently pursuing a Arts Florissants, Ganassi-Consort, Les Adieux, and the La Roche and Finchcocks String Master of Arts in musicology at IU. Quartets, and she has been a long-time collaborator of fortepianist Richard Burnett in England. Her recording credits include over 70 albums for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, have featured the Adelaide Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie Sony, Harmonia mundi, RCA, Capriccio, Virgin Classics, Globe, etc., as well as radio and Orchester, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Symphony, the Tokyo Symphony, television productions for the major German radios, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands, and the Malmo Opera (Sweden). Rickards has appeared internationally with Joshua Rifkin and Radio France. Kyprianides holds degrees in performance from the Peabody and New and the Bach Ensemble, as well as with The American Bach Soloists, Chanticleer, England Conservatories, and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and was awarded the Ensemble Voltaire, the Gabrieli Consort, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, the New Gregor Piatigorsky Cello Prize at Tanglewood. Most recently she completed the Doctor of London Consort, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Music degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Santa Fe Opera, and the symphony orchestras of Baroque cello. She has also held faculty positions at the Lemmens Institute (University of Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and St. Louis, and Tokyo. He has sung at Carnegie Louvain), the Musikhochschule of Cologne, and the Dresden Academy of Early Music, and Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York, in France as a soloist with The Festival Singers has given seminars in historical performance practice at the Catholic University of Santiago under the direction of Robert Shaw, and with Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices. de Chile, the Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires, the Conservatory of Church Music Rickards was the soloist in the American premiere performance of Michael Nyman's Self- in Halle/Saale, the Early Music Summer Seminar in Wallonia, among others. Dr. Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. He has Kyprianides is a member of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Voltaire, recorded for Chanticleer, Decca, Dorian, Four Winds, Gothic, Harmonia Mundi, Koch, continues to perform in Europe, and is active as a scholar. Newport Classics, Smithsonian, and Teldec. Rickards can also be heard on the Naxos label where, with lutenist Dorothy Linell, he recorded two solo albums of the songs of John NATHAN MEDLEY (countertenor) is rapidly becoming one of the leading young Dowland and Thomas Campion. Rickards currently lives in Indianapolis where he teaches countertenors of his generation. His upcoming season includes a debut with the Los singing at Butler University and the University of Indianapolis. He sings regularly with The Angeles Philharmonic in John Adams’ new oratorio The Gospel According to the other Choir of Men and Boys at Christ Church Cathedral. He received his doctorate from Mary. Other operatic credits include the roles of Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Florida State University. His book Twentieth Century Countertenor Repertoire was recently Dema in Cavalli's L'Egisto, and Ottone in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. The published by Scarecrow Press. latter of which he covered at the on short notice. As Ottone, Medley won praise from Cleveland critics for an interpretation "sung with baroque perfection." Mr. Medley has worked under the direction of Stephen Stubbs, La Scala's Umberto Finazzi, Sally Stunkel, Jonathon Field, Webb Wiggins, and Danielle Patelli. In addition to the standard baroque concert repertoire, Mr. Medley frequently commissions and performs modern works in an effort to broaden public awareness of the countertenor voice type. In 2008, Medley became a Presser Scholar and began a study of pedagogical approaches to the countertenor voice type and 20th-century countertenor repertoire. He has appeared in master classes with Marilyn Horne, Emma Kirkby, and Ellen Hargis. Nathan received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory in voice and historical performance. Nathan is also and active teacher with students of all ages and skill levels. He is an adjunct professor of voice at Marian University, and also teaches at the University of Indianapolis. He can be heard singing weekly with the Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys.

STEVEN RICKARDS (countertenor) has received international acclaim as one of America's finest countertenors. He recently took part in the premiere of John Adams's oratorio El Niño at the Châtelet Opera in Paris. Subsequent performances of the work

This program sponsored in part by the City of Tallahassee, Leon County, and the Council on Culture & Arts.

The Tallahassee Bach Parley would like to thank all of our donors and volunteers for their support, especially St. John’s Episcopal Church, Betsy Calhoun and Lindsay Hardy for hosting this concert, Loren Rice for designing the posters, Erica Thaler for help with publicity, Patty Herrington for distributing posters, and First Presbyterian Church for housing our library and archives.

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