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Bach Collegium Japan (1685-1750): Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor bwv 1067 (1738-39) directed by 1. Ouverture Masaaki Suzuki 2. Rondeau 3. Sarabande soloists: 4. Bourrées I & II Joanne Lunn 5. Polonaise & Double soprano 6. Menuett 7. Badinerie Masamitsu San’nomiya oboe Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Liliko Maeda Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, Cello, Strings and Continuo traverso from L’estro armonico Op. 3, No. 11 (1711)

Ryo Terakado 1. Allegro violin 2. Adagio e spiccato Emmanuel Balssa 3. Allegro cello 4. Largo e spiccato Masaaki Suzuki 5. Allegro

Francesco Corti (1681-1732): Languet anima mea (1716)

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Ryo Terakado Alessandro Marcello (1673-1747): violin Oboe Concerto in D Minor rv 454 (1725)

Mika Akiha 1. Andante e spiccato violin 2. Adagio Alana Youssefian 3. Presto violin Masamitsu San’nomiya oboe Yukie Yamaguchi violin Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): Evan Few Quatuor No. 1 in D Major twv 43 viola from Nouveaux quatuors (Paris 1738) Emmanuel Balssa 1. Prélude: Vivement violoncello 2. Tendrement 3. Vite Seiji Nishizawa double bass 4. Gaiment 5. Modérément Masamitsu San’nomiya 6. Vite oboe / oboe d’amore Liliko Maeda transverse flute,Ryo Terakado violin, Go Arai Emmanuel Balssa cello, Masaaki Suzuki harpsichord oboe

Liliko Maeda (1685-1759): transverse flute Silete venti hwv 242 (1724) Yukiko Murakami 1. Symphonia & Recitative: Silete venti bassoon 2. Aria: Dulcis amor 3. Recitative: O fortuna anima 4. Aria: Date serta 5. Aria: Alleluja Joanne Lunn soprano

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With one exception, the diverse selection of music on today’s like Vivaldi. Likely, Bach wrote this piece during his time as programme belonged to the library of Johann Sebastian Bach. kapellmeister to the Prince of Anhalt-Köthen as a suite for Because after his death Bach’s library was divided among orchestra and solo violin or oboe. In the late 1730s, he revised family members outside of official inheritance regulations, it, choosing the fashionable traverse flute as solo instrument. no catalogue of his personal collection survives. What we According to C.P.E. Bach, the great French flautist Pierre- know today about the literature and music that interested, Gabriel Buffardin paid Bach a visit in sometime after influenced, and inspired him is the result of 150 years of 1735. Buffardin had once taught Bach’s brother Johann Jakob scholarship recovering autograph manuscripts; music copied and was, by the 1730s, employed at the court of the Elector of by his wife his sons, and his nephews while they were a Saxony in Dresden. Perhaps Buffardin’s visit occasioned the part of his household; work of composers whose music Carl revision of this suite and the addition of the Polonaise, one of Philipp Emanuel claims his father studied; and more. The the most beloved dances at the Saxon court. reconstructed catalogue shows that, though Bach himself Bach’s first encounter with Vivaldi’s music around 1713 travelled very little, he collected, studied, and performed dramatically changed his approach to musical structure music from all over Europe, and kept himself well-abreast of and surface figuration in all his music for the rest of his life. musical trends. Vivaldi’s mercurial, flamboyant, and idiomatic instrumental The overture or orchestral suite was tremendously popular writing, and his use of the simple but effective ritornello in early eighteenth-century Germany. Bach’s colleagues form – alternating a refrain played by the full orchestra with Telemann, Fasch, and Graupner each wrote about 100 of fanciful episodic material performed by soloists – deeply these pieces. By comparison, Bach showed less interest in impressed Bach, who immediately set out to internalize the genre, but his four suites that we do have are masterful. Vivaldi’s compositional techniques by transcribing some of His Orchestral Suite in B Minor, BWV 1067 marries French his concertos for organ and harpsichord. Bach’s transcription dances with the concerto-like brilliance of Italian composers of Vivaldi’s Concerto in D Minor, Op. 3, No. 77 is the oldest of Bach’s concerto arrangements, and the only one that survives in his own hand. It seems that Bach was introduced to Vivaldi’s music by Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, the music-loving young son of his employer. Johann Ernst had THANK YOU TO made a study trip to the Netherlands, where he collected the newest printed music. Around the same time, the organ at the castle chapel in Weimar underwent restoration. One of Bach’s OUR VOLUNTEERS! students, P.D. Kräuter, applied to his school board for extended leave to study in Weimar, since, he wrote “[The prince], who Our activities are made possible himself plays the violin incomparably, will return to Weimar through the generous assistance of many volunteers from Holland after Easter and spend the summer here: I could who offer their time. We would like to thank the following: then hear much fine Italian and French music, which would Pam Atnikov, Richard Cameron, Alexandra Charlton, be particularly profitable to me in composing concertos and Ron Costanzo, Donna Cohen, Catherine Crouch, Bill Dovhey, French Overtures… I know too that when the new organ in Sandy Dowling, David Dyck, Helen Elfert, Bev Ferguson, Weimar is ready, Herr Bach will play incomparable thing on it.” Elizabeth Ferguson, Jean-Pierre Fougeres, Gail Franko, Francesco Bartolomeo Conti’s offertoryLanguet anima mea was Maureen Girvan, Stanley Greenspoon, Satoko Hashigasako, a part of Bach’s library by 1716. It must have been a favourite, Martha Hazevoet, Delma Hemming, Margaret Hendren, because he performed it later in Cöthen and in Leipzig. Conti Michiko Higgins-Kato, Maggie Holland, Richard Huber, was the principle theorbo player at the Hapsburg court in Gigi Huxley, Gretchen Ingram, Ron Jobe, Gerald Joe, Susan Vienna, whose skill was so acclaimed that he was called “the Kaufman, Barb Knox, John Lawson, Adèle Lafleur, Susan Larkin, first theorbist of the world”. He also distinguished himself as Marlene LeGates, Pat Lim, Christina MacLeod, Wanda an opera composer. His flair for drama and vocal fireworks is Madokoro, Dolina McLay, Kathryn McMullen, Vania Mello, also clear in his sacred music like this setting of ecstatic love Fran Moore, Carole Nakonechny, Veronika Ong, Gina poetry to Christ. Like Conti, Bach married a virtuoso soprano. Page, Betty Lou Phillips, Selma Savage, Traudi Schneider, Might their wives have performed Languet anima mea with Jill Schroder, Alison Stockbrocks, Eleanor Third. them? In Cöthen, Bach was not responsible for church music, Interested in joining our volunteer corps? so he probably programmed this piece as chamber music, and who better to sing it than the court’s second-highest paid Phone 604.732.1610 for details. musician, Anna Magdalena.

6 | EMV Masterworks Series 2018/19 Bach Collegium Japan [email protected] Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in D Minor, SD 935 Handel’s Silete venti is the only piece on this programme that may have been among the pieces that Johann Ernst of Saxe- cannot be directly connected to Bach’s library, though Bach did Weimar acquired in the Netherlands. Bach transcribed it for own a copy of another of Handel’s for solo soprano, harpsichord, exploring how to recreate orchestral crescendos Armida Abbandonata, which he had copied for his Collegium on the harpsichord. Marcello was, like Bach, an avid collector Musicum. In fact, it is not impossible that Bach knew Silete of musical materials, creating a gallery of musical instruments venti, since none of the more than 500 programmes that which can still be seen in the Museo Nazonale degli strumenti he performed with the collegium survive, and we can only Musicali in Rome. His diverse pursuits included painting, guess at what he and the students performed based on the drawing, and writing poetry, besides his work as a diplomat, fragments of his musical library that survive. Why Handel lawyer, and judge. wrote this , a meditation on the soul’s love for , is also unclear. It has no obvious liturgical function and is one Like Bach’s Orchestral Suite in B Minor, Telemann’s Quatuor of Handel’s most impressive solo works, certainly demanding No. 1 in D Major was inspired by great French musicians, including flautist Michel Blavet and gamba player Jean- a star singer. Like Conti’s Languet anima, it exploits all the Baptiste Forqueray. Telemann met them on a trip to Paris and drama of the theatre, beginning with rustling winds painted wrote this music, the epitome of the immediately appealing by the orchestra and suddenly interrupted by the soprano’s and elegant style galant, for them. Forqueray liked these entrance, and an athletic alleluia finale. quartets so much that he continued to programme and perform Bach’s music lines the shelves of private and public music them for years. Publishing the Nouveaux quatuors was one of libraries around the world today and continues to provide Telemann’s most ambitious printing projects. The publication comfort and inspiration 268 years after his death. This sold by subscription to 287 subscribers including a “Mr. Bach programme gives an acoustic window into Bach’s world; de Leipzig”. Perhaps Bach ordered this fashionable music for these were some of his favourite things. the coffee house performances of his student ensemble, the – Christina Hutten Leipzig Collegium Musicum.

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Francesco Conti: Languet anima mea Soprano solo, Oboe I & II, Violin I & II (4 players), Viola, Viloloncello, Violone, Bassoon, and Harpsichord

Recitativo Languet anima mea amore tuo, My soul desires your love, o benignissime jesu! Oh gracious Jesus! Aestuat et spiratet It pines and sighs in amore deficit. and languishes for love.

Aria O vulnera, vita coelestis, Oh wounds, heavenly life, Allegro Amantis trophea regnantis victory signs of the loving ruler, cor mihi aperite. open my heart. Transfligite pectus, Pierce my breast, confodite pectus, run me through, sic mori beatum me facit dilectus. thus the loved one lets me remain happy.

Recitativo Amoris tui jaculo With the dart of your love vulnerasti cor meum, you have wounded my heart, o bone jesu. Oh dearest Jesus. languentem nunc ergo refice spiritum meum Refresh now my yearning spirit et novas ad auge amoris flammas, and once again kindle the flames of love, ut laeta queam canere. That I may preach the glad message.

Aria Tu lumen mentis es, You are the light of the spirit, Adagio tu cordis ardor, you are the glow of the heart, tu numen cordis es, you are the godhead of the heart, tu vocis clamor. The sound of the voice. Tu lumen cordis es, You are the light of the heart, tu cordis amor the love of the heart. Tu Deus meus es, You are my God, tu verus amor. you are true love.

Aria Alleluja! Alleluia!

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8 | EMV Masterworks Series 2018/19 Bach Collegium Japan [email protected] George Frideric Handel: Silete venti hwv 242 Soprano solo; Oboe I & II; Bassoon; Violin I & II; Viola; Basso continuo

Symphonia Largo—Allegro

Accompanied Recitative Silete venti, Silence, ye winds, Larghetto nolite murmurare frondes, Let your rustling leaves be still, Quia anima mea For my soul dulcedine requiescit. rests in joy.

Aria Dulcis amor, Jesu care, Sweet love, dear Jesus, Andante ma larghetto Quis non cupit te amare, Who does not wish to love you? Veni, veni transfige me. Come, come pierce me. Si tu feris non sunt clades, If you hit, you do not wound, Tuæ plagæ sunt suaves, Like carresses are your blows, Quia totus vivo in te. For within you do I exist.

Accompanied Recitative O fortunata anima, Oh happy soul, O jucundissimus triumphus, Oh most blissful victory, O fœlicissima lætitia. Oh supreme joy.

Aria Date serta, date flores Offer garlands, offer blossoms, Andante – Allegro – Andante Me coronent vestri honores, Crown me with your honours, Date palmas nobiles. Extend the regal palm frond. Surgant venti et beatæ Let the winds stir, Spirent almae fortunatæ And let the souls of the blessed ones Auras cœli fulgidas. Inhale heaven’s glorious atmosphere.

Aria Alleluja. Alleluia. Presto

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Bach Collegium Japan Bach Collegium Japan is an ensemble consisting of performers of original instruments and formed in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, the internationally renowned and highly reputed Bach performer, organist, harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist. Bach Collegium Japan performs frequently in Japan and overseas with the aim of presenting ideal interpretations of centring on the religious works of J.S. Bach. In 1995 the ensemble embarked on a project aimed at recording Bach’s complete church cantatas in chronological order. This project was eventually completed in February 2013 and has met with lavish praise in Japan and overseas as an internationally outstanding and exceptional achievement of the first order. Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki were awarded the 45th Suntory Music Prize in 2014. This was also the year when they performed for the first time as far afield as New Zealand and Mexico. The activities of the ensemble are thus increasingly overstepping national borders to win the ensemble a high degree of international recognition.

Masaaki Suzuki Music Director major achievement has been recognised with a 2014 ‘Editorial Achievement of the Year’ award. In 2010, Suzuki and his Since founding Bach Collegium Japan in 1990, Masaaki Suzuki has ensemble were awarded both a German Record Critics’ Award established himself as a leading authority on the works of Bach. He (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik) and a Diapason d’Or de has remained their Music Director ever since, taking them regularly l’Année for their recording of Bach motets, which was also honoured to major venues and festivals in Europe and the USA and building up in 2011 with a BBC Music Magazine Award. The ensemble has now an outstanding reputation for the expressive refinement and truth of embarked upon extending their repertoire with recent releases of his performances. Mozart’s and Mass in C minor; Suzuki recently released a disc of works by Stravinsky with the Tapiola Sinfonietta. In addition to working with renowned period ensembles, such as and Philharmonia Baroque, he is invited to Recent highlights with Bach Collegium Japan include a visit to North conduct repertoire as diverse as Britten, Beethoven, Fauré, Mahler, America performing in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Stravinsky, with orchestras such as the New York and Washington, as well as a European tour including a Baltimore Symphony, Danish National Radio Symphony, Deutsches weekend residency at the Barbican Centre, London, return visits to Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, New the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Théâtre des Champs Elysées, York Philharmonic and the Orchestra Paris, and debut appearances at Dublin’s National Concert Hall, the amongst others. This season sees Suzuki debut with the Orchestra Vienna Konzerthaus and the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg. of the Age of Enlightenment on a European tour. Masaaki Suzuki combines his career with his work as Suzuki’s impressive discography on the BIS label, featuring all Bach’s organist and harpsichordist. Born in , he graduated from the major choral works as well as complete works for harpsichord, Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with a degree in composition has brought him many critical plaudits – the Times has written: “it and organ performance and went on to study harpsichord and organ would take an iron bar not to be moved by his crispness, sobriety at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam under and spiritual vigour”. 2014 marked the triumphant conclusion of and Piet Kee. Founder and Professor Emeritus of the early music Bach Collegium Japan’s epic recording of the complete Church department at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he was on the choral Cantatas initiated in 1995 and comprising fifty-five volumes. This conducting faculty at the Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of

10 | EMV Masterworks Series 2018/19 Bach Collegium Japan [email protected] Sacred Music from 2009 until 2013, where he remains affiliated as and at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Harmoniemesse for Scottish the principal guest conductor of . Regularly Chamber Orchestra, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato at the Handel collaborating with Juilliard Historical Performance, this season sees Festival in Göttingen, The Creation at Cadogan Hall and Zelenka’s them on a tour of New Zealand. Missa Votiva for Musik Podium Stuttgart, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate, Mahler 4th Symphony at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow. In 2012 Suzuki was awarded with the Leipzig and in Further concert performances have ranged from Saul with Cappella 2013 the Bach Prize. In April 2001, he was Amsterdam and with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, to decorated with ‘Das Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens the first performances of J.C. Bach’sMailänder Vesperpsalmen with der Bundesrepublik’ from Germany. Concerto Köln at the Frauenkirche, Dresden, Bach Cantatas with Le Concert Lorrain, Belinda Dido & Aeneas in Warsaw, Israel in Egypt Joanne Lunn soprano with Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, with Les Musiciens du Louvre (Minkowski) and Graun’s Der Tod Jesu with Collegium Joanne Lunn studied at the Royal College of Music in London, where Vocale. She also appeared at the Niedersächsische Musiktage with she was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal. Bach Collegium Japan in programmes of Bach Cantatas, and also in at the Tonhalle, Zürich (Suzuki), concerts Joanne’s operatic engagements have included her ENO debut in with Bachakademie Stuttgart and Tafelmusik (Toronto), a tour of Steven Pimlott’s production of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato with Rudolf Lutz, Bach Cantatas conducted by Harry Christophers, the role of Helena in Britten’s with Ensemble Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), a US tour with Bach A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Venice conducted by Sir John Eliot Collegium Japan, Messiah with Tafelmusik (Toronto), Israel in Egypt Gardiner and directed by David Pountney, a tour of Purcell’s Dido and and St John Passion with Concerto Copenhagen. Aeneas in Spain and semi-staged productions of Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Paris and for the Beijing International Music Festival (directed by Joanne features as a soloist on many CD recordings. Her discography Sir Jonathan Miller). includes Vivaldi’s Laudate Pueri with The King’s Consort (Hyperion), Haydn Masses with Sir and the Monteverdi Choir In concert, Joanne has performed in Bach’s St Matthew Passion (Philips), John Rutter’s Mass of the Children with the City of London with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Sir Sinfonia conducted by the composer (Collegium), Sir John Eliot Roger Norrington, with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Gardiner’s Bach Cantatas cycle recorded during the Bach Pilgrimage with the LSO at the Barbican Hall. She has appeared as soloist in in 2000 (Deutsche Grammophon/Soli Deo Gloria), Bach’s Easter Messiah in the Halle Handel Festival, at St. Mark’s Venice, and with Oratorio with Frieder Bernius and the Stuttgart Kammerchor (Carus), Bach Collegium Japan (Suzuki) and with the Mozarteum Orchester Bach Motets with The (ECM), Messiah with the in Salzburg, as well as in Handel’s L’Allegro and Haydn’s Heiligmesse, RPO and John Rutter, Bach Wedding Cantata BWV 202 with Bach Harmoniemesse and Paukenmesse with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir Collegium Japan (BIS), and Bach St John Passion with the Dunedin John Eliot Gardiner. Her busy concert schedule has also featured Consort (Linn), which was nominated for a Gramophone award. Bach’s at the BBC Proms with the , and with Bach Collegium Japan, Rutter’s Requiem with the Recent engagements include Dafne Apollo e Dafne with Concerto Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer, Copenhagen at the Copenhagen Opera Festival, Monteverdi Vespers Haydn’s The Seasons with the Huddersfield Choral Society, Fauré’s with the Dunedin Consort, Bach Secular Cantatas and Mass in B Minor Requiem in Toulouse directed by Marc Minkowski, Bach Mass in B with Bach Collegium Japan, Messiah with the Hallé Orchestra and Minor with Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, with also with Bournemouth Symphony and Christmas Oratorio with Le the Academy of Ancient Music in Alzenau and with Les Musiciens Concert Lorrain. Engagements in 2017/2018 include Chandos Anthems du Louvre and Minkowski, for the Akademie der alte Musik, and at with the Dunedin Consort, The Creation with Leeds Festival Chorus, a the Sage, Gateshead. She has appeared in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor European tour of Brockes Passion with Ensemble Pygmalion, Mozart for the City of London Sinfonia and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Mass in C Minor with Tafelmusik in Toronto, Bach Cantatas at the Mozart Requiem in Moscow and at the Mariinsky Concert Hall, St Wiener Konzerthaus, appearances in concert with , Petersburg, Purcell’s The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation and The Fairy recitals in Florence, Schloss Elmau and at the Musikfest Eichstätt, Queen in Salzburg, Easter Oratorio with the BBC National Orchestra Creation with Warsaw Philharmonic, Messiah with Tafelmusik in and Chorus of Wales under Nicholas Kraemer, Nelson Mass for the Toronto, Bach Cantatas with Le Concert Lorrain and St John Passion Ulster Orchestra, Rutter Mass of the Children at St Paul’s Cathedral with Holland Baroque Society.

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ARTS UMBRELLA DANCE COMPANY a a p p a MIXED p a a a NUTSa p DEC 14–16 vancouver playhouse atickets starting at $25 Photo: Paul Henderson Paul Photo: a p a a a a Presented by: a a p artsumbrella.com/mixednuts earlymusic.bc.ca Bach Collegium Japan EMV Masterworks Series 2018/19 | 13 BRING EMV HOME! EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER Leave a Legacy Photo credit Jan Gates credit Photo Help us give the gift of Early Music to future generations Host an EMV Guest Musician You can ensure the continued health and vibrancy of Early Music in Vancouver through one of the most powerful tools Do you have a guest room that often sits empty? in your possession – your estate plan. Legacy gifts are an Do you enjoy well-educated, articulate houseguests expression of your values, wishes and hopes for the future. from across the country and the world? There are different ways in which you can make a legacy gift. Do you like Classical music? Each type has different benefits for you and your family. Would you like to get the ‘inside scoop’ Examples: about performing from a professional musician? • A Bequest in your Will – naming the Vancouver Society for If your answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’, Early Music as a beneficiary then I invite you to consider joining the growing number • Naming the Vancouver Society for Early Music as a of EMV supporters who house visiting guest musicians. beneficiary of a Life Insurance Policy or RRSP Get to know some of the wonderful musicians • Creating or contributing to an Endowment Fund that come to Vancouver to bring you great music. If you have already included Early Music Vancouver in your estate plan or would like more information Host only when it is convenient for you; on possibilities for legacy gifts, please contact our all you need to provide is a private room. Business Manager Nathan Lorch at 604.732.1610 or For more information [email protected] for more information. please contact Jonathan Evans, Production Manager, To ensure that your particular needs are met and that your Early Music Vancouver: exact wishes are honoured, we recommend that you consult [email protected] your legal and/or financial advisors. or 604.732.1610, extension 2004 Planned gifts can create excellent tax advantages; ask your financial advisor to help determine the most advantageous Special thanks to the following for hosting our guest musicians: plan for you. Jill Davidson, Tony Dawson, Martha Hazevoet, Delma Hemming, Thank you for your support! Michiko Higgins-Kato, Barry Honda & Valerie Weeks, Judy Killam, Full Legal name: Vancouver Society for Early Music Tony & Margie Knox, Evan & Janice Kreider, Marlene LeGates Charitable Number: 10816 7776 RR0001 & Al Dreher, Deborah Roitberg & Jack Amar, Judy Storr, Nick & Olivia Swindale, John Tulip, Alex Waterhouse-Hayward, Alexander Early Music Vancouver Weimann & Chloe Meyers, Marc White & Joey Schibild, Penny 1254 West 7th Avenue, Williams, Jane & Michael Woolnoughs. Vancouver BC, V6H 1B6

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Early Music Vancouver gratefully acknowledges our many contributors & donors, who play a vital role in supporting the well-being of our organisation, and ensuring our continuing success. Thank you!

 Benefactors ($50,000+): The Drance Family *.  Presenters ($10,000+): Elaine Adair * | Gail & Bryan Atkins * | Vic & Joan Baker * | The Mary & Gordon Christopher Foundation * | Helen & Frank Elfert * | Sharon Kahn * | Janette McMillan & Douglas Graves | Ralph Spitzer & Hisako Kurotaki * | José Verstappen *.  Sponsors ($5,000 - $9,999): RPC Family Foundation | Chris Guzy & Mari Csemi * | Agnes Hohn * | Dorothy Jantzen * | Tony & Margie Knox * | In Memory of Peter Wood * | The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation * | David W McMurtry * | The Nemetz Foundation * | Dr Katherine E Paton * | Zelie & Vincent Tan * | Birgit Westergaard & Norman Gladstone * | Bruce Munro Wright *.  Co-Sponsors ($2,500 - $4,999): The Brennan-Spano Family Foundation | The Estate of Gunnar Brosamler | Meredith & Pat Cashion | Mark De Silva | Ernst & Young LLP | Marianne Gibson * | The Hamber Foundation * | The John & Leni Honsaker Fund * | J Evan & Janice Kreider * | The McLean Foundation | Yvonne McLean * | Jo & Bob Tharalson * | Bruno Wall & Jane Macdonald * | Eric Wyness | ONE Anonymous Co-Sponsor..  Supporters ($1,000 - $2,499): Hugh Anton | Colleen & Martin Barlow | Marti Barregar * | Spencer Corrigal | Charles & Lucile Flavelle Family Fund * | Heather Franklyn * | Dr Val Geddes * | Ursula Graf * | The Hamber Foundation * | Delma Hemming * | Elsie & Audrey Jang Fund * | Brian Jones | Melody Mason * | Lucie McNeill * | Margaret O’Brien * | Dr Robert S Rothwell * | Ingrid Söchting * | Anona Thorne & Takao Tanabe * | Mark Tindle & Leslie Cliff | Dr Carol Tsuyuki * | Fran Watters | Lorna Yeates | Gordon W. Young * | Three Anonymous Supporters.  Patrons ($500 - $999):|Alan & Elizabeth Bell * | Andrea Bertram | Buntain Insurance * | Christina Burridge | Andrew J A Campbell * | Lorene De Silva | Lorea DeClercq & Michael Winters | Virginia Evans * | Martin Ferera | Jane Flick & Robert Heidbreder * | Nancy & David Fraser | Michael Fuhrmann | Andrew Fyson | Andrew Gay | Patrick Gilligan-Hackett * | In memory of Barbara Godard | Sherrill Grace | Ronald Hagler * | Winifred Hall | Martha Hazevoet * | Diana Herbst | Heather & Bill Holmes | Joseph & Jeanette Jones | Harold Knutson * | Michael Kobald * | Paula Kremer | David Layton & Zoe Druick | Evelyn Leaf * | John C. Leighton * | Ursula Litzcke | Susanne Lloyd * | Graeme & Paddy Macleod * | Marta & Nicolas Maftei * | Bill Markvoort | Barbara Moon | Geoffrey Newman | Hans-Karl & Irene Piltz * | Pam Ratner & Joy Johnson * | Tim & Janet Rendell | Peter & Kay Richards | Peter & Elfriede Rohloff | Elaine Sawyer, in memory of John, a true Handelfreak * | John Schreiner * | Johanna Shapira | Karen Shuster * | James & Jean Simpson * | Fumiko Suzuki | Tom & Margaret Taylor | Gwyneth & Roy Westwick * | Michael Stevenson & Jan Whitford | Dr. James Whittaker * | Karen Wilson * | Jane & Michael Woolnough * | In Memory of Rosemary Wright | Two Anonymous Patrons.  Friends ($100 - $499): Jill Bain | Patricia & Robert Baird * | Sarah Ballantyne * | Janet Becker | In Memory of Becky | Richard Beecher | Jeremy Berkman & Sheila McDonald * | Richard Bevis | Patricia Birch | Joost Blom | Janine Bond * | Valerie Boser & Patrick Tivy | Norma Boutillier | Gary & Natalie Boychuk | Jane Bracken & Fred Stockholder | Donna Brendon | Nonie Brennan | Gordon Briggs | Mary Brown * | Karl Brunner * | Pille Bunnell | Lawrence & Maggie Burr | Jessica Campbell | David Chercover * | In Memory of Chloe | Marylin Clark * | Peter & Hilde Colenbrander | Gillian & Mike Collins * | Michael Collins * | Tama Copithorne * | Ron Costanzo * | Cull Family Fund * | Tony Dawson | Dr Gaelan de Wolf * | Marc Destrubé & Anna Goren * | Beatrice Donald | Carolyn Eckel * | Josine Eikelenboom * | Patricia Evans | David Fallis & Alison Mackay * | Keith Farquhar & Koji Ito * | In memory of Eve Farson * | Marguerite Fauquenoy & Bernard Saint-Jacques * | Alex Fisher & Lisa Slouffman * | Irene Fritschi-Nelin | Hannah & Ian Gay | Arlene Gladstone * | Paul Gravett & Mark Hand * | Gordon & Kathleen Gray * | Dr Beverley Green * | Elizabeth Guilbride * | Penelope & Lyman Gurney * | Mark Halpern | Elizabeth & Keith Hamel * | Dr. Evelyn J. Harden * | Don Harder * | Norbert & Jutta Haunerland | William M Hay * | Beth & Robert Helsley | The Henkelman Family * | Sally Hermansen | William Herzer * | Ada Ho & Doug Vance * | Barry Honda & Valerie Weeks * | Ralph Huenemann & Deirdre Roberts * | Ron Jobe | France-Emmanuelle Joly | Valerie Jones | Patrick Jordan * | Dr. Stanislava Jurenka * | Lars & Anne Kaario * | Lynn Kagan * | Hanna & Anne Kassis * | Susan Kessler * | Judy Killam * | Dalton Kremer | Peter Kwok * | Nicholas Lamm * | M. C. Lansdorp | Janet & Derwyn Lea | David Lemon * | Cindy Leung * | Audrey Lieberman | Leslie Loving * | Janet Lowcock | E. J. Makortoff * | Catherine Manning * | Emil Marek | Glenys McDonald * | James McDowell | Ray McGinnis | William McKellin | Peter Mercer | Bill Meyerhoff | Christi Meyers | Michael Millard | Jocelyn Morlock, In Memory of Nikolai Korndorf | Alfred & Jennifer Muma * | Sarah Munro | Peter & Roma Nemetz | Sharon Newman | Christine Nicolas | Julie Ovenell | Stephen Partridge * | Elizabeth Paterson * | JoAnn Perry | Randall Peterman & Judith Anderson | David Phillips & Margo Metcalfe * | Anne Piternick * | Jocelyn Pritchard * | Dr Patricia Rebbeck | Rhona Rosen * | Selma Savage * | Allan Sawchuk | Erna Schaefer | Iris Schindel | Verna Semotuk * | in honour of Verna Semotuk | Shirley Sexsmith | Leah Skretkowicz | Colleen Smith | Alison Stockbrocks | David & Eileen Tamblin * | Takeshi & Izumi Tanahara | Lynne Taylor * | Kathy Thomas | Douglas Todd * | Ron Toews * | Grant Tomlinson * | Trevor & Rebecca Tunnacliffe * | Vancouver * | Urban Impact Recycling * | Rika Uto | David & Susan Van Blarcom | Elinor & Theodora Vassar | Nicholas Voss * | Barbara M Walker * | James Walsh * | Heddi & Tony Walter | Norma Wasty | Jim Wearing * | Joella Werlin | C & H Williams * | Elizabeth Wilson & Lauri Burgess | Audrey Winch * | Martha Wintemute | Fred Withers | Elizabeth Wolrige | Nancy Wong * | Dale & Ted Wormeli * | William J Worrall * | Reece Wrightman * | Elizabeth H. Yip | Colin Young | Beth Young | Jennifer & Kenneth Yule | Twenty-one Anonymous Friends.  Donors ($25 - $99): Dr Frank Anderson | Yvonne Bachmann | Denise Ball | G. Pat Blunden * | Janet Brynjolfsson * | Norma Chatwin * | Vivien & Patrick Clarke | Abe Cohen | Bette Cosar * | In memory of Daniel Craig | Greg Cross * | Shelagh Davies * | Judith Davis * | Jacqueline Day | Jan-Steyn de Beer | Maureen Douglas | In Memory of Henry Elder | Ruth Enns * | Missy Follwell | Judith Forst | Kenneth Friedman * | Nancy Garrett * | Jolle Greenleaf | Ian Hampton & Susan Round * | Elizabeth Hunter * | Susan Jung Kemeny * | Robyn Kruger | Yolande LaFleur * | A donation in memory of Edgar Latimer | In memory of Irene Leviton | Susan Lomax | Ketty & Alex Magil | Reva Malkin * | A donation in honour of the Markova Family | Anne Mathisen | Ulrike McCrum * | Colleen Midmore | Colin Miles * | Marie Nagy | Henry Numan | Celia O’Neill | Danielle Papineau | Anna Pappalardo | Hannelore Pinder * | Thomas Querner * | S. Reuter * | Martha Roth | Carole Ruth * | David Ryeburn * | Valerie Shackleton * | Juliet H. Simon * | Kathryn Simonsen | Cheryl Steinhauer * | The Stenberg Family * | Nicki Stieda | Mr. Ronald Sutherland * | Teresa Vandertuin | Eva Wilson | Nine Anonymous Donors. These listings include donations received prior to October 25, 2018 * A Special Thank-You to our Loyal Long-Time Donors The names in these listings which are marked with an asterisk [*] indicate donors who have supported Early Music Vancouver annually for five years or more. Their loyal and ongoing generosity has been especially valued, and has helped ensure that we can plan our annual projects & seasons with confidence and with a solid sense of security. Thank you!

early music vancouver | endowment fund donors

We also gratefully acknowledhe the select group of donors that, in addition to their annual donations, has generously contributed to Early Music Vancouver’s Endowment Fund – which is administered by the Vancouver Foundation, and which currently stands at over 1.8 million dollars. Interest from this Fund will continue to support our performances & activities in perpetuity.  ($100,000+): The Drance Family Early Music Vancouver Fund.  ($20,000+): Vic & Joan Baker | Ralph Spitzer & Hisako Kurotaki | José Verstappen | 2 Anonymous Donors.  ($5,000+): A donation in memory of Tom Blom | Frank & Helen Elfert | The Nemetz Foundation | Dr Katherine E Paton | Marcia Sipes | A donation in memory of Peter Wood.  ($2,500+): The RPC Family Foundation | Maurice & Tama Copithorne | Tony & Margie Knox | James C. & Wendy Russell | Anona Thorne & Takao Tanabe.  ($1,000+): A donation in memory of Mrs Betty Drance | Heather Franklyn | Marianne Gibson | Patrick Gilligan-Hackett | Martha Hazevoet | Dorothy Jantzen | Ottie Lockey & Eve Zaremba | Susanne Lloyd | Greg Louis | Glenys McDonald | Dr Robert S Rothwell | Karen Shuster | Zelie & Vincent Tan | Lorna Weir | Four Anonymous Donors.  (up to $1,000): Evelyn Anderson | Alan & Elizabeth Bell | Meo Beo | Jeffrey Black & Mary Chapman | L & C Bosman | A donation in memory of C Y Chiu | Mary Christopher | Gillian & Mike Collins | A donation in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs | Judith Davis | Jane Flick & Robert Heidbreder | Dr Val Geddes | Margot Guthrie | Mark Halpern | Linda Johnston | Peter Kwok | Elizabeth Lamberton | Rob Mayhew | Janette McMillan & Douglas Graves | Benjamin Milne | Alberto Mondani | Alfred & Jennifer Muma | Barbara Murray | Judith & Greg Phanidis | Connie Piper | Pam Ratner & Joy Johnson | Joan Rike | Elfriede & Peter Rohloff | David Ryeburn | Jo & Bob Tharalson | John Tulip | James Walsh | Fran Watters | Glenys Webster & Paul Luchkow | Five Anonymous Donors. earlymusic.bc.ca Bach Collegium Japan EMV Masterworks Series 2018/19 | 15 NEW MUSIC FOR OLD INSTRUMENTS – THOMAS TALLIS AND MISSA CHARLES DARWIN

New York Polyphony New York Polyphony is one of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active today. The four men, “singers of superb musicianship and vocal allure”, (The New Yorker) give vibrant, modern voice to repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant to cutting-edge compositions. Their dedication to innovative programming, as well as a focus on rare and rediscovered Renaissance and medieval works, has not only earned New York Polyphony two grammy nominations and wide acclaim, but also helped to move early music into the classical mainstream. This concert is part of the VSO’s New Music Festival Generously supported by George Laverock and Jane Coop.

Wednesday January 16, 2019 at 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm) | Christ Church Cathedral Tickets from $36 | earlymusic.bc.ca | 604.822.2697

BUXTEHUDE –

This concert features one of the greatest masterworks of 17th-century music, ’s Membra Jesu Nostri, and other early baroque works from Germany for choir, soloists, and instruments. The Keio University Ensemble from Tokyo, directed by Nozomi Sato, joins local soloists, members of EMV and UBC’s Baroque Mentorship Orchestra, Cappella Borealis, and conductor Alexander Weimann for a rich and varied programme of music from the German Baroque. This concert is generously supported by Keio University, Design the Future Fund and Hakuju Institute for Health Science, Co. Ltd. and Maurice & Tama Copithorne

Wednesday March 8, 2019 at 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm) | Christ Church Cathedral Suggested donation $20 at the door | earlymusic.bc.ca