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March 7, 2021 All Saints’ Music Guild presents TESSERAE The Stylus Fantasticus as Musica Transalpina Andrew McIntosh, baroque violin Ian Pritchard, organ Stephen Stubbs, theorbo Alex Opsahl, cornetto Romanesca Biagio Marini (1594-1663) Sonata III, from Sonatae Violino Solo (1681) Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (c.1644-1704) Sonata sopra Toccata V, Op. IV (1645) Marco Uccellini (1603-1680) Sonata Settima Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589-1630) Sonata XI, “The Resurrection” Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber from The Rosary Sonatas (1674) BIOGRAPHIES Tesserae is an LA-based period instrument ensemble specializing in historically-informed performances of music from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Formed in 2010, Tesserae explores some of the most beautiful repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque, from intimate chamber music to large-scale orchestral works. Andrew McIntosh is a composer, violinist, violist, and baroque violinist who teaches at the California Institute of the Arts, is a co-founder of the experimentally-minded Formalist Quartet, and co-directs Populist Records, a label dedicated to new music from Southern California. His musical interests cover a broad spectrum including historical performance practice, improvisation, microtonal tuning systems, long-form works, and the 20th-century avante- garde. He holds degrees in violin performance, composition, and early music performance from the University of Nevada, Reno, CalArts, and the University of Southern California. As a composer he often works with forms and ideas found in nature or in other artistic disciplines, creating what Alex Ross referred to in the New Yorker as“desert-tinged soundscapes". His compositions have been featured at venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Gaudeamus Festival, Hamburger Klangwerktage, Moments Musicaux Aarau, Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemasse Muzik, Miller Theatre, National Sawdust, Issue Project Room, Monday Evening Concerts, and Tectonics Festival Glasgow. As a baroque performer McIntosh is a member of Bach Collegium San Diego and Musica Angelica, and has concertized with the American Bach Soloists, LA Master Chorale, Tesserae, Musica Pacifica, Preethi de Silva, and the Corona del Mar Baroque Festival. He also directs a small period instrument ensemble which focuses on 17th- century French and Austrian violin repertoire. Stephen Stubbs, who won the GRAMMY Award as conductor for Best Opera Recording 2015, spent a 30-year career in Europe. He returned to his native Seattle in 2006 as one of the world's most respected lutenists, conductors, and baroque opera specialists. In 2007 Stephen established his new production company, Pacific MusicWorks, based in Seattle. He is the Boston Early Music Festival’s permanent artistic co-director, recordings of which were nominated for five GRAMMY awards. Also in 2015 BEMF recordings won two Echo Klassik awards and the Diapason d’Or de l’Année. In addition to his ongoing commitments to PMW and BEMF, other recent appearances have included Handels’ Giulio Cesare and Gluck’s Orfeo in Bilbao, Mozart’s Magic Flute and Cosi fan Tutte in Hawaii and Handel’s Agrippina and Semele for Opera Omaha. He has conducted Handel’s Messiah with the Seattle, Edmonton and Birmingham Symphony orchestras. His extensive discography as conductor and solo lutenist includes well over 100 CDs, which can be viewed at stephenstubbs.com, many of which have received international acclaim and awards. Ian Pritchard specializes in historical keyboard practice as a harpsichordist, organist and musicologist. He has performed with many leading early-music ensembles, such as the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Florilegium. As a chamber musician he has won numerous international prizes and has collaborated with leading figures in early music such as Monica Huggett, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Christopher Hogwood, Emanuelle Haïm, Nicholas McGegan, Trevor Pinnock, Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree at Oberlin, then moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2018 he was awarded a PhD in Musicology at USC. Pritchard appears frequently with leading local musical ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Musica Angelica and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and is the music director for Tesserae Baroque. His interests include keyboard music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, improvisation, notation and performance practice. He is currently a full-time faculty member at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music, and in 2015 was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Alex Opsahl studied recorder with Peter Holtslag and Daniel Bruggen at the Royal Academy of Music, and cornetto with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. While still a student, she received 1st Prize in the 2003 Moeck Solo Recorder competition, the 2001 and 2003 RAM Early Music Prize, and the 2003 Hilda Anderson Dean Award. Alex has performed with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Emmanuele Haim, Boston Early Music Festival, I Fagiolini, Capella Barocca di Mexico, Carmel Bach Festival, Piffaro, Apollo's Fire, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and the Green Mountain Project. She performed in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Altenmusik in 2017, and filmed L’Incoronazione di Poppea with both Oslo Opera and Glyndebourne Opera. She recorded Vivaldi’s Concerto in C Minor, RV 441, with the Norwegian period orchestra Barokkanerne, and recently recorded the JD Berlin cornetto concerto with the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra. Alex is a founding member of both Tesserae and Dark Horse Consort. All Saints’ Music Guild 2019-2021 All Saints’ Music Guild is the cornerstone of financial support for concerts at All Saints' Church. Patronage comes from both in and outside the parish. Along with the modest donations taken at the door at each concert, Guild membership makes possible the program of musical outreach to greater Los Angeles via the great choral and instrumental works. Information on becoming a patron of the Music Guild is available by contacting the Music Office: [email protected] ARCHANGEL Prof. Byron Adams Virginia L. Ambrosini & C. Richard Neu Ivy & Leo Chu Suzanne Rheinstein Margaret D. Campbell The Estate of Donald H. Smith Jonathan & Dayna Roberts, Nate Hicks The Estate of Charles “Bud” Starr SAINT Estate of Betty Elgart Aster Dr. and Mrs. Philip Hom & Abrienne Hom Charlene Black John Lundgren Ed & Marianne Burnside Michael Ruff The Moyer Demirdjian Family Diane & Paul Taylor Bill Owen-Smith & Tom Fleming Dorothy Tse Van Fletcher David West PATRON Catherine Chambers Sydney & Phil Nichols Anne Grausam Robert Palmer Camille & Scottow King Karen Smits Peter H. Lu Nancy & Fred Waldeck James Kelley & Joseph Lund Marali Zarrabi Pam & Clarke Morrow BENEFACTORS Debbie Morgan-Alam Gretchen Karl Scott Spell & Ryan Benitez John Mark & Jill Lawrence Kathleen F. Bright Eric Lax & Karen Sulzberger Kerrin Clark & Gregory Pulis Larisa A. Lucaci Charles Herbert & Bram Conley David & Sarah Miller Frank G. Corso Jerrie Whitfield & Richard Motika Gerry Craft David Norgard Joseph Becci & Mark Denton Martha Oaklander Lynn & Ted Dodd Armand Espinola & Stephen O’Hara Lord & Lady Eatwell Diane Orr Carol & Tom Foster The Peeples Family Frank Galassi Ron & Nancy Perkins Kathie & Edwin Gauld Gary Todd Nicole Gregory & Daniel Tamm John Winther Martha Groves Chris & Debbie Winchell MEMBERS Lee Adinolfi Dennis McGuckian Kathy Allison Carol Potter Lauren Azeltine Marcia Potter William Beck Sharon Sellstrom Ames C. Cushing Linda M. Whitson Sharon G. Galamba Patricia Wilcher Barbara Jones Thomas Wu Geraldine Kennon Paul & Elaine Martinkovic CONTRIBUTORS Kathryn Allison Larisa Lucaci Linda Halvorsen Marilouise Morgan Henry A. Hespenheide Kazuhiro Omi Elizabeth & Ivan Ladizinsky Nan Williams .
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