December Zoom House Concert • a Bass Viol Journey

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DECEMBER ZOOM HOUSE CONCERT • A BASS VIOL JOURNEY

FRIDAY, DEC 11, 2020 | 7:00 PM

SATURDAY, DEC 12, 2020 | 2:00 PM

Performed live from home, streamed via Zoom

Eva Lymenstull, bass viol

Jacques Ogg, Artistic Director Malachai Komanoff Bandy, bass viol

PROGRAM Enlightenment, and Holland Baroque Society. She has performed at the Carmel Bach Festival, the Utrecht, JOHANNES SCHENCK • 1660–1712 Boston, and Berkeley Fringe Festivals, and on the Sonata XI in G Major from Le Nymphe di Rheno, Op. 8 Gotham Early Music and Academy of Early Music (Amsterdam 1702) series. As winner of the 2017 Voices of Music Bach Allegro-Adagio Competition, Ms. Lymenstull recorded Bach's D minor Aria (Allegro) cello suite for their online video archive. With Adagio performance and research interests ranging from the Ciacona early Renaissance to the twentieth century, she particularly enjoys playing Classical and Romantic THOMAS MORLEY • c. 1557–1602 chamber music on historical instruments. In addition to Fantasia “La Sampogna” (London 1595) performing, Ms. Lymenstull teaches baroque cello and viola da gamba as a regular guest artist at the University GOTTFRIED FINGER • c. 1655–1730 of Michigan. She holds degrees from the Royal Pastoralle from Puer Natus in Bethlehem for two viols Conservatory of The Hague (Jaap ter Linden), Rice University (Desmond Hoebig) and University of MARIN MARAIS • 1656–1728 Michigan (Richard Aaron), and will receive her DMA in Selections from Suite in G Major, Pièces de viole, Livre V historical performance practice from Case Western (Paris 1725) Reserve University in early 2021.

Prelude

Allemande (from Suite in G Major, Livre III) (Paris 1711) A native of Los Angeles, MALACHAI KOMANOFF Sarabande BANDY has amassed a professional performance record Gavotte on some twenty instruments spanning over 800 years of Menuet music history. He graduated cum laude with Distinction Gigue in Research and Creative Work from Rice University's Chaconne Shepherd School of Music with double bass and music Musette (from Suite in G Major, Livre III) (Paris 1711) history degrees. In recent years, Malachai has performed

as a violist da gamba, violonist, and renaissance double- • • • • • • reed player with various ensembles in the U.S. and • Europe, including The Orpheon Consort, Ars Lyrica Houston, Voices of Music, Queens Baroque, Tesserae, Los Angeles-based baroque cellist and violist da gamba and Ciaramella. He is also a featured soloist in Bear EVA LYMENSTULL enjoys a diverse career that has McCreary’s scores to the films 10 Cloverfield Lane (yaylı taken her across North America and Europe as a soloist, tanbur, 2016), Welcome Home (viol, 2018), the Emmy- chamber musician, continuo player and orchestral winning title theme for the STARZ television musician. She has performed recently as concerto soloist series DaVinci's Demons (viol, 2013), and the video and principal cellist with the Lyra Baroque Orchestra, game God of War (nyckelharpa, 2018). After completing guest principal cellist of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, a Wagoner Fellowship-funded course of viola da gamba Apollo’s Fire, and Musica Angelica, and has also and organological study with José Vázquez in Austria, appeared with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Voices of Spain, and Switzerland, Malachai received a Presser Music, Tesserae, the Orchestra of the Age of Graduate Award (2016) to create the first comprehensive aural catalog of the Orpheon Foundation’s fifty historical violas da gamba (Duino, Italy). He is currently a PhD candidate and Oakley SEASON CHAMBER CONCERT III • Fellow in Historical Musicology at the USC Thornton JACQUES OGG FROM HOME: School of Music, in 2020 taught courses at both Pomona College and Scripps College, and was the 2019 recipient Cellebroederskapel in Maastricht, of both the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music's The Netherlands Irene Alm Memorial Prize and the AMS Pacific Southwest Chapter's Ingolf Dahl Award in Musicology. Saturday, January 23 | 11am Malachai’s scholarly interests include topics pertaining to occult philosophy, number symbolism, and Jacques Ogg, harpsichord Rosicrucianism in the North-German Baroque, as well as viola da gamba technique, repertoire, instrument In January our concert comes from Maastricht in design, and iconography. The Netherlands, set along the banks of the Meuse river. Lyra’s artistic director, Jacques Ogg brings us a special solo performance from the Lyra gratefully acknowledges the support of the many organi- zations and individuals who have generously supported Lyra’s Cellebroederskapel. This chapel was built in 1512 2020–2021 season. is activity is made possible by the voters of as an addition to the monastery established in Minnesota through Minnesota State Arts Board Operating 1360. More recently it’s where a young Jacques Support, Creative Support, and Arts Tour grants, as well as used to practice the organ. From this beautiful grants from St. Paul Cultural STAR, thanks to a legislative town of medieval streets and buildings we’ll hear appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. the music of Froberger, Frescobaldi, and other relatively new-fangled composers of the 17th century.