Italian à la mode
Baroque & Beyond, together with the University of Virginia, assemble a 10-piece band to revel in Italian string playing and its influences abroad.
Including works by Antonio Stradella, Tomaso Albinoni, Maria Margherita Grimani, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Muffat, Michel Corrette, and J.C.F. Bach
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Chapel Hill
Single tickets $25, Students Free
Second Performance, November 3 @ 3:30pm
Old Cabell Hall
University of Virginia
FREE
The Performers
Noted for programs “vividly realized,” Janelle Davis has a heart for music, performance, and education that inspires thought, beauty, and connection. Janelle has taught in the public schools, and as a partner with various non-profit organizations bringing music to communities underserved by the arts. She maintains a private studio for preschool through adult learners and has directed the Baroque Ensemble at Central Piedmont Community College since 2019.
Janelle performs with ensembles both near and far from her home in Charlotte, including Mountainside Baroque, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium Fort Wayne, Carolina Pro Musica, Mallarmé Chamber Players, Raleigh Camerata, and the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra. Internationally, she has given concerts in China, Europe, and the U.K and has recorded for the IndieBarok label, Cedille records, IU Press, Heartland Baroque, and Naxos. Janelle has been heard in programs for NPR, PBS television, and live on Chicago’s WFMT classical radio.
Janelle’s lifelong relationship with the violin has been nurtured by her musical heroes, mentors, and colleagues. She holds a Doctor of Music degree in Early Music from Indiana University where she studied with Stanley Ritchie, specializing in music from the 17th and 18th centuries. Her doctoral research explored the violin concertos of Samuel Wesley, his Methodist roots, and his contributions to the early Bach revival in England.
Violinist Elizabeth Field, distinguished for her passionate and stylistic playing on both period and modern instruments, is the founder of The Vivaldi Project. Field is concertmaster of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem and has performed with a wide variety of ensembles throughout the US: from Washington DC’s acclaimed Opera Lafayette to the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with whom she recorded regularly for Deutsche Grammophon. On period instruments she has recorded for Hungaroton, Naxos, and Dorian. She has held professorships at Sacramento State University and the University of California at Davis and has given master classes at universities across the country, including regular visits to The Curtis Institute. Field holds a DMA from Cornell University in 18th-century performance practice and is an adjunct professor at George Washington University. Her DVD with fortepianist Malcolm Bilson, Performing the Score, explores 18th-century violin/piano repertoire and has been hailed by Emanuel Ax as both “truly inspiring” and “authoritative.”
ROBBIE LINK is a performer and teacher on the double bass, cello, electric bass, viola da gamba, and violone. Link performs and records with many period instrument, chamber, jazz, and folk music ensembles and enjoys performing everything from Renaissance to Jazz. He maintains a private teaching studio near Chapel Hill, NC.
Martie Perry enjoys a vibrant national career as a respected baroque specialist on both violin and viola. Her playing has been called “…ideally realized…taut and loaded with nuance” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and “highly expressive” by the Boston Musical Intelligencer. As a principal player in the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra for over 20 years, and while serving as co-concertmaster of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Martie performs with many other North American period instrument and choral ensembles including the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Spire Chamber Ensemble, Bloomington Bach Cantata Project, Wyoming Baroque, Tallahassee Bach Parley, Aperi Animam and Bach Collegium Fort Wayne, as well as with the group she founded and directs, Heartland Baroque. Martie has also performed in productions with Mallarme Chamber Players, Raleigh Camerata, The King’s Counterpoint, Charlotte Bach Academy, Alchymy Viols, Seicento Baroque, ¡Sacabuche!, Washington Bach Consort, Three Notch’d Road, Chatham Baroque, Foundling Baroque Orchestra, Bourbon Baroque, Opera Lafayette, National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, Washington Concert Opera, at Wolftrap, for the Magnolia, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Vancouver, Berkeley, Sackville, Madison, and Bloomington Early Music Festivals, the Charlotte Bach Festival, the Victoria Bach Festival, in Colonial Williamsburg, and in Italy’s Musica nel Chiostro. Performing for the Public Radio International Christmas program, “Glad Tidings,” Martie has also been heard in live international broadcast on Chicago’s WFMT radio, on the early music program “Harmonia,” and on NPR’s “Performance Today,” and has recorded for Edition Lilac, ATMA Classique, Musica Omnia, Naxos, WFIU, Cedille, the National Cathedral, and Concordia Publishing. She earned a Master of Music in Early Music Performance/Baroque Violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in its esteemed Historical Performance Institute, where she studied with Stanley Ritchie, and also served as graduate assistant for the baroque orchestra.
Gabriel Richard has been tenured first violin successively at the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine, as violin solo at the Opéra de Lyon and at the Paris Orchestra as first violin, as well as the first violin of the Thymos String Quartet. The Quartet’s recording of Dvorak with the label AVIE was awarded the Editor’s Choice by Gramophone in 2012. The last recording in 2020 on Schubert with the Trout Quintet was awarded Critic’s Choice of the review Gramophone and BBC Chamber Choice. Gabriel Richard has been nominated as Associate Research Professor in the Romance Studies and Music Department at Duke University in the US. He is the Artistic director of the Festival Fougères Musicales in Brittany in France.
Violist Suzanne Rousso serves as the artistic director of the Mallarmé Music, an ensemble known for its eclectic programming and as one of the region’s most diverse collectives of musicians. She previously served as Director of Operations and Education of the Portland (Maine) Symphony and Director of Education for the North Carolina Symphony. Ms. Rousso was educated at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and at New England Conservatory. She has more recently pursued Baroque viola playing and historically informed performance. She has participated in both Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, is a member of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra and a regular player with Duke Chapel’s Bach Cantata Series in which Mallarmé is a musical partner. She has served on the boards of the American Federation of Musicians Local #500 and Arts North Carolina, an advocacy organization for arts and arts education in NC.
Violinist David Sariti enjoys a multifaceted career, with performance and research interests that span four centuries, on both period and modern instruments. He has recently appeared as recitalist at universities across the country, as soloist with orchestra, and in diverse chamber collaborations. He has made a special study of the music collection of Thomas Jefferson, and has given numerous presentations at Jefferson’s Monticello. Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, Dr. Sariti directs the Baroque Orchestra and currently serves as the Music Department’s Director of Performance. He holds degrees from Ithaca College, the University of Akron, and the Hartt School.
William Simms is an active performer of early music. Equally adept on lute, theorbo and baroque guitar, he appears regularly with Apollo’s Fire, The Washington Bach Consort, The Arcadia Players, IndyBaroque, The Thirteen and Three Notch’d Road. He has performed numerous operas, cantatas, and oratorios with such ensembles as The Washington National Opera, The Cleveland Opera, Opera Lafayette, and American Opera Theatre. Venues include The National Cathedral, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Library of Congress, Tanglewood, The Kennedy Center and The Barns at Wolftrap. He has toured and recorded with The Baltimore Consort as well as with Apollo’s Fire. He performed on the Grammy winning Songs of Orpheus with Apollo’s Fire and Karim Sulayman. His recording with Ronn McFarlane, Two Lutes, was the CD pick of the week on WETA in Washington DC in 2012. Mr. Simms received a Bachelor of Music from The College of Wooster and a Master of Music from Peabody Conservatory. He serves on the faculties of Mount St. Mary’s University and Hood College, and is the founder and director of the Hood College Early Music Ensemble. He has recorded for the Dorian, Centaur, Naxos and Eclectra labels.
Jennifer Streeter has performed throughout the United States and Europe with acclaimed ensembles such as the North Carolina, Indianapolis, and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, Three Notch’d Road: the Charlottesville Baroque Ensemble, Raleigh Camerata, and as concerto soloist with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic and Indiana University Baroque Orchestras. In addition she has been a featured artist at the Bloomington, Magnolia Baroque and Amherst Early Music Festivals. She holds masters’ degrees in harpsichord and recorder from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University, studying with Elisabeth Wright and Eva Legêne. She teaches privately and at workshops such as the Amherst Early Music Festival, the Shenandoah Recorder Society, and the Triangle Recorder Society (NC). Originally from Europe, she now calls Cary, NC home where she is a freelance musician and massage therapist.
Baroque & Beyond’s artistic director, Stephanie Vial, is a widely respected cellist, praised for her technical flair and expressive sense of phrasing. She is a co-director of The Vivaldi Project (based in Washington, DC) with whom she developed the recording series Discovering The Classical String Trio (MSR Classics) hailed by Gramophone as “captivating” and “highly recommended.” Additional recording can be found on the Dorian Label, Naxos, Hungaroton, and Centaur Records. She has traveled widely, giving solo and chamber music concerts, lectures, and master classes at numerous universities and institutions: The Shrine to Music Museum in South Dakota, The University of Virginia, Boston Conservatory, McGill University, and The Curtis Institute of Music. Vial holds a DMA in 18th-century performance practice from Cornell University where she studied with John Hsu. She is the author of The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century: Punctuating the Classical “Period,”published by the University of Rochester Press. She currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.