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New York Early Music Celebration 2017 - Flanders & Holland
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION (EMF) announces the sixth NEW YORK EARLY MUSIC CELEBRATION [NYEMC], a 10-day city-wide festival featuring New York’s historical performance artists. Subtitled “The Low Countries – Flanders and Holland,” the 2017 edition of NYEMC will highlight music of Flemish and Dutch origin. The Celebration will run from Friday, October 13 through Sunday, October 22.
NYEMC has arranged for select foreign guest artists and ensembles to join the festivities, including flutist BARTHOLD KUIJKEN and carillonneur GEERT D'HOLLANDER from Belgium; and the vocal ensemble CAPPELLA PRATENSIS and chamber ensemble CAMERATA TRAJECTINA from the Netherlands.
New York-based ensembles and instrumentalists will include EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK, THE SEBASTIANS, HOUSE OF TIME and BROOKLYN BAROQUE; organists DANIEL HYDE (Director of Music at St. Thomas Church), and GWENDOLYN TOTH; and carillonneur JULIE ZHU. Vocal ensembles will include POMERIUM, RENAISSANCE CHORUS NEW YORK, and the RENAISSANCE STREET SINGERS. In addition, AMHERST EARLY MUSIC will host its annual ”CityRecorder!” weekend workshop during the festival, as an educational component.
Frederick Renz, EMF Founding Director, says, “The lineup of local ensembles and guest artists for this edition of the New York Early Music Celebration is the strongest we’ve assembled. The wide range of music from the Low Countries, as well as other parts of Europe, will provide the adventurous Celebration attendee with many opportunities to revel in the richness of this repertoire. Our aim is to expand the audience for the many historically informed performance ensembles and presenters in New York City, arguably the largest early music community in the United States.”
The 6th NYEMC is a service project of the EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION. This project is made possible in part with support from Flanders House New York, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York and the Netherland-America Foundation.
Presenting partners for “The Low Countries – Flanders and Holland” include Music Before 1800, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Riverside Church, Saint Thomas Church, and the Morris-Jumel Mansion.
Further information about NYEMC 2017 can be found at www.NYEMC.org
This project has received funding through a grant from the General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA, and the Netherland-America Foundation, and is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. For Celebration organizational information, please contact
About the New York Early Music Celebration An EMF Service-to-the-Field project, the New York Early Music Celebration (NYEMC) is designed to showcase New York’s historically informed performance artists, ensembles and presenters. In 2004, EMF organized a city-wide early music celebration that spawned sixty-plus events. For the next celebration in 2007, that number grew to more than ninety. In 2010, Early Music Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Departments of Concerts & Lectures and Musical Instruments combined resources to co-produce a day-long Early Music Festival. In 2013, Frederick Renz, NYEMC Managing Director, enhanced the festival concept by introducing a national theme, Pro Musica Polonica, with select foreign guests. The 2015 festival’s national theme was El Nuevo Mundo, showcasing music of Latin America and Iberia. “The Low Countries – Flanders and Holland” will be the focus of the sixth festival project. This forthcoming event, as in 2004, 2007, 2013 and 2015, is open to all NYC historical performance artists and presenters, and will include participation by Flemish and Dutch guest artists selected and invited by Mr. Renz. All New York-based historical performance artists, ensembles, and presenters are invited to schedule events during this time period. With twenty-six events presently scheduled, we anticipate this sixth Celebration endeavor will be another noteworthy event – an opportunity for the New York Early Music Community to reinforce its presence, qualitative and quantitative, on the City’s cultural scene. The Flemish-Dutch sub-theme for this Celebration is intended to tap and expose a rich repertory resource. Several New York early music artists have chosen to present all-Flemish and/or Dutch programs. However, programming of Flemish and/or Dutch repertoire is not a proviso for Celebration inclusion. ***** New York Early Music Central New York Early Music Celebration® Schedule of Events (26 events to date)
PUBLIC CONCERTS
FRIDAY – October 13 7:30 PM: THE SEBASTIANS “Via Amsterdam” – The award-winning New York-based ensemble presents Italian baroque chamber music by Locatelli, who made Amsterdam his home, and his Italian compatriots who published there: Corelli, Vivaldi, and Lully. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Central Park West at 68th Street
SATURDAY – October 14 4:00 PM: PATRICK ALLEN – WEEKEND ORGAN MEDITATION An hour-long free concert featuring works by Sweelinck, as well as Dunstable, Araújo, Stanley, Tallis, Froberger, Marcello and Buxtehude and others. Grace Church, 802 Broadway (at 10th Street)
7:00 PM: RENAISSANCE CHORUS NEW YORK “Music ABOUT Music and Musicians” – RenChorNY, directed by Claude Levy, presents a program of works ABOUT music and musicians. Composers AND subjects to be drawn from Busnoys, Compere, Corbet, Du Fay, Gombert, Handl, Isaac, Josquin, La Rue, Lassus, Obrecht, Ockeghem, Pithagora, Praetorius, Senfl, Sermisy and many more. Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive (at West 120th Street)
7:00 PM: TEMBEMBE ENSAMBLE CONTINUO “Baroque Son” – After its guest artist appearance at NYEMC 2015: El Nuevo Mundo, Tembembe returns with a hybrid of European baroque and indigenous Mexican and Latin-American sounds, inspired by the concurrent exhibition “Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque.” Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)
7:30 PM: HOUSE OF TIME “The Nations” – A musical tour through Baroque Europe: Couperin, Telemann, Purcell, Vivaldi & more. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 3 West 65th Street (at Central Park West)
SUNDAY – October 15 2:00 PM: RENAISSANCE STREET SINGERS A free concert of sacred music from the golden age of polyphony, a cappella. For program and location check web listing
2:00 PM: GEERT D'HOLLANDER The Belgian carillonneur will perform a recital of Flemish repertoire. Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive (at West 120th Street)
3:00 PM: HOUSE OF TIME A repeat of the October 14 program. The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Avenue (at West 183rd Street)
4:00 PM: CAPPELLA PRATENSIS “The Polyphonic World of Jheronimus Bosch” – Music Before 1800 presents the Dutch vocal ensemble in a thematic program. Preceded by a lecture and Q&A by Professor M. Jennifer Bloxam, 3 pm. Corpus Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue)
TUESDAY - October 17 7:30 PM: BARTHOLD KUIJKEN, IMMANUEL DAVIS and guests “The Royal Flutes: Music from the Court of Louis XIV” – EMF presents the Belgian and American colleagues in a duo-recital of 18th-century French transverse flute duets and trio-sonatas by Couperin, Hotteterrere, Marais, Clérambault and more. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Central Park West at 68th Street
WEDNESDAY - October 18 7:30 PM: CAMERATA TRAJECTINA “Music from the Age of Vermeer” – The Dutch ensemble will perform including works by Van Eyck, Sweelinck and Huygens, among others. Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue (between East 35th and East 36th Streets)
8:00 PM: RENAISSANCE CHORUS NEW YORK A repeat of the October 14 program. Fort Washington Collegiate Church, 729 West 181st Street (at Fort Washington Avenue)
FRIDAY – October 20 6:00 PM: GWENDOLYN TOTH “Sweelinck and His Contemporaries” – ARTEK director Gwendolyn Toth presents a concert of music from her latest CD, The Arp Schnitger Organ in Eenum. Ms. Toth will perform selections by Sweelinck, Scheidemann, and others on Holy Trinity’s outstanding baroque organ by Paul Fritts, assisted by tenor Philip Anderson singing related songs and airs. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 3 West 65th Street (at Central Park West)
8:00 PM: COLLECTIO MUSICORUM “Primarily Pipelare” – The Festival Chorus of Collectio Musicorum will present a free concert that will include several works by this master of polyphony, including his magisterial Missa de Feria and Magnificat. Christ and Saint Stephen’s Church, 122 West 69th Street (between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues)
SATURDAY – October 21 1:15 PM: JULIE ZHU The award-winning composer and carillonneur of St. Thomas Church will perform Flemish works on the twenty-six church bells that ring out over Fifth Avenue. Free concert St. Thomas Church, 1 West 53rd Street (at Fifth Avenue)
2:00 PM: DANIEL HYDE The Organist and Director of Music at St. Thomas Church will perform a hand-picked program of North German and Dutch repertoire, ideally suited to the gallery organ, designed by Taylor & Boody. Works by precursors of J.S. Bach, including Sweelinck, Scheidt, Buxtehude, Böhm and Bruhns, will display the kaleidoscopic sounds of the Loening-Hancock organ. Free concert St. Thomas Church, 1 West 53rd Street (at Fifth Avenue)
3:00 PM: BROOKLYN BAROQUE “The Virtuoso Recorder” – Stefano Bagliano is the guest artist in a wide-ranging program that will include music by Van Eyck, De Fesch and Loeillet, as well as J.S. Bach, Sammartini and Telemann. Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace (between West 160th and West 162nd Streets)
SUNDAY - October 22 2:00 PM: RENAISSANCE STREET SINGERS A free concert of sacred music from the golden age of polyphony, a cappella. For program and location check web listing
3:00 PM: POMERIUM “Flemish Musical Mastery in the Age of Hieronymus Bosch” – The a cappella choir presents works by Du Fay, Ockeghem, Obrecht, Isaac, Agricola, Josquin, Gombert, Cipriano de Rore, Giaches de Wert and Lassus. Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch, 552 West End Avenue (at West 87th Street)
4:00 PM: PATRICK ALLEN – WEEKEND ORGAN MEDITATION An hour-long free concert featuring works by Sweelinck and Van Noordt, as well as Scheidemann, Froberger, Buxtehude and others. Grace Church, 802 Broadway (at 10th Street)
5:00 PM: EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK “BarokOrkest” – Frederick Renz will lead Early Music New York’s chamber orchestra joined by guest soloist, Belgian transverse flutist Barthold Kuijken. This late afternoon of High Baroque in the Low Countries will include overtures, concerti and sinfonias by Flemish and Dutch masters. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Central Park West at 68th Street
EDUCATIONAL AND PRIVATE EVENTS
FRIDAY – October 13 1:00 PM: BARTHOLD KUIJKEN Lecture and Master Class. The Juilliard School, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, 65th Street between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenue
MONDAY – October 16 6:30 PM: CAMERATA TRAJECTINA The European Institute and the Program of Studies of the Dutch-Speaking World at Columbia University present the Utrecht-based ensemble in an educational event. Buell Hall (Maison Française), Columbia University Campus, 116th Street and Broadway
THURSDAY - October 19 6:00 PM: SASKIA COOLEN and members of CAMERATA TRAJECTINA Benefit event for Amherst Early Music (private residence) Details: info@amherstearlymusic.org | www.amherstearlymusic.org
FRIDAY – October 20 7:30 PM: CAMERATA TRAJECTINA The Netherland Club of New York hosts an event featuring this mainstay ensemble of the Netherlands early music community. Details: info@netherlandclub.com | www.netherlandclub.com
SATURDAY and SUNDAY – October 21 and 22 9:30 AM to 7:00 PM Saturday; 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM Sunday: AMHERST EARLY MUSIC ”CityRecorder!” – Annual weekend workshop; faculty will include Dutch recorder player Saskia Coolen of Camerata Trajectina. Ella Baker School, 317 East 67th Street (between First and Second Avenues)
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