A Lyra-Cal Midsummer Night Concert
Join your fellow music lovers to celebrate summer’s approaching end with a Lyra-cal concert of music accompanied by delicious food, drinks, and homemade ice cream! Lyra musicians Joseph Jones (dulcian), Julie Elhard (viola da gamba) and Tami Morse (harpsichord) present a midsummer night’s concert of music with friends, food, and frivolity.
MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2019 | Home of Joan Rabe & Jay Kurtz
Across the Alps
A program of music showing the spread of the Italian Style across Europe! Pedro Gandía returns for his second appearance with Lyra in a program of music by Vivaldi, Muffat, Marcello, Bach, and Caldara, in many musical forms including Overtures, Sinfonias, and Concertos.
with PEDRO GANDÍA, violin
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2019 | Mount Olive, Rochester
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2019 | Sundin Hall, St. Paul
Concerti!
A full string orchestra led by Jaap ter Linden, featuring Eva Lymenstull in a virtuosic performance of C.P.E. Bach’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in A Major and Jacques Ogg in W.F. Bach’s elegant F Major harpsichord concerto.
with EVA LYMENSTULL, cello
JAAP TER LINDEN, cello & leader
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2019 | Mount Olive, Rochester
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2019 | Sundin Hall, St. Paul
Les Caractéres de la Danse
We welcome back Paige Whitley-Bauguess and her dance partner Thomas Baird for a baroque music and dance extravaganza! Presenting Les Caractéres de la Danse by Jean-Féry Rebel and Leclair violin concerti led by baroque violin virtuoso Luís Otavio Santos.
with LUÍS OTÁVIO SANTOS, baroque violin
PAIGE WHITLEY-BAUGUESS, baroque dance
THOMAS BAIRD, baroque dance
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 | Mount Olive, Rochester
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2019 | Sundin Hall, St. Paul
Passaggi
Passaggi: improvised embellishments or flourishes found especially in 16th-century music – Merriam-Webster.
A modern-day master of passaggi on the cornetto, Bruce Dickey joins a special group of Lyra musicians for a concert of 16th- and 17th-century music featuring this beautiful and unusual instrument.
with BRUCE DICKEY, cornetto
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2020 | Mount Olive, Rochester
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2020 | Sundin Hall, St. Paul
Requiem
Peter Van Heyghen makes his debut with Lyra as a conductor in this program featuring singers Sarah Brailey and Clara Osowski. Repertoire to include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and the exquisitely beautiful Requiem by Niccolò Jommelli.
with PETER VAN HEYGHEN, conductor
SARAH BRAILEY, soprano; CLARA OSOWSKI, alto; SCOTT BRUNSCHEEN, tenor; JOSEPH HUBBARD, bass
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2020 | Mount Olive, Rochester
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2020 | Sundin Hall, St. Paul
The Lyra Gala: A Celebration Ball
Join us for a night of baroque music, dance, food, friends, and fun opportunities to support the JACQUES OGG Artistic Fund. Lyra musicians will be joined by baroque dancers Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird, our dance masters for the evening! There will be a beautiful dance and music showcase during dinner with an opportunity to dance as well.
with Paige PAIGE WHITLEY-BAUGUESS & THOMAS BAIRD, baroque dance
TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2020 | PAIKKA Event Center, St. Paul
Jubileum!
35TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!
Celebrate 35 years of Lyra in a concert featuring two of our founding members Paul Jacobson (flute) and Lucinda Marvin (violin) along with our core of local musicians. Repertoire choices give a nod to Lyra’s beginnings with a Handel organ concerto (from Lyra’s very first concert!), and selections from Handel’s Water Music, the repertoire that Stanley King (oboe) & Ellen Rider (oboe) performed in their Lyra debut years ago!
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2020 • Mount Olive, Rochester
SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2020 • Sundin Hall, St. Paul
About Lyra
The Lyra Baroque Orchestra brings a rare freshness, color, and dimension to the glorious music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through its performances on period instruments.
Lyra believes that access to the arts should be available to all, and we are happy to provide special accommodations upon request .
Contact
275 East Fourth Street
Suite 280
St. Paul, MN 55101
info@lyrabaroque.org
(651) 321-2214