Salami to Schnitzel

Thursday, February 3, 2022
7:00 p.m.
St. Edwards Episcopal Church, Wayzata, MN

Friday February 4, 2022
12:00 p.m.
Live-streamed only

*This concert will be replacing the previously scheduled chamber concert, Recorder Fireworks*

We hope you join us for a concert of German music performed on recorder, violin, cello and harpsichord that demonstrates the wide variety of styles from this 150 year span of music. Some of the composers may be very familiar (Telemann, JS Bach) and others may be new to you (Schmelzer, Goldberg). These composers taught each other, and transmitted elements of sacred and secular music that they learned from other European musicians. Musicians have always been eager to share with each other new styles, harmonic languages, instruments and performance practices. We enjoy exploring relationships both between the composers of Germany, and between them and the rest of Europe.

with Clea Galhano, recorder
Margaret Humphrey, baroque violin
Rebecca Humphrey, baroque cello
Barbara Weiss, harpsichord

Artists

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Violinist Margaret Humphrey maintains a vibrant freelance schedule as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra member, performing in ensembles in the US and Europe. Previously a 25 year core member of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, she now performs regularly with Lyra Baroque Orchestra, the Bach Society of Minnesota, Consortium Carissimi, and Tempesta is Mare in Philadelphia. A founding member of Belladonna Baroque quartet, she has toured throughout the US, Europe and Brazil. Cerulean Fire, her most recent ensemble, collaborates with dancers and percussionists crossing over genres to create dynamic performance experiences. Ms Humphrey is also a member of the Kingsbury Ensemble in St. Louis as well as soloing yearly in the Ancient Music Series in St. Savin France. She has recorded on the Chandos, Dorian, Ten Thousand Lakes and Naxos labels. Margaret has great passion for playing string quartets and she’s quite a devilish Pickleball player.

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Brazilian recorder player Cléa Galhano is an internationally renowned performer of early, contemporary and Brazilian music. Galhano has performed in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe as a chamber musician, collaborating with recorder player Marion Verbruggen, Jacques Ogg, Belladonna Baroque Quartet and Kingsbery Ensemble. As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, New World Symphony, Musical Offering and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. Among other important music festivals, Ms. Galhano has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Tage Alter Music Festival in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome, always receiving acclaimed reviews. She has toured and recorded with the international Cuban guitarist Rene Izquierdo. Galhano studied in Brazil at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, the Royal Conservatory (The Hague), and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, earning a LASPAU, Fulbright Scholarship and support from the Dutch government. She is the Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest and recently received the prestigious McKnight fellowship award, MSAB Cultural collaborative and MSAB Arts Initiative. Currently, she is a faculty member at Macalester College and Adjunct Lecturer in Music, Recorder at HPI, Jacobs School of Music, IU. Ms. Galhano has recordings available on Dorian, Ten Thousand Lakes and Eldorado label and she is the recipient of the National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota.

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Barbara Weiss’ diverse musical experiences range from recording and performing ancient classical Cambodian music to directing a baroque opera company to chairing a university’s early music program. She has been on the faculty of both the Oberlin Conservatory and the Peabody Institute, as well as Concordia College and the University of Minnesota and Pennsylvania. She has taught at summer workshops such as the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, the Madison Early Music Festival, Indiana University’s Recorder Academy, and Mountain Collegium.

Her collaborations include Belladonna, the Newberry Consort, Quicksilver, Chatham Baroque, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the King’s Noyse, Apollo’s Fire, the Chicago Opera Theater, North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Vermillion and Piffaro. Ms.Weiss has recorded with the Dorian, Flying Fish and Harmonia Mundi labels. She currently lives in Asheville, NC, where she performs with Muses Delight, Pan Harmonia, North Carolina Baroque Orchestra and Asheville Baroque. Zoom technology has allowed her to teach harpsichord at Swarthmore College. She is the director of western North Carolina’s first melodica band, Next Road Over.

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Cellist Rebecca Humphrey lives and works in the Philadelphia area where she is an active freelancer and member of several chamber ensembles including Kleine Kammermusik, Night Music, Sylvan Viols, Franklin Quartet, and Galline. Rebecca discovered the world of early music while studying at Oberlin College. Based on this newfound passion, she moved to Minneapolis and was principal cellist in the Lyra Consort for twelve years. During extended periods overseas, she collaborated with Kammerensemble Luzerne and Capriccio Basel in Switzerland, and Latitude 37 in Melbourne, Australia. Rebecca’s talent to craft bass lines, solos and vocal accompaniment makes her a sought after as a Bach specialist. Still, her greatest passion is exploring the intimate and collaborative dynamic of chamber music, which she has pursued as founding member of many ensembles notably Belladonna, which performed extensively in the US and Brazil. When not playing cello or viola da gamba, Becca will be on the tennis court, or in the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania.

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