Thursday, January 20, 2022
7:00 p.m.
Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN
Friday January 21, 2022
12:00 p.m.
Live-streamed only
Chloe Fedor and Marc Levine, violin
Yvonne Smith, viola
Eva Lymenstull, cello
Violinist CHLOE FEDOR is known for her “lovely, plush, seductive tone” (NEW YORK TIMES) and lauded for her “soulful, virtuosic” playing and “impeccable technical control” (OPERA NEWS). Chloe is the concertmaster and artistic advisor of Baroque programming at the Lakes Area Music Festival in Brainerd, MN and is a member of the Grammy award-winning group Apollo’s Fire. She also appears regularly with The American Classical Orchestra, Four Nations Ensemble, Handel and Haydn Society, New York Baroque Incorporated, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Trinity Wall-Street Baroque Orchestra. Chloe is thrilled to join Lyra Baroque Orchestra as a guest soloist and concertmaster for their 2021-2022 season.
MARC LEVINE enjoys a career as a chamber musician and orchestral leader specializing in performances on both modern and baroque violin. On baroque violin, Marc performs with his chamber ensemble, Flying Forms, that, in addition to performing standard and contemporary repertoire, also presents larger scale programs including oratorios and operas. In Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he is based, Marc regularly appears as leader or section member with the Bach Society of Minnesota, Oratory | Sacred Bach, Consortium Carissimi, and the Lyra Baroque Orchestra. On modern violin, Marc performs chamber music from all eras on various series and with groups including the Lowertown Piano Trio (founding member), Minnesota Bach Ensemble, Minneapolis Music Company, and the MacPhail Spotlight Series. With many of these groups, both recorded and live, Marc has been featured many times as a soloist and ensemble player on Minnesota Public Radio. A noted entrepreneur, Marc co-founded The Baroque Room, a performance space in downtown Saint Paul that hosts over 50 events each year including the Saint Paul Classical Music Crawl, an event featuring the entire city’s classical music scene and named one of the top ten classical music events of 2015 by the Saint Paul Pioneer Press.
Based in Houston, Texas, violist YVONNE SMITH appears regularly in the Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Houston Ballet, and Grant Park Orchestra (Chicago). On baroque viola, Ms. Smith performs frequently with Bach Society Houston, La Follia Austin Baroque, Ars Lyrica Houston, Lyra Baroque Orchestra (Minneapolis/St. Paul), and American Bach Soloists (San Francisco, CA). Yvonne founded La Speranza, the period instrument chamber ensemble, in 2016. She earned her Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees in Viola Performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University under the tutelage of Joan DerHovsepian and James Dunham.
EVA LYMENSTULL, a native of Michigan, has performed as a baroque cellist and violist da gamba throughout Europe and the US, including appearances with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Holland Baroque Society, and the Orpheon Consort, as guest principal cellist of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Lyra Baroque Orchestra, and Apollo’s Fire, and as principal cellist of Symphonie Atlantique. She has performed at the Utrecht, Boston, and Berkeley Early Music Fringe Festivals, and on New York’s Gotham Early Music series. As the winner of the 2017 Voices of Music Bach Competition, Ms. Lymenstull recently recorded Bach’s D minor cello suite. Current highlights include a CPE Bach cello concerto performance with the CWRU baroque orchestra and a recording project with Lyra Baroque Orchestra. Ms. Lymenstull received a master’s degree in baroque cello from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where she studied with Jaap ter Linden, and also holds degrees from Rice University and the University of Michigan.