Venice of the North

Friday, June 10th, 2022
5:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.
Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN

Saturday, June 11th, 2022
5:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.
Sundin Hall, Saint Paul, MN

A bustling center of commerce and culture, Amsterdam has for centuries been known as the “Venice of the North.” The connections between the two cities extend beyond their similar layout of islands and canals. The printing industry of Amsterdam, famous for its quality, led Venetian composers like Albinoni and Vivaldi to have their works printed in this Dutch city. Italian virtuosos like Locatelli moved to Amsterdam to live and work too. For this concert the tradition of Italian music being edited and adapted in Holland continues with a concerto by Mancini, created for Cléa Galhano based on a sonata for recorder and basso continuo by Wim ten Have (Amsterdam, 1929).

Cléa Galhano, recorder

REPERTOIRE

TOMASO ALBINONI
Concerto in G Minor, Op. 9, No. 8

STEFFANO BERNARDI
Sonata VIII in E Minor

FRANCESCO MANCINI
Concerto in D Minor

PIETRO LOCATELLI
Sonata in G Major, Op. 5, No. 1

ANTONIO VIVALDI
Concerto in D Major Il Gardellino

Artists

Clea

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, Lanzelotte/Galhano Duo 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. Ms. Galhano was featured in 2006 in the Second International Recorder Congress in Leiden, Holland in 2007 and 2013 at the International Recorder Conference in Montréal and in 2012 at the ARS International Conference, Portland, Oregon.

She gave her Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall debut in May 2010 and her second Weil Hall recital on December 2013 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. As an advocate of recorder music and educational initiatives, she served for six years on the national board of the American Recorder Society, and is the Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest. Ms. Galhano recently received the prestigious 2013 McKnight fellowship award, MSAB Cultural collaborative and MSAB Arts Initiative.

Currently, she is a faculty member at Macalester College, Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest, and has being recently appointed 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 theNational Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota.

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