Saturday December 10, 2022

7:30 PM

Dall’Abaco Party

Elinor Frey, baroque cello
Josephine van Lier, baroque cello
Julie Hereish, baroque cello

Montréal-based cellist Elinor Frey has worked for the past five years on celebrating the incredible cello music of Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco (1710-1805). Having edited and published much of his music and released two CDs (Diapason d’Or in 2020), Frey will now join Alberta cellists Josephine van Lier and Julie Hereish for a concert of trios and rare sonatas.

Son of a famous composer from Verona, Giuseppe Dall’Abaco learned to play the cello as a young boy growing up in Munich, Germany at about the same time that Bach wrote his famous cello suites. A few years later, in 1729, Dall’Abaco found his first employment as a cellist, in Bonn at the court of the Elector of Cologne, and began a fascinating musical career that led him to prominence in London, Paris, Vienna, and other European musical centres.

The cello trios, duos, and sonatas are full of cantabile melodies with the lightness of folk songs while slow movements bring out the natural beauty of the cello’s tone.

Elinor Frey

Elinor Frey is a leading Canadian-American cellist, gambist, and researcher. Her albums on the Belgian label Passacaille and Canadian label Analekta  – many of which are world premiere recordings – are the fruit of long collaborations with artists such as Suzie LeBlanc, Marc Vanscheeuwijck, and Lorenzo Ghielmi, as well as with composers including Maxime McKinley, Linda Catlin Smith, Christian Mason, and Lisa Streich. Elinor’s recording of cello sonatas by Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco received a Diapason d’Or and her critical editions of Dall’Abaco’s cello music is published in collaboration with Walhall Editions. In April 2022, she welcomed the CD release of Early Italian Cello Concertos, a collaboration with Rosa Barocca orchestra.

Elinor is the artistic director of Accademia de’ Dissonanti, an organization for performance and research, and she has performed throughout the Americas and in Europe in recital and with numerous chamber ensembles and orchestras (Constantinople, Il Gardellino, Tafelmusik, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Pallade Musica, etc.). In March 2023 she will perform Boccherini and Sammartini concertos with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.

Recipient of dozens of grants and prizes supporting performance and research, including the US-Italy Fulbright Fellowship (studying with Paolo Beschi in Como, Italy) and a recent research residency at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Elinor holds degrees from McGill, Mannes, and Juilliard. She teaches early cello at McGill University and the Université de Montréal and is a Visiting Fellow in Music (2020–2023) at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Frey was awarded Québec’s Opus Prize for “Performer of the Year” in 2021.

You can attend this CONCERT IN PERSON
First Presbyterian Church – 10025 105 St, Edmonton
AND
We offer the opportunity to attend the CONCERT VIRTUALLY, through professional, multi-camera, high-quality private Livestream. The event will remain online for ticket holders for 7 days after the performance.

You have the choice of buying a pass for Livestream or in-person, however, you can change this at any time. If you bought a Livestream pass but would like to come in person, make sure to contact info@earlymusicalberta.ca so that we can put you on the in-person list for that concert, provided we haven’t reached capacity. The same goes for the reverse situation: if you bought in-person but perhaps feel unwell, or prefer to stay home; just let us know and you will get the Livestream link, and free up more space for someone wanting to attend in person.

If you would like to attend the concert and/or would like to watch it virtually, please purchase the ticket(s) below