2022-2023 SEASON PASS
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
PROGRAM
Saturday, March 4, 2023
7:30 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 Street, Edmonton
All about Telemann
Laura Veeze, baroque violin
Josephine van Lier, viola da gamba
Leanne Regehr, harpsichord
This concerts delves into the music of Telemann, considered one of the most prolific composers in history at least in terms of surviving oeuvre. He wrote 12 solo fantasias for the violin, 12 for the harpsichord, 12 for flute, and 12 for viola da gamba. The latter were considered lost until 2016 and will be heard in in a live performance in Edmonton for the first time since they were published in 1735.
Performed by a terrific cast of local musicians, this concert will feature several solo fantasias for violin, for viola da gamba, and for harpsichord. These are among Telemann’s most intimate works. Also on the program are trio sonatas for this combination of instruments.
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
Saturday, May 6, 2023
7:30 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 Street, Edmonton
Mom
Jonathan Adams, baritone
Dawn Bailey, soprano
Noémy Gagnon-Lafrenais, baroque violin
Terri Hron, recorder
Josephine van Lier, viola da gamba, cello
Christopher Bagan, harpsichord
This concert features some of the finest period performers in Canada.
The program will also feature a special commissioned work for period instruments by indigenous Canadian composer Jesse Plessis.
Weaving stories together one strand at a time, lending bodies for the growth and creation of new life, breathing love, holding warmth. Mothers are our source, from the womb-bearers who carried and birthed us, to the ones who held us and cared for us, to the Earth: mother of all. This concert will be a celebration of the mothers who have influenced our lives, and an exploration of the ways we inhabit mothering roles in our own creative and personal work. It will include colorful and varied musical representations of the Mother Mary from seventeenth century Italy and England, as well as a contemporary look at motherhood that is based on the four elements of the Earth mother. Featuring a new composition for early instruments and voices by Indigenous composer Jesse Plessis, as well as the voices of Jonathon Adams and Dawn Bailey.
Biography Jonathon Adams
Born in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, Canada), world-renowned superstar Jonathon Adams is an Indigenous (Cree-Métis) baritone, and is in high demand for their period performances.
In concert, they have appeared as a soloist with Sigiswald Kuijken, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Helmut Rilling, Václav Luks, Ensemble BachPlus, Vox Luminis, il Gardellino, and B’Rock Orchestra at Opera-Ballet Flanders. In 2021 Jonathon was named the first ever artist-in-residence at Early Music Vancouver.
Future solo engagements include performances with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra under Masaaki Suzuki, the Ricercar Consort and Collegium Vocale Gent, il Gardellino, Les Voix Humaines, Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, Servir Antico and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. 2022 will see the world premiere of Adams’ performance piece nipahimiw with Susie Napper and Catalina Vicens at venues across Canada. Jonathon is a featured soloist in the film MESSIAH / COMPLEX produced by Against the Grain Theater and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
During 2020 and 2021 Jonathan held a fellowship with the Netherlands Bach Society. Jonathon was a core member of Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir for many years, appearing regularly with this ensemble around the world. Recent career highlights include a solo debut at the Bruges Concertgebouw in Purcell’s Ode to St. Cecilia, Bach cantatas at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, and concerts with Amsterdam Baroque in China, Japan, and at the Château de Versailles.
Jonathon is based in Canada and The Netherlands. They have attended The Royal Academy of Music (London), the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and The Victoria Conservatory of Music where they studied with Nancy Argenta. They also studied privately with Dame Emma Kirkby, and Edith Wiens. At the Dutch National Opera Academy Jonathon studied with Rosemary Joshua and Olivier Lallouette.
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
Past Events
November 4-5, 2022
First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 Street, Edmonton
2022 Early Music Alberta Festival
November 6 marks the 350th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Schütz. All across the world the music of this master will be celebrated in concerts and festivals. Our festival will have two feature evening concerts dedicated to the music of Schütz and his contemporaries, as well as a community concert, a renaissance reading session for community musicians, and a dance class.
Friday, November 4, 2022
7:30 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 Street, Edmonton
The sacred concerto in the Lutheran tradition
Scola Cantorum of St. Joseph’s Basilica
Roderick Bryce, director
Josephine van Lier, violone
Christopher Bagan, organ, harpsichord
This concert includes Heinrich Schütz’s spectacular Musikalische Exequien, as well as several Bach Motets, including Jesu meine Freude, BWV 227.
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
Saturday, November 5, 2022
10:00 AM
First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 Street, Edmonton
Session leader: Lori Klingbeil
Reading session
A fun, no-pressure morning of reading music from Heinrich Schütz’s time for community musicians.
Admission free
Saturday, November 5, 2022
12:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 Street, Edmonton
Instructor: Cath Jackel
Music: The Borealis Consort
Music: The Borealis Consort
Renaissance dance session
Anyone can join for a dance class of renaissance dances.
Admission free
Saturday, November 5, 2022
3:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 Street, Edmonton
Community concert
Our community concert features local community musicians.
The performance will have performances by a recorder quartet, as well as Emilie Friesen on lute.
Saturday, November 5, 2022
7:30 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 Street, Edmonton
Schütz and more!
Jolaine Kerley, soprano
Dawn Bailey, soprano
Roderick Bryce, baritone
Naomie Delafield, baroque violin
Josephine van Lier, viola da gamba
Christopher Bagan, organ, harpsichord
You will be transported to the time of Schütz, with beautiful instrumental music by Bertali, Dress, Capricornius, and Finger, as well as a selection of Schütz’s fantastic Geistliche Conzerte.
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.
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