Concert in the Galleries

Free, no tickets required

Students from the Case Western Reserve University Historical Performance Program offer a program titled Milk and Honey: Sumptuous Music of the Seventeenth Century.

Program

CHRISTOPH BERNHARD (1628–92)
Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt
Performed by Mullins, Ricketts, Leslie, Kim, Escobar, Rosenblum

HEINRICH BIBER (attr.) (1644–1704)
O dulcis Jesu
Performed by Mullins, Wilkinson, Romey, Maust

TARQUINIO MERULA (1594 or 95–1665)
Favus distillans
Performed by Cowart, Wilkinson, Romey, Maust

DARIO CASTELLO (c. 1590–c.1658)
Sonata Decimasesta
Performed by Wilkinson, Kim, Black, Escobar, Romey, Rosenblum

MERULA
Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna
Performed by Cowart, Escobar, Wead

ANONYMOUS
Chiacona di Paradiso e d'Inferno
from Canzonette Spirituali, e Morali (Milano 1658)
Performed by Mullins, Ricketts, Cowart, Wilkinson, Escobar, Romey, Rosenblum, Maust, Wead

Performers
Elena Mullins and Sian Ricketts, soprano
Tracy Cowart, mezzo-soprano
Lisa Kim, Matthew Leslie Santana, and Christine Wilkinson, violin
Cynthia Black, viola
David Esteban Escobar, violoncello and viola da gamba
John Romey, double bass and violone
Paula Maust and Andrew Rosenblum, keyboard
Adam Wead, theorbo

About the Performers

• Cynthia Black (viola), originally from Dallas, TX, is a second-year master's student at CIM studying with Lynne Ramsey.
• Tracy Cowart (mezzo-soprano) is a third-year DMA student at CWRU in the Historical Performance program from Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, in the studio of Ellen Hargis.
• David Esteban Escobar (cello, gamba) is a first-year DMA student at CWRU in the Historical Performance program, from Medellín, Colombia.
• Lisa Kim (violin) is a second-year master's student at CIM, from Sammamish, Washington, in the studio of William Preucil and Stephen Rose.
• Matthew Leslie-Santana (violin) is a second-year master's student at CIM from Miami, FL, in the studio of David Updegraff.
• Paula Maust (continuo) is a second-year master's student at CIM from Berlin, Pennsylvania, in the studio of Todd Wilson.
• Elena Mullins (soprano) is a second-year master's student at CWRU from Oak Park, Illinois, in the studio of Ellen Hargis.
• Sian Ricketts (soprano) is a second-year master's student at Case from Minneapolis, Minnesota in the studios of Ellen Hargis and Debra Nagy.
• John Romey (violone/double bass) is a first-year D.M.A. student in Historical Performance at Case Western Reserve University. He studies violone with Rob Nairn and viola da gamba with Catherine Meints.
• Andrew Rosenblum (keyboard) is a first-year master's student at CIM in harpsichord and collaborative piano from Potomac, Maryland. He studies piano with Anita Pontremoli and harpsichord with Janina Ceaser.
• Adam Wead (lute/theorbo) is a graduate of Indiana University where he studied with Nigel North. Originally from Austin, Texas, Adam now resides in Cleveland and works at the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. (Special guest)
• Christine Wilkinson (baroque violin) is a second-year master's student in Historical Performance at Case Western Reserve University where she studies with Julie Andrijeski. She hails from Mount Vernon, Washington.

These programs made possible in part by the Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund, the P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund, and the Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund.

Gallery concerts are made possible in part by the generosity of an anonymous donor.

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