Seattle Baroque Orchestra

Seattle Baroque Orchestra's 15th Season
October 18, 2008 - April 19, 2009

Prominent Guest Artists to Lead Each of SBO’s Five Concerts

Stephen Stubbs
David Greenberg
Marion Verbruggen
Monica Huggett
Stanley Ritchie

For 14 years, Seattle Baroque Orchestra has been exploring the magnificent repertoire of Handel and Bach, Monteverdi and Purcell, Corelli and Vivaldi (not to mention Biber, Castello, Schmelzer and Zelenka!). As Music Director, it has been a joy and a privilege to bring you these concerts, and to do so with such wonderful colleagues, Board and staff. As SBO has matured, many changes and challenges have been weathered, and I am proud of the organization we have built.

It is my pleasure to introduce to you our 2008-09 season. Joining our outstanding Seattle-based core as guest soloists and directors will be an array of some of the most eminent names in early music. I was so pleased with the enthusiastic response I received from each director when I invited them to lead an SBO concert. They know they’ll be performing for a great audience. Without you the music would remain silent on the page. I look forward to coming together with you in the Nordstrom Recital Hall to hear great works, to support old friends and new ones, and to celebrate this timeless human endeavor, the art and the craft of making music.

Ingrid Matthews
Co-founder
Seattle Baroque Orchestra

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A Cape Breton Christmas
Saturday, December 13, 2008 -- 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 14, 2008 -- 3:00 p.m.
Director: David Greenberg

David Greenberg is one of the most exciting and versatile musicians in North America. He’s a sought-after Baroque soloist and renowned Cape Breton-style fiddler, and has been a featured artist with Baroque and modern groups all over the US, Canada, and Scotland. He’ll join us for a program featuring music of Purcell and Muffat, along with Scottish composers James Oswald and Robert Mackintosh and traditional music from Scotland and Canada. Likely no one is better equipped than David to bridge the gap between Baroque music and the Scottish/Cape Breton fiddling with which it shares some history, and we're privileged to welcome this old friend back as guest director in what promises to be an ear-opening experience for everyone.

Handel's Messiah at Town Hall
Saturday, December 20, 2008 -- 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 21, 2008 -- 3:00 p.m.
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Seattle Baroque Orchestra led by Ingrid Matthews and the Tudor Choir under the direction of Doug Fullington return for two performances of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Their much lauded period version of Handel’s most famous creation filled Town Hall—a warm and intimate setting in which the rich complexity of the score can be heard perfectly. Named one of last years ten most memorable musical moments by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, R.M.Campbell
described it as "a night of energy and joyous spirit." Soloists are Amanda Jane Kelly, soprano; Jennifer Lane, mezzo soprano; Ross Hauck, tenor; and Jeffrey Strauss, baritone.

Advance tickets are $22/$19 Town Hall members, seniors & students at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006. $75 tickets, which include a post-concert reception, are available. Children 6-16 admitted free with paying adult. Children under 6 not admitted. $25/$22 at the door.

Verbruggen! Virtuoso! Vivaldi!
Saturday, February 14, 2009 -- 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 15, 2009 -- 3:00 p.m.
Director: Marion Verbruggen

The Baroque era was the time when our modern notion of virtuosity first took hold, and the solo concerto gave a new breed of pyrotechnical instrumentalists a platform to display their prowess. Vivaldi and Telemann wrote more spectacular concertos than anyone, and we’re presenting a true virtuoso and superstar of the recorder, Dutch artist Marion Verbruggen, in a concert featuring some of Vivaldi’s and Telemann’s magnificent works for recorder and strings. We’ll also feature Tekla Cunningham and James Garlick in Vivaldi’s transcendental Folia d’Espagna variations. It will be an evening to remember, with the kind of crackling energy that can only come from the admixture of such an exciting soloist and the irrepressible exuberance of the SBO.

Stile Fantastico
Saturday, March 28, 2009 -- 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 29, 2009 -- 3:00 p.m.
Director: Monica Huggett

The thrill of presenting violinist Monica Huggett in her SBO debut is matched only by her choice of partner for the program: international cornetto phenom Bruce Dickey. These two luminaries will join us in a program of seventeenth-century Italian music in the so-called Stile Fantastico. It’s the first truly Baroque music, and the composers in this brazen style took quite a reactionary tack to cast off the fetters of the Renaissance. The improvisatory nature of the music, along with the chance to hear two of the greatest performers in Baroque music and the vibrant, spontaneous players of the SBO will make this one of the most exciting musical events of the year!

Back to Bach
Saturday, April 18, 2009 -- 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 19, 2009 -- 3:00 p.m.
Director: Stanley Ritchie

Stanley Ritchie will grace us with his inimitable charm and mastery to lead the SBO in a program featuring the full forces of the orchestra in music of the Bach family: an orchestral suite by Johann Bernhard Bach, a sinfonia by C.P.E., and of course, a generous helping of Johann Sebastian. In his third SBO appearance, Mahan Esfahani will dazzle in the E-major harpsichord concerto, and we’re delighted to welcome Courtney Westcott on baroque flute for a performance of the beloved b-minor orchestral suite. Maestro Ritchie, one of the finest violinists of our time, will lead from the fiddle. Come be reminded of why you listen to baroque music.

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