Early Music Fridays

Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church and the Early Music Guild announce another season of professional Northwest performers in the acoustically brilliant at the intimate Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church chapel. Don’t miss a single performance!  

Tickets: $20 general, $15 seniors, $10 Students and NUUC members. Order on-line or at the door.

Free parking in the church parking lot, east of the chapel.
Call: 206-325-7066 or visit www.earlymusicguild.org for further details.

Friday, October 7, 2011   7:30pm

• Vicki Boeckman & David Ohannesian Recorder Duo
• Vicki Boeckman and David Ohannesian explore music from seven centuries for recorders. Using instruments ranging in size from a mere five inches to over six feet tall, many of them built by David, they’ll play courtly love songs, virtuosic baroque duets, and even some pieces about Australian animals! Don’t miss this chance to hear two of Seattle’s leading performers present an evening of musical delights. Works by Ciconia, Sweelinck, Morley, Telemann, and Eccles.

Friday, November 18, 2011   7:30pm

• Jeff Cohan:  Flutes and Music from Six Centuries
• Flutist Jeffrey Cohan, who the Boston Globe calls "The Flute Master", has performed in over 25 countries. First Prize winner of the Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Competition in New York and recipient of grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music and the French Government, he has received international acclaim both as a modern flutist and as one of the foremost specialists on transverse flutes from the renaissance through the early 19th century.Jeffrey Cohan, with additional players to be determined, will present works for 12 transverse flutes from the renaissance through the present, with selections for renaissance descant, tenor, bass and great bass flutes, baroque flutes by Hotteterre, Quantz, Rottenburg and Denner, early multi-keyed English originals from 1785 and1820 by Potter and Rudall, a Meyer-system flute from around 1900 and modern flute.

Friday, December 9, 2011   7:30pm

• John Lenti: Solo Lute
  
• The theorbo can mimic the delicacy of the aeolian harp or the thunder of the tympani, making it the perfect ornament of the opera orchestra. Behind the arabesque screen, the rosette, in the center of the theorbo are shadows of all those scenes and characters it has so often accompanied. Hear a little Spanish dancing girl, a brash Harlequin, the lament of a lover, the very gods of Olympus, all rendered in the chiaroscuro tones of the most evocative of the lutes. John Lenti presents a solo recital with music of Robert de Visée and Bellerofonte Castaldi, alongside arrangements of Gallot, Gaultier, Forqueray, Couperin and Lully.

Friday, January 6, 2011   7:30pm

• The Tudor Choir IN DULCI JUBILO: A Renaissance Christmas
  
• The critically acclaimed, Seattle-based Tudor Choir, directed by Doug Fullington, celebrates the season with IN DULCI JUBILO: A Renaissance Christmas-a holiday concert of festive carols and motets from around Western Europe. England, Spain, Germany, France, and Italy are represented with motets by Palestrina, Praetorius, Victoria, Tallis, and others, sharing the program with traditional tunes and their Renaissance roots. Hear some of your best-loved carols in their original settings and connect with an earlier era and all its wonderful traditions of holiday music-making.

Friday, March 9, 2012   7:30pm

• Portland Viol Consort: Pictures at an Exhibition
• The Portland Viol Consort – Joanna Blendulf, Max Fuller, Lee Inman and Tim Scott – was formed in 2009 as the only professional consort of viols in the Pacific Northwest, and makes its second Seattle-area appearance in 2012.  For this performance, “Pictures at an Exhibition”, the Consort is pleased to conduct a gallery tour of some of the best-known and best-loved English masterpieces for two- three- and four-part consorts.  Works by John Jenkins, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Purcell, and Matthew Locke – among others – will be featured on the program.

Friday, March 16, 2012    7:30pm

• Byrd Ensemble (formerly “The Renaissance Singers “)Josquin and the Franco-Flemish Style
• As part of the Early Music Guild’s Early Music Fridays series, the Byrd Ensemble will perform, “Josquin and the Franco-Flemish Style.” The Franco-Flemish style of polyphonic vocal music composition developed in Europe during the 15 and 16th century. The Franco-Flemish style developed out of the Franco-Flemish School, which was made of five generations of Renaissance composers who were some of the most influential composers of the Renaissance. This program will trace the development of the Franco-Flemish style and will feature composers Josquin dez Prez (c.1450-1521), Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1517), Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) and more.The Byrd Ensemble, described as “Seattle’s own masters of ancient polyhony” (Seattle Times), is a vocal ensemble specializing in the performance of Renaissance vocal music. The ensemble of eight to ten singers have been performing programs of medieval, renaissance, baroque and modern music in the greater Seattle area since 2003. The Byrd Ensemble have been presented by the Early Music Guild’s Musician of the Guild and First Tuesdays series, Tudor Choir, Music Northwest and Seattle University. The Byrd Ensemble are Artists-in-Residence at Seattle’s first Episcopal parish, Trinity Parish Church (established 1865). The group’s creative efforts are led by Markdavin Obenza.