March 25, 2023

Saturday March 25, 2022

7:30pm

The Chapel for the Arts, 6238 Alexander Dr, St. Louis, MO 63105

"The Oboe in Baroque Italy"

Featuring Curtis Foster, oboe

Brandi Berry - violin

Jane Price - violin

Laura Reycraft - viola

Ken Kulosa - cello

Anita Hagerman - bass

Maryse Carlin - harpsichord

Antonio Brescianello (1690-1758) 

Sonata for Oboe, Violin, and Continuo in C minor

Largo

Allegro

Adagio

Allegro

Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764) 

Sonata for Two Violins and Continuo in G Major, Op. 5, No. 1

Andante

Largo Andante

Allegro

Vivace

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) 

Sonata in C minor, K. 84

Sonata in C minor, K. 115

Leonardo Leo (1694-1744) 

Concerto for Cello in D Major, L. 10

Andantino

Con bravura

Larghetto

Fuga

Allegro molto

Alessandro Marcello (1684-1750) 

Concerto for Oboe, Strings, and Continuo in D minor

Andante e spiccato

Adagio

Presto

Curtis Foster, Baroque oboe, has appeared as principal oboe or soloist with the Seattle, Indianapolis and St. Louis Baroque Orchestras, Madison Bach Musicians, the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, Classical Music Consort of Toronto, and the Kingsbury Ensemble, under such conductors as Barthold Kuijken, Bruno Weil, Jeanne Lamon, and Stanley Ritchie. In addition, he has performed for four seasons with the Bloomington Early Music Festival Orchestra, with whom he has recorded for Indiana University Press. A passionate advocate of new music, he actively commissions and premieres contemporary works for old instruments. Mr. Foster is a graduate of Indiana University's Early Music Institute, where he studied Baroque oboe with Washington McClain and recorder with Eva Legêne and Han Toll. 

Brandi Berry, M.M.Early Music Violin at Indiana University and B.M. Violin Performance at University of North Texas, has appeared with various period-instrument groups throughout the South and Midwest including, Baroque Band, Indianapolis and Atlanta Baroque Orchestras, and Fort Wayne Bach Collegium. She has also played in numerous festivals and workshops throughout the U.S. and on both coasts of Canada, including the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, the Bloomington Early Music Festival where she was concertmaster of the Opera Orchestra. In 2007, she was a winner of the EMI Concerto Competition, and a semi-finalist in the 2008 American Bach Soloists Competition. Ms Berry currently resides in Chicago where she continues to perform and teach. 

The Kingsbury Ensemble is one of the Midwest’s premier professional early music groups. Formed in 1999 under the artistic direction of Maryse Carlin, the Ensemble performs exclusively on period instruments, combining respect for historical style and scholarship with exciting musicianship and flair. The Kingsbury Ensemble is renowned for the scope of its offerings, having presented everything from sonata recitals to concerts employing a Baroque orchestra with dancers and singers in costume. Their concert programming embraces all the national styles of the period from Monteverdi through the Romantic era, vigorously seeking out great music which is novel and unpublished. The Kingsbury Ensemble has been praised by audiences and critics and has presented many concerts at the Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with their art exhibits. Its summer residence is in Saint Savin, French Pyrénées, now in its fifteenth year.

We wish to thank The Chapel of the Arts for welcoming us.

Many heartfelt thanks also to our friends and supporters who, through their encouragement and financial contributions, allow us to continue to bring great music in great spaces to the Saint Louis public, and beyond.

Our next concert will take place on April 26 at the Second Baptist Church in Richmond Heights, with music of G.F. Handel.

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