Program
Biographies

Aulos Ensemble

Handel's Aviary

Saturday, September 26, 2009 8:00 pm Synod Hall

On the wings of a dove! The Aulos Ensemble explores the amazing use of birdsong in Baroque music. Soar to the banks of the river Seine with the lyric talents of Rameau’s Hebe…Hear Handel’s opera arias all atwitter…Experience the force of nature in Bach’s sacred arias...Watch Rameau tame the savage breast…

The Aulos Ensemble

Christopher Krueger, flauto traverso
Marc Schachman, baroque oboe
Linda Quan, baroque violin
Loretta O’Sullivan, baroque cello
Arthur Haas, harpsichord
with
Kendra Colton, soprano

Program

Suite from Les Fêtes d’Hébé       Menuets       Air gracieux pour Zéphire et les Grâces       Air tendre pour l’Amour-Air pour le Génie de Mars-La Victoire	Jean Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764)
Handel’s Aviary       "La dove gli occhi io giro" from Admeto       “As when the dove” from Acis and Galatea       “Sweet Bird” from L’Allegro ed il Penseroso	George Frideric Handel (1685-1769)

Intermission

“Ich esse mit Freuden” from BWV 84 Affetuoso from 5th Brandenburg Concerto BWV 1050 “Mein Gläubiges Herze” from BWV 68	Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750)
Suite from Les Indes Galantes       Ouverture       Menuets       Musette       Air vif pour Zéphire et la Rose       Air pour les Guerriers       Air tendre pour la Rose       Air pour Borée et la Rose       Adoration du Soleil       Air grave pour les Incas du Perou       Air pour les Esclaves affricains       Chaconne       Tambourins	Rameau

Biographies

Aulos Ensemble
Individual Bios

Flutist CHRISTOPHER KRUEGER received his formative musical training in Boston and graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music. He is principal flutist with the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the Bach Ensemble, Smithsonian Chamber Players, and Boston Baroque. He has been featured as soloist on the Great Performers Series and Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, the City of London Festival and Lufthansa Festival in London, the Berlin Bach Festival, and at Tanglewood and Ravinia. Mr. Krueger has also performed with such diverse groups as the Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra, Aston Magna, Tafelmusik, Orpheus, and the Boston Symphony. He is Assistant Professor of Music at The University of Massachussets at Amherst, and on the faculties of the New England Conservatory and the Longy School of Music. He has recorded for DG, Sony, L'Oiseau-Lyre, RCA, Centaur, Nonesuch, and Telarc.

Oboist MARC SCHACHMAN was born in Berkeley, California, and received his education at Stanford University and the Juilliard School where he was awarded the B.S., M.S., and D.M.A. degrees. He has performed as soloist and principal oboe with "original instrument" orchestras throughout America including Philharmonia Baroque (San Francisco), Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque (Boston), and Mostly Mozart and The American Classical Orchestra (New York). He is a founding member of the Amadeus Winds, and performs often with groups such as Aston Magna, Helicon, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the New York Chamber Soloists. His recordings can be heard on the MHS/Musicmasters, Harmonia Mundi, Sony, L'Oiseau-Lyre, Telarc, and Centaur labels. He is on the faculty of Boston University, where he teaches oboe and baroque chamber music in the Historical Performance division.

Violinist LINDA QUAN was born in Los Angeles and graduated from the Juilliard School with the B.M. and M.M. degrees. She has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and has served as Concermistress with various American "original instrument" orchestras including the Handel and Haydn Society, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Mostly Mozart, and the American Classical Orchestra. She is a member of the Bach Ensemble, the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Atlantic Quartet, and appears frequently with groups such as Aston Magna, St. Lukes, and Helicon. Ms. Quan has recorded for Sony, L'Oiseau-Lyre, MHS/Musicmasters, CRI, Nonesuch, Centaur, and Opus One, and is on the faculty of Vassar College.

As a member of the Four Nations Ensemble, cellist LORETTA O’SULLIVAN has appeared on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center, and at the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Merkin Concert Hall, and the New York Historical Society, as well as at the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Festival of Arts and Ideas at Yale University, and Tema Culturais in Brazil. With the Haydn Baryton Trio and the Classical Quartet, she toured throughout Europe, and recorded with Dorian, Titanic, and Harmonia Mundi. Loretta has played continuo cello for many ensembles, including Opera Lafayette, Florida Grand Opera, the New York Collegium, Aston Magna, the American Bach Soloists, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, the Grand Tour, and Artek. She frequently plays with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Her performances for solo cello in recent years include the Bach Suites, her transcription of Heinrich Biber’s Passacaglia, Gabrielli’s Ricercar, and Benjamin Britten’s Third Suite. In collaboration with Larry Lipkis, she gave a pre-concert lecture for Yo-Yo Ma’s performance of the Bach Suites in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and has given master classes at Brooklyn College and the University of Iowa.

Harpsichordist ARTHUR HAAS was born in New York but grew up in Los Angeles and attended the Juilliard School and UCLA where he received a Master's degree in historical musicology. In 1975 he received the highest prize from the 2nd International Paris Harpsichord Competition and was subsequently appointed Professor of Harpsichord and Baroque Performance Practice at L'Ecole Nationale de Musique in Angouleme. In 1983 he returned to the U.S. to teach at the Eastman School of Music and at SUNY Stony Brook. He has performed with many New York ensembles including Orpheus and the Orchestra of St. Luke's and has appeared as soloist at the Mostly Mozart and Caramoor Festivals. Mr. Haas has recorded for EMI, Harmonia Mundi, Centaur and MHS/Musicmasters labels, and has given harpsichord recitals, and master classes throughout America and Europe. He is currently on the faculty of SUNY Stony Brook and the Mannes College of Music in New York.