Arts Council to host Baroque concert at Gallatin River Gallery

ARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY

The Arts Council of Big Sky welcomes the return of Baroque Music Montana to Big Sky for another summer evening of classical music. This celebrated ensemble will perform on Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m. in the Gallatin River Gallery. The intimate space is perfect to hear the beautiful acoustic instruments that will be played by incredible musicians from around the world.

Notated music has always contained a degree of interpretation and improvisation; in the 17th and early 18th centuries, this improvisation played many roles. Sometimes it was decorative ornamentation around written notes, or completely new pieces generated by improvising upon a common bass line. Other times it was a way of establishing a key or connecting more structured episodes to each other. Styles of improvising differed as much as their nation’s languages and this exciting program explores the ways the lively, charming and surprising ways they coexisted and influenced each other.

Bozeman-based Baroque Music Montana performs works by celebrated composers of the Baroque, as well as many pieces rarely or not heard since the eighteenth century. The group has also appeared on series in Seattle, Spokane, Syracuse, Ottawa and Quebec and in collaboration with such organizations as Intermountain Opera Bozeman, the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings Symphony, Philipsburg Theatre, Coulter Museum of Art, Bozeman Art Museum, UM and MSU and Bitterroot Baroque in creative programming serving Montana through outreach, house, and public concerts, outdoor performances, lectures and masterclasses. Made possible through a grant from The Juilliard School’s Alan D. Marks Center for Career Services and Entrepreneurship, the umbrella of Baroque Music Montana was founded in 2015 by violinist Carrie Krause to provide a meaningful cultural institution of intimate, communicative, progressive performance for our vibrant community. 

Performing will be Carrie Krause, baroque violin; Manami Mizumoto, baroque violin; Phoebe Carrai, baroque cello; and John Lenti, theorbo. Tickets are now on sale for $35 per person at bigskyarts.org

Program
Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693)
Sonata a 2 violins in F

Diego Ortiz (1510-1570)
Recercarda Primera

Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)
Sonata Settima in A minor, 1693

Giovannie Battista Fontana (1589-1630)
Sonata for 2 violins and bass

Michel Pignolet de Monteclair (1667-1737)
Duet pour 2 dessus sans basse

Nicola Matteis (1650ca-1714)
Suite in F
Passagio Roto a solo violin

Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Musikalische Ergötzung no. 4 in E minor

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Op 4 No 10 G major