The signature ensemble of the famed Boston Early Music Festival opens the new season of the Kilbourn Concert Series at the Eastman School of Music at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Kilbourn Hall.
Directed by Eastman Professor and lutenist Paul O’Dette and virtuoso violinist Robert Mealy, the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble will perform a program of orchestral works and concertos by Bach, Vivaldi, Graupner, and Zelenka.
Since its founding in 1980, the Boston Early Music Festival has been recognized as a leader in the field of early music and historical performance. Through its programs, BEMF is North America’s premier presenting organization for conservators and performers of music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
O’Dette is the artistic director of the Boston Early Music Festival. A Grammy Award winner for a CD of Purcell songs with Sylvia McNair, O’Dette is an internationally renowned performer and scholar of Renaissance and Baroque music. He has been on the faculty of the Eastman School since 1976 and directs the Eastman School’s Early Music ensemble Collegium Musicum.
The Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble will also perform later in the week in concerts of Bach’s cantatas at Christ Church (Episcopal) on Friday, Oct. 17.
Kilbourn Concert Series tickets are $10 to $20 and can be purchased at the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Box Office, 108 East Ave., 585-454-2100, or online at www.esm.rochester.edu/concerts.
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Calendar Listing:
October 14
8 p.m.
Kilbourn Concert Series: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble. Robert Mealy and Paul O’Dette, co-directors. The program includes Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (BWV 1049) with Robert Mealy, Baroque violin; Sandy Miller, Baroque flute, and William Porter, harpsichord; and Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concert in C Major (RV 425), with Paul O’Dette, mandolin. Also music by Zelenka and Graupner
Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St.
Tickets: $10 to $20, available at the Rochester Philharmonic Box Office, 108 East Ave.; by phone (585) 454-2100; or online at www.esm.rochester.edu/concerts.
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