Pallade Musica

Early Music Vancouver’s 2013-2014 season includes intimate chamber performances by world-renowned performers, vocal masterworks at the Chan Centre, compelling concerts on the North Shore, and an extraordinary main series featuring some of the world’s leading performers of early music.

Here’s highlights of the Main Concert, the Early Music at the Cellar, and the Early Music at The Meek concert series:

Main Concert Series

Schubert’s Octet & the Rosamunde Quartet
Date: Friday, September 20, 8 pm
Venue: Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Marc Destrubé and friends present a period instrument performance of two undisputed highlights of the chamber music literature: Schubert’s monumental Octet, together with the extraordinary “Rosamunde” quartet.

CultureDays: “The Path to Performance”
Special free event
Date: Saturday, September 28, 3 pm
Venue: Hodson Manor, 1254 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver
Join Artistic Director Matthew White and musicians Stephen Stubbs (guitar), Catherine Webster (soprano), and Tom Berghan (banjo) for an interactive discussion of the process of developing a new program of music. Event also includes an open rehearsal as the musicians identify possible selections for a concert of American 19th-century song (for inclusion in the 2014-2015 season).

“Canti di a Terra”: Music from Corsica, Persia & Mediæval Europe
Date: Friday, 18 October 18, 8 pm
Venue: Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard Street, Vancouver
This concert represents an extraordinary meeting of musical cultures: Constantinople, the Montreal ensemble dedicated to early music from the Mediterranean, and Barbara Furtuna, the vocal quartet that specializes in the unique, centuries-old tradition of Corsican polyphonic song. Together they present “Canti di a Terra”, taking audiences on a voyage from the heart of the Mediterranean and the mesmerizing songs of Corsica to ancient Persia and mediæval Europe.

“Terreno e vago”: Music from 17th-century Italy
Date: Friday, November 22, 8 pm
Venue: Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard Street, Vancouver
This is the debut West coast appearance of up-and-coming Canadian ensemble Pallade Musica, grand prize winners at the Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition in October 2012. This program will explore the rich and melodic seventeenth-century Italian repertoire for strings.

G.F. Handel’s “Nine German Arias”
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014; 8 pm
Venue: Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
The “Nine German Arias” still rank among Handel’s best-kept secrets. Soprano Dorothée Mields, renowned for her flawless technique and the ethereal clarity of her voice, is joined by Marc Destrubé and an ensemble of West Coast musicians for this extraordinary performance of Handel’s most joyous and profound music.

Celebrating Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Date: Friday, 28 February 28, 2014; 8 pm
Venue: Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
2014 marks the 300th birthday of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, one of Johann’s most well-known and successful sons. We’re commemorating this special occasion with a performance by Marc Destrubé and three celebrated instrumentalists from the Netherlands, superb interpreters of this expressive, rhetorical, and influential repertoire.

Tickets:
$36; $18 ages 35 and younger
Series tickets for any five concerts of your choice: $153; $90 ages 35 and younger
Series tickets for all ten concerts: $288; $180 ages 35 and younger

Tickets for all Main Series concerts (with the exception of Iestyn Davies’ March 30 performance) are available both online and by phoning 604.732.1610.

Early Music at the Cellar

Bradamante Cello Duo
[Bradamante Cello Duo; photo by Teresa Tam]

Bradamante: Wild Love
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 8 pm
Venue: Cellar Restaurant and Jazz Club, 3611 West Broadway, Vancouver
Dazzling new cello duo Bradamante, composed of young cellists Elinor Frey and Shirley Hunt, will present a program of music and readings based on Ariosto’s exceptional poem, Orlando Furioso. Music by Vivaldi, Jacchini, Boccherini, and more.

Tanya Tomkins
[Tanya Tomkins performs music by Bach; photo by Jan Gates]

Bach: The Six Suites for Violoncello Solo
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014; 8 pm
Venue: Cellar Restaurant and Jazz Club, 3611 West Broadway, Vancouver
Acclaimed cellist Tanya Tomkins returns to Vancouver for two extraordinary evenings of Bach, performing all six of Bach’s masterful Cello Suites on baroque cello and on the seldom-heard violoncello piccolo. Don’t miss these intimate and inspired performances.

Tickets: $30 single tickets; $128 for all five concerts. Tickets for all Early Music at the Cellar concerts are available online or via phoning 604.732.1610. All Early Music at the Cellar concerts are presented in cooperation with Music on Main.

Early Music at the Meek

J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites: Suites 1, 2 & 5
Date: Sunday, September 22, 3 pm
Venue: Kay Meek Centre Studio Theatre, 1700 Mathers Avenue, West Vancouver
Virtuoso cellist Tanya Tomkins opens this series with a very special recital, featuring three of Bach’s masterful Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. “Playing this music for audiences, I feel like a tour guide, helping them explore some of the most extraordinary musical terrain in existence.”

Bradamante: Wild Love
Date: Sunday, November 24, 3 pm
Venue: Kay Meek Centre Studio Theatre, 1700 Mathers Avenue, West Vancouver
See listing above for details.

Celebrating Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Date: Sunday, March 2, 2014, 3 pm
Venue: Kay Meek Centre Studio Theatre, 1700 Mathers Avenue, West Vancouver
See listing above for details.

Tickets: $36; $18 ages 35 and younger
Series tickets for all three concerts: $87; $54 ages 35 and younger
Tickets for all Early Music at the Meek concerts are available online or via phoning the Kay Meek Centre box office at 604.981.6335.

All Early Music Vancouver concerts are included in the “Bring a Youth for Free” program. Rush seats for students with valid ID go on sale for $10 (at the door only), an hour before the start of each performance. Subject to availability. These programs do not apply to Iestyn Davies’ March 30 performance.

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