Seattle Bach Festival: Bach, by Arrangement
$40 (students free)
- Tekla Cunningham, baroque violin
- Stef Creswell, baroque viola
- David Morris, baroque cello
- Henry Lebedinsky, keyboards
Bach's brilliant organ trios, in arrangements for violin, viola, and continuo.
3 performances:
- Friday, February 21, 7:30pm at Christ Episcopal Church in Tacoma
- Saturday, February 22, 7:30pm at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood
- Sunday, February 23, 2pm at Epiphany Parish of Seattle
About Seattle Bach Festival
The Seattle Bach Festival serves the Seattle area with great performances of the masterworks of J.S. Bach and pearls of the Baroque. From large scale works like oratorios, cantatas, and passions to chamber music and solo works, we offer you a portal into a world of beauty, passion, joy, learning, and community. Our mission is to inspire with performances of masterworks of Bach and pearls of the Baroque that move and uplift the spirits, nourish hearts, open minds, and convene community.
https://seattlebachfestival.orgAbout Tekla Cunningham, baroque violin
Baroque violinist Tekla Cunningham delights in bringing the music of the baroque, classical and romantic eras to life with vivid and expressive historically informed performances.
Praised as "a consummate musician whose flowing solos and musical gestures are a joy to watch", her performances have been described as "ravishingly beautiful" and "stellar". Her greatest musical love is music of the baroque and chamber music of all stripes, though she can’t seem to quit Johannes Brahms. She is co-artistic director of Pacific MusicWorks in Seattle, artist-in-residence at the University of Washington and founder and director of the Whidbey Island Music Festival.
Tekla plays regularly as concertmaster and principal player with the American Bach Soloists. Her new release 'Stylus Phantasticus' with Pacific MusicWorks is delighting critics. "Tekla is a marvel…an endlessly songful bird". Early Music America describes the recording as "played with verve, the music presented here reaffirms the old notion that instrumental music can have the flair of any theatrical spectacle. … a stellar vessel for the boldest showmanship".
Tekla plays on a violin made by Sanctus Seraphin in Venice in 1746.
http://www.teklacunningham.com/About Stef Creswell, baroque viola
Stef Creswell is an enthusiastic and lifelong proponent of both early music performance and chamber music. They have played with members of the Lafayette Quartet, studied with the Juilliard and Borodin quartets, and performed as a member of both the Alighieri Quartet and the Alder Quartet. Stef has attended International String Quartet competitions and several workshops. Their first teacher in early music endeavors was Stanley Ritchie, at Indiana University. Thereafter they worked with August Wenzinger, Gustav Leonhardt, Phoebe Carrai, and Jean Lamon, among others, having studied at the Amherst and Oberlin summer institutes, and also performed and recorded with Tafelmusik. In Seattle, Stef has performed with Tekla Cunningham and Caroline Nicolas in Pacific MusicWorks projects and in the Whidbey Island Music Festival, and with Henry Lebedinsky in Early Music Underground, Classical Uncorked! and for the American Guild of Organists Seattle Convention, 2022. They have played solos with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Seattle Baroque Orchestra, been a founding member of the Seattle New Music Ensemble, taught chamber music in the schools for 12 years through the Seattle Chamber Music Society, and recently completed their third year as Chamber Music Program Coordinator at Summer Strings, the Cascade Youth Orchestra day camp for young musicians.
https://seattlebachfestival.org/team-member/stef-creswell/