Seattle Bach Festival: Bach in Motion
$20 ($15 UWAA/UW employee, $10 student/ages 65 & over)
- Tekla Cunningham, baroque violin
- Tshedzom Tingkhye, dance
- Alejandro Frederickson, dance
Georg Philipp Telemann — Selected works
Melia Watras — Selected works
Johann Sebastian Bach — Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
This recital brings music for solo baroque violin to life with the stunning choreography of Anna Mansbridge. UW Artist-in-Residence Tekla Cunningham plays works for solo baroque violin by Pisendel, Telemann, Melia Watras, and J.S. Bach's D minor partita. See, hear, and feel the heartbreak and solace of Bach's iconic Ciaccona as embodied on the Meany Hall stage by dancers Tshedzom Tingkhye and Alejandro Frederickson in choreography by Anna Mansbridge. A collaboration with the University of Washington School of Music.
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 Tshedzom Tingkhye, dance
Tshedzom Tingkhye is a first-generation Tibetan artist who specializes in dance performance, choreography, improvisation, and dance film. She is a graduate from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee where she was a recipient of the Julie Thompson Memorial Scholarship and alumni award winner for Highest in Academic Achievement.
Originally from Seattle, Washington, Tshedzom grew up a homeschooler and had an independently lead education in various arts including Tibetan music, classical music, dance, theater, and visual arts. She began dancing at The Creative Dance Center with Anne Green Gilbert where she explored modern techniques, improvisation, partnering, and composition. She was a member of Kaleidoscope Dance Company for 7 years and worked with a plethora of choreographers including Jim Coleman, Marlayna Locklear, Wade Madsen, and Ellie Sandstrom. As a young adult, Tshedzom explored the larger Seattle dance scene and performed with local companies including The Three Yells with Veronica Lee-Baik and Beautiful Carcass with Maya Soto + Nico Tower. After receiving her Associates degree, Tshedzom pursued her BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
At the Conservatory, she worked with notable artists including Robert Moses' Kin, Juel D. Lane, Edisa Weeks, and Urban Bush Women. In her undergraduate studies, Tshedzom took interest in Dance Theatre, Cunningham, contemporary, codified modern techniques, and dance technology. As a result of the pandemic, she found film as a means to create in isolation and developed a new passion for this medium. She created a diverse collection of dance films in which she explored various ways of maintaining focal balance between editing composition, choreography, and movement of the camera. This discovery led her to produce her senior thesis project, “a gallery of ཐུན་མཚམས།”, an evening-length interdisciplinary work that combined dance film, live performance, and interactive set.
Tshedzom's choreography has been presented at Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Kaleidoscope Dance Company, TibetFest, Tibet Film Festival, Brooklyn Museum, Dance Film Lab, and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Her practice continues to evolve while maintaining roots in her Tibetan culture, activism, and relationship with nature. Tshedzom is a member of Motlee Party and a part of Boston Early Music Festival’s Dance Ensemble. Based between Seattle and Boston, Tshedzom grows a body of repertoire while actively performing across coasts.
https://wwwtshedzom.com/