Whidbey Island Music Festival: Resonance of Salzburg
$20 ($10 student/military)
Johann Joseph Vilsmayr — Selected works
Georg Muffat — Selected works
When we think of Venice, the names most likely come to mind are Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Gabrieli, and other composers associated with the great musical establishment of San Marco. For Leipzig it almost certainly would be Bach, and for Salzburg who else but Mozart?
Yet each of those cities had histories richer, deeper and more complex than those names might suggest. Salzburg was fertile ground for great composers generations before its most famous son was born. WIMF presents a new ensemble, Artifice (Cynthia Miller Freivogel and Tekla Cunningham, violins & violas d’amore; Elisabeth Reed, cello and viola da gamba; Daniel Zuluaga, lute, guitar & theorbo, and Katherine Heater, harpsichord), who will explore some of the great music produced in the late 17th and early 18th centuries by a trio of Salzburg’s great composers: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704), Johann Joseph Vilsmayr (1663–1722), and Georg Muffat (1653–1704).
About the Festival
The Whidbey Island Music Festival presents vibrant performances on period instruments of repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Beethoven on beautiful Whidbey Island, WA. The 2016 Whidbey Island Music Festival begins Friday, July 29th and runs through August 7th with two weekends of concerts.
St. Augustine's in-the-Woods Episcopal Church
5217 South Honeymoon Bay RoadFreeland, WA 98249
United States