Anacortes Early Music Series: The Classical String Quartet
$30 (students ages 18 & under free); cash or check at the door
- Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
- Cecilia Archuleta, violin
- Tekla Cunningham, viola d'amore
- Meg Brennand, cello
Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet in B minor, Hob. III:68, Op. 64, No. 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — String Quartet No. 20 in D major, K. 499
Violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock heads-up a program on rich, clear period instruments performing beloved works of Haydn and Mozart. She is joined by Cecilia Archuleta, violin; Tekla Cunningham, viola d'amore; and Meg Brennard, violoncello. The program includes Hadyn’s masterful Quartet in B minor, Op. 64, No. 2 and Mozart's loveliest Quartet No. 20 in D major, K. 499. The program opens with a gem of a viola d’amore quartet by the seldom-heard Austrian composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister, featuring Ms. Cunningham on her sweet and warm viola d'amore.
About Anacortes Early Music Concert Series
The Anacortes Early Music Concert Series has brought historically informed performances featuring world-renowned musicians and rising stars to Anacortes for over a decade. Historically informed performance (period performance) is an approach in Western music which adheres to the knowledge, as it is currently known, of the instruments and performance practice of the period in which the music was conceived. Access to examples of earlier musical instruments and historical treatises are the basis on which period performance is formed. Instruments corresponding to the period of the music being performed are used, as well as technique and aesthetics of the period. Anacortes Early Music is a project of the Anacortes Arts Foundation.
https://www.anacortesartsfoundation.org/events.htmlAbout Tekla Cunningham, viola d'amore
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/