Gallery Concerts: A Rameau with a View (Candlelight Series)
$35 ($30 ages 65 & over, $15 ages 17-25)
- Marc Destrubé, violin
- Jonathan Oddie, harpsichord
- Sarah Abigael Stone, viola da gamba
Jean-Marie Leclair — Selected works
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville — Selected works
Marin Marais — Selected works
By 1740, Jean-Phillipe Rameau had reached the pinnacle of French opera, but he decided to take a break from opera and instead focus on chamber music. The result is (arguably) some of the most creative chamber music of the French Baroque, including some tributes to his close friends. Canadian violinist Marc Destrubé joins forces with gambist Sarah Stone and harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie for performances of Rameau's Pièces de clavecin en concerts, as well as works by LeClair, Mondonville, and Marais.
2 performances:
- Saturday, January 18 at 7:30pm (Candlelight Series) at The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center
- Sunday, January 19 at 3pm (Showcase Series) at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
About Marc Destrubé, violin
Canadian violinist Marc Destrubé is first violinist with the Axelrod String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., where the quartet plays on the museum's collection of period instruments. Among his many performances and artistic endeavors, he serves as artistic director of the Pacific Baroque Festival in Victoria, Canada.
http://www.marcdestrube.com/About Jonathan Oddie, harpsichord
Jonathan Oddie is a rare synergy of musician and scholar. In demand across the United States as a versatile performer on harpsichord, fortepiano, and continuo organ, he works with such leading musicians as violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky and flutist Janet See, and orchestras including Portland Baroque Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony. Mr. Oddie, currently visiting assistant professor of music in historical performance: historical keyboards at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, holds a doctorate in musicology from the University of Oxford, where he researched the instrumental music of English composer Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), and has published articles in the scholastic journals Early Music and Historical Performance. His awards include a Performer's Certificate from the Jacobs School of Music and a Frank Huntington Beebe Fellowship. Oddie studied piano and harpsichord at Indiana University, where his teachers included Elisabeth Wright, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, and Edmund Battersby.
https://www.facebook.com/j.j.oddieAbout Sarah Abigael Stone, viola da gamba
A curiosity in the cultural background behind the music she plays led Sarah Stone to Baroque cello and viola da gamba. "The show is not over... Questlove keeps spinning into the early morning. Sir Patrick Stewart has been reading a Shakespeare sonnet everyday. Sarah Stone, who plays cello and viola da gamba, has stuck to her "Bach Everyday" performances...Since March 19, she's done a Bach Chorale each day." (Geoff Edgers, The Washington Post, June 10, 2020). At the start of the pandemic Sarah created Everyday Bach, recording multi-instrumental Bach for consecutive 375 days. Sarah plays with Repast Baroque, NYBI, Washington National Cathedral, Seraphic Fire, The Thirteen, Trinity Baroque Orchestra,The Sebastians, and Baroque Music Montana. Sarah holds a Masters in Historical Performance from the Juilliard School, a Masters from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelors of Music from Rice University.
https://www.sarahabigaelstone.com/