Saturday, September 28, 2024 @ 10:00am – 4:00pm (PDT)
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$35 (students free)

You'll hear Recitals and Q & A Sessions on an amazing range of historical keyboards. The performances will start with the exquisite, subtle sounds of the clavichord and lautenwerck, move on to the harpsichord and fortepiano, and conclude the day with the grand Martin Pasi Baroque organ. It is a very rare treat to get to see and hear so many different historical keyboards in one place!

Sessions are scheduled for five instruments and five marvelous performers:

9:30am: Doors open
10am-11am: Henry Lebedinsky, clavichord
11am-12pm: David Buice, lautenwerck
12pm-1pm: Byron Schenkman, harpsichord
1pm-2 pm: LUNCH BREAK
2pm-3 pm: Tamara Friedman, fortepiano with Tekla Cunningham, Classical violin
3pm-4 pm: Henry Lebedinsky, organ

Coffee, tea, pastries and light snacks will be served, and feel free to bring a lunch. Each musician will play a 30-minute program of music, followed by a 15-minute Q & A session and a 15-minute coffee/stretching break.

About Western Early Keyboard Association (WEKA)

The Western Early Keyboard Association, WEKA, was founded in 1998 to promote mutual interests, foster communication, and share resources and expertise among harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano, and organ enthusiasts, both professional and amateur, in the western United States.

http://www.wekaweb.org

About David Buice, lautenwerck

Before relocating to the Pacific Northwest, David Buice was Performing Artist-in-Residence at Oglethorpe University and Harpsichordist-in-Residence at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, and Minister of Music at Church of the New Covenant in Doraville, Georgia. He has served as Director of Music at Faith Lutheran Church, Seattle, since October of 2017.

In addition to directing the Faith Lutheran Music & Arts Ministry, he has performed solo keyboard and chamber music with resident instrumentalists in the Faith Sanctuary, as well as presenting harpsichord and lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord) recitals for the Anacortes Arts Federation.

https://www.faithseattle.org/about-us

About Byron Schenkman, harpsichord

Byron Schenkman is a Queer Jewish keyboard player and scholar with a background in Historical Performance and a passion for connecting people through music. In addition to performing live on piano, harpsichord, and fortepiano, Byron can be heard on more than forty CDs, including recordings on historical instruments from the National Music Museum, Vermillion, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

http://byronschenkman.com/

About Tamara Friedman, fortepiano

Pianist Tamara Friedman has been praised for the depth, wit, and humor of her lively performances (Seattle Times) and appreciated as "the magnificent pianist" whose "way with Mozart reached my heart as well as my intellect" (Journal Tribune, Portland, Maine). Tamara attended the Oberlin Conservatory and received her master’s degree from the Mannes College of Music (NYC). She has collaborated with such international artists as Stanley Ritchie, Jaap Schröder, and Vicki Boeckman, and appears with violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock as Duo Amadeus. In the Pacific Northwest she has performed on the Seattle Camerata, Allegro Baroque and Beyond, Belle Arte, Early Music Guild, Gallery Concerts, and Mostly Nordic series and for the Governor’s Chamber Music Festival.

Tamara has been a featured performer in early piano workshops for Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA), Seattle, Edmonds, and Washington State Music Teachers Associations, and the Western Early Keyboard Association. She maintains a private studio in La Conner, WA, where she teaches modern piano and fortepiano on her collection of 18th- and 19th-century keyboard instruments, which is on display at SEKM!—the Skagit Early Keyboard Museum.

Tamara spends her summers in Bath, Maine, where she also has a group of historical pianos and performs on the Kennebec Early Music Festival.

https://www.jackstraw.org/artist/tamara-friedman/

About Tekla Cunningham, Classical 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/

St. Augustine's in-the-Woods Episcopal Church

5217 South Honeymoon Bay Road
Freeland, WA 98249
United States

http://staugustinesepiscopalchurch.org/
(360) 331-4887