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Houston Early Music presents

Mon., Mar. 28, 2011

TRIO SONNERIE, Monica Huggett, Dir.

The Harmony of Nations

7:30PM, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church
6221 Main Street (77030)

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Trio Sonnerie will be featured at the next Houston Early Music concert on Monday, March 28, 2011. Entitled The Harmony of Nations, the performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, 6221 Main Street, Houston, TX 77030.

The concert will feature English violinist and conductor, Monica Huggett, one of the foremost Baroque violinists and founder of Trio Sonnerie. Joining Huggett are Emilia Benjamin on viola da gamba and James Johnstone on harpsichord.

The trio will bring to the stage a contrasting program, including one of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s Mystery Sonatas for virtuoso violin, as well as French music for viola da gamba, tunes from Jacobean England and a sonata for violin and harpsichord by J.S. Bach.

“We have featured the remarkable Monica Huggett before,” said Nancy Ellis, artistic director of Houston Early Music. “It is a pleasure to welcome this extraordinary violinist back to Houston. She’s a favorite with Houston Early Music audiences.”

Dr. Gregory Barnett, associate professor of musicology at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, will offer a pre-concert lecture at 6:45 p.m. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Houston Early Music.

Barnett said Huggett’s performances are exceptional. “She has an amazing bow technique,” he said. “She has the quickest and most nuanced sound.”

Barnett explained that Biber’s Mystery Sonatas are difficult to perform. “It’s been years since I’ve seen anyone take on the Mystery Sonatas,” he said. “Biber wrote the hardest music for violin. It’s very difficult and wickedly fast.”

Barnett believes Huggett will rise to the challenge. “This is just made for Monica’s bow technique. It’s so quick and so intricate. She can get all of the colors and all of the rhythms,” he said.

Barnett said the scheduled performance is indicative of Houston Early Music’s dedication to providing Houston audiences with some of today’s best musicians.

“Houston Early Music always gets top-notch performers, and that’s not easy to do,” he said. “Nancy has been able to identify excellent and current players in the early-music scene. Houston Early Music represents the best there is out there.”

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Trio Sonnerie featured at Houston Early Music March performance

HOUSTON, TX – February 2, 2011 – Trio Sonnerie will be featured at the next Houston Early Music concert on Monday, March 28, 2011. Entitled The Harmony of Nations, the performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, 6221 Main Street, Houston, TX 77030.

The concert will feature English violinist and conductor, Monica Huggett, one of the foremost Baroque violinists and founder of Trio Sonnerie. Joining Huggett are Emilia Benjamin on viola da gamba and James Johnstone on harpsichord.

The trio will bring to the stage a contrasting program, including one of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s Mystery Sonatas for virtuoso violin, as well as French music for viola da gamba, tunes from Jacobean England and a sonata for violin and harpsichord by J.S. Bach.

“We have featured the remarkable Monica Huggett before,” said Nancy Ellis, artistic director of Houston Early Music. “It is a pleasure to welcome this extraordinary violinist back to Houston. She’s a favorite with Houston Early Music audiences.”

Dr. Gregory Barnett, associate professor of musicology at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, will offer a pre-concert lecture at 6:45 p.m. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Houston Early Music.

Barnett said Huggett’s performances are exceptional. “She has an amazing bow technique,” he said. “She has the quickest and most nuanced sound.”

Barnett explained that Biber’s Mystery Sonatas are difficult to perform. “It’s been years since I’ve seen anyone take on the Mystery Sonatas,” he said. “Biber wrote the hardest music for violin. It’s very difficult and wickedly fast.”

Barnett believes Huggett will rise to the challenge. “This is just made for Monica’s bow technique. It’s so quick and so intricate. She can get all of the colors and all of the rhythms,” he said.

Barnett said the scheduled performance is indicative of Houston Early Music’s dedication to providing Houston audiences with some of today’s best musicians.

“Houston Early Music always gets top-notch performers, and that’s not easy to do,” he said. “Nancy has been able to identify excellent and current players in the early-music scene. Houston Early Music represents the best there is out there.”

Specializing in music from the Middle Ages through the 18^th century, Houston Early Music provides unique programming of world-class concerts performed with historical instruments and styles true to the period. Houston Early Music is one of the nation’s oldest early-music organizations.

Tickets

Tickets for Trio Sonnerie are available at the door and online at www.HoustonEarlyMusic.org. $35 for general admission, $30 for seniors and $10 for students (with student ID). Free admission for children under 15.

For more information about Houston Early Music, please visit www.HoustonEarlyMusic.org, e-mail info@HoustonEarlyMusic.org or call 713-432-1744.

SUMMARY:

Monday, March 28, 2011, 7:30 p.m.

TRIO SONNERIE – The Harmony of Nations

Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church

6221 Main Street

Houston, Texas 77030

Pre-concert lecture by Dr. Gregory Barnett, 6:45 p.m.

SEASON FINALE:

Monday, May 2, 2011, 7:30 p.m.

FLANDERS RECORDER QUARTET – The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Trinity Episcopal Church

1015 Holman @ Main

Houston, Texas 77004

Pre-concert lecture by Thomas Crowe, 6:45 p.m.

MORE ABOUT HOUSTON EARLY MUSIC

Houston Early Music is one of the nation’s oldest early-music organizations and the city’s only presenting organization dedicated to covering the large historical span of early music in all of its forms. Officially incorporated in 1969, the nonprofit provides performance opportunities for up-and-coming and major early music artists from around the world in an annual concert series. A successful and growing educational outreach program introduces a future generation to a broad range of music. Houston Early Music is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance and by Texas Commission on the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts.

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Media contact:

Susan Love Fitts, 936-597-8825

susan@susanlovefitts.com

TRIO SONNERIE, Monica Huggett, Dir.
The Harmony of Nations

7:30PM, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church
6221 Main Street (77030)

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HARMONY OF NATIONS

Trio Sonnerie

Monica Huggett, baroque violin

Emilia Benjamin, viola da gamba

James johnstone, harpsichord

PROGRAM

Prelude and divisions on “John Come Kiss me now”   Thomas Baltzar (c.1631–1663)

Fantasy in d minor                                                        John Jenkins (1592–1678)

Pavin for lyra viol                                                       Tobias Hume (c.1569 –1645)

Toccata in G                                                                Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–67)
Suite in d                                                                      Georg Böhm (1661-1733)

Allemanda – Courante – Sarabanda – Gigue

Sonata No.14  in D, “The Assumption of the Virgin”         Heinrich Ignaz Biber (1644–1704)

from the Mystery Sonatas

Praeludium – Aria – Gigue

INTERMISSION

La Marésienne                                                             Marin Marais (1656–1728)
La Forqueray – La Cottin – La Couperin                      Antoine Forqueray (1671 – 1745)

from first Suite in d minor

Sonata in A major for violin and harpsichord            Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

(BWV 1015)

Dolce – Allegro – Andante un poco – Presto

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presenting the world’s finest period ensembles and soloists … bringing to life music from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance to the Baroque and Classical periods. Experience with us early music played on original instruments, by musicians reviving performances of the past.

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Houston Early Music presents

Mon., Mar. 28, 2011

TRIO SONNERIE, Monica Huggett, Dir.

The Harmony of Nations

7:30PM, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church
6221 Main Street (77030)

See Program

Trio Sonnerie, Monica Huggett’s longest running and smallest group, comes from the UK to present the choicest pick of Europe’s chamber music from the Baroque period. Biber’s astonishing “Mystery Sonatas” for virtuoso violin contrast with exquisitely refined French music for viola da gamba and sprightly tunes from Jacobean England. Of course, the Harmony of Nations wouldn’t be complete without JS Bach, here represented by a magnificent sonata for violin and harpsichord.

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Houston Early Music Online Ticket Service

Houston Early Music is pleased to announce that you can now purchase tickets to our performances online, using major credit cards.

• Click to purchase tickets to future concerts

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Contact

Houston Early Music
P.O. Box 271193 Houston TX 77277-1193
Phone 713-432-1744
email info@HoustonEarlyMusic.org
Web http://www.HoustonEarlyMusic.org

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Supporters

Houston Early Music is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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April 10, 2008, Residency at the High School at the Performing and Visual Arts
Lecture Performances about early stringed instruments (specifically viols/ violas da gamba) for music & history students

April 11, 2008, Residency at Johnston Middle School
Lecture Performances about early stringed instruments (specifically viols/ violas da gamba) for music & history students

For more information see http://violsinourschools.org/

Focusing on Music, History (European History) and English (Music of Shakespeare’s time) classes. A pilot program for the Viola da Gamba Society of America and the Spirit of Gambo, a Chicago Consort of Viols, ‘Viols in Our Schools’ focuses on bringing early strings to the classroom setting. With the viola da gamba/ viol’s connection to the evolution of the guitar (via the lute), it is an ideal instrument to introduce earlier repertoire to guitar classes, while it’s frequent use in the madrigal repertoire and use as a continuo instrument makes the viol an ideal for demonstrating to choral classes as well as to music theory and history classes. In addition to music programs, ‘Viols in Our Schools’ demonstrates early European music to European history classes, as well as English/ Literature classes focusing on Elizabethan/ Shakespearen England. You can visit ‘Viols in Our Schools’ at http://www.violsinourschools.org/.