Join the Arts Council as we welcome the return of Baroque Music Montana to Big Sky for another amazing summer evening of classical music! This celebrated ensemble will perform on Tuesday, August 20, at 7 p.m. in the Gallatin River Gallery. This intimate space is perfect to hear the beautiful acoustic instruments that will be played by incredible musicians from around the world.
Notated music has always contained a degree of interpretation and improvisation; in the 17th and early 18th centuries, this improvisation played many roles. Sometimes it was decorative ornamentation around written notes, or completely new pieces generated by improvising upon a common bass line. Other times, it was a way of establishing a key or connecting more structured episodes to each other. Styles of improvising differed as much as their nation’s languages, and this program explores the ways the lively, charming, and surprising ways they coexisted and influenced each other.
Bozeman-based Baroque Music Montana (BaMM) performs works by celebrated composers of the Baroque, as well as many pieces rarely or not heard since the eighteenth century. The group has also appeared on series in Seattle, Spokane, Syracuse, Ottawa, and Quebec and in collaboration with such organizations as Intermountain Opera Bozeman, the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings Symphony, Philipsburg Theatre, Coulter Museum of Art, Bozeman Art Museum, UM and MSU, and Bitterroot Baroque in creative programming serving Montana through outreach, house, and public concerts, outdoor performances, lectures and masterclasses. Made possible through a grant from The Juilliard School’s Alan D. Marks Center for Career Services and Entrepreneurship, the umbrella of Baroque Music Montana was founded in 2015 by violinist Carrie Krause to provide a meaningful cultural institution of intimate, communicative, progressive performance for our vibrant community.
Artists
Carrie Krause, baroque violin
Manami Mizumoto, baroque violin
Phoebe Carrai, baroque cello
John Lenti, theorbo
Program
Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693)
Sonata a 2 violins in F
Diego Ortiz (1510-1570)
Recercarda Primera
Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)
Sonata Settima in A minor, 1693
Giovannie Battista Fontana (1589-1630)
Sonata for 2 violins and bass
Michel Pignolet de Monteclair (1667-1737)
Duet pour 2 dessus sans basse
Nicola Matteis (1650ca-1714)
Suite in F
Passagio Roto a solo violin
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Musikalische Ergötzung no. 4 in E minor
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Op 4 No 10 G major
