PROGRAM
Friday, June 19th
MASQUERADE GALA
7pm Concert, 9:30pm Gala Party, Buehlow Barn, Ayr
GRAND RIVER BAROQUE FESTIVAL SOLOISTS
concert at 7pm: adult $30 student $10
gala party at 9:30pm: adult $40 student $15
The season begins with a grand Masquerade Gala, and the audience is encouraged to dress with baroque inspiration or to wear a mask! The strings will perform Les Elements by Andre Cardinal Destouches, followed by several Vivaldi concerti including a concerto for two violins performed by Kitchener’s own Julie Baumgartel and Linda Melsted, a lute concerto presented by Terry McKenna, and a bassoon concerto played by international soloist Marc Vallon. Festival directors Guy Few and Nadina Mackie Jackson will perform concerti by Vivaldi, Purcell and Baldassare.
The sensually and visually spectacular gala party following the concert will feature a guest from Zero Gravity Circus, period dance and music, and extravagant morsels from the high table!
Saturday, June 20th
BANQUETTO MUSICALE
1:30pm Buehlow Barn, Ayr, Ontario
FLANDERS RECORDER QUARTET
Bart Spanhove, Tom Beets,
Joris Van Goethem, Paul Van Loey
Tickets: adult $25, student $10
One of the world’s top ensembles, the Flanders Recorder Quartet has a reputation for joyful, exuberant virtuosity. Their programme offers a banquet of musical dishes from every period and corner of the globe with music of Louis-Antoine Dornel, Tarquinio Merula, J.S. Bach, Jan Van der Roost, Frans Geysen, and Czaldy Waldy.
"The Belgian group’s exquisite playing was always perfectly clear, balanced, tight, agile, fluent, witty, soulful.”- Shepherd Express Metro, USA
WONDERFUL THREE COURSE MEAL
5pm The Cedar House
12 Broadway St. West, Paris, Ontario
Tickets $40 alcoholic beverages extra
Saturday's activities move from the Barn to the lovely town of Paris where you are invited to enjoy a sensual culinary experience before the concert.
THE CHOCOLATE ROAD
8pm Paris Presbyterian Church
164 Grand River St. North, Paris Ontario
FOLIA
Linda Melsted, baroque violin
Terry McKenna, lute/baroque guitar
Borys Medicky, harpsichord
and Tamara Bernstein, host
Tickets: adult $25 student $10
The introduction of chocolate from Latin America to Europe coincided, happily for us, with the Baroque era. Folia co founder and music historian Tamara Bernstein presents readings from period diaries, letters and recipes that trace chocolate’s arrival in Spain, Italy, France and England – accompanied by music of Corelli, Domenico Scarlatti, Marais, Couperin, Isabella Leonarda, and Matteis.
"The music was exceptional, led by Folia co-founder and Baroque violin extraordinare Linda Melsted...a more satisfying and sumptuous combination of the senses could scarely be imagined.” -- Kitchener Waterloo Record
JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL PRE-CONCERT DINNER AT THE CEDAR HOUSE, PARIS
Sunday, June 21st
FEAST
12pm Concert and Picnic, Buehlow Barn, Ayr, Ontario
GRAND RIVER BAROQUE FESTIVAL SOLOISTS
Tickets: adult $30, student $10 | Picnic Box Lunch $15
A galaxy of stars wraps up the 2009 Festival. Revel in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons featuring Aisslinn Nosky, one of Canada’s brightest baroque soloists. Linda Melsted and Nadina Mackie Jackson perform the recently discovered Concerto in B flat for violin and bassoon by Antonio Brescianello. Guy and Nadina bid farewell with Ignaz Lachner’s Concertino for corno da caccia and bassoon.The Festival picnic is always a highlight of the season.
There will be two intermissions during this concert to allow relaxed al fresco dining in the beautiful gardens surrounding Buehlow Barn. Box Lunches are available for $15 each (must be ordered by Friday June 19th; vegetarian option available). Or you’re welcome to bring your own picnic – don’t forget to pack lawn chairs or a blanket!
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WELCOME
We are very excited to welcome you to our first season as artistic directors. Our plans extend well into the future, building on the superb legacy of the previous directors of this festival, and introducing the Contemporary Baroque Training Institute in 2010. As wind performers who also revel in the beauties of strings, voices and keyboards, we look forward to sharing our unique perspective. We promise to bring you unusual and scintillating repertoire along with beloved standards.
This season celebrates the senses, the seasons, and the elements of earth, air, fire and water. You will hear enduring favourites such as Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and unexpected treats – double concerti by newly rediscovered composers of the baroque and classical eras.
For us, every concert is a celebration – a once-in-a-lifetime special event that can be prepared for years yet exists only once. We celebrate with food and friends, with spectacle and sound in the beautiful, bucolic setting of the Buehlow Barn and grounds. This is a stage that we all share, and we so look forward to meeting all of you again this summer.
- GUY AND NADINA
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