[CANCELLED] Musique du Jour Presents! The Bachs & Mozart: Duo Amadeus with Elizabeth Blumenstock & Tamara Friedman
$25 / $10 / kids free w/adult
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Violin Sonata No. 23 in D major, K. 306
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Selected works
Johann Christian Bach — Selected works
Concert cancelled due to illness.
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Tamara Friedman, fortepiano
J.S. Bach – Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin
Mozart – Violin Sonata in D major, K. 306
C.P.E. Bach – Selected works
J.C. Bach – Selected works
Acclaimed violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, concertmaster of the world-famous Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), performs on her 1660 Andrea Guarneri violin (Cremona) with her duo partner Tamara Friedman on her beautiful replica of a 1782 Stein fortepiano (Augsburg).
Tickets: $25 (general admission/senior), $15 (youth, ages 16–25), "Kids-Come-Free" (ages 7-15, one-on-one with adults)
THE MUSICIANS
Widely admired as a Baroque violinist of expressive eloquence and technical sparkle, Elizabeth Blumenstock is a long-time concertmaster, soloist, and leader with the San Francisco Bay Areas Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists, and concertmaster of the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, Germany. In Southern California, she is Music Director of the Corona del Mar Baroque Music Festival. Her love of chamber music has involved her in several accomplished and interesting smaller ensembles, including Musica Pacifica, Galax Quartet, Ensemble Mirable, Live Oak Baroque, the Arcadian Academy, Trio Galanterie, and Duo Amadeus (with Tamara Friedman). An enthusiastic teacher, Elizabeth is on the faculties of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the American Bach Soloists summer Festival and Academy, and the International Baroque Institute at the Longy School of Music.
To hear Elizabeth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzDoFtNwO5Q
Pianist Tamara Friedman, praised for the depth, wit, and humor of her performances (Seattle Times), attended the Oberlin Conservatory and received her master's degree from the Mannes College of Music (NYC). She has collaborated with such artists as Stanley Ritchie, Jaap Schröder, and Max van Egmond, 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 Governors Chamber Music Festival. She has been the featured performer in early piano workshops for Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA) and the Western Early Keyboard Association, and maintains a private studio in Seattle, where she teaches modern piano and fortepiano on her collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century keyboard instruments, which is on display at the Seattle Early Keyboard Museum. Tamara spends her summers in Bath, Maine, where she also has a group of historic pianos and performs on the Kennebec Early Music Festival.
To hear Tamara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iIrBWKV1nk