Three violinists – Gail Hernández Rosa, Edwin Huizinga, and David McCormick – keep one foot firmly in the Baroque world and the other just outside. They’ll share recent work spanning Celtic tunes, traditional music from Spain, and research focused on Black musicians at Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia’s Monticello.
Soprano Hannah De Priest, tenor Karim Sulayman, baritone Jonathan Woody, and fortepianist Michael Pecak bring us art songs infused with the supernatural, including Schubert’s famous Die Erlkönig. Scholar Francesca Brittan, an expert on sonic histories of the supernatural, joins us for a fascinating evening!
Specialists Nell Snaidas (Soprano) and Laury Gutierrez (viola da gamba) share their performances of Latin Baroque and Afro-Baroque music, while violinist Karin Cuellar Rendon explores 19th century Peruvian and Bolivian salon music.
Arnie Tanimoto gives us a guided tour of solo music for viol from the “Twilight Viol,” Mélisande Corriveau introduces the pardessus de viole, Patricia Neely explores a little-known work from Bohemian archives, and soprano Sherezade Panthaki beguiles with songs by Henry Purcell and William Byrd.
Combining music from a Métis songbook with selections by Marais, Purcell, and Bach, Cree-Métis baritone Jonathon Adams relates their personal journey to reconnect to their Indigenous roots while recovering a history of cultural exchange and musical migration in late 17th- and 18th-century New France.
Join guests Aisslinn Nosky (violin), Thomas Carroll (clarinet), Allison Monroe (violin), and Yvonne Smith (viola), for music written to be enjoyed in one’s living room among friends! Works by Druschetzky, Haydn, Weber, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
The music of J.S. Bach is at once joyful and serious, accessible and intellectual. Perhaps most importantly, it feeds the soul in troubled times. Tonight’s debut episode features Sherezade Panthaki (soprano), Shelby Yamin (violin) and SalonEra Artists in Residence Eric Milnes (keyboard) and Mélisande Corriveau (viola da gamba and cello).
Delve into the strange and sublime world of early programmatic music imitating birdsong, frogs, chickens, and more!
Renowned musicologist Dr. Francesca Brittan returns to SalonEra as guest curator of this unique, art-song focused episode.
Featuring two guests passionate about decolonizing the classical music canon, this episode of SalonEra focuses on the histories and contemporary early music movements in China and the Philippines.
