October 10th and 11th

Guido's Ear
a Baroque Music Concert

Early Music MS
Ancram Opera House
Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 8 pm
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 at 2 pm


Guido's Ear
Jolle Greenleaf, soprano

Dongmyung Ahn and Aaron Brown, violins
Hank Heijink, theorbo and baroque guitar

Guido's Ear - founded by violinists Aaron Brown and Dongmyung Ahn - is an early music ensemble specializing in the repertoire of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.  The group's name refers to Guido D'Arezzo, the 11th century music theorist who invented, among other things, the modern form of music notation.  D'Arezzo is probably most well known for the "Guidonian Hand," his method of teaching sight-singing.  The name of this group is a play on the term.


To listen to Guido's Ear,  click the hand:

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Bios
 
Hailed as a "golden soprano" by the New York Times, Jolle Greenleaf has established herself as a leading specialist in 17th and 18th vocal music. She completed her Master's degree at the Mannes College of Music, and soon after received the coveted Beebe Fellowship to study at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands.  Known for her expressiveness on stage, she is often engaged as a recitalist.  She has appeared in over 90 Bach cantata and she is frequently heard in baroque masterworks, including all of J.S. Bach's oratorios, John Blow's Venus and Adonis, Handel's Alexander's Feast, Jephtha and Messiah, Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, Purcell's King Arthur and Fairy Queen with many ensembles and orchestras such as Apollo's Fire, Clarion Music Society, Concert Royale, Folger Consort, Harvard Collegium, New York Collegium, NYS Baroque, Parthenia, Trinity Consort, and Vox Vocal Ensemble.  Among this season's highlights are performances honoring Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 and the first 400th anniversary performance in the US with the Green Mountain Project (www.greenmountainvespers.com).

Aaron Brown has performed with some of the finest early music groups in the United States, including Rebel Baroque Orchestra, the New York Collegium, Opera Lafayette, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Opera Omnia, ARTEK early music and the Clarion Music Society.  He performed with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra for their 2009 season.  He has appeared at many of the world's major venues, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kennedy Center, BAM, the BOZAR Brussels, Grand Teatre Luxembourg and the Arsenal in Metz.  He has recorded for Naxos, Lyrichord, ABC Classics, CD Accord, InFocus and EAR records.
 
As a baroque violin student of Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University, Dongmyung Ahn performed with the New York Collegium, Apollo's Fire, and the Bach Ensemble under Joshua Rifkin.  Since moving to New York, she has also performed with Concert Royal, Early Music New York, St. Matthew Passion at BAM, the Clarion Music Society, and Sinfonia.   She has served as concertmaster for the baroque opera productions of the Greenwich Music Festival.  She was also heard playing rebec for The Play of Daniel at the Cloisters in December of 2008.  Currently, Dongmyung is pursuing a PhD in musicology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Hank Heijink studied lute and theorbo at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Toyohiko Satoh, Mike Fentross, and Nigel North, after completing a master's degree in computer science and a Ph.D. in behavioral science.  He was the first theorbo player chosen to tour with the European Union Baroque Orchestra, during which time he worked with Roy Goodman, Paul Goodwin, and Fabio Biondi, and played at many of the major early music festivals and venues in Europe and in Japan. He has worked with leading ensembles such as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Netherlands Bach Society, Orchestre d'Auvergne, Holland Symphonia, the Mark Morris Dance Group, REBEL, Early Music New York, Concert Royal, and the Wooster Group.  He is a founding member of AsproDolce, with whom he released a CD of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's music, "Songs of Love and Loss."

Program
includes

Prologue to Orfeo - Monteverdi
Torna il sereno Zefiro - d'India
Piangono al pianger mio - d'India
Sonata Quarta in D minor - Castello
La bella piu bella - Rossi
Fortuna su'l volto - Mazzocchi
Già risi del mio mal - Kapsberger
La Golferamma in C major - Corradini
Folle é ben che si crede - Merula
Sentirette una Canzonetta - Merula
Damigella tutta bella - Monteverdi


Aaron  Brown CD


Tickets:
Supporters -- Reserved table seat with wine / $40

Open seating -- $15 in advance / $20 at the door

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Ancram Opera House
1330 County Route 7
Ancram, NY 12502

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