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CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY of CENTRAL VIRGINIA18th Season | 2022-23

The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia presentsAn Evening at VersaillesWith Mary Boodell, traverso fluteJulie Bosworth, sopranoNicholas DiEugenio, Baroque violinNatalie Rose Kress, Baroque violinCarsten Schmidt, harpsichord Cameron Welke, luteJames Wilson, Baroque cello

This season, CMSCVA will bring these things to life through the magic of music. You’ll hear masterpieces of chamber music like the viola quintets by Mozart, the piano quintet of Brahms, the string quartets of Haydn and the glorious chamber music of the French Baroque. You’ll also hear new works of music commissioned this year by CMSCVA – a cello quintet by Louisiana-based Brian Nabors, and three new pieces inspired by Richmond for the “Our Pictures” project by Chloe Biggs, Benjamin Broening, and Anthony Smith.Come join CMSCVA for our 18th season and explore the fantastic world of classical music. Twenty-four phenomenal artists, four world premieres, and nine concerts. we hope you will nd a place in CMSCVA for exciting and unique classical music in Richmond. Come dream with us!James WilsonArtistic DirectorGreetings,Sincerely,Close your eyes and dream of different places, different experiences, different sounds . . . A nighttime street in Madrid. Dancing the Samba. The wit of Mozart. The palace of Versailles.

An Evening at VersaillesDecember 19, 2022 | 7pm Church of the Holy Comforter 4819 Monument, Richmond, VirginiaProgram:Quatrième Concert royaux François CouperinPrélude (1668 – 1733) Allemande Courante Françoise Courante à l’italiéne Sarabande Rigaudon ForlaneLes Graces Jacques Du Phly (1715 – 1789)Le Sommeil d'Ulisse Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665 – 1729)Cinquième concert Jean-Philippe Rameau de clavecin en concert (1683 – 1764) La Forqueray. FugueLa CupisLa MaraisIntermission

CMSCVA's 2022-23 Season is presented in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.La Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève Marin Marais du Mont de Paris (1656 – 1728) Medée Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676 – 1749)We would love to learn about what you think of CMSACVA and how you heard of us. Your thoughts even might help to create one of our future programs! Click here to take the anonymous poll.

Jordan Bak, violaAward-winning Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak is building an exciting international career as a trailblazing artist, praised for his radiant stage presence, dynamic interpretations, and fearless power. He is frequently in demand as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and educator. The 2021YCAT Robey Artist and a top laureate of the 2020 Sphinx Competition, Bak is also a Grand Prize winner and Audience Prize recipient of the 2019 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, the recipient of the 2019 Samuel Sanders Tel Aviv Museum Prize and the 2019 John White Special Prize from the Tertis International Viola Competition. Highlights of the 2021-2022 season include recital debuts at Wigmore Hall, Merkin Concert Hall & Baltimore’s Shriver Hall Concert Series, chamber music tours with Musicians from Marlboro and CAG on Tour, and new music commissions from such composers as Tyson Davis, Shawn Okpebholo & James Ra. A proud new music advocate, Bak gave the world premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Du gick, flög for viola and mezzo-soprano and the viola premiere of Jessica Meyer’s Excessive Use of Force. Bak also gave an acclaimed performance of the Druckman Viola Concerto with The Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall in New York.Our 2022-23 Artistic CollaboratorsMary Boodell, flute and traversoMary Boodell is the Principal Flutist of the Richmond Symphony in Virginia. Praised as one of the city’s “most versatile and venturesome musicians,” she has won acclaim not only for her orchestral playing but also for her numerous chamber music performances. Equally at

at home in Baroque and contemporary music, Ms. Boodell has performed on Baroque and modern flutes at festivals across the US and Europe, including at the Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl, Eastern Music Festival, Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, Wolf Trap, VA, and regularly at the Staunton Music Festival, VA. Before coming to the Richmond Symphony, Ms. Boodell played Principal Flute with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in Tennessee and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Born in Chicago, Ms. Boodell received her Bachelor of Music at the Oberlin Conservatory and her Master of Music at Northwestern University, studying with some of the country’s most respected flutists, Robert Willoughby and Walfrid Kujala. A devoted teacher herself, she has taught at the University of Richmond and the Richmond Symphony School of Music, coaches youth symphony players, and performs regularly with the RSO Woodwind Quintet in Richmond-area public schools. Her students have gone on to major conservatories and top orchestral jobs.Julie Bosworth, sopranoFrom medieval cantigas to newly composed works, Julie Bosworth revels in versatile performance practice. Recognized for her “penetrating lyrical agility, exquisitely phrased” (Jay Harvey Upstage), this “notably stylish and expressive” singer finds joy and fulfillment in collaborating with artists across a vast array of musical genres. In June, Julie finished recording her second album with The Broken Consort, singing original works by Emily Lau. She has been featured on live radio broadcasts by NPR, All Classical Portland, WBJC and WYPR in Baltimore, and WGBH Boston. On the operatic stage, Julie has performed with American Opera Theater, Raylynmor Opera, Opera AACC, and Peabody Opera Theater. Equally at home on the concert stage, she has appeared as a soloist with American Bach Soloists, Tempesta di Mare, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, among others.

Julie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Millikin University and a Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Early Music from The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She is a chorister at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., and resides in Baltimore with her husband, baritone Corbin Phillips, and their two dogs.Cramer String QuartetJessica Lee, historical violinKate Goddard, historical violinAnnie Garlid, historical violaMichael Unterman, historical celloWith period instruments and an invigorating historically informed approach, the Cramer Quartet brings uncommon warmth, transparency, and texture to Classical and early Romantic repertoire as well as commissioned works that explore and expand the sound world of gut strings. The quartet’s stylish, nuanced interpretations and visionary approach to programming stimulate dialogue around old and new works, inviting audiences to listen with fresh ears. Based in New York City, members of the Cramer Quartet are persons of color, women, non-binary/transmasc and LGBTQ+ individuals committed to advancing cultural equity in classical music. Highlights of the 2021-22 season include performances of The Seven Last Words Project— an immersive multimedia journey through Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ as reflected upon by seven diverse contemporary composers— at Five Boroughs Music Festival; as well as appearances at Music Mountain Summer Chamber Music Festival, GEMS Midtown Concerts, and a residency at Festival de Música de Santa Catarina in Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil. Recent appearances include Boston’s Society for Historically Informed Performance and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s “Art in Tune” event— a multidisciplinary site-specific collaboration in which the CQ paired artwork from the museum’s galleries with a series of rarely heard works performed on a set of 18th-Century musical instruments from the MFA’s collection.

Kevin Day, composerAn American whose music has been characterized by “propulsive, syncopated rhythms, colorful orchestration, and instrumental virtuosity,” (Robert Kirzinger, Boston Symphony) Composer Kevin Day has quickly emerged as one of the leading young voices in the world of music composition today, whose music ranges from powerful introspection to joyous exuberance. Kevin Day is an internationally acclaimed composer, conductor, and pianist, whose music often intersects between the worlds of jazz, minimalism, Latin music, fusion, and contemporary classical idioms. Day serves as the Vice President of the Millennium Composers Initiative, a collective of more than 120 composers from several countries around the world. Day is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He is pursuing his DMA in Composition from the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he studies with Charles Norman Mason, Dorothy Hindman, and Lansing McCloskey. He holds a MM in Composition from the University of Georgia, and BM in Performance from Texas Christian University (TCU). He is alumnus of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America.Nicholas DiEugenio, violinOver the course of his life–growing up in Pennsylvania, as a student in Cleveland, New Haven, and New York, and as a professional musician traversing many continents–American violinist Nicholas DiEugenio is guided by a firm conviction that music is a central experience in the expression of humanity.

His colorful playing is lauded for its “rapturous poetry” (American Record Guide), and as “excellent” and “evocative” (New York Times).A core member of the Sebastians, a period group hailed as “topnotch” by the New Yorker and “everywhere sharp-edged and engaging” by the New York Times, Nicholas also performs and records with pianist Mimi Solomon. Regarded as an inspiring teacher, Nicholas is currently Associate Professor of Violin at UNC Chapel Hill, and is co-artistic director of MYCO, a non-profit chamber music organization for middle and high school students. Nicholas holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (B.M,M.M), where he studied with David and Linda Cerone and Paul Kantor,and the Yale School of Music (D.M.A., A.D.), where he was a student of Ani Kavafian. He performs on a baroque violin made by Karl Dennis in 2011, and also on a 1734 violin made by Dom Nicolo Amati.Brendon Elliott, violinVirginia Native, Brendon Elliott received his BM studying with Pamela Frank and Joseph Silverstein at The Curtis Institute of Music and completed his master’s at The Juilliard School under Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes. He began his violin studies under his mother’s tutelage at the age of three and made his solo debut when he was 10 years old. As a three-time concerto competition winner, Brendon was invited as a guest soloist with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra at age 17 on their Masterworks Series. He toured with the Virginia Symphony performing the Hailstork Violin Concerto as an opener for Natalie Cole and his performance of William Grant Still's Mother and Child was broadcast on WMRA radio. Brendon has appeared as a soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Harlem Chamber Players, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Music of the Baroque, and has performed in orchestras such as the Sphinx Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Chineke! Orchestra. The Charleston Post and Courier described his solo performance with the Colour of Music Virtuosi as; “Playing with grace and poise, displaying a fine technique and sweet tone.” Brendon is currently touring as Joseph Bologne’s musical half in Bill Barclay’s play The Chevalier and is a member of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra

Fitz Gary, violaIn the summer of 2022, Fitz Gary will join the Garth Newel Piano Quartet as violist and Co-Artistic Director. The Quartet programs and performs over 50 concerts a year and hosts numerous outreach and educational programs at the Garth Newel Music Center in Hot Springs, Virginia.Fitz, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia, has toured across the United States, Europe, and Asia performing in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London’s Royal Albert Hall, and Japan’s Suntory Hall. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Jeffrey Irvine, and graduate studies at The Juilliard School with Heidi Castleman and Hsin-Yun Huang. Selected as a 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar, he studied with Barbara Westphal at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany. In 2012, Fitz started a project called Music Feeds Us, a chamber music series which ran for seven seasons. The concerts, which have been featured on Performance Today, raised over 175,000 meals for partner food banks in Virginia. As an avid orchestral musician, Fitz has had the opportunity to perform with some of America’s most prestigious ensembles, including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center.Annie Garlid, historical violaMusician and composer Annie Garlid studied English at Smith College, viola performance at New England Conservatory, early music at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, and ensemble singing at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. In 2018 she began her PhD in music at New York University, where she

researches materiality in recent experimental music.As a viola player and singer, Annie works at the intersection of early music, experimental music, and contemporary classical music. She appeared on Holly Herndon’s 2019 album PROTO (and toured as a member of the Holly Herndon ensemble) and Caterina Barbieri’s 2019 album Ecstatic Computation. She has collaborated and performed with a number of other composers and artists, including Rosemarie Trockel, Bill Kouligas, Emptyset, Nile Koetting, Cat Lamb, Marc Sabat, and Laure M. Hiendl. She plays and sings with De Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, the Netherlands Bach Society, the Handel & Haydn Society, Tafelmusik, and Konzert Minimal, and at the Washington National Cathedral. As a violist she has worked with Pierre Boulez, Masaaki Suzuki, David Robertson, Peter Eötvös, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Bernard Labadie, and Harry Christophers. She released her debut album as UCC Harlo in March 2019. Under that moniker she has since toured internationally, licensed her music to Chanel and JW Anderson, and produced a remix for the Amsterdam duo Know V.A.Kate Goddard, historical violinKate Goddard enjoys a burgeoning career as a multi- instrumentalist. A busy freelance violinist, violist, and horn player, her musical proclivities range from period performance to contemporary works by living composers. Her upcoming season includes engagements with the American Classical Orchestra and Early Music New York, as well as performances at St. Bartholomew’s Church with her quintet Ensemble Melos, and and a series of trio concerts in San Francisco. She has recently appeared with the Yale Schola, the American Handel Society at Princeton, and Manhattan School of Music’s contemporary ensemble, Tactus. Beyond classical music, she has performed at the Blue Note

biotech labs, and the Volkswagen Transparent Factory in Dresden. Notable chamber music and solo appearances include Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the Moritzburg Festival Academy, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, Schlern International Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West, where he gave a chamber music recital with renowned pianist Jeremy Denk. In the 2021-2022 season, Grant appears regularly in concerts as a member of Trio Gaia, a piano trio formed in 2018 with pianist Andrew Barnwell and cellist Yi-Mei Templeman, with engagements to include recitals across the East coast, a residency with the Virginia Arts Festival, and appearances at the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop and Yale’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. In addition to his career with Trio Gaia, Grant appears frequently with the conductor-less ensembles Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, A Far Cry, and Palaver Strings. He performs on a 1757 Michel’angelo Bergonzi violin on loan from a private foundation.Grant Houston, violinViolinist Grant Houston connects with listeners through performances known for his unbridled musical energy and communicative voice. Sharing music both within and beyond traditional concert settings, Grant has performed in venues from the storied Carnegie and Jordan halls to airplane hangars, public parks, Jazz Festival, at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas with the NYChillharmonic, and at ShapeShifter Lab with her (aspiring) gypsy jazz band. As a session musician, her playing has appeared on recent releases by Morgan Saint (Epic Records), Karikatura (Oh So Nice Records), and the soundtrack for the upcoming film A Different Sun. As an educator, Kate maintains a studio of over forty students. She has worked with a number of music outreach programs, including the Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Queens- based public school program “Bach to School”, and her woodwind quintet has performed in collaboration with Lincoln Center Education.

Natalie Kress, violinPraised by the New York Times for her “splendid playing,” Natalie Rose Kress is a violinist based in Washington, D.C.. She was awarded the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center and performed with Yo-Yo Ma at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, honoring Seiji Ozawa. This year'shighlights included winning the 2021 Mercury Chamber Orchestra Fellowship and the 2022 English Concert in America Fellowship as well as performing the World Premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s “Music for String Quartet” (written in 1936) at the Linde Center at The Tanglewood Music Center in 2021 with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She performs regularly as a core member of Quartet Salonnières (NYC), Repast Baroque Ensemble NYC), Musicivic Baroque (PA), and as concertmaster of La Grande Bande (MN), and and can be seen playing with groups such as The Handel and Haydn Society (MA), the Washington Bach Consort (D.C.), The English Concert (U.K.), The Mercury ChamberOrchestra (TX), Early Music NY, Shanghai Camerata (Shanghai), Les Arts Florissants (Paris), and the Staunton Music Festival (VA). She is currently a Doctorate student at the University of Maryland with a focus on Historical Performance pedagogy, and lives with her fiance, Jonathan Davies, and dog Henry in Alexandria, VA.Mari Lee, violinMari Lee is an artist dedicated to creating human connection through music. A violinist, creator, and entrepreneur, her works explore the relationship between audiences, performers, and composers. Praised as “extremely impressive” by the Strad Magazine, Mari has performed as a violinist at such

Angela Lehman, writer and historianAngela Lehman is a student and teaching assistant in the graduate history program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Previously, she was an English language teacher at VCU and a Fulbright Scholar in the West Bank. She has also been a music writer for prestigious venues as the Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall, as well as renowned festivals including Ravinia, Verbier, and Marlboro. Mari is the artistic director and co-founder of Salon Séance, an immersive experience channeling kindred spirits through music. Salon Séance has won Tarisio’s Young Artists Grants and the Britten-Pears Foundation’s Britten Award, and has been presented by Yellow Barn Festival, Schubert Club, and The Crypt Sessions, among others. Mari is a graduate of The Yehudi Menuhin School, New England Conservatory of Music, and Universität der Künste Berlin, where she studied with Natasha Boyarsky, Miriam Fried, and Nora Chastain. She is an alumna of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect and Beth Morrison’s Producer Academy, and is a member of CIPA (Creative & Independent Producer Alliance). She plays on a 1863 Jean-Baptiste Villaume.for the Richmond Times Dispatch and Style Weekly. She plays cello with and is a board member of the Richmond Philharmonic Orchestra.Brian Raphael Nabors, composerBrian Nabors is a composer of emotionally enriching music that tells exciting narratives with its vibrant themes and colorful harmonic language. Nabors’ music has been performed by the Boston, Atlanta, Nashville, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort

Worth, and Munich Symphonies, as well as ROCO Chamber Orchestra, the American Youth Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic. His music has been performed at many events across the US, including the the Tanglewood Music Festival. He has also been performed by artists such as the Atlanta Chamber Players, Apollo Chamber Players, Dallas’s Voices of Change, Boston Musica Viva and the Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings. Recent highlights include performances of his works by the Boston Symphony, Aspen Festival Orchestra and the Chineke! Orchestra at the 2022 Lucerne Festival. Performances for the 22-23′ season include the Detroit Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony and Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Nabors’ upbringing was rooted in spirituality, one of the main principles that inspires him. Much of his music deals with new reflections on life, nature, and the human condition. Being a proficient pianist in classical music, religious music and R&B/Neo Soul has broadened his creative/technical facility in realizing his compositional ideas, and creating his unique soundscapes.Jessica Park, violinPraised as an “exceptional talent” by the Frankfurter Neue Presse, violinist Jessica Park captivates audiences from New York to Seoul with a diverse and compelling array of solo and chamber music performances. Equally at home on both modern and baroque violins, Ms. Park has appeared internationally at such venues as the Cologne Philharmonie, Seoul Arts Center, Shanghai Grand Theatre, and the Vienna Konzerthaus; and stateside at Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Hall (Boston), and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. A versatile and imaginative artist, Ms. Park is in high demand as an interpreter of baroque and classical repertoire. She can be heard frequently with the country’s premier period instrument ensembles, including the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, The American Classical Orchestra, and New York Baroque Incorporated. Her duo with fortepianist Ji-Young Kim was

Carsten Schmidt, harpsichordCarsten Schmidt made his professional debut with the Essen Philharmonic in Germany in 1984, and has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America, and Japan. Active both as a pianist and harpsichordist, his repertoire ranges from the early seventeenth century to contemporary works,of which he has premiered more than one hundred. He has appeared at such venues as the German Mozart Festival, Ravinia Festival in Chicago, Schubert Festival in Amsterdam, Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Merkin and Weill Recital Halls in NYC, the Moscow Conservatory, and the Kuhmo Festival in Finland. Since 2003 he has also been increasingly active as a conductor, leading productions of operas by Handel and Purcell, and orchestral repertoire ranging from Marais to Mahler. Carsten Schmidt graduated with distinction from the Folkwang Institute in Germany, and subsequently received an Artist Diploma from Indiana University and a doctorate from Yale. He joined the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College in 1998, and is artistic director of the Staunton Music Festival in Virginia.Suliman Tekalli, violinViolinist Suliman Tekalli has established his unique voice as an exciting and versatile soloist and chamber musician. As the top prize winner of the 2015 Seoul International Music Competition and prize winner in the Sendai, Lipizer, and Szeryng International Violin Competition, he has performed as a soloist with orchestras throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, and Asia in numerous halls including the Seoul Arts Center, Kumho Art Hall, Wigmore Hall, and the Millennial Hall at the Kennedy Center among others. His performances have been broadcasted on live TV and radio from KBS TV in Korea, Montreal

Canada's CBC Radio 3, and NPR. An active chamber musician, Mr. Tekalli has performed at numerous festivals including Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn, and the Banff Centre. He has also led as concertmaster for various chamber orchestras such as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York Classical Players, Sphinx Virtuosi, and the International Sejong Soloists. He also concertizes as part of the Tekalli Duo with his sibling, pianist Jamila Tekalli. Mr. Tekalli’s has also transcribed and orchestrated numerous pieces in the classical and contemporary repertoire, some of which have been performed by ensembles including the International Sejong Soloists, and the Catalyst Quartet. Michael Unterman, historical celloMichael Unterman enjoys an active performing career on both modern and baroque cellos. He is a core member of the self-directed string chamber orchestra A Far Cry and serves as principal cellist of Boston Baroque, earningGrammy nominations with both groups in 2019. He is also the Artistic Director of Five Boroughs Music Festival, a chamber music series presenting concerts in venues throughout the five boroughs of New York City. Michael cut his teeth in concert programming and production through his work with A Far Cry whose members act as co-artistic directors; as a frequent curator and production lead, his projects have been praised as “just the kind of imaginative artistic agenda that more groups should be prodded to try” (The Boston Globe), “the way good programming should proceed” (Arts Fuse), and “gorgeous and remarkably unified” (Washington Post).As a cellist enjoying a wide variety of musical roles, Michael has received critical praise for his “soulful and sultry solos,” “nuanced, sensitive, and wholly gorgeous collaboration” (Classical Scene), and “heroic continuo” (Parterre Box). Other recent and upcoming performances include concert sets with Arion Baroque Orchestra, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Ensemble Caprice, the Knights, Portland Baroque Orchestra,

Cameron Welke, luteCameron Welke spends most of his time explaining to well-meaning strangers that the lute is, in fact, quite a different instrument from the flute. He brings a passionate curiosity and a deep creative drive to all manner of historical plucked instruments, which he plays with “expert technical dexterity, consummate phrasing and endearing expressivity” (Chestnut Hill Local). Past and current engagements include performances with the Washington Bach Consort, Tempesta di Mare, the Aston Magna Festival, Baltimore Choral Arts, Early Music City, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, Consortium Carissimi, and the Madison Bach Musicians. He explores repertoire for two baroque lutes in Duo Silvio with duo partner Richard Stone; the two gave the modern premiere of Stone’s reconstructions of lute duets by Sylvius Leopold Weiss in the fall of 2019. Cameron began his musical life as a classical violinist and a rock and jazz guitarist. He holds a B.M. in classical guitar performance from Belmont University, where he studied with Francis Perry and John Pell, and a M.M. in historical performance on lute and theorbo from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Richard Stone. He currently teaches lute at Grinnell College and lives in Richmond, VA.Ruckus, Tafelmusik, the Thirteen, and at the Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival in New Orleans and Staunton Music Festival in Virginia.He studied at the New England Conservatory and The Juilliard School with Laurence Lesser, Natasha Brofsky, and Phoebe Carrai, and was a Fulbright Scholar to Barcelona, Spain in 2008-09, studying with Lluis Claret and the Quartetto Casals. His early mentors and musical role models include his longtime cello teacher Judy Fraser, quartet coach Heilwig von Koenigslow, his mother and pianist-collaborator Kathy Bjorseth, and Tom and Isobel Rolston, the former directors of the Banff Centre, all of whom helped create a stimulating artistic environment to grow up in and instilled an enduring motivation to create nurturing environments for music and musicians.

Terrence Wilson, pianoAcclaimed by the Baltimore Sun as “one of the biggest pianistic talents to have emerged in this country in the last 25 years” pianist Terrence Wilson has appeared as soloist with many major American symphony orchestras such as Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Washington DC (National )including America’s Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Sydney Opera House, the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Montreal, and the Musikverein in Vienna. Acclaimed for his singing tone, and intelligent and soulful approach to music, the Los AngelesTimes has described Wilson as a musician “with something to say and a commanding way of saying it.” Mr. Wilson is a Member and the Artistic Coordinator of the grammy-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and regularly serves as guest principal cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. He currently teaches at Columbia University in New York, and at Sarah Lawrence College. A lover of period performance practice, he is also in demand as a player of Baroque cello throughout North America and Europe. Chamber music forms the core of Mr. Wilson’s work. He is a former member of the Shanghai and Chester Quartets, and the DaCapo Chamber Players. In 2004, he founded the Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia and remains the group's Artistic Director.Symphony, San Francisco, Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia. An active recitalist, Terrence Wilson made his New York City recital debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Washington, DC recital debut atJames Wilson, celloFor more than thirty years, cellist James Wilson has nurtured and enjoyed an exciting and varied career as performer and educator, bringing the joy of music to audiences throughout the world. As recitalist and chamber musician, he has appeared in many of the world’s most illustrious performing spaces

Rachel Yonan, violaPraised for her expressive playing and rich evocative tone, violist Rachel Yonan has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in concert halls across the United States, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and China; and on National Public Radio and Canadian Public Radio. Her appearances include concertsCurtis Presents, Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove (UK), Ascoli Piceno Festival (Italy), Bay Chamber Concerts and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. A lover of chamber music, Rachel serves as the Artistic Director of the Marinus Ensemble, which she co-founded with her brother, cellist Joseph Kuipers. Marinus is a passionate group of artists, dedicated to engaging audiences through interactive performance of great music. Their aim is to allow culture and excellence to reach broader audiences, and to find ways to reduce the distance between the artist on stage and the audience in the hall. Beyond her own innovative work with Marinus, Rachel has been invited to perform at festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Prussia Cove’s Open Chamber Music, Festival Mozaic, and Taos Music Festival. Ms. Yonan has collaborated with such renowned artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Roberto Díaz, Joseph Silverstein, James Dunham and Robert Levin; and worked extensively with Pamela Frank, Peter Wiley and Edgar Meyer. the Kennedy Center. In Europe he has given recitals at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Lourvre in Paris, and countless other major venues. In the US he has given recitals at Lincoln Center in New York City (both Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall), the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society. He appeared with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra on July 4, 2015 before an audience of over fifteen thousand. Recently, he performed the music of Julius Eastman and Clarence Barlow at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, returned as piano faculty at the Brevard Music Center in Western North Carolina, and held a teaching residency at Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute. In March 2021, Wilson was appointed to the piano faculty at Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Notes on today's program:Versailles, the vast palace for 17th and 18th century French rulers builtby King Louis XIV (the “Sun King”), was a unique place in the history ofmusic. It was the resplendent home of a government that consideredmusic and musicians as integral components in the culture, politics, andlife of France. It was run by art-loving monarchs from Louis XIII throughto Marie-Antoinette, who understood the social and political importanceof the arts and actively promoted them.To Louis XIV, power and the arts were linked.  He wished to expandFrance’s political and economic supremacy into the arts, anddeliberately undermined the influence of Italian Baroque to assert hisown authority. While the Italians leaned towards to the world ofpassionate vocals and flamboyant instrumentation, the French aimedtowards the world of reason and moderation, engaging the intellect withsensory experiences that emphasized comprehension, grace, eleganceand good taste.French musicians developed expertise in chords and timbres and wereskilled at fitting music to a text or plot, always finding the right expression to convey emotional content or an imitation of the Naturalworld. All composer and playwrights as well as court and churchmusicians contributed to France’s drive for refinement. Lutenists,harpsichordists, viola players, music directors, dancers, and singersshared a determination to depict refinement and authenticity,dispensing with excessive turbulence and contrast.France saw dance as the epitome of aristocratic art, and theconsummate expression of the mastery of body and mind. Much Frenchbaroque music thus uses dance movements and forms as its artisticbasis. The instrumental suites of François Couperin are a perfectexample of this. In the fourth of his “Concerts Royeaux” (Royal Concertos), Couperin links various forms of dance music into a suite that forms a narrative. Starting from an abstract and serious openingmovement, the suite travels through various dances with internationalflavor - an Allemande (German), French and Italian Courantes, and aSarabande. Unlike its European neighbors, French music revered andincorporated elements of folk music as well as the all-important traditionof dance. To this end, Couperin’s suite ends with two folk-inspireddances, the Rigaudon (a fast country dance from Southern France) anda lively Forlane (another fast dance with roots in Italy).

Instrumental music in France also distinguished itself by its favored instruments, namely the lute, theorbo, harpsichord, viola da gamba and flute. It also focused on musical declamation, ornamentation, and eloquent restraint. The music tended to suggest rather than state, depicting attitudes rather than passion. Miniature was preferred to large-scale, and titles were often evocative, with some attributed to famous figures. Our concert continues with Les Grâces (“The Graces”), a charming piece by Jacques DuPhly. One of Baroque France’s most famous performers and teachers of the harpsichord, DuPhly wrote many pieces for his instrument that have evocative titles. Les Grâces is named after the three Greek goddesses who were the embodiment of beauty. Written in the style of lute playing, the piece might also be a tongue-in-cheek reference to the role of lutenists at the time, who were renowned for their playing and also their gifts in the arts of love!The court at Versailles was also unusual in its respect for men andwomen artists. Having first made her name as a harpsichord player and a singer, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre was a part of the court around Louis XIV from the time she was a child. She was groomed by his mistress and later married a Parisian organist. But she continued to appear at court and dedicate her compositions to the Sun King, who received them with unstinting praise. Jacquet de La Guerre continued the relationship until Louis's death and then sought new royal patrons for her works. Her spectacular chamber cantata Le Sommeil d’Uylisse (“The Sleep of Ulysses”) dramatizes a story found in The Odyssey. The god of the sea Neptune is infuriated by Ulysses’ expert command of his ship on the ocean and conjures up a terrible storm to drown the ship. The goddess of wisdom and victory

Minerva swoops in and puts Ulysses and his crew into a trance-like sleep to save them. Cantatas at the court were often used to tell cautionary tales or tell stories that uplifted the important role of the king. Jacquet de La Guerre depicts all of this in her thinly orchestrated vocal piece, alternating between colorful songs and freely written recitatives that drive forth the narrative content. Using rhythm and texture, her arias depict the rolling ocean, a raging storm, and a magical sleep-inducing spell. The composer also use this opportunity to put a political spin on this story – while Ulysses is in his state of deep sleep, the goddess Minerva tells him a story of the ancient king Alcinous who conquered his enemies by listening to divine wisdom. The last aria of the cantata forms a capstone morale to the fable – a strong King (helped by the divine) is loved by all and can conquer the world.Jean-Philippe Rameau, like DuPhly, was another famous harpsichordist and composer of the time. He wrote chamber music and grand opera for the French Court, often naming his small pieces after his friends and colleagues. In the fifth of his Concerts de Clavecin, “La Forqueray” honors the viol players Antoine Forqueray (c. 1671-1745) and his son Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699-1782). In 1741, Jean-Baptiste Forqueray had just remarried, and the piece may have been a wedding present for him and his harpsichordist wife. “La Cupis” celebrates Marie-Anne Cupis, known as La Camargo (1710-1770), who was a celebrated dancer of the Académie royale de la musique, and took part in the premiere of important operas. It could also celebrate the birth of her nephew in 1741. “La Marais” commemorates virtuoso viol player Marin Marais or one of his numerous sons. Marin Marais makes his own compositional mark on tonight’s program in one of his most famous pieces, La Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris ("The Bells of St. Genevieve"). The work was written for violin, viol (in this concert played by cello), and a flexible team of musicians playing the bass line and filling out the chords. It is also in the form of a "chaconne" - variations on a set bass line. In this case the bass line was inspired by the repetitious melodic pattern of chimes of the church of St. Genevieve, which we hear right away in the first four measures played by the continuo and viol. By the 5th measure, the violin takes over the melody. Throughout the piece, the violin and viol (cello) take turns with the melody, showing off their instrumental and expressive technique. Perhaps because of its hypnotic repetition, this piece has achieved a

contemporary popularity equal to other Baroque “hits” such as the Canon by Pachelbel, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti.The concluding piece on the program, the cantata Médée (“Medea”) by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, is another vocal chamber work telling a cautionary tale. Clérambault was the master of the “French Cantata,” small-scale operatic works sung in French. This dramatic piece tells the story of Medea, a Greek mythological figure, who is betrayed by Jason and conjures a spell to exact her revenge. The piece’s genius lies in two compositional ideas - assigning the singer dual roles of narrator and Medea and depicting the anti-heroine’s wildly contrasting psychological states through virtuoso writing in the violins, flute and bass section. As in the Jacquet de La Guerre cantata, arias alternate with plot-advancing recitatives. The course of arias through the cantata depicts Medea’s mental journey from anger to questioning remorse, a stern conjuring of spells, and finally to a state of rage. A product of the court of Versailles, this piece conveys a veiled message to all who might betray the King – be loyal or revenge will be taken!Composer Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

Translations Le Sommeil d Ulisse By Elisabeth Jaquet de La Guerre Symphonie Recitative Apr s mille travaux L infatigable Ulisse a Neptune irrit Croit cacher son Vaisseau Mais ses efforts sont vains Ce Dieu veut qu il p risse Et qu un gouffre soit son tombeau After a thousand labors The indefatigable Ulisse has irritated Neptune He thinks he is safe on board his Ship But his efforts are in vain This God wants him to perish And make a watery chasm for his grave Aria Sur une mer orageuse et profonde Il l aper oit guid par les z phirs Voguer au gr de ses desins Et r gner comme lui sur l onde On a stormy and deep sea He sees the ship guided by the zephyrs Sailing according to the captain s skill Reigning over the air like he over the sea Recitative Il en fr mit Une injuste fureur s empare de ses sens Et les remplis d horreur Neptune shuddered An unjust fury seized his senses And filled him with horror Aria Storm Pour perdre ce guerrier Il se livre sa rage De tonnerres bruyants de foudroyants clairs Il fait briller gronder les Airs L univers alarm craint un nouveau naufrage Tous les vents d cha n s lutent contre les flots Le vaisseau renvers c de l affreux orage disparait Et la Mer engloutit ce H ros Aria Venez Minerve bienfaisante Vous qui prenez soin de ses jours H tez vous D esse puissante Volez volez volez son secours To kill this warrior He indulges in his rage Noisy thunders lightning bolts He makes the winds scold brilliantly As the alarmed world fears for a shipwreck All the raging winds fight against the waves The ship overturned yielding to the awful storm disappears And the Sea engulfs the Hero Come benevolent Minerva You who protect us Make haste Mighty Goddess Fly fly fly to his rescue Quand il vit la troupe immortelle sur Hion se partager vos le ons toujours fid le Sous vos lois il sait se ranger When he defeated the famous troops on Hion Because he is always faithful to your wisdom He knew how to conquer Venez Come Recitative Nos v ux sont exhauss s Une si ch re t te chappe enfin la temp te Un asile d licieux du Dieu qui le poursuit Our wishes are fulfilled Such a beloved hero at last escapes the storm A delightful asylum from the pursuing God

Rend la col re vaine Par un sommeil myst rieux La D esse adoucit sa peine Makes his anger useless By a mysterious sleep The Goddess softens his pain Aria Sleep Dormez Dormez ne vous d fendez pas d un sommeil D un sommeil si rempli de charmes Ah Ah Que le repos d appas Quand il succ de tant d alarmes Sleep Sleep do not defend yourself from a sleep Of a sleep so full of charms Ah Ah How rest appeases When it follows so many alarms Aux plus laborieux exploits Il est beau qu un H ros s expose Mais il faut aussi quelque fois Que ce m me H ros repose To the most laborious exploits It is good that a Hero engages himself But it is also sometimes necessary That this same Hero rest Dormez Sleep Recitative Mais quel songe ce m le cet enchantement Minerve son esprit pr sente du Destin qui l attend une image riante Et lui tient ce discours charmant But in a dream mixed with this enchantment Minerva smiles at his present fate And gives him this charming speech Recitative Alcinouis ce Roi que l univers admire En ces heureux climats exerce son Empire En vain mille ennemis Dans leurs jaloux transports Ont fait contre lui seul les plus puissants efforts Contraint d armer son bras Il n a prit son tonnerre Que pour mieux affermir le repos de la Terre Ce monarque attentif au bonheur des humains Se pla t prot ger les droits des souverains Il est des afflig s la plus ferme esp rance Vos v ux seront combl s par sa magnificence Et malgr les destins vous perdre anim s Il vous rendra vainqueur a des peuples aim s Aria Ulisse que la gloire appelle triomphe triomphe En ces aimables lieux Il y voit finir la querelle qui troubla si longtemps les Dieux Lorsqu un H ros suit la Sagesse Et qu il la prend pour son appui son parti tout s int resse Tout agit tout combat tout agit tout combat pour lui Ulisse Alcinous the King whom the universe admires Rules his Empire in these happy climes In vain a thousand enemies In their jealous transports Have made against him alone the most powerful efforts And forced him to take up arms He did not use his power But to better strengthen the rest of the Earth This monarch attentive to the happiness of humans Likes to protect the rights of sovereigns And strengthen the hopes of the afflicted Your wishes will be fulfilled by his magnificence And when you lose spirit He will make you victorious and beloved Ulisse whom glory calls to triumph triumph In this harmonious world He sees the end of the quarrel that troubled the Gods for so long When a Hero follows Wisdom And takes it as his support In his well being everything is interested Everything acts everything fights for him Ulisse

M d e By Louis Nicolas Cl rambault Recitative with soprano and basso continuo L amante de Jason aux rives de Colchos Avait forc l Enfer prendre sa d fence L amour et la reconnaisance Devait dans ses liens retenir ce h ros Mais bient t elle apprend qu un nouvel hymen e De son volage poux fait les plus doux souhaits Dieux dit elle a quels maux m avez vous condamn e Si je perds Jason pour jamais Recit with soprano violin and BC S duite par les soins de sa fausse tendresse J osai trahir et mon p re et les dieux C est par moi que vainqueur des taureaux furieux Il revient triomphant dans le sein de la Gr ce El le perfide immole en ce funeste jour Le devoir la gloire et l amour Aria with BC Non non n coutons plus qu un courroux l gitime L amour d sesp r demande une victime J aime je suis trahie et mon c ur est jaloux Ven z haine fureur L amour me livre vous Aria with violin and BC Courons la vengeance D pit mortel allumez mon couroux Que l ingrat qui m offence P risse sous vos coups Faisons tomber sur sa t te coupable Les foudres mena ants de ma juste fureur La haine devient implacable Quand l amour l allume en un coeur Recitative Que dis je H las Mon c ur moi m me rebelle De son p ril fatal commence s alarmer Pr te punir Jason sa trahison cruelle Contre lui ne peut m animer Je ne vois plus dans l infid le Que ce qui me le fit aimer Jason s lover on the banks of Colchos has called Hell to come to her defense Love and gratitude should have kept Jason in his place but soon she learns that a new marriage fulfills her unfaithful husband s sweetest wishes Gods she cries to what torments you have condemned me if I am losing Jason forever Charmed by his false affection I dared to betray my father and the gods Thanks to me as the conqueror of the furious bulls he returns in triumph to the bosom of Greece and the treacherous man on this fatal day throws away duty glory and love No no let us hear no more of a righteous wrath despairing love demands a victim I love I am betrayed and my heart is jealous Come hatred fury Love delivers me up to you Let s hasten to vengeance Deadly anger ignite my wrath May the ungrateful man who is offending me perish beneath your blows Let s drop on his guilty head the threatening lightning of my just anger Hatred becomes unforgiving when love enflames a heart What am I saying Alas My own heart rebels and is alarmed by his deadly peril I was ready to punish Jason but his cruel betrayal no longer motivates me against him I only see now in the unfaithful man that which made me love him

Aria for soprano flute and violin L amour dans ses fers me ram ne Malgr tout mon d pit il triomphe son tour En vain un tendre c ur s abandonne la haine Il revient toujours l amour Love in its chains leads me again In spite all my resentment love triumphs in its turn In vain a soft heart gives way to hate it always returns to love Recitative Mais quelle est mon erreur extr me Pour sauver un ingrat je me trahis moi m me Tandis que le perfide aux pieds des immortels Peut tre en ce moment s unit a ce qui il aime But is this is my greatest error For to save an ungrateful man I betray myself while the treacherous man at the feet of the gods perhaps even now is united with his new lover C est trop souffrir des affronts si cruels Vengeons ma fl mme malheureuse Livrons l ingrat Jason des maux ternels En perdant ma rivale heureuse It is too much to suffer cruel insults Let us avenge my unhappy passion Let us deliver the ungrateful Jason to eternal pain when he loses the happy woman who is my rival Evocation Cruelle fille des enfers D mon fatal affreuse jalousie Pour venger ma flamme trahie Venez sortez vos gouffres sont ouverts Venez venez punissez ma rivale Des maux affreux que j ai souferts Rendez sa peine ma fureur gale Que son supplice tonne l univers Cruel daughter of hell deadly demon dreadful jealousy to avenge my betrayed flame come come out your dens are open Come come punish my rival for the dreadful pains that I have suffered Make her pain equal to my fury so that her torture astonishes the universe Recitative Le charme est fait les cruelles Furies Sortent du t n breux s jour Le dieu brillant dont j ai re u le jour Se trouble de leur barbaries The spell is cast the cruel demons leave their dark dwelling place The sun god who fathered me is disturbed by their cruelties Aria Volez Demons volez Servez ma col re fatale Br les ravages ce palais Que la flamme infernale D truise ces lieux pour jamais Portez dans tous les c urs le trouble et l pouvante Redoublez l horreur de vos feux Offrez dans ce d sordre affreux Aux regards de Jason ma rivale mourante Fly demons fly Serve my deadly anger Burn ravage this palace so that the infernal flame may destroy this place forever Put into every heart turmoil and terror Double the horror of your fires In this dreadful disorder offer my dying rival before Jason s eyes

Jennifer Cable, PresidentMary Boodell, Vice PresidentJames Wilson, TreasurerPhyllis McCafferty, SecretaryFlexible in personnel and repertoire, the Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia strives to empower our audience, musicians, and organization to face the world with new perspectives through music, building a broad and active audience, and a more enlightened industry.We are dedicated to inspiring, entertaining, and moving our communities through a combination of unique venues, world-class musicians, thought-provoking content, and eclectic classical music. Engaging with contemporary culture and honoring the classical tradition, we strive to promote interest and diversity in the musical life of Richmond and beyond.We invite you to attend one or all our events, become a member of CMSCVA, or volunteer your time and talents. We are certain that you will enjoy the experience.About the Chamber Music Society of Central VirginiaThe Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia Board of Directors:Mary Boodell Jennifer Cable Diana Damschroder Peter Gilbert Robin Jones Phyllis McCafferty Jeffrey RiehlEllen Sayles Jen TobinJames WilsonArtistic Director James WilsonAdministrtaive Coordinator Lauren WilliamsOfficersP.O. Box 8526 Richmond, VA 23226-0526 (804) 304-6312 | cmscva@yahoo.com | www.cmscva.orgThe Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia is a nonstock, nonprofit 5019(c)(3) organization. Our 2021-22 season is made possible through donations from our patrons, and through a generous grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia would like to thank the following individuals and foundations who have made our programs possible Starred names reflect gifts given to support our 2022 2 concert season received after the start of the current fiscal year July 1 2022 until cto er 2 202 Donors up to 99 Anonymous Gift 2 Robert and Barbara Alexander David and Shin Min Block Booktopics Eugenia H Borum Edward Cowardin Jr Laura Deluca Phyllis Entin Christine Ertell Richard Fine and Sara Ferguson Martha Faulkner Megan Fries Martin and Kathleen Gary Miriam Goldberg Cynthia Greene aula ars a Anne Gordon Harrison in honor of PMcM Members 100 249 Anonymous Gift 4 Barbara Charlotte Anderson Rev Dennis A Andersen Charles and Jean Arrington ar l a ar ki sk John B H Caldwell Debra Carlotti Robert a usa Clewell Diana Damschroder a i e Martha B Dorill Alan W Dow ll Marilyn Erickson Barbara Felton Ann Franke Sharon Fuller is ai i e i su r e ell a r er s Mary Heen Kathleen Hoppe James Kidd Denis and Carol Klisz Julie Laskaris Hortense Liberti Joan Losen ier Patricia Parks J u e i a ris i se re Teresa Shuk eresea i le Sheryl Smith Misa and Robert Stuart Richard and Ruth Szucs Rick and Laurie Williams James Wilson Martin Gary In memory of Kathleen Gary Beverly Geissler Ja e a J s el za ler r a rs a le l a Ralph and Jocelyne Graner Cynthia Greene Kathleen Hoppe Mark Huebsch Eric and Christina Jacobson Carlyle Robin Jones Harry Kaplowitz Michael Kelly Joann King Sandy and Heyn Kjerulf A W Lewis lll MD Suzanne Maerz Marion Nelsen Jack and Tricia Pearsall Mathis Kirby Powelson

George Watkins *Laurie Williams *Marsden Williams * Brian and Jane Wilson *Elisabeth Wollan *Yellow Cello Music Charitable Fund * Sally R. Youngs *Eli ZallerNetwork for Good *Tricia and Jack Pearsall * Richard Fox and Owen Sharman Grace Suttle *Ernest and Perry Wilson *Brooks and Lauren Nelsen * Eileen Schulman *Peter Gilbert and Anne Reavey * Michael and Molly Wray *Members Cont.Jeffrey Riehl *Ellen Sayles Margaret Stokely *Robert and Misa Stuart *Grace Suttle *Robert and Mary Ellen Wadsworth *Patrons ($250 - $499)Laurel Nelson BrooksAnonymous (3) *Rosa Bosher *Richard Fox *Harry KaplowitzGita and Davis Massey Artist Sponsors ($500 $999) Phoebe F. Antrim*Mary Boodell and Evan Davis *Lois M. Crabtree *Fran and John Freimarck *Phyllis McCafferty *Virginia Physician Outreach Sponsors ($1000 - $2499) Coille Limited Partnership* Fiends of the Public LibraryGisela John (in honor of Hans Ullrich Scharnberg) Sarah Harriman * Concert Sponsors ($2500 and up) Anonymous Gift (4) *Jennifer A. Cable and David Lingerfelt*• Rev. Dr. Hilary Smith, Ron Cox, Jim Bennett, and everyone at Churchof the Holy Comforter,• All of our donors, patrons, volunteers, and friends for their unendingsupport.• The gracious hosts for our artists who provide such a valuablecomponent of our musical productions. And special thanks to NinaConway for coordinating our housing.Special Thanks to:Elizabeth King *Patricia Kelly Kyle * (in memory of Robert Kyle) Ridgeway Foundation c/o Elizabeth Lowsley-Williams *Ann Reavey and Peter Gilbert *And a gift from:The Virginia A. Arnold Foundation of the Community Foundation for a Greater Richmond

Just KiddingSept. 24, 2022 | SaturdayRichmond Main Public Library 2:00 pm - freeComedy has been an essential part of dealing with the human condition for thousands of years, and for centuries, composers have given us musical humor to tickle our funny bones whether we're alone at home or at a concert. CMSCVA celebrates the lighter side of life in this concert of chamber music by Haydn, Heinrich von Biber, and the fictitious P. D. Q. Bach.Mozart QuintetsSept. 25, 2022 | SundaySt. Mary’s Episcopal Church4:00 pmMozart’s viola quintets are crowning jewels of the chamber music repertoire. CMSCVA artists perform his quintets in G minor and C major, twin works written within a month in the spring of 1787. One is all humor and light, the other dark and stormy. The two come together to form a spectacular musical portrait of one of history’s most gifted composers.Bach and his InspirationsOct. 30, 2022 | SundaySecond Presbyterian Church4:00 pmWe regularly enjoy the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in concerts and at home. But what came before Bach? Harpsichordist Carsten Schmidt performs a recital exploring the composers who inspired the young Bach, including Dieterich Buxtehude and Johann Pachelbel. CMSCVA CMSCVA's 18th SeasonSeptember 2022 to May 2023

returns to the acoustic perfection of historic Second Presbyterian Church, for this afternoon of glorious Baroque keyboard music.An Evening at VersaillesDec. 19, 2022 | MondayChurch of the Holy Comforter7:00 pmYou are invited to an evening of unbridled French Baroque music written by the men and women who were musicians at the French Court at Versailles. Settle back and enjoy the wit and drama that was savored 400 years ago - cantatas that tell legendary stories, trios that satire court life, a reimagining of the carillon at St Genevieve, and dances of the highest elegance. La Vida NotturnaFeb. 3, 2023 | FridayChurch of the Holy Comforter7:00 pmWorlds collide in this spectacular program of string chamber music. No composer embodied the blend of strict protocol and evocative sensuality of 18th century Spain better than Luigi Boccherini, court composer to Infante Luis Antonio of Spain. Flash forward 300 years to discover the music of American composer Brian Nabors, who draws from combinations of Jazz Funk, R&B, and Gospel with the modern flair of contemporary classical music. This program includes the world premiere of a quintet commissioned from Nabors by CMSCVA for our 2022-23 season. The Cramer Quartet plays HaydnFeb. 4, 2023 | Saturday2:00 pm - freeRichmond Public LibraryThe adventurous Cramer Quartet performs on period instruments in a full spectrum of musical styles. As a celebration of the extraordinary quartets of Joseph Haydn, the group has been commissioning American composers to write new string quartets in response to his iconic works. In this concert, the Cramers will play music both by the father of the string quartet as well as exciting new works from our own time and place.

Dance CardApril 15, 2023 | Saturday2:00 pm - freeSome of the most memorable moments in the classical repertoire are inspired by the power, grace, and fun of dancing. Our musical program was inspired by dances and the places around the world that shaped them - waltz-crazed Vienna, the Harlem Renaissance, 19th century Bohemia, and the East African coast.Waltz / SambaApril 16, 2023 | SundayFirst Unitarian Universalist Church4:00 pmIn Romantic-era Vienna, the waltz and music from Hungary were the big fads. In America, Latin music is one of our dance party staples. High art and popular culture join hands and step out in this joyful concert of chamber music by Brahms, Strauss and American composer Kevin Day. Our Pictures, Portfolio 2May 13, 2023 | SaturdayRichmond Main Public Library2:00 pm - freeThe second installment of a multi-year CMSCVA commissioning project inspired by Modest Mussorgsky’s timeless musical suite ”Pictures at an Exhibition,” this concert presents three world premieres based on works of art and historical objects found in some of Richmond’s many museums and galleries. The talented line-up of Richmond-born and Richmond-based composers creating this second round of musical pictures will be announced in the fall. Bring your Richmond pride and join us for this celebration of local talent and creativity!CMSCVA's 18th Season is supported in part by the Allan and Margot Blank Foundation, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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