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ESPERIA FOUNDATION sponsors complimentary seating to every Masterseries concert for non-traditional audiences, students and other community members.

 


Season Sponsorship provided by
ESPERIA FOUNDATION

2010 Season

 

 
CAMA’s 2010 MASTERSERIES at the Lobero opens with pianist Garrick Ohlsson in an all-Chopin recital, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth and the 40th anniversary of Ohlsson becoming the first American to win the Chopin International Piano Competition. The series continues with “The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres,” featuring Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in a program that commemorates Galileo’s first public demonstration of the telescope in 1609 and the publication of Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo in the same year. This “stellar” concert includes projected photos from renowned astronomers, narration, and memorized repertoire by 17th century composers. Next up is Carter Brey, Principal Cellist of the New York Philharmonic, who teams with pianist Christopher O’Riley, honored with awards at the Leeds, Van Cliburn and Busoni piano competitions. The series closes with the return of Hespèrion XXI directed by viola da gambist Jordi Savall in a themed program: “Lux Feminae.” Soprano Montserrat Figueras and the ensemble pay homage to the light of woman, exploring through music seven aspects of woman from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: mysticism, sensuality, motherhood, love, lament, rejoicing and wisdom.

All Masterseries recitals are at 8 p.m.
at the Lobero Theatre
33 East Canon Perdido, Santa Barbara

All programs and artists are subject to change.

 

Garrick Ohlsson, Piano
Philip Jones Griffiths photo
 

{1.}
Saturday, January 16, 2010
GARRICK OHLSSON
Piano     In Recital

Frédéric Chopin:
Nocturnes Op. 9, Nos. 1-3
Polonaises Op. 40, Nos. 1-2
Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
Variations in B-flat Major, Op. 12
Mazurkas Op. 7, Nos. 1-3
Mazurka Op. 30, No. 4
Grande valse in A-flat Major, Op. 42
Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31

The year 2010 marks both the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth and the 40th anniversary of Garrick Ohlsson becoming the first American to win the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. In celebration, Ohlsson will perform an all-Chopin recital featuring the composer’s Piano Sonata No. 2, plus a selection of Nocturnes, Polonaises, Mazurkas and more.

Sponsor: Ruth McEwen

Co-Sponsor: Virginia Castagnola-Hunter

 

{2.}
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
TAFELMUSIK BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
JEANNE LAMON
Music Director
ALISON MACKAY
Concept & Musical Program
SEAN SMYTH  Narrator

The Galileo Project:
Music of the Spheres

In the year 1609 two exciting events took place in the city of Venice: the publication of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, and Galileo’s first public demonstration of the telescope from the tallest tower of the city. The worlds of astronomy and music were intertwined throughout the baroque period. Tafelmusik commemorates the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s achievement with this stellar concert – a soundscape of music and words from a time of discovery. Time travel with Tafelmusik to the baroque Italy of Monteverdi and Galileo; the England of Purcell and Isaac Newton; and the Germany of J.S. Bach and Maria Winkelmann Kirch. With works by Lully, Vincenzo Galilei (the father of Galileo), Rameau, Telemann and others; the program also features a narrator and visual projections.

Principal Sponsor: Dolores M. Hsu

 

Galileo Galilei
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Domenico Robusti painted c. 1605-07. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

 

Carter Brey, Cello
CARTER BREY

Christopher O'Riley, Piano
CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY

 

{3.}
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
CARTER BREY  Cello
CHRISTOPHER
O'RILEY  Piano

Richard Strauss: Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 6

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 143

Frédéric Chopin:
Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65

Carter Brey, Principal Cellist of the New York Philharmonic since 1996 and a winner of the Piatigorsky Prize, teams with pianist Christopher O’Riley, who was honored with awards at the Leeds, Van Cliburn and Busoni piano competitions. Brey and O’Riley, both recipients of Avery Fisher Career Grants, have collaborated in recordings and duo recitals for more than a decade.

Sponsor: Jeanne Thayer

Co-Sponsor:
Bitsy Becton Bacon/Becton Family Foundation
Co-Sponsor: Arthur R. Gaudi

 

{4.}
Thursday, March 18, 2010
HESPÈRION XXI
JORDI SAVALL  Director
MONTSERRAT FIGUERAS
Soprano

Lux Feminae (900-1600):
Seven Portraits of the Women in ancient Hesperia

Program of medieval- and renaissance-era songs and instrumentals: from anonymous Andalusian, Sephardic and Christian traditions; from the Codex de la Huelgas and Llibre Vermell de Montserrat; and by composers Beatriz de Dia, Martin Codax and Bartomeu Càrceres.

Lux Feminae is an homage to the light of Woman, exploring seven aspects of woman from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: mysticism, sensuality, motherhood, love, lament, rejoicing and wisdom.

Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board

 

Montserrat Figueras, Soprano
MONTSERRAT FIGUERAS
D. Ignaszewski photo

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