2012-2013 Season
“Now a decade old, Tempesta is one of America’s great period-instrument bands.”— Fanfare March/April 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2012-2013 Concert Season
Tempesta di Mare’s first Messiah &
new Artist Recital Series at the Barnes and Woodmere
PHILADELPHIA, PA—May 10, 2012 — Tempesta di Mare announces its 11th Philadelphia concert series, which includes its first performance of Handel’s Messiah, performed in collaboration with Choral Arts Philadelphia, and the inaugural season of a 3-program Artist Recital series, featuring its principal musicians, held at two of the world’s great private art collections: the new Barnes on the Parkway and Chestnut Hill’s Woodmere Art Museum.
Tempesta’s complete 2012-2013 Philadelphia season comprises eight productions: two orchestral, two chamber and three recital programs—each performed twice in Center City and Chestnut Hill—plus a single performance of Messiah at Irvine Auditorium in University City. “Next season’s performance list is nearly twice as big as this season’s,” remarks Gwyn Roberts, one of Tempesta’s Directors and principal recorder and flute player in the group.
Full 2012-2013 details below.
Artist Recital Series
2012-2013 marks the inaugural season of a new three-program Artist Recital Series, each featuring one of Tempesta’s principal artists. This first season’s soloists will be Adam Pearl, harpsichord, Gwyn Roberts, recorder, and Emlyn Ngai, violin. “While we’ve shared a lot of what’s great about baroque music for orchestra and chamber ensemble,” says co-director Richard Stone, “we’ve left out the instrumental virtuoso as a vehicle for defining music. The new Artist Recital Series will complete the picture.”
The three-concert series is being presented in collaboration with both the new Barnes on the Parkway and Woodmere Art Museum’s “Classic Sundays”. After each concert, audience members will have the opportunity to speak with the artists and stroll the permanent collections and special exhibits at each museum. “This collaboration is very exciting,” says Noel Butcher Hanley, Event Coordinator at Woodmere. “Tempesta already has a great following in Chestnut Hill. Presenting their extraordinary music-making in this new format will be a wonderful addition to Woodmere and the entire Northwest Philadelphia region.”
Orchestra and chamber projects
The 2012-2013 season kicks off on October 20 & 21 with Brandenburg 4 & Friends, an orchestral program including Bach’s iconic fourth Brandenburg Concerto, Handel’s Terpsichore Suite and Rebel’s Characters of the Dance, plus orchestral favorites by Vivaldi, Weiss and Fasch.
On December 8 & 9 the Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players will be joined by soloists Laurie Heimes, Jennifer Lane, Aaron Sheehan and David Newman in Art of the Prophets, featuring vocal and instrumental music from seventeenth-century Germany. The program, which includes stunning works by Johann Christoph Bach, Nicolaus Bruhns, Phillip Heinrich Erlebach and Johann Christoph Pez, is supported by an Art Works grant through the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Chamber Players will return on February 2 & 3 in Bach Trio Sonatas, Tempesta’s own colorful settings of the six sonatas for organ re-imagined for chamber ensemble. By treating the sonatas as conversational chamber music for varying forces of multiple players rather than as monologues for a single performer, these pieces show off music that is at once rich, deep, wicked, jaunty, impish, profound, hard-rocking and so much more. This project is supported by the E. Nakamichi Foundation.
On March 17 Tempesta di Mare will perform Handel’s masterpiece Messiah together with Choral Arts Philadelphia and soloists Ah Hong, Jennifer Lane, Aaron Sheehan and William Sharp. The single performance Philadelphia performance will take place at the University of Pennsylvania’s Irvine Auditorium. “We are thrilled to be joined by Choral Art’s Artistic Director and our long-time colleague Matthew Glandorf and his 35-voice choir for our very first Messiah,” says Roberts. “Both of our groups ensembles of musicians who have worked together over many years to develop a distinctive sound and approach to baroque music. We also share a focus on performing as a tight, flexible and expressive ensemble. The combination of our two groups, in this first-time collaboration, will undoubtedly yield extraordinary artistic results.” This project is supported by a Special Projects grant from the Presser Foundation.
The season concludes on May 11 & 12 with Great Books, an orchestral journey through some of the classics in literature, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Molière’s The Hypochondriac and Ovid’s Pygmalion, in orchestral renditions by Telemann, Purcell, Charpentier and Rameau.
Full 2012-2013 Season Details
BRANDENBURG 4 & FRIENDS
Tempesta di Mare Orchestra
Gwyn Roberts & Richard Stone, Directors, Emlyn Ngai, Concertmaster
- October 20, 2012, 8:00—Arch Street Friends Meeting, 320 Arch Street
- October 21, 2012, 4:00—The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
PROGRAM:
Brandenburg Concerto 4 — Bach
Terpsichore Suite — Handel
Characters of the Dance — Rebel
La Notte — Vivaldi
Concerto Grosso — Weiss
Concerto D:8— Fasch
ART OF THE PROPHETS
Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players
Laura Heimes, soprano, Jennifer Lane, mezzo, Aaron Sheehan, tenor and David Newman, baritone
- December 8, 2012, 8:00—Arch Street Friends Meeting, 320 Arch Street
- December 9, 2012, 4:00—St Martin-in-the-Fields, Chestnut Hill
PROGRAM:
“Meine Freundin, du bist schön” — J Ch Bach
“Jauchzet dem Herren” — Bruhns
“Ach daß ich Wassers gnug hätte” — J Ch Bach
Ouverture — Erlebach
Concerto Pastorale — Pez
These performances are supported by an Art Works grant through the National Endowment for the Arts
BACH TRIO SONATAS
Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players
- February 2, 2013, 8:00—Arch Street Friends Meeting, 320 Arch Street
- February 3, 2012, 4:00—St Martin-in-the-Fields, Chestnut Hill
PROGRAM:
Six Organ Trio Sonatas re-imagined for chamber ensemble — Bach
Recorded for 2013 release on Chandos Records
These performances are supported by The Nakamichi Foundation
HANDEL’S MESSIAH
Tempesta di Mare Orchestra
Gwyn Roberts & Richard Stone, Directors, Emlyn Ngai, Concertmaster
Choral Arts Philadelphia
Matthew Glandorf, Artistic Director
Ah Hong, soprano, Jennifer Lane, alto, Aaron Sheehan, tenor and William Sharp, baritone
- March 17, 2013, 4:00—Irvine Auditorium, UPENN
PROGRAM:
The Messiah — Handel
This performance is supported by the Presser Foundation
GREAT BOOKS
Tempesta di Mare Orchestra
Gwyn Roberts & Richard Stone, Directors, Emlyn Ngai, Concertmaster
- May 11, 2013, 8:00—Arch Street Friends Meeting, 320 Arch Street
- May 12, 2013, 4:00—The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
PROGRAM:
Don Quixote — Cervantes/Telemann
Le malade imaginaire — Molière/Charpentier
Suite from Pygmalion— Ovid/Rameau
Fairy Queen — Shakespeare/Purcell
ARTIST RECITAL SERIES
Tempesta at The Barnes
Wednesdays at 10:30
- October 17: Adam Pearl, harpsichord
- January 30: Gwyn Roberts, recorder
- May 8: Emlyn Ngai, violin
Tempesta at Woodmere
Sundays at 3:00
- November 4: Adam Pearl, harpsichord
- January 27: Gwyn Roberts, recorder
- April 28: Emlyn Ngai, violin
Publicity photos available on our website at tempestadimare.org/media/photos-2/
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