Programs
Passamezzo Moderno, founded in 2005, is a period ensemble that performs the music of three centuries, from 1530 to 1830, and specializes in the virtuoso instrumental music of the 17th century. Its members are David Granger, dulcian and bassoon, Jonathan Davis, harpsichord and organ, and Edwin Huizinga and Adriane Post, violins.
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2008/09 concert season
Ostinato! features popular bass lines from Italy and Germany in the early 17th century. Bass lines included are Ruggerio, La Monica, and La Bergamasca, as well as passamezzos, chaconnes, and passacaglias. Composers include Tarquinio Merula, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Biagio Marini, Salamone Rossi and others.
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2009/10 concert season
Duo Solace, lutenist John Lenti and soprano Linda Tsatsanis from Seattle, join Passamezzo Moderno for our program, Across the Alps. Vocal and instrumental music share equally in a program presenting the connection between Italy and Germany in the early Baroque. The concert is in chronological order to show how music developed during the first fifty years of the 17th century - early German Baroque music was Italian in character before developing its own voice. Composers include Claudio Monteverdi, Johann Hermann Schein, Heinrich Schütz, Dario Castello, Samuel Scheidt and others.
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Kathryn Montoya, masterful recorder and baroque oboe player, joins Passamezzo Moderno with northern Californian Josh Lee, viola da gamba and violone, in Baroque Bravura. Virtuoso music from 18th century London to Venice is featured in this concert of Baroque masters. Composers include Antonio Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Georg Friedrich Händel and others.
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Other programs featuring Passamezzo Moderno members
Tree Talk, begun by Alice Benjamin and David Granger in 1998, presents music for two bassoons, a combination often overlooked by today's composers and audiences, in a format the instruments so richly deserve - as soloists. Featured on this program will be Bohuslav Martinu's Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and two bassoons, Paul Chihara's "Branches" for two bassoons and percussion, and works by Georges Bizet, Alan Hovhaness, and others. With Ellen Wassermann, piano.
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Make a Donation!
Passamezzo Moderno is a fiscal affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS), a not-for-profit corporation. Your donation, made payable to SFEMS and acknowledged in writing by SFEMS, is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Please mail your donation to:
SFEMS
P.O. Box 10151
Berkeley, CA 94709
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