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SOCIETY FOR THE DOCTRINAL AFFECTATION OF BAROQUE MUSIC
GUEST ARTIST, Timothy Burris, archlute
Chris Kachian, guitar
David Jenkins, organ and harpsichord
Michelle Nordtorp-Madson, art historian
The Society for the Doctrinal Affectation of Baroque Music is dedicated to stylish performances of early musical artifacts with non-conventional instrumentation. The Society’s artistic mission is to arouse the elevated passions of modern audiences through elegant interpretations informed by the latest in historical discovery.
The Society submits for your worthy intellectual entertainment this concert of an all-Baroque program in St. Mary’s Chapel of The Saint Paul Seminary at the University of St. Thomas.
Address: 2260 Summit Ave. St. Paul MN on 16 February 2013 at 8PM.
Contact number: 651.962.5858.
Selections include the Bach French Suite for Guitar and Lute, the Vivaldi Concerto for Guitar, CPE Bach Sonata for organ, and a selection of archlute solos from the early to Middle Baroque by Zamboni, Galilei and Frescobaldi, for your gracious repast.
The admission, as always, is free.
Where good taste encounters the unusual—
CONTACT INFO
www.stthomas.edu/music<http://
962.5858
Society Program 2013
French Suite V J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte
Bourrée
Louré
Gigue
Recitativo visivo
Toccata Michelangelo Galilei (1575-1631)
Ceccona Giovanni Zamboni (fl. 1718)
Toccata per Spinettina sola, over Liuto Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Organ Sonata No. 6 in G Minor (1755) CPE Bach (1714-1788)
Allegro moderato
Adagio
Allegro
Recitativo visivo
Concerto in D Major for Guitar and Continuo Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Allegro
Largo
Allegro
Michelle Nordtorp-Madson, art historian, holds an MA in Art History and a Ph.D. in Design History from the University of Minnesota. She received technical design training and her first art history education in Denmark, where she spent four years completing a nine-month immersion program in the Danish language. At UST, she coordinates exhibitions and teaches courses in art history. Her current research interests focus on Medieval death culture, Medieval costume, artistic syncretism in Medieval Scandinavia, and Shape Shifters in Medieval Art and Literature.
Timothy Burris has performed throughout Europe and the US, both as a soloist and an accompanist. He has appeared in concert with such esteemed artists as the mezzo Jennifer Lane and the keyboardist Robert Hill, as well as under the baton of Peter Schreier and René Clemencic, among others. In a review of The Songs of Philip Rosseter, Part II, The Lute Society Magazine said of his skills as an accompanist: “Burris … plays with beautiful tone and is an absolutely first-class accompanist.”
In addition to solo recordings, he has done CD projects with Jennifer Lane and Tamara Matthews with New York Baroque; Willeke te Brummelstroete with Koorprojekt Rotterdam; Timothy Neill Johnson; and Ensemble Pentacost, among others. He can be heard playing Bach’s c minor Prelude in Shock Act, the prize-winning short-film DVD by Seth Grossman.
Mr Burris taught lute for six years at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, and currently teaches at Colby College and the Portland Conservatory of Music (Maine).
His foreign-language talents include fluency in German, French, and Dutch, and excellent facility in Spanish and Italian. His linguistic skills enhance his abilities as an accompanist, as well as adding to his effectiveness in coaching singers and instrumentalists in educational events such as master classes. He has an especial interest in French poetry, something he nurtured during more than two years of private study with French professors at the universities of Amsterdam and Leiden. His dissertation research was done primarily at Dresden’s Sächsische Landesbibliothek, in the final stages with the generous support of a Fulbright fellowship (to the Technical University of Dresden).EDUCATION: Soloist’s diploma, Royal Conservatory, The Hague; Ph.D., Duke University
David Jenkins is liturgical music director at The Saint Paul Seminary in St. Paul Minnesota and the organ instructor for the music department at the University of St. Thomas. Dr. Jenkins has also taught organ and church music at St. John’s University in Collegeville. He earned the D.M.A. in organ performance and the Performer's Certificate from The Eastman School of Music, where he studied organ with Russell Saunders and harpsichord with Arthur Haas. He also studied organ with Grethe Krogh at the Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen under a Marshall Fellowship. His other teachers have included Delbert Disselhorst, Garth Peacock, and Howard Don Small. A specialist in keyboard music of the Baroque Era and Scandinavian organ music, he has preformed recitals in Denmark, Norway, and the U.S.
Christopher Kachian, guitarist, has performed throughout Europe, the Americas, South and Central America and the Far East, as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist. His American performances have included a significant number of works written in the last twenty-five years, many of them commissions. These include over thirty works for guitar including 20 concerti. He has written Composer's Desk Reference for the Classic Guitar in consultation with over 25 composers, published by Mel Bay Publications. He has been heard on Minnesota Public Radio, National Public Radio and American Public Media (including several appearances on A Prairie Home Companion).
Notable premiere recordings include Conrad Susa's Carols and Lullabies (RCA 1995), David Baker's Images, Shadows and Dreams (Collins Classics 1996 and Clarion as Dance Like the Wind, Music of Today’s Black Composers), Woodwind Music (Innova 1997), phoenix ensemble#1 (Valve-Hearts [Germany] 1998), Falls Flyer (10,000 Lakes 2002), Cyprus, First Impressions (Innova 2006), The J.S. Bach Sonatas for Gamba and Harpsichord for Guitar and Harpsichord by Chris Kachian and David Jenkins (2007), A Night in Vienna, (10, 000 Lakes 2011). With the Arpeggione Duo he has recorded Wanderer Sonata and Folklore (Ars Nova [Stockholm] 2006, 2009). Numerous other recordings of music ranging from blues to Christmas music are in his discography.
Since 1984, Dr. Kachian has directed one of the largest guitar programs in the USA at the University of St Thomas where he is professor of music. He has lectured in music of Europe, the Americas, the Twentieth-Century, the World, the United States, Film, Protest, Mathematics, and Guitar Pedagogy and Guitar Literature. He is the founder of the UST Music Business, Recording Arts, and the Popular Music degrees. 2001 - 2005, he served as Director of Guitar Studies for MMTA for whom he lead – authored and edited the nation’s first comprehensive, multi-genre guitar pedagogy syllabus. In 2011, he wrote the film score for Per Bianca, which won Best Film at the Minnesota 48-Hour Film Festival and won a screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
Recent notable USA premiere performances are Astor Piazzolla’s Double Concerto and Franz Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata. The ongoing series of Baroque concerts, with keyboardist, David Jenkins, with the Society for the Doctrinal Affectation of Baroque Music, an early music ensemble and the Arpeggione Duo, a Stockholm-based cello and guitar duo specializing in new folk music, round out his concert career.
Rounding out his biography occurred in 2012 when he received national recognition by the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity as a National Arts Associate and Distinguished Member.
