Oberlin College and Conservatory

Guest & Faculty Recital: Fiona Hughes '10, baroque violin; Rebecca Landell Reed '11, cello; and Mark Edwards, organ & harpsichord

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 8:00pm

Fairchild Chapel, Bosworth Hall
50 West Lorain Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

A guest & faculty recital by Fiona Hughes '10, baroque violin; Rebecca Landell Reed '11, cello; and Mark Edwards, organ & harpsichord

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Program:

Partita 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004                              Johann Sebastian Bach

      Chaconne                                                                                

Fiona Hughes, baroque violin

 

Sonata in F Major, Op. 1, No. 12, HWV 370         George Frideric Handel

      Adagio                                                                                   

      Allegro

      Largo

      Allegro

Fiona Hughes, baroque violin

Mark Edwards, organ

Rebecca Landell Reed, cello

 

Sarabande con partite, BWV 990                                                      Bach

Mark Edwards, organ

 

Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord, BWV 1017

Fiona Hughes, baroque violin

Mark Edwards, harpsichord

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Violinist Fiona Hughes ’10 holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Cleveland Institute of Music. A founding member of Three Notch’d Road: The Charlottesville Baroque Ensemble, she is a versatile performer of both modern and baroque violin, appearing with Apollo’s Fire, Washington Bach Consort, Boston Baroque, Duke Vespers Ensemble, the Richmond Symphony, New World Symphony, and the Handel + Haydn Society. She has performed in numerous music festivals, including Encore, Brevard Music Center, National Repertory Orchestra, Banff, Staunton Music Festival, and Japan’s Pacific Music Festival where she concertized with Riccardo Muti. She looks to Stephen Rose, Adam DeGraff, Marilyn McDonald, and Lucy van Dael as primary mentors. Hughes’ period bows are by David Hawthorne, and her violin is the ex-Vieuxtemps Claude Pierray (1720 Paris). 

 

Rebecca Landell Reed ’11 enjoys a varied career performing on multiple instruments playing music from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Although her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees focused on cello performance, she became interested in viola da gamba and baroque cello while studying at Oberlin Conservatory with Darrett Adkins. She developed her early music skills with Catharina Meints and with Michael and Maria Brüssing in the Czech Republic. Reed’s love for baroque music continued to grow during graduate studies when she had the chance to play Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Dresden with the Batzdorfer Hofkapelle. While at Rice University studying with Norman Fischer, she connected with the Crumhorn Collective, an eclectic outreach band of Renaissance multi-instrumentalists. Through outreach and active coaching, she continued to push her boundaries to include staged productions, like her participation with Studio Theatre’s rendition of An Iliad. She won the Wagoner Fellowship in 2013 and studied with Steuart Pincombe in Den Haag, exploring alternate performance venues in house concerts with her husband, photographer Mathias Reed. Reed currently lives in the Cleveland area, teaching cello and viola da gamba and performing with Apollo’s Fire. She enjoys challenging projects and is seeking new ways of using music to enrich her local community.

 

First-prize winner at the 2012 Musica Antique Bruges International Harpsichord Competition, Mark Edwards has presented solo recitals at numerous major festivals and series, among them the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Bozar, and the Montreal Baroque Festival and Clavecin en concert. He has performed concertos with prominent ensembles including Il Gardellino, Neobarock, and Ensemble Caprice, and he has played chamber music with Il Pomo d’Oro, Les Boréades de Montréal, and Flûtes Alors! His debut solo CD, Orpheus Descending, is due for release in 2016.

A native of Canada, Edwards earned a Bachelor of Music with highest distinction from the Eastman School of Music, followed by graduate degrees from McGill University and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He is a PhD candidate at Leiden University and the Orpheus Instituut, Ghent, where his studies focus on the intersection of memory, improvisation, and the concept of musical work. His teachers have included Robert Hill, William Porter, Hank Knox, and David Higgs.

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