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A performance by the Oberlin Baroque Orchestra, presented by conservatory students on period instruments and directed by Scott Metcalfe.

Program:

Sonata VI in F                                                 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes    

Delaney Meyers, Toby Elser, violin
Nicholas Gallitano, Nicolas Vigilante, viola
Hannah A. Kim, cello
Cory Burris, organ

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major               Johann Sebastian Bach

    Allegro
    Affettuoso
    Allegro

Jerry Zheyang Xiong, violin     Natalie Talbot, flute
Mark Edwards, harpsichord*
Delaney Meyers, violin    
Nicolas Vigilante, viola
Jessica Korotkin, cello
Christopher Labman, bass

Suite from Alcione                                                                Marin Marais

      Prologue                                                                             

       Ouverture
        Air des faunes et driades
        Marche en rondeau
        Bourée
        Passepieds

      Première acte

        Air
        Sarabande
        Gigue

      Troisième acte

        Prélude
         Airs des matelots

      Quatrième acte

         Symphonie

      Cinquième acte

         Chaconne

*Conservatory faculty

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Scott Metcalfe has gained wide recognition as one of North America’s leading specialists in music from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries and beyond. He is the musical and artistic director of Blue Heron, a vocal ensemble devoted to music of the 15th and 16th centuries which has been acclaimed by the Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables,” and music director of New York City’s Green Mountain Project (Jolle Greenleaf, artistic director), whose performances of Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and a “1640 Vespers” of Metcalfe’s own devising have been hailed by the New York Times as “quite simply terrific” and by the Boston Globe as “stupendous.” Metcalfe has been a guest director of TENET (New York), Emmanuel Music (Boston), the Tudor Choir and Seattle Baroque, Pacific Baroque Orchestra (Vancouver, BC), Quire Cleveland, and the Dryden Ensemble (Princeton, NJ), and he conducted Early Music America’s Young Performers Festival Ensemble in its inaugural performance at the 2011 Boston Early Music Festival.

Metcalfe also enjoys a career as a baroque violinist and currently plays with Les Délices (dir. Debra Nagy), Les Boréades (dir. Francis Colpron), L’Harmonie des Saisons (dir. Eric Milnes), and other ensembles in Boston, Montreal, and elsewhere. He teaches vocal ensemble repertoire and performance practice at Boston University and is co-director (with Victor Coelho) of BU’s new Center for Early Music Studies. In his spare time he is at work on a new edition of the songs of Gilles Binchois (c. 1400–1460) in collaboration with Sean Gallagher and Irit Kleiman (both at Boston University). Metcalfe received a bachelor’s degree in 1985 from Brown University, where he majored in biology (perhaps uniquely in the early music world, he was lead author of an article published in the Annals of Botany), and in 2005 he completed a master’s degree in historical performance practice at Harvard.