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SUMMARY:Goddesses and Monsters: Music of the Spanish Baroque
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]”Goddesses and Monsters” features songs from the 17th and 18th century theatrical and sacred traditions in Spain\, as well as instrumental music from the period.  We’ll present music by composers such as Calderon\, Duron\, and Literes\, as well as selections from the fascinating Trujillo Codex of Peru. \n  \nVenue: The Muñoz Waxman Gallery at CCA (Center for Contemporary Arts)\, 1050 Old Pecos Trail\, Santa Fe \n  \nFeaturing:\n\nCecilia Duarte\, mezzo soprano\nMary Springfels\, viola da gamba\nStephen Redfield\, baroque violin\nKathy McIntosh\, harpsichord\nHector Alfonso Torres\, theorbo\nJesse Joaquin Parker\, percussion\nKathryn Montoya\, recorder \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”20412″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”” qode_css_animation=”element_from_fade”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator type=”normal”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”20406″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle” css=”” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nCecilia Duarte\nMezzo Soprano \n[/vc_column_text]Read Bio\n\n	\n		\n			\n			 \nCecilia Duarte\n  \nA soloist in the Grammy Winner album Duruflé: The Complete Choral Works\, Cecilia has been praised by The New York Times as “A creamy voiced mezzo-soprano.” \nCecilia premiered the role of Renata in the first Mariachi Opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna with the famous Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán\, commissioned by Houston Grand Opera in 2010. Houston Grand Opera (2013\, 2018); Châtelet Theatre in Paris\, France; Chicago Lyric Opera\, San Diego Opera\, Arizona Opera\, The Fort Worth Opera\, Teatro Nacional Sucre\, in Quito\, Ecuador\, New York City Opera\, El Paso Opera\, Minnesota Opera\, Opera San Antonio\, Lyric Opera of Kansas City\, and Amarillo Opera. \nOther roles originated are Renata in El milagro del Recuerdo (HGO 2019\, 2022) (AZO\, 2021) Dido in The Queen of Carthage\, (Early Music Vancouver and re: Naissance Opera); Jessie Lydell in A Coffin in Egypt\, (HGO and the Wallis Annenberg Center in L.A.); Gracie in A Way Home (HGO andOpera Southwest); Harriet/First Responder in After the Storm(HGO); Alicia in Some Light Emerges (HGO); and Alma in “Boundless\,” the first episode of Houston Grand Opera’s web opera series Star-cross’d. \nOperatic roles: Linda Morales in Laura Kaminsky’s Hometown to the World\, Melissa in F. Caccini’s Alcina\, Sarelda in The Inspector\, Maria in Maria de Buenos Aires\, Loma Williams in Cold Sassy Tree\, among others. Early Music experience include performances with Ars Lyrica Houston\, Mercury Houston\, The Bach Society Houston\, Boston Early Music Festival\, Bach Collegium San Diego\, re: Naissance Opera\, Early Music Vancouver\, Pacific Music Works\, Blue Heron\, Tafelmusik\, The Newberry Consort\, Baroque Festival Corona del Mar\, AGAVE\, and the Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble\, with whom she performs early and contemporary music. \n  \nVisit Website \n\n			\n	\n	\n	Close\n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16292″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle” css=”” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMary Springfels\nViola da Gamba \n[/vc_column_text]Read Bio\n\n	\n		\n			\n			 \nMary Springfels\n  \nMary Springfels is a veteran of the American early music movement. She began\nher career at the age of 21 with the New York Pro Musica\, and has played with most of the major ensembles in the field\, including the Waverly Consort\, The Folger Consort\, Philharmonia Baroque\, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra\, Musica Sacra of New York\, and Pomerium Musices\, to name a few. In 1983 she became Musician in-Residence at the Newberry Library\, and was the director of the Newberry Consort for 20 years. In 2008\, she fulfilled a lifelong dream\, and moved to New Mexico. Since then\, she has travelled widely\, working with Sonoma Bach\, the Lobo Baroque Orchestra\, the Arizona Bach Society\, Ars Lyrica of Houston\, The Texas Early Music Project of Austin\, and continues to work with Drew Minter\, and her beloved colleagues at the Folger Consort. She can be heard on dozens of recordings. Springfels is also a very active teacher and coach. She and Elizabeth Blumenstock are Co-Directors of the newly founded Severall Friends\, based in Santa Fe.\n			\n	\n	\n	Close\n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”20410″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle” css=”” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nKathryn Montoya\nOboe \n[/vc_column_text]Read Bio\n\n	\n		\n			\n			 \nKathryn Montoya\n  \nKathryn Montoya appears with a variety of orchestral and chamber music ensembles including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra\, Tafelmusik\, the Wiener Akademie\, Pacific Musicworks\, and Apollo’s Fire among others. She received her degrees at Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. While at IU\, she was the recipient of the prestigious Performer’s Certificate and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. Recent projects include the Globe’s Tony award-winning productions of Twelfth Night on Broadway\, concerts and master classes in Shanghai\, and tour and Grammy award-winning recording\, Charpentier: La couronne de fleurs – La descente d’Orphée aux enfers with the Boston Early Music Festival. Montoya has been broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today and can be heard on the Erato\, Naxos\, CPO\, NCA\, Analekta\, and Dorian Sono Luminus labels. In her free time\, she can be found in Hereford\, England converting an 18th-century barn into a home with her partner\, James. \nVisit Website \n			\n	\n	\n	Close\n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”20407″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle” css=”” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nStephen Redfield\nBaroque Violin \n[/vc_column_text]Read Bio\n\n	\n		\n			\n			 \nStephen Redfield\n  \nViolinist Stephen Redfield\, D.M.A.\, is a member of the University of Southern Mississippi School of Music faculty\, where he performs with the Mississippi Chamber Circle and the Impromptu Piano Trio. Throughout the year Stephen acts as concertmaster of the Santa Fe Pro Musica\, and each summer plays with the Victoria Bach Festival; his performances as concertmaster and soloist there have been produced on discs and broadcast nationally. He has also often led the Oregon Bach Festival orchestra\, where he has participated in numerous recordings\, including the Grammy Award-winning disc “Credo.” In addition\, Stephen is concertmaster of the Arizona Bach Festival\, was the long-time principal second violin of the Sunriver Music Festival\, and served for five years as Assistant Concertmaster of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. \nStephen has particularly extensive experience in the choral-orchestral repertoire: over his 30 years with the Oregon Bach Festival\, he performed the majority of this repertoire with Helmuth Rilling (including recording eight works\, and premiering two commissioned pieces). He is concertmaster for Craig Hella Johnson and the coral ensemble Conspirare. He has led a period B Minor Mass for Joshua Habermann and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale\, and was concertmaster for Robert Shaw in the Berlioz Requiem and for Fiora Contino in Haydn’s Creation and the St. John Passion. \nStephen is an active chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad. He has collaborated with artists Andre-Michel Schub\, Peter Wiley and Mark Peskanov. His Cayuga Quartet was a winner of the Coleman and Monterey Chamber Music Competitions and earned an Aspen Quartet Fellowship. In addition to the festivals mentioned before\, Stephen has been featured in chamber concerts at Loon Lake Live!\, Taos Soundscapes\, Serenata of Santa Fe\, Quad-Cities Mozart Festival\, and the Anchorage Festival\, among others. He coached with the Cleveland Quartet and Abram Loft\, the Emerson Quartet and Earl Carlyss\, and the LaSalle and Audubon Quartets. \nHe frequently performs as a soloist; during 2009\, Mendelssohn’s 200th birth-year\, he performed both Mendelssohn violin concertos (and also toured with his three sonatas). His specialty is 18th and early 19th-Century concertos and concert pieces\, often leading the ensemble while playing the solo. Highlights include Vivaldi’s Four Seasons\, each of the Bach Concertos\, and selected concertos and works by Beethoven\, Mozart and Haydn. He also performed a Western-U.S. premiere of the Michael Daugherty’s “Ladder to the Moon.”\nStephen has also developed a specialization in period performance. He performs regularly as a Baroque violinist\, including as a member of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra\, and he has led the ensembles Albuquerque Baroque Players and Nashville’s Music City Baroque. \nStephen’s Baroque chamber music credits include concerts with Marion Verbruggen\, Mary Springfels\, Elizabeth Blumenstock and Kenneth Slowik.\, and with the Newberry Consort and the Smithsonian Chamber Players. As a member of the Sebastian Ensemble\, with harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh\, Stephen travelled twice to Lima\, Peru\, for the Festival Internacional de Música Antigua‏. Specializing in J.S. Bach’s Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Obligato\, this period performance group has toured throughout the United States as well as in Spain\, Japan and Cuba.\n			\n	\n	\n	Close\n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16898″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle” css=”” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nKathleen McIntosh\nHarpsichord \n[/vc_column_text]Read Bio\n\n	\n		\n			\n			 \nKathleen McIntosh\n  \nHarpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh has appeared in the Esteban Salas Festival in Havana nearly every year since 2002. She has been featured in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival since 1996\, and in festivals in the United States\, Japan\, Peru and Germany. A resident of Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, she has appeared on every local concert series\, and with the Santa Fe Symphony\, Santa Fe Pro Musica and Serenata of Santa Fe. McIntosh is a champion of contemporary music. She appeared regularly with the series 20th Century Unlimited and is part of the McFish Duo. From 1999-2009\, she performed with the Vail Valley Bravo! Festival\, which commissioned a work by Melinda Wagner especially for her that premiered in the 2005 season. Other premieres have included works by Leo Brouwer\, John Steinmetz\, Carl Mansker\, Alex Shapiro and many others. \nMcIntosh has been soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Moscow\, Vietnam National Symphony in Hanoi\, Solistas de La Habana\, Santa Fe Friends in Tsuyama\, Japan\, and with many American groups. She teaches regularly in Cuba as part of the Semana Sacra sponsored by the national cathedral\, in Peru at the national conservatory in Lima\, and in Opole\, Poland at the Diecezjalny Instytut Musyki Koscielnej. In November 2015\, she performed the entire Clavier-Ubung of J.S.Bach in five concerts in Los Angeles\, California\, with organist Ron McKean and harpsichordist Janine Johnson. Ms. McIntosh was a student of John Hamilton and Thurston Dart. She can be heard in recordings from Gasparo and Maricam Studios.\n			\n	\n	\n	Close\n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”20408″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle” css=”” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nHéctor Alfonso Torres\nTheorbo \n[/vc_column_text]Read Bio\n\n	\n		\n			\n			 \nHéctor Alfonso Torres\n  \nDr. Héctor Alfonso Torres González was born in Puerto Rico\, where he started his guitar studies at the Preparatory School of the Puerto Rico Music Conservatory. He worked on his bachelor’s degree at the University of Puerto Rico\, Rí­o Piedras Campus\, where he studied with the distinguished Puerto Rican guitarist Juan Sorroche. After finishing his degree\, he went on to complete his master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee under world renowned guitarist René Izquierdo. He also completed his doctorate in musical arts degree at the University of North Texas where he worked as a teaching fellow of classical guitar while studying with the guitarist Thomas Johnson. While at UNT\, he also completed studies in early music\, under the direction of the Dutch recorder player and early music specialist Paul Leenhouts\, while also serving as his teaching assistant for the UNT Baroque Orchestra. He has studied basso continuo with harpsichordist Dr. Brad Bennight\, and early plucked instruments with Arash Noori\, and Daniel Swenberg from the Juilliard School. Currently Dr. Torres-González serves as an Associate Professor of Music at Tarrant County College – Trinity River Campus located in downtown Fort Worth\, Texas. \nHe has concertized and taught throughout the United States\, Puerto Rico\, South America\, Europe\, and China\, both as a soloist and ensemble musician. Apart from being an active performer\, he has received top prizes at international guitar competitions\, including the 4th Annual Baldwin Wallace International Guitar Festival and Competition\, the 2nd Annual Mountain View Guitar Festival\, the 16th Annual International Tennessee Guitar Festival\, the 2016 Mississippi Guitar Festival\, the 2018 New Orleans International Guitar Festival\, the 4th Annual Lone Star Guitar Festival and Competition\, and the 24th Annual Appalachian Guitar Fest and Solo Guitar Competition. \nAs a chamber musician\, he frequently tours China with his guitar trio\, Trio Resonance\, where they have played in cities like Beijing\, Jinan\, Suzhou\, Dalian\, among others. Distinguished by his versatility and sound\, he frequently performs many styles of music\, including early music\, Latin music\, and modern classical. As an early music performer\, he regularly plays baroque guitar\, theorbo\, lute\, and other period plucked instruments with different chamber groups and orchestras across the U.S\, including the Texas Early Music Project\, Austin Baroque Orchestra & Chorus\, Ars Lyrica Houston\, Lumedia Musicworks\, La Follia\, Mercury Chamber Orchestra\, Fantasmi\, Camerata del Sol\, Red River Lyric Opera\, Orchestra of New Spain\, and many others. Recently\, alongside baroque harpist Monika Ruusmaa\, he was selected as one of Early Music America’s 2021 Emerging Artists. \n  \nVisit Website\n			\n	\n	\n	Close\n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”20409″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle” css=”” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nJesse Joaquin Parker\nPercussion \n[/vc_column_text]Read Bio\n\n	\n		\n			\n			 \nJesse Joaquin Parker\n  \nMr. Parker is an in-demand jazz vibraphonist\, Afro-Latin percussionist\, and world-class music educator based in Santa Fe\, NM. Jesse has performed at venues ranging from the Telluride Jazz Festival to DROM in Manhattan to the Nuyorican in San Juan\, Puerto Rico and has performed/toured/recorded with Marcos Crego and The Latin Union\, Bernard Purdie\, Nosotros\, Bata Ire\, Mike Crotty Jazz Quintet\, Taumbu International Ensemble\, Chuchito Valdez\, Raul Pineda\, Carmela y Mas\, Ritmo Latino\, Cal Harris Jr. and many others. \nMr. Parker earned his Bachelors of Music Education from New Mexico State University and his Masters of Percussion Performance from Arizona State University. Having studied under the likes of Michael Spiro\, Michael Burrit\, Blake Tyson\, Emilio Caruso\, J.B. Smith. Mark Sunkett\, Bill Wanser\, Dom Moio\, Michael Kocour\, Taumbu\, Dick Sisto\, Rufus Reed\, Ernie Chavarilla\, and Louis Daniel Rivera\, Jesse Parker has acquired a vast array of styles\, techniques\, and musical experiences. \nA dedicated educator\, Mr. Parker has instructed the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps from Denver CO\, where he was also a performing member\, and Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps from Lexington KY. Mr. Parker has served as Associate Faculty at Arizona State University\, Teaching Artist with the Phoenix Conservatory of Music\, and Director of the World Music Ensemble and Latin Jazz Ensemble at Paradise Valley Community College. Jesse Joaquin Parker currently is director of percussion studies at New Mexico School for the Arts and performs on Tycoon percussion instruments.\nVisit Website \n\n			\n	\n	\n	Close\n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.severallfriends.org/event/goddesses-and-monsters-music-of-the-spanish-baroque/
LOCATION:The Muñoz Waxman Gallery at CCA\, 1050 Old Pecos Trail\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87505\, United States
CATEGORIES:SF Concerts
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