Faraway Tunes
Sunday, October 20th at 3 p.m.
Black Mountain Presbyterian Church
117 Montreat Road
Black Mountain, NC 28711
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Faraway Tunes
Works by Corelli, Marais, Schop and Telemann
Sunday, October 20th at 3 p.m.
Black Mountain Presbyterian Church
117 Montreat Road
Black Mountain, NC 28711
Anne Timberlake, recorder
Jeanne Johnson, baroque violin
Gail Ann Schroeder, viola da gamba
Jennifer Streeter, harpsichord
A pay-as-you-can event. All donations are gratefully appreciated
Baroque composers, though imbued with their unique heritage and national style, were intrigued by the musical landscape in other countries. There are numerous accounts of musicians and composers traveling and spending time abroad in order to study, perform and broaden their horizons. Whether it was out of curiosity, inspiration, or just as a fun challenge, composers began to imitate their foreign counterparts, importing genres, forms, and even popular songs, into their compositions. Faraway Tunes showcases this eclectic repertoire with English divisions by a French viol master; Spanish influences, as well as Scottish and English tunes, found in Italian and German works; and a Telemann quartet inspired by his eight-month stay in Paris.
Composers include Corelli, Geminiani, Kerll, Marais, Schop and Telemann.
Guest Artists
Anne Timberlake, Recorder
Anne Timberlake has appeared across the United States performing repertoire from Bach to 21st-century premieres. She holds degrees in recorder performance from Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University, and won the 2007 Early Music Institute Concerto Competition. Critics have praised her fine technique and stylishness, unexpectedly rich lyricism (Letter V), and dazzling playing (Chicago Classical Review). Anne has received awards from the American Recorder Society and the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and was awarded a Fulbright Grant.
She is a founding member of the ensemble Wayward Sisters, which won Early Music America’s Naxos Recording Competition in 2011 and subsequently released their debut CD on the Naxos label in 2014. Anne is in demand as a recorder teacher and coach. In addition to maintaining private and online studios, she has coached through Indiana University’s Pre-College Recorder Program, the Amherst Early Music Festival, the San Francisco Early Music Society, the Virginia Baroque Performance Institute, Mountain Collegium, and for numerous American Recorder Society chapters.
Jennifer Streeter, Harpsichord and Recorder
Jennifer Streeter, harpsichord and recorder, holds master’s degrees in harpsichord and recorder from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University, studying with Elisabeth Wright and Eva Legêne. She has performed throughout the United States and Europe with critically acclaimed ensembles such as the North Carolina, Indianapolis, and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble, Alkemie, Raleigh Camerata, and as concerto soloist with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic, North Carolina Baroque, and Indiana University Baroque Orchestras. She has been a featured artist at the Bloomington, Magnolia, and Amherst Early Music Festivals and on the nationally syndicated radio show Harmonia. Originally from Europe, she now calls Cary, NC home where she is a freelance performer, recorder and harpsichord teacher, and Myofascial Release therapist.
Jeanne Johnson, Baroque Violin
Jeanne Johnson’s performances have been lauded by the press as “stunningly effusive,” and “delivered with gusto.” Her Baroque trio Music of the Spheres made its European debut at the 2006 Tage Alter Musik Festival in Regensburg, Germany, and was featured in the chamber music magazine Ensemble. In 2016, Centaur Records released Ms. Johnson’s recordings of violin works by Johann Jakob Walther and Jean-Fery Rebel with Eco dell’Anima. She has performed with Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque, Brandywine Baroque, Musica nel Chiostro (in Tuscany), the Carmel Bach Festival and the Atlanta Symphony. Ms. Johnson has served on the faculty of Clayton State University and has maintained a large private teaching studio for twenty years. She studied with James Buswell and Stanley Ritchie, receiving her bachelor’s degree in performance with honors from Indiana University and her master’s degree with distinction in performance and academics from New England Conservatory.