Rachel Podger Leads Juilliard415 in Works by J.S. Bach, Handel, Locatelli, Veracini, and Vivaldi on Friday, March 29, 2019, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall

NEW YORK –– Violinist Rachel Podger, artist in residence in the Juilliard Historical Performance program, returns to lead Juilliard415 in works by J.S. Bach, Handel, Locatelli, Veracini, and Vivaldi on Friday, March 29, 2019,  at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall. The program includes Veracini’s Ouverture No. 1 in B-flat Major; J.S. Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055, with harpsichord soloist Francis Yun; Vivaldi’s Concerto in C Major for Two Flutes, RV 533, with flute soloists Bethanne Walker and Taya König-Tarasevich; Handel’s Concerto Grosso in B-flat Major, Op. 3, No. 1, HWV 312, with violin soloists Rachel Podger, Rachell Ellen Wong, and Sydney ZumMallen; Locatelli’s Concerto for Four Violins in F Major, Op. 4, No. 12,with violin soloists Rachel Podger, Chiara Fasani, Shelby Yamin, Manami Mizumoto and cello soloist Jin Nakamura; and J.S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066.

Prior to the New York concert, on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, Rachel Podger and Juilliard415 will perform works by Bach and Vivaldi at the Isabel Bader Centre in Kingston, Ontario.

Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

About the program, Georgeanne Banker writes in the Juilliard Journal: “The Juilliard415 program highlights the magnificence of the Baroque orchestra and the cosmopolitan outlook of the composers: Veracini, J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, and Locatelli, who were among the digital nomads of their day. Veracini was a Florentine violinist who spent time in London, Germany, and Prague. Vivaldi, a Venetian, drew influence from composers who visited his city; and Locatelli, from Lombardy, settled in Amsterdam after touring Germany. Bach, while spending his life within Germany, adapted French and Italian styles into his own language. And German-born Handel lived in Italy before settling in London ‘causing both countries to compete and claim him as their own,’ Rachel Podger said.”

Juilliard's full-scholarship Historical Performance program was established and endowed in 2009 by the generous support of Bruce and Suzie Kovner.

About Rachel Podger

Rachel Podger has established herself as a leading interpreter of the Baroque and Classical. She was the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in October 2015 and is the 2018 Gramophone Artist of the Year. A creative programmer, she is the founder and artistic director of Brecon Baroque Festival and her ensemble Brecon Baroque.

After an exciting year with an innovative new collaboration, A Guardian Angel, with vocal ensemble VOCES8, Podger will be one of the artists in residence at London’s Wigmore Hall throughout the 2019-20 season featuring a collection of all-Bach performances with Brecon Baroque. Alongside this, Podger and Christopher Glynn will join forces for the first time in a recording and performances of Beethoven sonatas. Further events include Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Bach Dynasty with Brecon Baroque and mezzo-soprano Ciara Hendrick, tours of a Guardian Angel with VOCES8, performances of Bach cello suites transposed for violin including a CD tour in the Netherlands, and two Vivaldi tours with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in East Asia and Luthers Bach Ensemble in the Netherlands.

As a director and soloist, Podger has enjoyed countless collaborations including Robert Levin, Jordi Savall, Masaaki Suzuki, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Tapiola Sinfonietta, VOCES8, Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini, European Union Baroque Orchestra, English Concert, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music, Holland Baroque Society, Tafelmusik (Toronto), and within the U.S., the Berwick Academy, the Handel and Haydn Society, Berkeley Early Music, Oregon Bach Festival, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

Podger has won numerous awards including two Baroque Instrumental Gramophone Awards for La Stravaganza (2003) and Biber Rosary Sonatas (2016), the Diapason d’Or de l’année in the Baroque Ensemble category for her recording of the La Cetra Vivaldi concertos (2012), andBBC Music Magazine awards in the instrumental category for Guardian Angel (2014) and the concerto category for the complete Vivaldi L’Estro Armonico concertos (2016). Podger and Brecon Baroque released their album, Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni, on Channel Classics in 2018. A recording of Bach Cello Suites transposed for the violin will be released in April 2019.

A dedicated educator, Podger holds the Micaela Comberti Chair for Baroque Violin (founded in 2008) at the Royal Academy of Music and the Jane Hodge Foundation International Chair in Baroque Violin at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She is artist in residence in the Juilliard Historical Performance program. 

About Juilliard415

Since its founding in 2009, Juilliard415, the school’s principal period-instrument ensemble, has made significant contributions to musical life in New York and beyond, bringing major figures in the field of early music to lead performances of both rare and canonical works of the 17th and 18th centuries. The many distinguished guests who have led Juilliard415 include Harry Bicket, William Christie, Ton Koopman, Nicholas McGegan, Rachel Podger, Jordi Savall, and Masaaki Suzuki. Juilliard415 tours extensively in the U.S. and abroad, having performed on five continents with notable appearances at the Boston Early Music Festival, Leipzig Bachfest, and Utrecht Early Music Festival (where Juilliard was the first-ever conservatory in residence), and on a 10-concert tour of New Zealand.

With its frequent musical collaborator the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the ensemble has played throughout Italy, Japan, Southeast Asia, the U.K., and India. Juilliard415, which takes its name from the pitch commonly associated with the performance of Baroque music, A=415, has performed major oratorios and fully staged productions: Handel’s Agrippina and Radamisto; Bach’s Matthew and John Passions; Cavalli’s La Calisto; and performances in the U.S. and Holland of Bach’s Mass in B Minor conducted by Ton Koopman.

The ensemble’s most recent international appearances were in Germany and Bolivia, in a tour sponsored by the U.S. Department of State that marked the ensemble’s South America debut. The 2017-18 season was notable for the Juilliard debuts of the rising conductor Jonathan Cohen and the Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, a side-by-side collaboration with Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco, as well as return visits by William Christie, an all-Bach concert with Suzuki, and a rare performance of a fully staged production of Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie. This season’s international schedule includes performances in Canada, London, Versailles, and Scandinavia.

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Program Listing:

Friday, March 29, 2019, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard415

Rachel Podger, Violin/Leader

Bethanne Walker and Taya König-Tarasevich, Flutes

Francis Yun, Harpsichord

Rachell Ellen Wong, Sydney ZumMallen, Chiara Fasani Stauffer, Shelby Yamin, and Manami Mizumoto, Violins

Jin Nakamura, Cello

 

Francesco Maria VERACINI Ouverture No. 1 in B-flat Major

Johann Sebastian BACH Harpsichord Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055

Antonio VIVALDI Concerto in C Major for Two Flutes, RV 533

Georg Frideric HANDEL Concerto Grosso in B-flat Major, Op. 3, No. 1, HWV 312

Pietro Antonio LOCATELLI Concerto for Four Violins in F Major, Op. 4, No. 12

J.S. BACH Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066

 

Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.