Chamber Series ~ October 2019

I.  INTERNATIONAL DEBUT - Copenhagen Camerata Chamber Choir, Denmark
      Sofia Söderberg, Conductor and Artistic Director

Where: First Church of Christ, Scientist, Central Park West at 68th St.

When: Thursday, October 17th at 7:30 PM

Copenhagen Camerata Chamber Choir from Denmark, in their international debut concert, performs early Scandinavian hymns and folk songs.

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Camerata Chamber Choir is an amateur ensemble that operates to professional standards. Inside Scandinavia it has a reputation for singing with blend, responsiveness, nuance and passion. Outside Scandinavia it is known for delivering distinctive performances, for introducing audiences to valuable new repertoire and for winning competitions.

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Sofia Söderberg, Camerata’s conductor and artistic director since 2018 personifies the choir’s longstanding geographical and ideological connection to the Swedish choral tradition. Söderberg is an experienced and multi award-winning choral specialist known for her technical rigour, physical precision and striking interpretative voice.

II. SCANDINAVIAN FIDDLE DUO:  lydia & Andrea
      fiddle, 5-string fiddle, nyckelharpa, and voice

Where: Swedish Church, 5 East 48th Street between 5th and Madison Avenues

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When: Saturday, October 19th at 6:00 PM

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Andrea Larson and lydia ievins have been playing Swedish-style fiddle together for the past decade, and have recently returned from an intense 2012–13 academic year studying in the center of the nyckelharpa universe, at the Eric Sahlström Institute. They perform an energetic and engaging program of traditional music on fiddle, 5-string fiddle, nyckelharpa, and voice. Much of their shared repertoire comes from central regions of Sweden, with a smattering of Norwegian and Danish and beyond, and their original compositions.

The nyckelharpa is the national instrument of Sweden, first depicted in a carving over a church doorway dated to about 1300. It has 16 strings: 3 melody strings and 1 drone string that are played with a bow, and 12 sympathetic (resonance) strings, altogether encompassing a 3-octave range.

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III. BOLETTE ROED - Danish recorder virtuoso

J.S. Bach partitas and suites for solo recorder

Where: First Church of Christ, Scientist, Central Park West at 68th St.

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When: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 at 7:30 pm 

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Danish recorder virtuoso Bolette Roed performs transcriptions of J.S. Bach violin sonatas, partitas, and suites for solo recorder by the Frans Brüggen, pioneer of the early music movement.

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Bolette is an all-embracing musician, working not only with the classical repertoire for recorder, but also with improvisation, folk and world music. Her repertoire ranges from medieval through renaissance and baroque to contemporary music and she has world premiered a large number of works.

Bolette was appointed Artist-in-Residence of the Danish National Radio and in 2011 was nominated for the Nordic Council’s Music Prize. She is the co-founder of Denmark’s largest baroque music festival, Midsommerbarok, at Frederiksberg, Copenhagen and head of the Early Music Department at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where she also teaches recorder since 2009.