Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble: Past Season 2003-04

The Three Cellos

Marcello, Scarlatti, Myslivecek, Corrette, Kummer, and Popper

Phoebe Carrai, Myron Lutzke, and Tim Merton

Phoebe Carrai, cello
Myron Lutzke, cello
Timothy Merton, cello
Maggie Cole, harpsichord and fortepiano

Saturday, October 25, 2003 8PM,
    Friends' Meeting House (Cambridge, MA)

Sunday, October 26, 2003, 7PM, Parish Hall, First Parish Church, (Concord, MA)

Music featuring Viola Quintets and Oboe

Brittten Oboe Quartet, Mozart Quintet & Brahms Quintets

FRIDAY, November 21, 2003, 8PM NEW LOCATION: First Church in Cambridge, Congregational at 11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA [directions]

Sunday, November 23, 2003, 7PM, Concord Academy Dance Performance Space (Concord, MA)

Peggy Pearson, oboe
Mowry Pearson, violin
Hilary Walther Cumming, violin
Betty Hauck, viola
Jennifer Stirling, viola
Timothy Merton, cello

Peggy Pearson, oboe

Betty Hauck, viola

Two Centuries of Music for Voice and Recorder

Music of Handel, Sansom, Steffani, Telemann, Hart, and more.

Saturday, January 24, 2004, 8PM,
    Friends' Meeting House (Cambridge, MA)

Sunday, January 25, 2004, 7PM, Concord Academy Dance Performance Space (Concord, MA)

Pamela Murray, soprano
Pamela Dellal, mezzo soprano
Roy Sansom, recorders
Christoph Wald, recorders
Timothy Merton, cello
Charles Sherman, harpsichord

Christoph Wald, recorder

Special Benefit Concert (non-subscription)

This concert will help raise funds for Sarasa's all Bach recording featuring guest soloist Dominique Labelle, soprano & Sanford Sylvan, baritone

Cantata BWV 202 "Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten"; Cantata BWV 82 "Ich habe genug"; and Cantata BWV 32 "Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen"

Friday, January 30, 2004 at 8:00 PM, at the Friends' Meeting House (Cambridge, MA)
Tickets: $30 general seating
Seating is limited to 200, so buy your tickets early!

Dominique Labelle, soprano
Sanford Sylvan, baritone
Alison Bury, violin
Claire Jolivet, violin
Jennifer Stirling, viola
Richard Earle, oboes
Timothy Merton, cello
Anne Trout, double bass
Maggle Cole, harpsichord

Special thanks to Sonic Temple Studio where we will be recording our all-Bach CD. Email studio@sonic-temple.net or visit http://www.sonic-temple.net/

Dominique Labelle, soprano

Sanford Sylvan, baritone

Special Concert: A BAROQUE MOSAIC with soprano Emily van Evera (non-subscription)

Program: Purcell: The Fairy Queen (excerpts)
Vivaldi: La Folia
Bach: Violin Sonata
Scarlatti: Cantata "Bella Madre dei Fiori"

Benefit concert: Saturday, February 14 at 7:30 PM (Location change!) Centre Congregational Church (Brattleboro, VT).
A benefit for the Putney Public Library Building Fund.

Sunday, February 15 at 4:00 PM -- Sundays at Four Series
St. Peter's Church in Weston (Weston, MA). Concert info: 781-602-6593

Emily Van Evera, soprano
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Kinloch Earle, violin
Timothy Merton, cello
Maggie Cole, harpsichord

Emily Van Evera, soprano

Hands and Feet Across the Water—Music/Dance Collaboration

Music of Kreisler, Khachaturian, Martinu, Villa-Lobos and others [Buy tickets]
In association with the Dance Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Saturday, April 17, 2004, 8PM,
     Rieman Center for the Performing Arts, Harvard University, Radcliffe Yard (Cambridge, MA)

Sunday, April 18, 2004, 7PM, Concord Academy Dance Performance Space (Concord, MA)--(no wheelchair access)

Billbob Brown, dancer
Rebecca Nordstrom, dancer
Miranda Fulleylove, violin
Timothy Merton, cello
Maggie Cole, piano & harpsichord

Billbob Brown and Rebecca Nordstrom

Maggie Cole Harpsichord recital at Ellingwood Chapel Series

Sarasa regular, Maggie Cole performs music of Scarlatti, Bach, Manuel Blasco de Nebra, Antonio Soler, and Haflidi Hallgrimsson.
Friday, April 23, 2004 at 8 pm at the Historic Ellingwood Chapel, Nahant Road (opposite police station) in Nahant MA.
Tickets: donations at the door
Wheelchair accessible. No T-stop
For information call: 781-581-2727

Internationally renowned harpsichordist Maggie Cole will be giving a solo harpsichord recital at the Historic Ellingwood Chapel in Nahant MA, a wonderfully picturesque setting and the perfect venue for a solo harpsichord recital.

The exciting program of music Ms. Cole has chosen to perform includes a wide range on music including sonatas by Scarlatti, Manuel Blasco de Nebra, Antonio Soler, and a composition by Haflidi Hallgrimsson written in 1988. Also on the program, the magnificent, Partita Nr. 6 in E minor by J. S. Bach. Don't miss this opportunity to hear this wonderful music and harpsichord performance at it's best.

About Maggie Cole

Maggie Cole has been described by the New York Times as "A graceful , vital musician with an elegant technique and a razor-sharp feeling for phrasing and accent." Most recently with the Sarasa Ensemble, Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote, "The prestigious harpsichordist Maggie Cole, an American living in England, stepped in with a lively Bach Harpsichord Concerto which she played with charm and dash..."

Best known in Britain through numerous recitals on BBC Radio 3 and appearances at leading festivals, abroad Maggie Cole has performed in venues from Seattle to Moscow, and from Finland to India. In addition to solo recitals with Bach's Goldberg Variations a specialty, given in London, Paris, Cologne, Basel, Mallorca and Chicago, she frequently performs in duos with partners including MichaelChance countertenor, Nancy Argenta soprano, Catherine Mackintosh violin and Steven Isserlis cello. She is a member of the Sarasa Ensemble and frequently appears with Sarasa playing both harpsichord and fortepiano. [biography]