Lianna will play the Bouree from Suite in E minor by J.S. Bach, VWV 996.

Elm City Winds will present Bach arrangements for woodwind quintet, including a Bach/Vivaldi transcription as well as a fugue (or two!)

Ensemble of Novosibirsk State Philharmonic Society, widely known not only in Russia but also far beyond its borders. It named after Markell Bezborody, Russian church composer and master of singing of XVI century. Created in February 1995, the ensemble became one of the brightest phenomena of the concert life of Novosibirsk.

The repertoire of the ensemble consists of rarely performed works of the pre-classical period: ancient Russian church music, Georgian church chants and drinking songs, West-European sacred music of Renaissance and Baroque.

I’m going to try to play as many Bach cello suites as I’m able to. Which is four or five on a good day. Six is right out.

Five chorales harmonized by Johann Sebastian Bach will be featured. The audience is invited to join in singing (scores will be provided) the Bach settings. Each chorale will be introduced by an organ improvisation on the chorale melody. Organist Christine Gevert has performed and conducted Early Music widely in Europe and South America, and recorded for Carpe Diem and Alerce labels. Ms. Gevert has led master classes and workshops in early music, harpsichord, and baroque vocal technique at music festivals in Germany, Chile and the U.S., and has taught historic keyboards at the Berlin Church Music School in Germany, and locally at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Ms. Gevert has appeared at the Washington Early Music Festival, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Fringe concerts of the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Amherst Early Music Festival. In recent years she has given solo harpsichord recitals at the Early Music Festival in Narol, Poland, at the historic Auditorium Wanda Landowska near Paris, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Beat Festival. In 2016 she played organ solo recitals at the International Festival of American Renaissance & Baroque Music at the Chiquitan Missions in Santa Cruz and the Eastern Lowlands, Bolivia. Recently she performed organ solo recitals and presented lectures on vocal Renaissance polyphony at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. She has authored and published more than eighty historical basso continuo realizations with the Swiss music publisher, Amadeus Verlag. The founder and artistic director of Crescendo and her own baroque ensemble Les Inégales, Christine is currently music director at Trinity Episcopal Church, Lime Rock, CT. Ms. Gevert holds a master’s degree in organ and early music performance from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg, Germany. After earning a bachelor’s degree in music theory from the Universidad de Chile, she studied choral and orchestral conducting in Berlin and harpsichord in London.