Noje plays 17th- and 18th-century music on period instruments. Ann Bies, recorder and baroque flute; Julie Comay, recorder; Anne Hunter, baroque bassoon.

Musicians of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Alcides Rodriguez, clarinet; Karen Freer, cello; Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp

Dale and João hope with this performance to share the joy and beauty they feel from playing Bach’s music with all who hear it.

The wonderful João Ramos Marta has travelled from his home city of Amsterdam to play Bach in the subways of New York – LUCKY YOU!!

João was born in Portugal where he studied the flute and got his degree cum laude from the Conservatório Superior de Música do Porto with Olavo Barros. Thereafter he continued his studies in Holland with a scholarship from Nuffic and Gulbenkian Foundation where he graduated with a Master-degree. He studied modern flute, among others, with Jaques Zoon and traverso flute with Wilbert Hazelzet. He plays with several ensembles, particularly at Ensemble Conservatoire. At ‘ArtEZ institute of the arts’ he coordinates the division young talent and teaches modern flute, methodic and chamber music. João plays on a gold Jochen Mehnert flute and a several traverso flutes build by Fridtjof Aurin and Alain Weemaels.

Camerata Academia Real – is a project of social and educational inclusion, fruit of the work designed by the late maestro Clemente Pereira Santos (1935-2009) and his wife Jardelina Antunes Santos (1927-2011), which began in the twentieth century and in the late 1960 (1968) through the coral Madrigal Adventist Wansbeck, which in its evangelistic proposal has always been social inclusion, sought to offer the local community the enjoyment of choral music, as the occasion when the Government of the Federal District organized the meeting of corals in the room Martins Pena’s National Theatre on 27 August 1973. Since then, the invitation was extended to all residents of the Federal District who are interested to learn the art of singing. Importantly, throughout time, the work was performed voluntarily and free to all interested.
Camerata Royal Academy is directed artistically by music teacher, violinist, arranger and composer Elsaby Antunes and music teacher and arts Cybele Ferrari Antunes, who in their subjective bases make up the pursuit of human enhancement, artistic, cultural, social, solidarity and humanitarian of its students, through classical music. The project is based on “cell” or classes (classrooms) composed of students of instruments rubbed strings (violin, viola, cello and double bass, composing a string orchestra). This training led to magna cell, “Academy Camerata Real,” which values ​​the instrumental music and enters the student not only in society but also in the labor market, expanded the possibility of offering a better way for these people, improving the individual their quality of life, bringing her sanity, releasing hideous negative proposals, the crimes and the use of harmful narcotic drugs health, highlighting the importance of your doing something pleasurable with classical music, among many social and human differences, highlighting the inclusion of other cultural languages ​​such as theater, dance and opera.

Develop free workshops for music in places where social risk is imminent such as CAPS II Wansbeck, Public Schools Preschool to High School; also we offer music as a therapeutic aid in health centers, hospitals, and Living Centers.