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OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC PRESENTS BAROQUE PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE 2002
JUNE 11, 2002-- The Baroque Performance Institute (BPI), America’s premiere summer workshop for baroque instruments and voice held for two weeks each summer at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, marks its 31st season by celebrating two great national musical styles of the baroque era.
"France vs. Italy: A Musical Battle," begins Sunday, June 23, and runs through Saturday, July 6. Many of the events associated with BPI are free and open to the public; select concerts require a ticket, purchased at the door for $10. Concerts are presented at the Conservatory’s Kulas Recital Hall and Warner Concert Hall, and at Fairchild Chapel.
The first concert, Friday, June 28, at 8 P.M. in Warner Concert Hall, is one of two rare opportunities for audiences to hear BPI's world-class faculty members perform together. In keeping with BPI’s thematic title, the chamber music program includes François Couperin’s Apotheosis of Lully, which BPI Artistic Director Kenneth Slowik describes as the composer’s attempt to reconcile the French and Italian styles to "bring perfection to music."
Another
highlight this year is a video presentation by Oberlin Conservatory Professor
of Harpsichord Lisa Goode Crawford documenting the reconstruction of Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace
Royer’s 1743 opéra-ballet Le Pouvoir de l’Amour,
which received its modern-day premiere at Oberlin in February. The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Early Music America
reviewed the production.
BPI’s participants — who range from musicians in high-school
to young professionals and adult amateurs — receive intensive instruction
in voice, choral conducting, and a large variety of baroque instruments,
including violin, viola, cello, viola da gamba, flute, recorder, oboe,
bassoon, trumpet, lute and theorbo, organ, and harpsichord from an international
faculty of acclaimed performers and scholars.
Members of the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble (Michael Lynn, Marilyn McDonald, Catharina Meints, and Lisa Goode Crawford), all members of the Oberlin Conservatory’s permanent faculty, comprise BPI’s core faculty. A distinguished roster of visiting musicians and music scholars join them in conducting daily master classes, private lessons, coached ensemble work, lectures, baroque dance classes, and concerts.
BPI participants also have access to the Conservatory’s extensive historic instrument collection and the music and book collection of the Conservatory Library.
For more information, contact Anna Hoffmann at (440) 775-8044, or visit the BPI web site.
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, founded in 1865, is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States, and the only major music school in the country linked with a preeminent college of arts and sciences.
Media Contact: Marci Janas
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