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Music for Peace: Sonatas and Arias of Bach
In the second concert of our 2018- 2019 Music for Peace series, Dana Maiben (baroque violin), Kay Ueyama (harpsichord), and Junko Watanabe (soprano) will perform an All Bach program, including the Fantasie and Fugue in a minor (BWV 904), violin sonatas, and arias.
Benefits Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; part of the Music for Peace Series. Single concert: seats $25 in advance for Mass. Peace Action members, $35 for non-members, $10 for students, $35 at the door. Series of 3 concerts: member $65, non-member $80, student $25.
To reserve, write a check to Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund and mail to 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, or call 617-354-2169 with credit card number. Or reserve seats online for the single concert or purchase online for the entire series.
Donations to support our work for peace are needed in any amount. Supporters donate $250 or more to Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; they receive two tickets with preferred seating in the first 3 rows to each concert and recognition in the programs. Sponsors donate $500 and receive four tickets; Benefactors donate $1,000 and receive eight tickets.
The audience is invited to join the musicians and Peace Action members at a reception after the concert.
Dana Maiben
Violinist and conductor Dana Maiben, hailed by the Boston Globe for her supremely joyous artistry, has earned international recognition for her performances of the 17th-century solo violin and ensemble repertory. She was a founder member of the groundbreaking ensemble for 17th century music, Concerto Castello, whose debut recording, Affetti Musicali, was nominated for a Deutsche Schallplatten Preise, and for whom she designed and co-directed the 1985 Schuetz anniversary celebration concert for the Boston Early Music Festival. Colin Tilney, writing in Continuo Magazine, cited her as high priestess of the Italian 17th century solo. In 2003 Maiben launched a new ensemble for 17th century music, Concerto Incognito.
Miss Maiben is founding music director of the new ensemble Foundling, a baroque orchestra and womens advocacy project based Providence, Rhode Island. She plays principal violin for Arcadia Players, Apollo Ensemble, and Ensemble Abendmusik, and has served as concertmaster of the New York Collegium under the direction of Christophe Rousset, Martin Gester, Paul Goodwin, and Andrew Parrott. Maiben frequently performs with her principal teacher, violinist Jaap Schroeder, with Arcadia Players Trio, and in duo with fortepianist Monika Jakuc. Recording credits include projects for Centaur, Dorian, EMI, and Hyperion.
Dana Maiben lived and worked in Rochester, New York from 1978-1988, where she taught at the Eastman School of Music, and served as founding music director of the Genesee Baroque Players, and as co-founder of the Genesee Early Music Guild. More recently she has been a frequent guest performer with the Rochester Bach Festival and Publick Musick. Since 1989 Maiben has served on the faculty of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches violin and medieval, renaissance, baroque, and classical performance practice, coaches chamber music, and occasionally directs opera. Her own opera, Look and Long, based on the play by Gertrude Stein, was presented in staged workshop at Smith College in 1998.
Kay Ueyama
Harpsichordist Kay Ueyama was born in London, and grew up in Tokyo. She earned prizes at the Paola Bernardi Harpsichord competition in Italy in 2003 and in the Yamanashi Early Music competition in Japan in 2005. She studied piano at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo (Japan), Performance Diploma in piano at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge (USA); harpsichord at the Amsterdam Conservatory (Holland), and earned Masters Degrees from both The Longy School of Music (USA) in harpsichord and The Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Belgium) in fortepiano. She has studied piano under Victor Rosenbaum and harpsichord under Peter Sykes, Menno van Delft (Amsterdam), Christophe Rousset and Huguette Dreyfus(France).
Kay Ueyama is active as both a soloist and a chamber musician in Europe, the USA, and Japan. She has been invited to a number of major music venues, including Mozart festival at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre Würzburg residence (Germany), Salle Pleyel (France), The Royal Chapel at the Château de Versailles (France), and at the Cambridge Early Music Society (UK). In 2002, she first performed J.S. Bachs Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) in Boston.
Her performances have been broadcast on Dutch AVRO classic radio channel, Mezzo TV, France musique and Tokyo FM. In 2011, She recorded her first solo album Bach: Goldberg Variations on an original harpsichord by J.Ruckers 1632/1745 and the recording was selected as Le Diapason Découverte in France,The best disque by Record Geijyutsu (Art of Disque) and the ASAHI Newspaper in Japan. She has also recorded sonatas for cello of J.P. Duport with Raphael Pidoux on Integral Classic. In 2018, her 2nd CD, J.S.Bach: Six Partitas was recorded on an original harpsichord by C.Kroll in 1776 which has selected to receive the silver prize by Record Geijyutsu (Art of Disque). See a video of Kay playing Partita No. 2 (Sarabande and Rondeaux) at https://youtu.be/P6_Q1WeVusU.
Kay teaches harpsichord at the Kyoto City of Art University and Doshisha Womens College of Liberal Arts in Japan. (www.kayueyama.com)
Ueyama has a profound and mature vision, it is emotional and perfectly organized. The opening Aria is a disarming splendour which dodges the usual trap of pomposity. () We bet this version of very high quality will be considered as a reference for a long time, among an already prestigious discography. And look out for her concerts! Philippe Ramin, Diapason (June 2012)
The Japanese harpischordist projects Bachs score in a symphonic whirlwind which is invading and rejoicing. It is full of feelings, from witty humour to the absolute diziness that is engaged here. A wonderful disc! ConcertoNet.com (July 2012)
Junko Watanabe
Junko Watanabe, soprano, has performed widely in operas, oratorios, and recitals in the U.S. and in her native Japan. Her performances have been acclaimed for her sweet, liquid tones (Opera News), ravishing soprano line and a tone that was steady, pure, and colorful all the way up into the empyrean above the staff (Boston Globe). She has been featured as a soloist with the Boston Lyric Opera, Chorus pro Musica, Masterworks Chorale, Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, and the New England Bach Festival.
As a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival from 2004 through 2007, she performed with Ken Noda, Martin Isepp, and Richard Goode. As well as collaborating with Victor Rosenbaum on Schuberts Lieder, in recent years Ms. Watanabe has been featured as a soloist in Haydns Lord Nelson Mass, Handels Messiah, Mozarts Requiem, Poulencs Gloria, and Brahms Requiem. She has also performed various contemporary compositions, including Stephen Alberts To Wake the Dead, Lester Trimbles Four Fragments from the Canterbury Tales, Eric Sawyers Curiousity and Vocalise, the world premier of Paul Dedells The Latitudes of Heaven, and George Crumbs Madrigals, Book I.=
For the 2018-2019 season, her engagements include a collaboration with pianist Chia-Wen Cheng on songs by Rachmaninoff for Concerts at 7 in Plainfield, the soprano solo in Michael Haydns Requiem and Joseph Haydns The Creation with the Hampshire Chorale, and Bachs Magnificat with the South Hadley Chorale in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Ms. Watanabe holds masters degrees from Osaka College of Music and Longy School of Music. She was a finalist in the Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition and winner of the NATS Competition Professional Division in Boston. Currently, she is on the faculty of Amherst College, Brattleboro Music Center, and Rivers School Conservatory.
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LocationHarvard-Epworth Methodist Church (View)
1555 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
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