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Brass & Organ: A Valentine Bouquet
On February 14, the Berkshire Bach Society will offer its audience a Valentine Bouquet of music from three centuries for organ and brass instruments. The enthusiastically received combination of organist Peter Sykes of Cambridge, MA and brass ensemble headed by trumpet virtuoso Allan Dean returns from last year's February triumph to offer a wide-ranging program blending familiar and unfamiliar repertory. Joining Mr. Dean in the brass ensemble will be Neil Mueller, trumpet, Laura Klock, french horn, Tom Hutchinson, trombone, and Morris Kaiuma, tuba. Berkshire Bark Chocolates will provide sweets for the palate. The performance will take place on Sunday at 4 pm in the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 67 East St, Pittsfield, MA.
At the core of the program are works by Bach, including arrangements of chorales and chorale-preludes for brasses and the great Fantasia and Fugue in g minor for organ; but the additional material displays the many responses (a Valentine bouquet) his music has inspired over the centuries, including a rarely heard work by his youngest son Johann Christian, a Prelude and Fugue in g minor by Brahms and an organ sonata by Mendelssohn. Perhaps the greatest novelty is offered by the music of Gottfried Reiche, an older contemporary of Bach's who was the resident trumpet virtuoso in Leipzig who performed most of the challenging trumpet parts that are found in the cantatas and other choral works. The concert will conclude with the very familiar "Trumpet Voluntary" by Jeremiah Clarke, clothed for maximum brilliance with the full combination of organ and brass.
Peter Sykes has appeared in recital at conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, the Organ Historical Society, American Institute of Organbuilders, International Society of Organbuilders, at the Library of Congress, Boston Early Music Festival, Aston Magna Festival, New England Bach Festival, Portland Chamber Music Festival, New Hampshire Music Festival, and with Ensemble Project Ars Nova, The Kings Noyse, Musica Antiqua Kln, and throughout the United States. He is frequently heard on the nationally syndicated radio program Pipedreams. In March 2004 he was given the honor of performing the dedication recital on the newly restored 1800 Tannenberg two-manual organ in Old Salem, North Carolina, featured on the nationally broadcast televsion show CBS Sunday Morning. He was a member of the continuo team for the Boston Early Music Festival opera productions of Cavalli's Ercole Amante, Lully's Thse, and Conradis Ariadne, and appears regularly in concert and on recordings with Boston Baroque. With Christa Rakich he created "Tuesdays With Sebastian," an independent two-year benefit concert series in which he and Ms. Rakich performed the entire keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the organ and harpsichord in thirty-four recitals in five Boston area locations in the 2003-04 and 2004-05 concert seasons.
His solo recordings include J.S. Bachs complete Leipzig Chorales recorded on the Noack organ of the Langholtskirkja in Reykjavik, From The Heartland - Two Nordlie Organs in South Dakota, Harpsichord Music of Couperin and Rameau, A Nantucket Organ Tour, MAXimum Reger: Favorite Organ Works, and Modern Organ Music, a disc of music by Hindemith, Heiller, Pinkham, Woodman, and Icelandic composers on the Noack organ in the Neskirkja in Reykjavik. His most recent solo recording, now available on the Raven label, is the dedication recital on the Tannenberg organ in Old Salem.
He is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Historical Performance Department at Boston University, Director of Music at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, and a member of the faculties of the Longy School of Music and the New England Conservatory.
Allan Dean is a notable American trumpeter who has spent much of his career working as one of the top chamber music players in the United States. Mr. Dean's career is particularly well established in the New York musical scene - primarily because of his long involvement with the New York Brass Quintet. While in New York City, he was a prolific commercial trumpeter, recording jingles for everything from ABC Nightly News to the Olympics. He is also a founding member of Summit Brass, and currently plays with the Saint Louis Brass Quintet. His arrangements are often featured on recordings with these ensembles.
Dean was also at the forefront of the period instrument revival in the 1960s and 70s in the United States. He was one of the first American trumpeters to master the natural trumpet and the cornetto. He was a charter member of Calliope (Renaissance band), the groundbreaking period instrument group.
Mr. Dean has taught at the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. He currently teaches at the Yale School of Music in New Haven, CT and is on faculty at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, CT.
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LocationSt. Stephen's Episcopal Church
67 East Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201
United States
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