Concert performances by David Schulenberg



Upcoming performances:


On May 13, 1999, at the University of Dayton (Ohio), I will join Mary Oleskiewicz and Walter Mayhall (baroque flutes), Nicole Trotier (baroque violin), and Stephanie Vial (baroque cello) in a concert featuring a complete performance of J. S. Bach's Musical Offering as well as Quantz's Flute Sonata in C Minor QV 1:14 and C. P. E. Bach's Trio Sonata in C Major W. 149. The concert is in conjunction with a meeting of the Midwest Historical Keyboard Society to be held at Dayton through May 15.

On June 9, 1999, at 4:30 p.m., in the Musical Instruments gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, I will join Mary Oleskiewicz, baroque flute, Lucy Yates, soprano, and Stephanie Vial, baroque cello, in a program entitled "Bach and the Dresden Virtuosos," a concurrent event of the Boston Early Music Festival. The program will include Quantz, Flute Sonata in C, QV 1:9; Handel, Sonata in D minor, HWV 367a; Bach, Praeludium and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894; Vivaldi's cantata for soprano with flute Nell'ombre di sospetto, and a cantata by Johann Adolf Hasse likewise for soprano with flute, Quel vago seno, o Fille. The latter work is in honor of the composer's 300th birthday. The museum is at 465 Huntington Ave., Boston; the concert is free and there is no admission charge to the museum after 4 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Recent performances:


On Friday, Feb. 19 and Sunday, Feb. 21, 1999, at Chapel Hill, I joined Ensemble Courant and the Collegio di Musica Sacra, a Polish early-music ensemble, as organist and harpsichordist in a program of Polish music from the Renaissance and Baroque, performing several pieces from the sixteenth-century Tabulature Book of Jan of Lublin.

During fall 1998 I participated in two all-Telemann concerts on the William S. Newman Artists series at UNC-Chapel Hill, on Nov. 13 and 15, 1998. In the first, a program of chamber music, I accompanied Mary Oleskiewicz and Rebecca Troxler (baroque flutes), Geoffrey Burgess (baroque oboe), Richard Luby (baroque violin), and Brent Wissick and Stephanie Vial (baroque cellos), in a number of duos, trio sonatas, and quartets, including Concert V in B minor for flute and obbligato harpsichord from Telemann's Six suites et six concerts of 1734. The second program, a concert of orchestral and choral music, included Telemann's early Deutsches Magnificat.

Saturday, April 25, 1998, at the biennial meeting of the American Bach Society at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.): duo-recital with Mary Oleskiewicz, baroque flute. Works by J.S. Bach, Quantz, and J.G. Graun, including Bach's A-major flute sonata BWV 232 and Graun's A-major flute sonata W. 8.

Sunday, Oct. 26, 1997, at 3 p.m., in Person Recital Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill. Baroque chamber music, with Susan Shimp, soprano, and Mary Oleskiwicz, flute and recorder. Cantatas by Vivaldi and Telemann; solo vocal works by Monteverdi; and flute sonatas by Quantz.

Tuesday, Sept. 16, 1997, at 8 p.m., in Person Recital Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill. Solo harpsichord recital, assisted by Mary Oleskiewicz, baroque flute: Handel, Suite in E HWV 430 (including the "Harmonious Blacksmith" variations); the Suite in B minor by Handel's teacher Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow; J.S. Bach, English Suite no. 6 in D minor, BWV 811, and Sonata in B minor for harpsichord and flute, BWV 1030; and Rameau, Concert V from the Pieces de clavecin en concerts.

Last updated 4/18/99