Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Jay Campbell, cello
Paul Appleby, tenor
Composers Leoš Janáček and Charles Ives were mavericks who drew inspiration from their homelands to create highly original musical styles. Janácek transformed folk music of his native Moravia into a distinct poetic narrative, and Ives used popular American melodies to create unique, multi-layered soundscapes.
Program
Janáček: Piano Sonata "1. X. 1905"
Ives:
Down East
The Children’s Hour
The Housatonic at Stockbridge
At the River, Robert Lowry
A Night Song, Thomas Moore
Berceuse
Janáček: Fairy Tale (for cello and piano)
Ives:
The Light that is felt
Karen
Two Little Flowers
Songs my mother taught me
The See’r
The things our fathers loved
In the mornin’
BAC Salon: The Originals is a series of music by composers with uncompromising visions, performed by some of today's most respected musicians in an intimate salon setting.
Leadership support for music programming in 2017 provided by the Anne and Chris Flowers Foundation and the Thompson Family Foundation.
Paul Appleby
Following a summer season that featured Paul Appleby at Glyndebourne in the title role of a new production by Laurent Pelly of Béatrice et Bénédict, the tenor’s 2016-17 opera diary includes Metropolitan Opera performances of Don Giovanni, a debut at the Dutch National Opera in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and a debut at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in a new production of The Rake’s Progress conducted by Daniel Harding and directed by Simon McBurney.
Jay Campbell
Cellist Jay Campbell, armed with a diverse spectrum of repertoire and eclectic musical interests, has been recognized for approaching both old and new works with the same probing curiosity and emotional commitment. A recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Campbell has soloed in major venues around the globe including Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Avery Fisher Hall, Lucerne’s KKL, as well as recitals in Carnegie’s Weill Hall, the Kennedy, Mondavi, and Krannert centers.
Gilles Vonsattel
Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel is an artist of extraordinary versatility and originality. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, and winner of the Naumburg and Geneva competitions. In recent years he has made his Boston Symphony, Tanglewood, and San Francisco Symphony debuts, and performed recitals and chamber music at Ravinia, Tokyo’s Musashino Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bravo! Vail, Chamber Music Northwest, La Roque d’Anthéron, Music@Menlo, the Lucerne festival, and the Munich Gasteig.