Concerts
March 10, 2024
7:00 PM
Online Premiere
Inspired by Bach
New music for harpsichord and strings, including works by Damien Geter and Caroline Shaw inspired by the J.S. Bach harpsichord concertos. This program also includes the world premiere of Damien Geter’s Groove Etude in Rondo for viola and harpsichord, commissioned by Byron Schenkman & Friends for Sound Salon.
“If I had but one word to sum up composer, Damien Geter…. I’ll go with ‘major.'”
— The Washington Post
Rachell Ellen Wong
Violin
Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro
Violin
Andrew Gonzalez
viola
Adaiha MacAdam-Somer
Cello
Ross Gilliland
Bass
Byron Schenkman
Harpsichord
Program
Damien Geter:
“Buh-roke” for strings and harpsichord
Damien Geter:
World Premiere of “Groove Etude in Rondo Form” for viola and harpsichord
A Byron Schenkman & Friends comissioned work for Sound Salon
Jean Ahn:
“Archimedes’ Principle” for violin and harpsichord
Caroline Shaw:
Concerto for harpsichord and strings
A Byron Schenkman & Friends comissioned work
“For her new concerto, Shaw says she used the ‘familiar grammar’ of Bach’s period but ‘twisted it into other things to construct a wild, weird, surrealist story — an alternative reality that didn’t happen but that might have existed.'”
– Thomas May, The Seattle Times
Notes on the Program
By Byron Schenkman
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