Vita Wallace
615 West 113 Street #46 New York NY 10025 USA
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2 April 2008
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LES GRACES:
FRENCH BAROQUE CHAMBER MUSIC WITH KAY UEYAMA, HARPSICHORD
Viola da gambist Motomi Igarashi, Baroque violinist Vita Wallace, and special guest harpsichordist Kay Ueyama, from Paris, present a program of exquisite, humorous, poignant, sometimes decadent French Baroque chamber music on Saturday, April 26, at 3 pm, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 122 East 88th Street at Lexington Avenue, near the 86th Street & Lexington stops on the M101, M102, and M86 buses and the #4, #5, and #6 subways. $10 suggested donation. For more information, please call 212-222-2101.
The program will consist of:
François Couperin (1668-1733): Premier Concert, from Concerts Royaux
Marin Marais (1656-1728): Sonate à la Maresienne
Couperin: selected solo harpsichord pieces
Couperin: selections from Pièces de viole, Premier Suite
Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764): Quatre Concert, from Pièces de clavecin en concert
Kay Ueyama lives in Paris and plays solo and chamber music concerts in Tokyo, Chapelle Royale de Versailles, Paris, and Brussels as a harpsichordist and fortepianist. Originally from Japan, she studied with Peter Sykes at the Longy School of Music in Boston and Menno van Delft at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She has participated in
major music festivals including the Boston Early Music Festival and the Handay Music Festival in France. Kay won second prize in the Paola Bernaldi harpsichord competition in Italy in 2004 and third prize in the Yamanashi Early Music competition in Japan in 2005.
Motomi Igarashi studied the double bass in her native Japan and at Juilliard and the viola da gamba in France. She plays viola da gamba, baroque bass, violone, and lirone in Baroque ensembles on the East coast and in Japan including Anima, Bach Collegium Japan, Clarion Music Society, Foundling, Long Island Baroque, New York Collegium, Opera Lafayette, Philomel, TACO, and Tokyo Baroque.
Vita Wallace is a sought-after baroque violinist: member of Anima, ARTEK, Dryden Ensemble, Foundling, and Philomel, and guest artist with Parthenia, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Festival Scarlatti in Sicily, and numerous other baroque ensembles and festivals. She has performed and recorded extensively as violinist of the Orfeo Duo. The Duo's unedited recording of the complete Schumann sonatas on period instruments was described as "daring and fresh" by the National Post. Their other recordings have been described as "impassioned and deeply involving…strangely moving" (American Record Guide), "excellent" (BBC Music Magazine) and "magnificent" (Classics Today).
Les Graces, the Graces, deities of antiquity, were named Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne: brilliant, flower, and happiness. They governed good deeds, concord, rejoicing, love, and eloquence.
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