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Arcadia Players - New England's Period Instrument Ensemble

ANNOUNCING 3 NEW CONCERTS LED BY OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FINALISTS
 
We’re excited to present three concerts of Baroque music, each one led by a finalist in our search for a new Artistic Director. The programs will be streamed on YouTube and feature a wide variety of music from the 17th and 18th centuries, including works by Corelli, Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann and more (complete listings below.)
Arcadia Players embraces 
historical performance 
practice to illuminate 
and invigorate the 
great Western heritage 
of vocal and 
instrumental music.
Premieres Saturday October 2nd at 7pm
​The Harmony of Nations
Jude Ziliak, leader 
​Jude Ziliak’s program features music that showcases the divergence of French and Italian styles of the Baroque, culminating in their reunion in the "mixed style" of Telemann. Ziliak is the first violinist of Sonnambula and a frequent concertmaster or soloist with the American Bach Soloists. A graduate of the Historical Performance program at The Juilliard School, he founded and directs the Baroque Orchestra at Special Music School, New York’s K-12 public school for musically gifted children. 
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Click here for Harmony of Nations Program Notes
Premieres Saturday October 9th at 7pm
Crossing Borders
Daniel Lee, leader
​Violinist Daniel Lee invites us on a musical journey around 17th- and 18th-century Europe through works that integrate different regional styles of the Baroque. He is founding director of the early music ensemble the Sebastians and a freelancing period violinist and conductor in North America and Europe. Lee is a member of the early music faculty at the Yale School of Music, and along with music degrees from Juilliard, Yale and the University of Connecticut, he holds an MDiv. from Yale Divinity School.
Click here for Crossing Borders Program Notes
​Premieres Saturday October 16th at 7pm
The Migration of Italian Music
Andrew Arceci, leader
Andrew Arceci’s program explores the spread of Italian styles across Europe and beyond, as far away as China! Arceci performs on viol, violone, and bass throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, The Juilliard School, and the University of Oxford. Formerly director of Wellesley College's Collegium Musicum and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, he currently directs the Winchendon Music Festival in Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Click here for Migration of Italian Music Program Notes
Tickets for each concert are $15, or all three for $40.
Ticket holders will have unlimited access to the concerts anytime after the premiere.
Tickets can also be ordered by calling our office, ​413 586-8742 (413 58-MUSIC). Please have an email address available so that we can send you links to the concerts.
During the pandemic, our Search Committee has been evaluating a stellar group of applicants to succeed former Artistic Director Ian Watson. We invited each of the finalists to organize a program, and brought together a group of talented musicians to bring it to life. These three streamed concerts, recorded over the summer of 2021, are the culmination of the search process and will help Arcadia Players decide who will lead the organization in the future.
Program Details:
 
The Harmony of Nations – Jude Ziliak, leader
                Francesco Geminiani - Concerto Grosso no. 3 in C major, H.
​                        134,  after Corelli’s opus 5
                Jean-Baptiste Lully - Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 
                Johann Heinrich Schmelzer  - Harmonia a 5
                Georg Philipp Telemann - Burlesque de Quixotte
 
Crossing Borders – Daniel Lee, leader
                Johann Valentin Meder - Ciaconne
                Johann Rosenmüller - Sonata Terza à 2 from Sonate… (1682)
                Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Mensa Sonora, Pars III
                Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre - Trio Sonata in D
                Georg Muffat - Sonata Secondo from Armonico tributo
                George Frideric Handel – Passacaglia
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The Migration of Italian Music – Andrew Arceci, leader      
                Arcangelo Corelli - Trio Sonata G-Major Op.2 No.12 ‘Ciacona’ 
                Antonio Vivaldi - Sinfonia for Strings
                Giovanni Battista Lulli / Jean-Baptiste Lully - Trios de la Chambre
                         du Roi 
                Teodorico Pedrini - Sonata VI
                Domenico Zipoli - Fughetta in E minor 
                Francesco Geminiani - The Lass of Peaty’s Mill
                Francesco Barsanti - The Lass of Peatie’s Mill
Participating artists:
Lisa Rautenberg, Michelle Liechti, Dana Maiben, Emlyn Ngai, Barbara Wright, violin and viola; William Simms, Charles Weaver, theorbo and guitar; Alice Robbins, viol and cello; Gregory Hayes, harpsichord
Our “Live from the Sanctuary” benefit concert has launched! If you missed the livestream or would like to hear any of it again, just visit:
https://www.livefromsanctuary.org/
Thanks for your support!
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​Please join Alice Robbins and Jane Hershey, viols, and Gregory Hayes, organ, for a benefit concert to support Arcadia Players, featuring music by Baroque composers Johann Erasmus Kindermann, Johann Pachelbel, Matthew Locke, William Lawes and more.

The concert is free, but donations to Arcadia Players are encouraged!

Our thanks to the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence for hosting this event.

Click Here for a Message from the President

Arcadia Players is being as careful as possible during the corona virus outbreak.
Thank you for your understanding

Arcadia Players performing Monteverdi at 
St. Mary's Church, Northampton
Photo by Walter Denny
Arcadia Players' 2020-2021 concert season is made possible through the support of you, our patrons and donors, 
our hosts Mount Holyoke College, Wesley United Methodist Church, and Our Lady of the Valley Parish,
our media sponsor New England Public Radio, WFCR and all-news WNNZ,
and in 2019 by the Cultural Councils of Amherst, Easthampton, South Hadley, and Hadley,
and local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Arcadia Players is Ensemble-in-Residence at the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.
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New England's Period Instrument Ensemble
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Northampton, MA 01060
413 586-8742 (413 58-MUSIC)
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