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By Charity Johnson ‘99
"The
Glory of the Trio Sonata" – a recital featuring Professor of
Violin Marilyn McDonald,
guest artist Rachel Barton,
alumna Heather Vorwerck ’98, and Professor of Harpsichord Lisa Crawford,
will be presented Sunday, December 9, at 1:30 P.M. in
Kulas Recital Hall. The program includes works by Fontana, Legrenzi,
Bartoli, Purcell, Corelli, Biber, and Handel.
Barton will also present a violin master class on Friday, December
7, at 12:00 P.M. in Bibbins 238.
"Playing trio sonatas is fun and challenging for the same reasons,"
says McDonald. "Relating to each other in terms of style, articulation,
and color; playing top line music which is conceived of from the bass
line -- that's different than playing chamber music of a later period.
I think it's interesting to hear how the approach to the music developed.
It is, after all, on the way to the string quartet."
Heather Vorwerck studied with Associate Professor of Viola da Gamba and
Cello Catharina Meints
at Oberlin, and Jaap ter Linden and Anneke Pols at the Koninklijk Conservatorium
in the Hague. She has performed with Apollo's Fire since 1997 and has
appeared as gamba soloist in St. Louis, Detroit, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Rachel Barton has appeared as soloist with many prestigious ensembles,
including the Chicago Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Dallas Symphony,
the Montreal Symphony, the Vienna Symphony, the Belgian National Orchestra,
the Baltimore Symphony and the Budapest Symphony, among others, working
with such conductors as Semyon Bychkov, Placido Domingo, Neeme Järvi,
Erich Leinsdorf and Zubin Mehta. She has performed as a guest artist with
the Chicago Baroque Ensemble and the Pacifica String Quartet, and her
performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio’s "Performance
Today" on numerous occasions.
Barton won the gold medal at the 1992 Quadrennial J.S. Bach International
Violin Competition in Leipzig, Germany, becoming the first American and
youngest artist to do so. Other top honors came from the Queen Elisabeth
(Brussels, 1993), Kreisler (Vienna, 1992), Szigeti (Budapest, 1992) and
Montreal (1991) international violin competitions, as well as many national
and regional competitions.
Barton has studied with Roland and Almita Vamos, Ruben Gonzalez, Werner
Scholz, Elmira Darvarova and several specialists in baroque and classical-period
performance practice.
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