Works from the Renaissance through today
DATES & LOCATIONS
January 26, 2012 at 7:30 pm[concert] La Maison Française
January 27, 2012 at 3:00 pm[master class] Coolidge Auditorium
January 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm[concert] Coolidge Auditorium
Known as “the Yo-Yo Ma of the viola da gamba,” Italy’s Paolo Pandolfo brings Baroque and Renaissance era music to life on this popular period instrument. An acclaimed soloist and ensemble player and teacher, Pandolfo’s own pieces are known for their jazz, folk and improvisational influences. His performance will include works by St. Colombe, Marais, Bach, Abel as well as his own compositions.
Paolo Pandolfo playing viola da gamba (via YouTube)
DATES & LOCATIONS
[concert] La Maison Française
Date: January 26, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Location: La Maison Française – Embassy of France – 4101 Reservoir Rd, NW
TICKETS: CLICK HERE
PROGRAM
“Metamorphosis, visions of a viol player: from the French Renaissance to the 3rd Millennium”
Tobias Hume (1569–1645)
Prelude
– A Pavin
– Touch me lightly
– Tickle me sweetly
– Adieu my love
– A Soldier’s Resolution
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640 – 1700)
Prelude
– Chaconne
Marin Marais (1656 – 1728)
Prelude
– Le badinage
– Les voix humaines
Paolo Pandolfo
“Keepgoing” (improvisations on a P. Pandolfo theme)
INTERMISSION
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Prelude Suite No. 5 BWV 1011
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723 – 1787)
Arpeggiata
– Adagio
– Allegro
Paolo Pandolfo
Metamorphosis
[master class] Coolidge Auditorium
Date: January 27, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Location: Library of Congress – 101 Independence Ave – Washington, DC
This 90-minute event is open to the public, no tickets required. Seating is first-come, first-served. For further information, please call 202-707-8432.
[concert] Coolidge Auditorium
Date: January 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Location: Library of Congress – 101 Independence Ave – Washington, DC
TICKETS: CLICK HERE or call 202-707-8432.
A solo recital of J. S. Bach’s viola da gamba suites and “marvelously intricate, inventive and playful” works by Carl Friedrich Abel. You’ll admire Pandolfo’s extraordinary range of colors on his 17th century Nicolas Bertrand instrument, and the Library’s handsome 1708 viola da gamba, made by Pieter Rombouts.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Paolo Pandolfo tries to build bridges between the past and the present, bringing spontaneous and immediate life in the performance of baroque and renaissance music, together with rigorous philological interpretation.
He studied with Jordi Savall at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland and was a member of Savall’s ensemble Hesperion XX and performed with them throughout the world, making hundreds of concerts and dozens of recordings (1982-1990).
In 1990, after the huge success of his first solo recording (C.P.E.Bach’s Sonatas for Viola da Gamba), he was nominated as Professor of viola da gamba at his alma mater, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, where he still teaches, whilst his performing carrier takes him all over the world, playing solo, with a continuo group, or with his own ensembles (“Labyrinto” and “Travel Notes Project”). He also dedicates himself to composition, as in the cd Travel Notes, new music for the viola da gamba, combining musical idioms such as baroque, jazz, folk and improvisation.
WEBSITE: http://www.paolopandolfo.com