The ALL Chamber series presents Italian Virtuosity and the German Fantastic Style: chamber works for violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord on Friday, January 19, 2024 at 7:00pm. Performers will include Anna Rasmussen (violin), Charlie Rasmussen (viola da gamba) and Sean Kleve (harpsichord), and the program will include works by Buxtehude, Handel, Matteis, Corelli, and Becker. Tickets $20 general advance or $15 student/ALL Member advance online, or $25 at the door for everyone. Tickets available at https://allchamberjanuary.bpt.me.
ALL Chamber: Italian Virtuosity and the German Fantastic Style
Anna Rasmussen has been a member of the Suzuki faculty at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music since 2016. She has played Baroque violin with Sonata a Quatro, Musica Maxima, Just Bach, New Milwaukee Consort, and other Baroque ensembles in Milwaukee. She is principal second in the Menomonee Falls Symphony Orchestra and has played in orchestras in Wisconsin, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Texas, including the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Western Piedmont Symphony, Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, and Waco Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Rasmussen loves the collaboration of chamber music. She was the first violinist in the Spiritoso Quartet, has played in several chamber ensembles with other faculty members of the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT, and regularly performs with her husband, Charlie. She has recorded tracks for Paul Bogaev, and, as a member of the Spiritoso Quartet, she premiered a string quartet by Elise... Read More
Charlie Rasmussen is a cello faculty member and the Suzuki Area Chair at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee. He performs historical cello and viola da gamba with the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and New Milwaukee Consort. He is the Instrumental Director at Just Bach and is on the board of directors of Early Music Now.
Mr. Rasmussen has recorded Tommaso Giordani's Cello Duos (Centaur Records, 2020) and 11 Capricci by Joseph Dall'Abaco (Centaur Records, 2018).
Mr. Rasmussen has previously appeared at the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series with the New York Continuo Collective, the VdGSA Gamba Gamut and with Sonata à Quattro. He has also performed as principal cellist with Madison Bach Musicians and in multiple early music recitals at the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music. He has appeared with ViolMedium for an Early Music Now performance and in Milwaukee Opera Theatre's production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.
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Harpsichordist and historical performance enthusiast, Sean Kleve, is dedicated to the wide world of historical keyboard instruments and what they can tell us about the repertoire of the past. As a long-time performer of Bach on modern and non-traditional instruments, Sean recently dove into the wide world of harpsichord and historical performance. Sean’s particular interests center upon an understanding of figured bass improvisation, historical tuning, the music of J.S. Bach, and early Italian Baroque music from the 17th century.
Sean performs solo recitals and chamber works on the harpsichord. Sean’s principal harpsichord teachers are Trevor Stephenson and Jason Moy. As a Percussionist, Composer, and Conductor, Sean founded Madison Wisconsin’s premiere experimental percussion ensemble, Clocks in Motion. The group is dedicated to performing new and classic works for percussion instruments while promoting and supporting the education and future of new music. Clocks in Motion... Read More
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