STORIES & STRINGS: BACH, MOZART, AND FRIENDS

with Barb Nickel, guest artist, Angela Malmberg and Paul Luchkow, guest leaders and violins, and Michael Jarvis, guest soloist

PBO presents a holiday concert for young people of all ages.  Join 12-year old Nannerl and 7-year-old Wolfgang as they ride in the family carriage and perform in the courts of the crowned heads of Europe. Acclaimed author and poet Barbara Nickel reads from her novels, “Hannah Waters and the Daughter of J. S. Bach", (BC Book Prize winner for children's literature) and “The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart.” Michael Jarvis joins the orchestra in Mozart’s concerto for fortepiano and Paul Luchkow and Angela Malmberg play Bach's concerto in d minor for two violins. A great way to enjoy the holiday season with the whole family.

Saturday, December 20, 2008, 8.00 p.m.
St. Augustine's Church, Vancouver (map)

Sunday, December 21, 2008, 2.30 p.m.
West Vancouver United Church (map)

PROGRAMME
Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach

Introducing…Catharina Bach, daughter of J.S. Bach (Cöthen, Germany, 1720)

Johann Ludwig Bach: Ouverture (Suite) in G major
Ouverture

Introducing…Hannah Waters (Clear Lake, Saskatchewan, 2008)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in D minor for two violins (BWV 1041)
Vivace

The Maze: Catharina
J.S. Bach: Richercar a 6 – from the Musical Offering (BWV 1079)
Fragment arr. P Luchkow

The Violin Lesson: Hannah
J.S. Bach: Concerto in D minor for two violins (BWV 1041)
Largo ma non tanto

In Mama’s Sick Room: Catharina
J.S. Bach: Concerto in D minor for two violins (BWV 1041)
Allegro

Intermission

The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart

1. The Birthday Party

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in C major, KV 28
Allegro maestoso

2. The Kerpen Family Orchestra

Mozart: String Quartet No. 1 in G major, K 80
Adagio
Allegro
Menuetto
Rondeau: Allegro

3. The Christmas Day Concert (Versailles)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat major, K. 449 (for Barbara Ployer)
Allegro vivace
Andantino – Andante
Allegro ma non troppo

Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K. 136
II. Andante

ARTIST BIOS

Guest Artist
Barbara Nickel
Barbara Nickel’s most recent novel for children, Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, winner of the 2006 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize (B.C. Book Prizes), and was chosen as a Canadian Library Association Honour Book of the Year. It was shortlisted for several Young Readers’ Choice Awards, including Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, and the B.C. Chocolate Lily Award, and is scheduled for publication in Korea. Her other books for children include The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart (shortlisted for the Geoffrey Bilson, Mr. Christie, and Red Cedar Book Awards), and From the Top of a Grain Elevator, a poetry collection. Barbara is also an award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for adults; her collection of poetry, The Gladys Elegies, won the Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a woman in Canada, and her second collection, Domain, was released by House of Anansi Press in April, 2007.  She lives and writes in Yarrow, B.C.

Leaders
Paul Luchkow
Paul is one of the founding members of the PBO.  A UBC graduate, violinist Paul Luchkow played in Holland with Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, the Netherlands Radio Symphony and the Baroque Orchestra of the Netherlands Bach Society. He is a long-time member of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, a founding member of both the Burney Ensemble and La Cetra, and appears frequently in Early Music Vancouver and Festival Vancouver. Paul also performs with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Trinity Consort, and BOMB. Paul has participated in recordings on the BIS, Koch, Spool, and ATMA Classique labels and his concert performances are frequently broadcast on the CBC and NPR networks.

Angela Malmberg
Angela Malmberg enjoys playing baroque violin and viola for many early music groups in greater Vancouver. She is a regular member of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and of Vancouver’s renaissance string band, La Cetra and also appears in concerts hosted by Early Music Vancouver, The Vancouver Early Music Festival, and Festival Vancouver.  She has also performed with the celebrated renaissance band The King’s Noyse in Boston and Oberlin.  She recently was part of a production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo performed this fall in Edmonton and the New Year begins with a performance with Early Music Vancouver’s Bach Cantata Project Players.

Soloist
Michael Jarvis
Michael Jarvis has been acclaimed as one of Canada's finest harpsichordists, fortepianists and continuo players, and has performed with many of Canada's leading orchestras and chamber ensembles. He has also conducted the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, and was for 15 years Artistic Director of the period instrument ensemble The Baroque Players
(of Hamilton.) In addition to performing across Canada, he has performed as soloist and continuo player throughout the USA, England, Italy and Bermuda. He has worked with, accompanied, conducted, or played continuo for many of Canada's finest singers from Maureen Forrester to Russell Braun and is regularly a featured soloist or continuo player at many festivals, including The Elora Festival, the Guelph Spring Festival, The Grand River Baroque Festival, The Festival of the Sound, and Music at Westben. Michael Jarvis may be heard on the Hungaroton, ATMA, Naxos, Solitudes and Avalon CD labels, and has many times broadcast nationally and regionally for the C.B.C., as well as nationally across the U.S. on N.P.R. His performing editions of 17th and 18th century choral and organ music have been published by GIA, Chicago. He has taught harpsichord and continuo, and has lectured at the University of Toronto and has also taught harpsichord performance at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and at Havergal College, Toronto, and fortepiano at UBC.
"Jarvis has an awesome technique that produces music of enormous style and
crystal clarity . . . the contours of the music are never even blurred,
but emerge with a coherence and persuasiveness that is remarkable." The
Hamilton Spectator (Canada)
"Michael Jarvis donne ici une interprétation limpide et inspirée..."
Répertoire (France)