Battle of the Bands: Le Roi Soleil and Sanssouci take on the Dresden Hofkappelle

Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.

Concerts at First presents Battle of the Bands: Le Roi Soleil and Sanssouci take on the Dresden Hofkappelle on Sunday, May 6 at 4 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive Street, Eugene.  Suggested donation $10.



At the courts of Louis XIV, Frederick II (The Great), and Frederick Augustus I (The Strong), musical life in the cities of Paris, Berlin/Potsdam, and Dresden flourished. François Couperin, J. M. Hotteterre (Paris), C. P. E. Bach (Berlin), W. F. Bach (Dresden), J. J. Quantz (Dresden, Berlin, Potsdam) and others provide the musical material for Seattle-based Baroque Northwest: Kim Pineda (Baroque flute), Max Fuller (viola da gamba), August Denhard (lutes), and Julia Brown (harpsichord).

The audience is encouraged to bring canned goods for Food for Lane County.

For more information: www.eugenefumc.org

This program is also being performed in Seattle on Friday, May 4 at 7:30pm. at Trinity Parish Church (609 8th Ave, at James).  Pre-concert talk at 7pm.  Tickets $10, $20 and $25.

For more information: www.baroquenorthwest.com

Kim Pineda has performed on transverse flute, recorder, and as a conductor throughout the U.S., Canada, in Israel, and on NPR. Founder and music director of Baroque Northwest, he performs regularly with leading early music ensembles in the U.S. He has performed at the Boston, Berkeley, Long Beach Bach, and Bloomington early music festivals, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, and has recorded on the Focus, Centaur, and Origin Classical labels. Kim received the Master of Music degree from Washington University, St. Louis, and the Bachelor of Music degree from California State University Northridge. He has taught at Indiana University, USC, North Seattle Community College, at workshops sponsored by the San Francisco and San Diego early music societies and the Seattle Recorder Society, and directs Baroque Northwest's Baroque Flute Boot Camp in Seattle. Kim is currently pursuing a PhD in Musicology from the University of Oregon. Other interests include the culinary, martial, and healing arts, cycling, zymurgy, and the pursuit of the ultimate cadence. In his spare time he reads non-fiction.

Max Fuller, cello and viola da gamba, has been performing since the age of 12. As a teenager he won the grand prize of the Phoenix Symphony Guild competition, and subsequently studied at the National Music Camp at Interlochen and the Tanglewood Institute. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the Julliard School, and has attended the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, and the Fountainebleau School in France. At the Mannes School in New York he studied baroque cello and viola da gamba with Myron Lutzke and Ken Slowik. He has worked with the New York Consort of Viols and New York University Collegium Consort. While living in New York, Max performed with Chamber Sound at Merkin Hall, the Maplewood ensemble for New York Public Television, New York's Musica Viva, Musica Antique, the Saratoga Baroque Festival, the Long Island Baroque Ensemble, as well as Philadelphia's Philomel and Michigan's Ars Musica. While living in Arizona, Max performed throughout the state with Musica Dolce, and recorded for Omni Classics. In the Pacific Northwest he has performed with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Portland Viol Consort, the William Byrd Festival and David Trendell, and ensemble La Stella at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

August Denhard has directed performances for Ardo Opera and the Bloomington Early Music Festival. Works to his credit include John Blow's Venus and Adonis, Claudio Monteverdi's Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi and L'Incoronazione di Poppea, and Tom s Torrej"n de Velascos La Purpura de la Rosa. As Executive Director of the Early Music Guild of Seattle he has overseen and performed in all of the Guilds opera productions: Two Monteverdi Chamber Operas, Venus and Adonis, and L'Incoronazione di Poppea. As a performer on lute, theorbo and Baroque guitar, he has appeared with Chicago Music of the Baroque, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque, and the Concord Ensemble, among others. In Seattle he is the co-director of the Continuo Ensemble, a community ensemble devoted to 17th-century vocal music. He received his Doctor of Music degree from the Early Music Institute of Indiana University in May of 2006, and his dissertation, Lute Realizations for the English Cavalier Songs (1630-1670): A Guide for Performers, has been published online by the Lute Society of America. His first solo recording, Cusp of the Baroque, can be viewed at http://cdbaby.com/cd/denhard/.

Julia Brown is currently Director of Music and Organist at First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon, while also maintaining a full schedule of teaching, performing and recording. Brown has appeared in concert in North and South America and in Europe, having performed at the Oregon Bach Festival, Astoria Music Festival, American Guild of Organists Regional and National Conventions, Latin American Organist Conventions, and National Public Radio. She is a founding member of Cascade Consort and other early music ensembles and performs duo concerts with Barbara Baird. As a Naxos recording artist, her releases of Scheidemann and Buxtehude on Brombaugh and Pasi organs have received high critical acclaim. Discography also includes Christmas Concert on the historic organ in Mariana, Brazil, Bach Organ Favorites and harpsichord Fantasias of W. F. Bach. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brown studied piano, harpsichord and organ in her native Brazil before receiving her MM and DMA from Northwestern University as a student of Wolfgang Rübsam. She is currently recording harpsichord and organ works of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach for Naxos.