Harpsichord and Viol

SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012,  4:00 p.m.
Joanna Blendulf and Julia Brown

Concerts at First presents “Harpsichord and Viol”, a concert of music for viola da gamba and harpsichord from the high Baroque with Joanna Blendulf and Julia Brown on Sunday, May 20 at 4 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive Street, Eugene.  The program includes works by Marais, d’Hervelois, C. P. E. Bach, W. F. Bach and J. S. Bach.

Suggested donation $10.  The audience is encouraged to bring canned goods for Food for Lane County.

For more information: www.eugenefumc.org

Joanna Blendulf has performed as soloist and continuo player in leading period instrument ensembles throughout the United States. Ms. Blendulf holds performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Indiana University, where she studied with Stanley Ritchie, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Alan Harris. In 1998, she was awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate for her accomplishments on baroque cello from Indiana University. Joanna performs with the Portland, Seattle and Indianapolis Baroque Orchestras, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists and has also been a member of Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra and the New York Collegium. Ms.  Blendulf is an active chamber musician, performing and touring with the Catacoustic Consort, American Baroque, Ensemble Mirable, Reconstruction, the Streicher Trio and Wildcat Viols. Her recording of the complete cello sonatas of Jean Zewalt Triemer with Ensemble Mirable can be found on the Magnatune label. Ms. Blendulf's summer engagements have included performances at the Bloomington, Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, the Aspen Music Festival as well as the Carmel and Oregon Bach Festivals.

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 for American Guild of Organists Regional and National Conventions, Latin American Organist Conventions, the Oregon Bach Festival, and National Public Radio.  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 and “Bach Organ Favorites” on the Taylor & Boody in Indianapolis.  Brown is currently recording keyboard and organ works of W. F. Bach for Naxos.  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.