PORT ANGELES — Two founding members of Ensemble Electra, Vicki Boeckman and Jillon Stoppels Dupree, will return to the Maier Hall Concert Series at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The award-winning early music group will bring along Brazilian recorder player Cléa Galhano for an evening of music “With a Southern Flair,” from Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina.
The concert will be in Maier Hall on the Peninsula College campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., in Port Angeles.
Tickets are $15 and may be purchased in advance at http://bookaneer.pencol.edu or at the door on the night of the concert.
Galhano and Boeckman have taught and performed together numerous times at workshops across the country.
The performers have been associated with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, York Early Music Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra and other ensembles.
The music for this concert will include baroque compositions by Antonio Vivaldi, Dario Castello and Diego Ortiz, as well as 20th century classical and popular composers of Spain and South America such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astor Piazzolla, Ernesto Nazareth and “Pixinguinha.”
Galhano has performed in Europe, South America, Canada and across the U.S. as a chamber musician and as a featured soloist with St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, New World Symphony, Musical Offering and Lyra Baroque Orchestra.
She has been featured in national and international Recorder conferences in Leiden, Holland, Montréal, Canada and Portland, Ore., and has performed two solo recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with additional performances at Wigmore Hall, Merkin Hall and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome.
Boeckman is the new artistic director for the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop.
She has recorded several CDs with Ensemble Electra and Wood’N’Flutes. Her travels and performances have taken her across the U.S. as well as Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, England, Scotland and Germany.
Featured as a regular soloist and/or member of the Seattle and Portland Baroque Orchestras, Portland Opera and Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra, she is also a regular guest with the Medieval Women’s Choir and on the Gallery Concerts series.
She currently serves on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts and formerly taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen for 12 years.
Harpsichordist Dupree has performed in cities ranging from London to Amsterdam.
Her world premiere recording of Philip Glass’s Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Orchestra with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra was released in fall of 2006 on the Orange Mountain Music label.
Her playing also can be heard on the Meridian, Wild Boar, Decca and Delos record labels; and she has appeared live on BBC England, Polish National Television, CBS Television and National Public Radio.
Dupree has been a featured artist at the early music festivals in York, England, Boston and Berkeley, as well as at the National Music Museum, the Cleveland and Santa Barbara Museums of Art, and numerous universities and colleges.
She has taught at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the University of Washington and the University of Michigan.
She is currently on the early music faculty at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts and is the founding director of the Gallery Concerts early music series in Seattle.
For more information about the series contact David Jones at djones@pencol.edu.
