Acclaimed Harpsichordist to Visit Bay Area for Concert and Master Classes
Elisabeth Wright will be visiting the Bay Area October 17–20, to be in residence at Stanford University and to give a master class at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her recital, “Tender and Passionate Gestures,” will feature a suite in G minor of Jean Henry D’Anglebert, J.S. Bach’s toccata in E minor, BWV 914, and works of Froberger and Couperin. The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m., Monday, October 20, in Stanford’s Memorial Church. Tickets ($15 general/$10 student/senior) will be available at the door.
Professor Wright also will be presenting morning (9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.) and afternoon (1:30–4:30 p.m.) master classes on Saturday, October 18, in Braun 103, Stanford University, in cooperation with the Western Early Keyboard Association (WEKA). The classes will be devoted to solo keyboard and chamber music of the 17th and 18th centuries, including discussion of basso continuo improvisation. Lunch for all participants is included, and the class is free to Stanford students/faculty and WEKA members. WEKA members can register for the class at http://wekaweb.org/. There is a $35 charge to audit the master class for all others. Contact Elaine Thornburgh at 415-387-6890 or [email protected] for more information.
An additional master class will be given Friday, October 17, 8:00 p.m. at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. For more information, visit http://www.sfcm.edu/.
Elisabeth Wright has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and continuo improviser at numerous international festivals, including the Boston and Berkeley Early Music festivals, Tage alter Musik, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, Aston Magna, Lufthansa of London, Santa Fe, Sydney, Early Music Vancouver, Semana de Música Antigua Estella, Performa Clavis, and other noted concert series around the world from Australia to Russia. Soloist with Tafelmusik and the Lyra, Seattle, Vancouver and Portland Baroque Orchestras, Ms. Wright has recently toured in Holland, Italy and the Pacific Northwest. She has recorded for the Focus, Centaur, Musical Heritage, Milan-Jade, Música Ficta, Classic Masters, and Pro Música Antiqua labels.
Professor of harpsichord and fortepiano at Indiana University’s Historical Performance Institute of the Jacobs School of Music, she is in frequent demand for master classes and seminars pertaining to performance practices of music from the late 16th through the 18th centuries. A perpetual student of languages and interested in the relationship between music and text, she has done extensive research about musical settings of poetry by Giambattista Marino, a chapter about which was published in The Sense of Marino: Literature, Fine Arts and Music.
