Baroque Trio
November 10, 2024
Christ Lutheran Church
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Music
Trietti Metodichi No. 2 TWV 42:D3
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Vivace
Andante
Vivace
Duet in Eb Major F 55
Wilhelm Friedmann Bach (1710-1784)
Allegro
Adagio ma non molto
Presto
Trio in E Major
Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Allegretto
Adagio di molto
Allegro assai
Trio no. 1 in D Major F 47
Wilhelm Friedmann Bach (1710-1784)
Allegro ma non troppo
Largo
Vivace
Musician Profiles
Immanuel Davis is one of the most versatile flutists of his generation. Equally at home on the modern and baroque flutes, Immanuel has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad. In 2005 he received a Fulbright Fellowship to study baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. Since then, he has performed as soloist and chamber player with such early music ensembles as Opera Lafayette, Early Music New York, ARTEK, Lyra Baroque, REBEL and the Bach Society of Minnesota and Mercury Orchestra of Houston. He has also performed on NPR’s “Performance Today” and in recitals with baroque flute luminaries Barthold Kuijken and Wilbert Hazelzet.
In 2021 Immanuel released the CD on the NAXOS label, “La Magnifique: Flute Music for the Court of Louis XIV” a program of French music for two traversi and continuo with legendary baroque flutist, Barthold Kuijken.
A popular guest teacher, he has been invited to teach classes at Yale University, New England Conservatory, Grinnell College, the North Carolina School of the Arts and Seattle Pacific University. He has made multiple trips to Mexico, where he has served as woodwind clinician for the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra.
Educated at the Juilliard School, Mr. Davis received both Bachelor and Master degrees as a student of Julius Baker. Immanuel Davis has been the flute professor at the University of Minnesota since 2001.
Praised by the New York Times for the “limpid sweetness” of his baroque flute playing, David Ross performs as baroque flute soloist with the Sebastians, as principal flutist with Mercury, and many other ensembles including the English Concert, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, New York Baroque Incorporated, Early Music New York, REBEL, Bach Society of Minnesota, and Lyra Baroque Orchestra.
David earned historical performance degrees from both the Koninlijk Conservatorium in Holland and the Juilliard School in NYC. Since 2009 his training and career have been focused exclusively on historical performance ranging from one-keyed baroque flutes to many-keyed flutes and piccolos of the romantic era. Prior to his specialization in early music he studied modern flute at the Cleveland Institute of Music. David teaches privately from his home in NYC.
Donald Livingston is sought after for his performance on harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ, and collaborates with musicians from across the musical spectrum. Director of Ensemble Col Basso, Sprezzatura, and host of the HausMusik House Concerts series, he has been associate director of Consortium Carissimi and has performed with such ensembles as Bach Sinfonia (Washington DC), Musica Antigua (Panama City), La Donna Musicale (Boston), Lyra Baroque, the Bach Society of Minnesota, and Glorious Revolution Baroque, as well as with soloists and collaborators Cléa Galhano, Maria Jette, Fernando Bustos, Immanuel Davis, Jacques Ogg, Elisabeth Wright, Joel Frederiksen, and Emma Kirkby. He has sung as a member of the Rose Ensemble, and under the direction of Thomas Binkley and Paul Hillier. His current endeavors are focused on developing the Twin Cities Early Music Festival, which had its inaugural festival in 2014 and celebrated 2015 with three weeks of daily concerts that culminate in a performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (1762). He studied Early Keyboard at the Historical Performance Institute of the renowned Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, He is adjunct professor of harpsichord at Concordia University-St. Paul.
In addition to early music, he is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists, and has served as organist for such churches as Trinity Episcopal and Hennepin Methodist Church of Minneapolis, where he is in his twelfth year presenting the annual classic film event with improvised organ score, and is currently organist at Westwood Lutheran Church. He has published choral works under the catalogues of Augsburg Press, International and Paraclete Press.
Aside from musical endeavors, he holds the Juris Doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law, where his studies focused on copyright, entertainment and art law, and he is a recipient of the CALI Award for Entertainment Law (2009).
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