Join the award-winning REBEL ensemble on March 12 for an afternoon of works by leading baroque composers. The program, entitled “Treasures of the High Baroque and Rococo,” begins at 3 pm at St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street, in Newburgh.
REBEL is dedicating the concert to the memory of Karen Marie Marmer, who with her husband, fellow violinist Jörg-Michael Schwarz, led the New York-based ensemble, acting as its manager as well as performing with the group. Karen passed away in July 2020, six months after REBEL last performed for Newburgh Chamber Music. That performance marked her last concert performance, and the ensemble’s second appearance for NCM.
The March 12 program will feature works by Georg Philipp Telemann, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Johann Georg Pisendel, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg and Pietro Boni. Besides Schwarz, the director, the ensemble includes Matthias Maute (traverso and recorder), John Moran (violoncello), and Dongsok Shin (harpsichord.) Named after the innovative French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747), the ensemble was formed in The Netherlands in 1991. That same year it took first prize in the Van Wassenaer International Competition in Utrecht and gave its critically-acclaimed American début in New York City in 1992. Since then REBEL has garnered an impressive international reputation, enchanting diverse audiences with their unique style and highly expressive and provocative approach to the baroque and classical repertoire. It has been hailed by the New York Times as “sophisticated and beguiling” and praised by the Los Angeles Times for its “astonishingly vital music-making.
Tickets are $30 for adults, and $5 for students, at the door (cash or check only) or online at newburghchambermusic.org. Proof of vaccination is not required, and masks are optional.
The audience is invited to meet the performers at a reception after the concert.
Audience members are invited to bring instruments that they wish to donate to Valentina’s Instrument Donation Bank, to be repaired, if necessary, and given to Greater Newburgh Schools and music students.
For further information, contact Dr. Joël Evans at evansj@newpaltz.edu or visit newburghchambermusic.org.