Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort

Sat, Apr 1, '06, 8 pm

Venue: First Congregational Church

Price: $42

Subscription Series: Choose-Your-Own, Winter/Spring Mini Series

Credited with possessing "the same precision and wordless communication as a longstanding string quartet" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), the Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort was organized in Japan in 1983, its aim to perform both traditional repertoire for viols and a wide selection of contemporary music. Hundreds of concerts later, the ensemble has won international recognition for music-making of the highest caliber. The artists are known both for traditional viol music (including works by Purcell, Gibbons, Bach, and Charpentier) and for introducing new pieces to the repertoire, and have already given premieres of more than 80 compositions written expressly for the Consort.

This presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of The Japan Foundation Performing Arts JAPAN program.

Program: East Meets West — works by Etenraku (Japanese court music), Machaut, Issac, Cabezon, Salvatore, Lawes, Purcell, and Boyvin; plus J.S. Bach's Prelude No. 1 from The Well Tempered Clavier I, BWV 846; Contrapunctus No. 9 from The Art of the Fugue; BWV 1080; Aria in A Minor, BWV 590; and Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914

PATRON INFORMATION

Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here.

Education and Community Events:
Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort/SCRIPTUM Modern Japanese Prints
Fri, Mar 31, 6:00 pm
Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
Day-of-event telephone: 510.642.2809
Music for the viol by contemporary Japanese composers accompanies a visually stunning display of 19th century and contemporary Japanese woodblock prints. Free and Open to the Public. For more information, please see the Institute of East Asian Studies website.

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