Festival Schedule
Sponsored by:
The Augustine
Foundation
The D'Addario Foundation for the
Performing Arts
Guitar Center
John P. McGrath Fund, Long Island
University
Past Festival Web sites:
Guitar Festival '98
Guitar
Festival '97
Guitar Festival '96
For information on master classes, workshops and
tickets, contact the C.W. Post Music Department at (516) 299-2475 or
post-music@liu.edu
Duo Maresienne with Joel Frederiksen
Joel Frederiksen
Joel Frederiksen performs internationally as a bass and lutenist and
has appeared with the nation's best-known early music ensembles
including the Boston Camerata, Waverly Consort and the Ensemble for
Early Music. As a coloratura basso profundo he is increasingly in
demand for Bach and Handelian roles. His wide range of activities
includes a January 1998 appearance on German National Television with
the Hudson Shad performing music of the Comedian Harmonists; in summer
1998 he sang music by Kurt Weill in Salzburg, Austria. In October 1998
he performed a recital of English lute songs in Schwalenburg, Germany.
He has also been presented in recital in New York and the surrounding
area singing lieder from Schubert and Wolf. Mr. Frederiksen can be
heard on a dozen CDs recorded for Angel/EMI, Erato, RCA and Musical
Heritage Society. He holds a Master's degree in Early Music from
Oakland University, where he was recipient of the prestigious
Distinguished Musicianship Award. He is professor of voice and
director of the Madrigal Singers at C.W. Post, Long Island University.
Joel Frederksen is the founder of L'antica musica New York, a
professional ensemble which has toured the U.S. and which is
Ensemble-in-Residence at St. Bartholomew's Church; their program this
year includes works by Monteverdi, Carissimi, Schütz, Buxtehude
and others.
Olav Chris Henriksen
Olav Chris Henriksen is one of America's leading lutenists. He has
been acclaimed throughout Europe and North America as a soloist on
lute, theorbo and early guitars with the Boston Camerata, Handel and
Haydn Society, Mark Morris Dance Company, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel
Music, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Les
Idées Heureuses and Chanticleer. His many performance credits
include the Aston Magna Academy, Tanglewood, the Boston Early Music
Festival, and Soirées Musicales du Château de Versailles.
In March 1998 he joined the Utah Opera, under the direction of Martin
Pearlman, in their production of Monteverdi's I'Incoronazione di
Poppea, and in May 1998 he performed with Music of the Baroque
(Chicago) in Cesti's opera Orontea. Mr. Henriksen holds the soloist
diploma from the Schola Cantorum Basilienisis in Basel, Switzerland.
He has recorded for Nonesuch, Erato, Simax, Telarc and Decca, and he
teaches at the Boston Conservatory and the University of Southern
Maine. He has lectured at Harvard University, Cambridge; Musikkhögskoten,
Oslo; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City;
and Aston Magna Academy, Rutgers University. The Boston Herald praised
his playing of Dowland and Kapsberger, saying, "Henriksen was
able to dazzle with his virtuosity in the fantastical figurations of
John Dowland's solo Fantasy for lute and Kapsberger's similarly
brilliant Toccata prima."
Carol Lewis
The viola da gamba playing of Carol Lewis has been called "wonderfully
vivid - brilliantly florid". She has demonstrated her musical
virtuosity and versatility many times, as a soloist in recitals in the
United States and abroad, as well as in performances of cantatas and
Passions by Bach and others, most recently in the St. Mark Passion at
King's Chapel (Boston) under the direction of Daniel Pinkham. Carol
Lewis is most frequently heard as an ensemble musician; in June 1998
she performed with the internationally acclaimed ensemble Hespèrion
XX at the Berkeley (CA) Early Music Festival, and she has toured and
recorded extensively with that ensemble and with the Boston Camerata.
She may be heard in several recent recordings by Capriccio
Stravagante, including Canto Mediteraneo and William Byrd: Virginals
and Consorts (Astree). She has recorded on EMI, Lyrichord, Harmonia
Mundi, Nonsuch, Erato and Koch International. Ms. Lewis has taught at
he New England Conservatory of Music, and at workshops sponsored by
the Viola da Gamba Society - New England. A founder of the Society for
Historically Informed Performance, Carol Lewis has also participated
as performer and producer in the concert series Defense de la Viole
and Early Music Afternoons at the Somerville Museum.
