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The World of the Harp |
| Summary: | Renowned harpist Cheryl Ann Fulton presents a program of music for the harp spanning seven centuries, performing on six different historical and Celtic harps from her personal collection. The music ranges from medieval minstrel dances, to elegant Baroque music from Spain and Italy, to Irish tunes and Welsh Aires. The special beauty of each style of music is highlighted by the particular characteristics of the harp for which it was created. Numina invites you to experience this special evening—a rare opportunity to see and hear these beautiful instruments played by a world class performer. |
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$20 General Admission
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| Date & Time: | Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8 PM |
| Location: |
Church of the Incarnation Directions |
| Event Flyer: | Flyer |
| More Information: | Cheryl Ann Fulton’s internationally successful career includes performing, recording, teaching and scholarly research. She is America’s premier performer of historical harps, and one of the few harpists in the world to play triple harp, medieval harp and contemporary lever harps. Her solo recital performed at the John F. Kennedy Center featured five historical harps on one program of which the Washington Post said, “Fulton drew from all of them a serene and delicate sound.... remarkable instruments which Fulton played with total skill and reverent affection.” A versatile recording artist, Cheryl Ann can be heard on over 35 albums and soundtracks broadly ranging from medieval, baroque, orchestral, and contemporary music to Celtic music and film scores, on major labels including PolyGram, Deutche Harmonia Mundi, Koch International Classics, Nonesuch, Erato, Dorian, Gourd Music, and others. Her solo recordings are available online at http://magnatune.com/artists/fulton. She earned a BS degree in pedal harp, and an MM and DM in early music/historical harp from the School of Music of Indiana University, Bloomington, where she was a dedicated student of and assistant to Thomas Binkley. A pioneering researcher in the field of historical harps, Dr. Fulton, a Fulbright scholar, is a contributing author for the new edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and A Performer Guide to Medieval Music . She is the current and founding President of The Historical Harp Society (www.historicalharp.org). She has become a renowned and highly sought after teacher of her masterful and expressive Touch & Tone Technique for Harp. She has a full private studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cheryl Ann loves riding her Arabian horses Fazon and Parry, and enjoying life with her two dogs Mothe and Lily.
“...a genuine virtuosa of her instrument.” “Cheryl Ann Fulton is a harpist whose dedication to technique is legendary....the harp, in the hands of an artist like this, is like an elder statesman of the human spirit...” “...Cheryl Fulton...cast a spell over hundreds of people. [Her] combination of vivid articulation and solid tone enabled her to captivate this audience in no time at all...” “...the sensitivity of her playing is matched by her virtuosity. She...will appeal to lovers of folk and classical music.”
Roy Whelden—viola da gamba and vielle player, composer—was recently referred to as a “a key figure in the world of new music” by the journal Early Music America. After receiving a doctorate from Indiana University studying historical performance practice with the legendary lutenist and musicologist, Thomas Binkley, at the Institute for Early Music, Whelden taught at Hochs Konservatorium in Frankfurt, and performed with such diverse ensembles as Sequentia (Cologne) and Ensemble Alcatraz (San Francisco), with whom he recorded the highly regarded Danse Royale for Nonesuch Records. He was a founding member of the San Francisco-based ensemble American Baroque, which received an ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Whelden has received commissions for compositions in diverse musical forms and styles: chamber music, songs cycles, choral works, inter alia. Some of his compositions have been released on the New Albion label; these include Galax - music for viola da gamba (NA059) and Like a Passing River (NA072). In 2005, he founded the Galax Quartet—two violins, viola da gamba and cello—to perform Baroque, Classical and Contemporary music. He has been working and performing with harpist Cheryl Ann Fulton since 1977. Whelden recently organized a concert presented in San Francisco honoring the career of the poet Gary Snyder with a set of song cycles, newly commissioned from North American composers. Tim Rayborn, an internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, plays dozens of musical instruments from medieval Europe, the Middle East, and the Balkans including: lutes, plucked strings, flutes, and percussion, as well as being a singer. He has recorded to date on 27 CDs for a number of abels. Tim lived in the UK for seven years, studying for his Ph.D. in medieval history at the University of Leeds, and working as a musician. He has toured the U.S. and Europe extensively (from Ireland to Turkey), performing with the medieval group Tintagel and his own group, Ensemble Florata (including concerts at the York and Beverley Early Music Festivals, and the Spitalfields Festival in London). He has given a number of performances for BBC, toured in Canada and Australia, and worked with folk musicians in Marrakech and Istanbul. He has collaborated and performed with many early music groups and performers, including Ensemble Alcatraz; Anne Azema; Susan Rode Morris; Sinfonye; Kitka; Wyrewood; members of the Harp Consort and Theater of Voices. In addition to his solo work, he currently performs with Celtic harpist Patrick Ball, Swedish folk musicians Dråm, and collaborates regularly with Shira Kammen.
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