Video Concert Series 2020-2021

Welcome to our first ever Video Concert Series!

Over the coming months, we will continue to release unique, beautifully produced videos featuring extraordinary artists and showing exquisite detail of the performers, instruments, and venues. Once posted, videos will be available on demand through June 30, 2021.

Watch whenever, and as many times, as you’d like. Videos are viewable on almost any device, including your smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop, or smart TV. Each program includes artist interviews featuring Classical WQED-FM’s Anna Singer.

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October 2020

Chatham Baroque: The Art of the Trio

now available on demand

After a long break, the Chatham Baroque trio is back, this time in the comfort of your living room. Experience Baroque music as never before, with multiple camera angles, close up shots, and stunning audio quality, and for this program, the beauty and richness of the Music Hall at the Carnegie Library in Carnegie, PA.

Affectionately known as the “Carnegie Carnegie,” the Music Hall at the Carnegie Library in Carnegie, PA, just outside of Pittsburgh, offers one of the best musical acoustics in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Newly refurbished to its former Victorian era glory, the hall is home to our first online concert.

The artistic directors Andrew Fouts (violin), Patricia Halverson (viola da gamba), and Scott Pauley (theorbo, archlute, baroque guitar) have chosen some of their all-time favorite pieces for the debut of the Digital Concert Series, including works of Corelli, Buxtehude, Farina, and Bertali.

November 2020

Jaap ter Linden, viola da gamba

Mark Edwards, harpsichord

The Virtuoso Viol

now available on demand

Back by popular demand after his acclaimed performance of music by Beethoven in November of 2018, Jaap ter Linden returns to Pittsburgh to perform music by some of the most revered composers writing solo repertory for the viola da gamba, including Marin Marais, Georg Philipp Telemann, François Couperin, and J.S. Bach. Ter Linden, a Dutch cellist, gambist and conductor, currently serves on the music faculty at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. A specialist in historical performance, he has conducted and performed around the world.

Joining Jaap ter Linden for this recital is Canadian harpsichordist and organist Mark Edwards, first-prize winner of the 2012 Musica Antiqua Bruges International Harpsichord Competition, and since 2016, an Assistant Professor of Harpsichord at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Mr. Edward’s harpsichord playing has been described as “bringing the listener to new and unpredictable regions, using all of the resources of his instrument, of his virtuosity, and of his imagination […].” He is a founding member of Ensemble 1729.

January 2021

Chatham Baroque: Multiplied

now available on demand

Kick the midwinter doldrums as Chatham Baroque ventures into seventeenth-century dances for string band and dance movements from 18th century sonatas by G.F. Handel, J.S. Bach, Henry Purcell, Carlo Farina, G.G. Kapsperger, and John Jenkins. With the help of video magic, you’ll be seeing double as each member of the trio covers more than one part in a pleasing variety of Pavanas, Ayres, Almaines, Corentas, and Gagliardas to brighten these dark winter days.

February 2021

Nigel North: Bach on the Lute

now available on demand

March 2021

Chatham Baroque: Hark, You Shadows

now available on demand

Soprano Pascale Beaudin joins Chatham Baroque with contemplative music for the Lenten season that will soothe and lift your soul. Our program includes one of the earliest baroque examples of the Stabat Mater by Giovanni Felice Sances, John Dowland’s famously melancholic “Flow my Tears,” Thomas Tomkins “Sad Pavan for these Distracted Times,” as well as uplifting works by Vivaldi, Johann Christoph Bach, and Schmelzer.

Upcoming: April 2021

Reginald Mobley, countertenor

Stephen Stubbs, lute

Time Stands Still

A duo of internationally acclaimed superstars, Reginald Mobley (countertenor) and Stephen Stubbs (lute, baroque guitar), bring to Pittsburgh a program featuring two English composers who were superstars in their own right: John Dowland, regarded today as one of the most gifted lutenists and composers of all time and Henry Purcell, a composer comfortable in many genres and a masterful composer of 17th century English song.

Upcoming: May 2021

Chatham Baroque: Stories in Song

Chatham Baroque teams up with five extraordinary Pittsburgh-based singers for Stories in Song. With Pascale Beaudin (soprano), Charlene Canty (soprano), Steven Caldicott Wilson (tenor), Yazid Gray (baritone), Raquel Winnica Young (mezzo-soprano).

Upcoming: June 2021

Chatham Baroque: Unpacked

The individual talents of Chatham Baroque’s artistic directors are on display in three distinct solo programs. Music of J.S. Bach, Telemann, Ortiz, de Viseé and others. Andrew Fouts (baroque violin), Patricia Halverson (viola da gamba), and Scott Pauley (theorbo).