Jubilant Chamber Music for the Holiday Season
 Friday, December 9, 7:30 PM, Croatian Cultural Center, 801 5th Street, Anacortes
Lyric soprano Catherine Webster joins the captivating Ensemble Electra - Vicki Boeckman, recorder, Tekla Cunningham, violin, and Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord - in a festive European tour of vocal and instrumental chamber music for the season.
No advance tickets. Adults $15; Children 12 and under free. Information: 360-293-4930
Seattle-based Ensemble Electra performs with energy and passion
the dazzling and expressive 17th- and 18th-century repertoire for
recorder, violin, harpsichord, and other Baroque instruments. With many
years of experience, both as individual soloists and chamber musicians,
the players’ innovative spontaneous performance style creates playful
and engaging concerts that appeal to audiences of all ages. Their
music-making has been characterized in the press as having “a personal
approach to the listener” and praised as “brilliant and engaging,” . . .
“exuberant, with an authoritative flair.”
 Lyric soprano Catherine Webster is engaged regularly with many leading early music and chamber ensembles in North America. She has appeared as a soloist with Tafelmusik, Tragicomedia, Theatre of Voices, Netherlands Bach Society, Apollo’s Fire, American Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, El Mundo, Four Nations Ensemble, Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal, Ensemble Masques, Les Voix Baroques, Early Music Vancouver, and in the Berkeley, Montreal and Boston Early Music Festivals. Active also in contemporary music, Catherine has appeared with The Kronos Quartet in Terry Riley’s Sun Rings and with Theatre of Voices and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in John Adam’s Grand Pianola Music. Catherine is a frequent collaborator with baroque opera directors Stephen Stubbs and Paul O’Dette, appearing under their direction in Festival Vancouver’s production of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea and the premiere of Mattheson’s Boris Goudenov for the Boston Early Music Festival. She has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Musica Omnia, Analekta and Atma, with a Juno nomination for Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri (Atma).
Vicki Boeckman has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Scandinavia, England, Scotland, Germany, and Canada. She taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music for twelve years and at the Ishøj Municipal School of Music for twenty-three years. Settling in Seattle in 2004, Vicki has been a soloist with Seattle Baroque, the Skagit Symphony, and the Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra. She is a returning guest with the Medieval Women’s Choir. She is the artistic director of the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop and the Portland Recorder Society. Vicki is on the faculty of the Cornish College of the Arts and the Music Center of the Northwest. Her recordings can be heard on the Kontra Punkt, Classico, Da Capo, Horizon, Musical Heritage America, Paula, Kadanza, and Primavera labels.
Tekla Cunningham, baroque violin, viola, and viola d'amore, enjoys a varied and active musical life. At home in Seattle, she is concertmaster of Stephen Stubbs' Pacific MusicWorks and principal second violin with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra & Soloists, and plays regularly as a principal player with the American Bach Soloists in California. She directs the Whidbey Island Music Festival, a summer concert series presenting vibrant period-instrument performances of repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Beethoven. An avid chamber musician, Tekla enjoys exploring the string quartet repertoire of the 18th and early 19th centuries with the period-instrument Novello Quartet, whose abiding interest is the music of Haydn. She is also a member of La Monica, an ensemble dedicated to music of the 17th century, whose concerts have been reviewed as “sizzling”, and praised for their “irrepressible energy and pitch-perfect timing.” Tekla is a member of the Early Music Faculty of the Cornish College for the Arts.
Harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree’s performances have been described as “lively and colorful” (Chicago Tribune) and “superb” (N.Y. Times). She has recorded for Meridian, Decca, and Delos record labels and has been featured at the York (England), Boston, and Berkeley Early Music Festivals. She collaborates with such artists as Ellen Hargis, Jaap Schröder, Julianne Baird, and Marion Verbruggen. Jillon’s world premiere recording of Philip Glass’ Concerto for Harpsichord was released to high acclaim in 2006 (Orange Mountain Music). A recipient of both Fulbright and NEA grants, she has taught at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Washington, and the University of Michigan. She is currently a member of the early music faculty at Cornish College of the Arts, performs with Magnificat Baroque Ensemble in the San Francisco Bay area as well as the Portland Baroque Orchestra, and is the Founding Director of Seattle’s Gallery Concerts early music series.
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