Khari Joyner interview
kahri-joyner-interview
Margaret Owens Interview
Margaret Owens Interview
James Wilson Interview
Interview with James Wilson
Carsten Schmidt Interview
Carsten Schmidt Interview
Jessica Petrus Interview
Jessica Petrus interview
Matthew Burtner Interview
Burtner Interview
Elizabeth King’s writes about the Bach Cello Suites
Notes on the Bach Suites – By Elizabeth King Despite their fame and popularity, the six suites on tonight’s program have a foggy origin. They were written sometime between 1717 and 1723 during Bach’s service to Prince Leopold in Cöthen. At this period of the Baroque, the cello would have been[…]
Chamber Music Big and Small
– by CMSCVA Artistic Director James Wilson It’s summer time, and for a classical musician that usually means festival time, a point in the year where I put aside my usual projects and groups, and play with a more diverse group of colleagues in far-flung places. If you’re lucky like[…]
Notes on our Feb 9 concert, “The French Connection.”
Notes on the “The French Connection.” – by Carsten Schmidt The first half of the seventeenth century saw the evolution of a particularly French way of composing music for solo harpsichord. It was by no means the first time the harpsichord was elevated to solo status, nor was it the[…]
An Interview with Harpsichordist Carsten Schmidt
– by CMSCVA Artistic Director James Wilson Carsten Schmidt will be performing two concerts of solo music for harpsichord, on February 8 and 9, 2014. This is the first time CMSCVA has presented a recital composed exclusively of early keyboard music. We thought we would interview Carsten and hear some[…]