Lark Chamber Artists
Special Guests:

Kenneth Cooper, Fortepiano/Harpsichord
Harpsichordist, pianist, musicologist and conductor KENNETH
COOPER is one of the world's leading specialists in the
music of the 18th century and one of America's most exciting and
versatile performers. Renowned for his improvisations and his expertise
in ornamentation, long-lost 18th century arts, he has revived countless
works, lending them extraordinary authenticity as well as great
vitality. The possessor of a PhD in musicology from Columbia University,
Kenneth Cooper is on the faculty there as well as at the Manhattan
School of Music, where he is Chair of the Harpsichord Department
and Director of the Baroque Aria Ensemble. As Music Director
of the Berkshire Bach Ensemble since its inception, Kenneth Cooper
has made a tradition of the New Years performances of the Bach Six Brandenburg Concerti and has instituted a series of Concertofests in the style of Bach's Collegium Concerts. He is heard
regularly at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Music @
Menlo and with the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, The Yale-Norfolk Summer
Chamber Music Festival and the Little Orchestra Society's Vivaldi
Festivals at Alice Tully Hall. Most recently he has appeared at
the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival, at Chamber Music Northwest
in Portland, OR, and in the "Baroque Collection" concerts with the
Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. Over the past four decades,
Kenneth Cooper has made dozens of recordings and soundtracks, among
them Bach’s Gamba-Harpsichord Sonatas (CBS, with Yo Yo Ma),
the complete Bach Sonatas for Flute and Fortepiano (Bridge Records,
with Susan Rotholz) and the Bach Brandenburg Concerti and Goldberg Variations (Berkshire Bach Society); his spectacular
versions of ragtime and other American delights may be heard on Silks and Rags (EMI) [in which he will be heard "live"
on April 28, 2007 at Simon's Rock College] and Should Auld Acquaintance
be Forgot (Musical Heritage Society). He is heard also on Mother
Goose and More (UNIFEM/Classic Raps), on the video game Louis
Cat Orze, and on the documentary Van Gogh Revisited.
His most recent release is Bach's Six Sonatas for Violin and
Fortepiano with Ani Kavafian (Helicon Records). In 2004 and
2005 The International Music Company issued Kenneth Cooper's award-winning
editions of Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions.
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Core
Artists
Deborah Buck, Violin
Harumi Rhodes, Violin
Kathryn Lockwood,Viola
Caroline Stinson, Cello
Todd Palmer, Clarinet
Yousif Sheronick, Percussion
Stephen Salters, Baritone
Special Guest Artists
Jeremy Denk, Piano
Gary Graffman, Piano
Ethos Percussion Group
Kenneth Cooper, Harpshichord / Fortepiano *
Guest Artists/Collaborators
Lisa Lee, Violin
Marjorie Bagley, Violin *
Eva Burmeister, Violin
Gary Hammond, Piano
* Baroque Program |