PLU Faculty Perform Fringe Concert at the 2008 Berkeley Early Music Festival
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 6:00pm, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Berkeley, CA
North and South
Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA) Faculty Consort (Jennifer Rhyne, baroque flute; Kathryn Habedank, harpsichord; Elizabeth Brown, lutes/baroque guitar; Paul Tegels, organ; James L. Brown, tenor; Svend Rønning, violin) present a concert of baroque music from the northern and southern ends of the European continent. PLU’s music department has an active early music program. Along with regular faculty recitals during the year featuring early music in a historically informed way, there are also student ensembles which perform early music on a regular basis. In November, 2007 the PLU Opera workshop produced Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo featuring Stephen Stubbs as Music Director.
Each
of the PLU faculty members will be featured in solos and chamber works. Featured composers will include J.S. Bach, Buxtehude,
Carissimi, Clérambault, Gasparini, Monteverdi, Santiago de Murcia and Purcell.