Violinist Amelia Sie makes her Ars Musica Chicago debut with a solo recital blending both breathtaking virtuosity and profound emotion. A brilliant young artist newly resident in Chicago, Amelia has curated a program of both new and familiar works by Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Johann Sebastian Bach, Philipp Friedrich Böddecker, Lorenzo Bocchi and others that is sure to dazzle and delight.

 Free admission; no tickets are required, but donations will be gratefully accepted.

Full program details are forthcoming

Amelia Sie, violin
Jason J. Moy, harpsichord

Ars Musica Chicago presents Ensemble Affect in a festive program celebrating two important observances in March: International Women’s Day on March 8 and J.S. Bach’s 341st birthday on March 21. Enjoy complimentary coffee, wine, and refreshments as you delight in music by Bach, works dedicated to his wife Anna Magdalena Bach, and pieces written by women composers associated with Bach and his students.

Free admission; no tickets are required, but donations will be gratefully accepted.

Program:

Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783)
Sinfonia, from Cleofide

Anna Amalia (1723-1787)
Flute Sonata in F Major (arr. for violin)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite in E-flat Major, BWV 815 (excerpts)
from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
Prelude & Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 876 (arr. for strings)
            from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2

Maria Antonia Walpurgis (1724-1780)
Sinfonia, from Il Trionfo della fedeltà

Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Sonata in A Major, BWV 1015

Maria Theresa Agnesi (1720-1795)
Harpsichord Sonata in G Major

Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata in G Major BWV 1039 (arr. for strings)

Ensemble Affect
Kiyoe Matsuura, violin
Pauline Kempf, violin
Anna Steinhoff, cello
Jerry Fuller, double bass
Sun Chang, harpsichord

This program is sponsored by Margaret and Bob McCamant.

Join us at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, one of Chicago’s oldest and most architecturally splendid churches, for this free concert featuring our dear friend and star soprano, Hannah De Priest. Hannah will treat us to a program of expressive and virtuosic arias and cantatas by George Frideric Handel and Antonio Vivaldi that make the perfect foil for dazzling instrumental concerti and sonatas by both composers. We are grateful to Ars Musica Chicago supporters and longtime All Saints’ parishioners Margaret and Bob McCamant for generously underwriting this performance.

Free admission; no tickets are required.

*Please note the special location of this concert.

Full program details are forthcoming

Michael Gurevich, violin
Emily Nebel, violin
Eleanor Legault, viola
Ana Kim, cello
Jerry Fuller, double bass
Jason J. Moy, harpsichord

Harpsichordist Jason Moy and baroque violinist Kangwon Lee Kim, Assistant Artistic Director and Concertmaster of the Madison Bach Musicians, conclude their exploration of J.S. Bach’s complete works for violin and harpsichord with this performance of the Sonatas in E Major, F Minor, and G Major for Harpsichord and Violin, BWV 1016, 1018, and 1019, and the Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Major, BWV 1021.                         

Free admission; no tickets are required, but donations will be gratefully accepted.

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016
Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018
Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019
Sonata in G Major, BWV 1021

Kangwon Lee Kim, violin
Jason J. Moy, harpsichord