Explore the Baroque
Café Bach
February 27, 28 and March 1
Guests, Elana Cooper, Baroque violin, Michal Palzewicz, cello, and David Rogers, archlute, join us for this concert which recreates a typical Leipzig Bach Collegium Musicum performance. Featured works include Bach’s fifth Brandenburg Concerto, and his “Coffee Cantata!”
Friday, February 27: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Medford, 7 pm
Saturday, February 28: Newman United Methodist Church, Grants Pass, 3 pm
Sunday, March 1: First United Methodist Church, Ashland, 3 pm
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni: Sinfonie a Cinque in C Minor, Op. 2, No. 4
J. S. Bach: Prelude from Suite in G Minor, BWV 995 – David Rogers, archlute
Antonio Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in C Minor, RV 402 – Michal Palzewicz, cello
J. S. Bach: Cantata: “Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht,” BWV 211 (“Coffee Cantata”) – Jennifer Matsuura, soprano; Adam Kukuk, tenor; Philip Engdahl, bass
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 – Elana Cooper, violin; Sherril Wood, flute; Abigail Mace, harpsichord
Tickets: $25 | Seniors $20 | Students or Oregon Trail card holders $5
Free tickets for those under 18 years old
Elana Cooper, baroque violin
Born and raised in Ashland, Oregon and currently based in The Netherlands, Elana Cooper performs on baroque violin, baroque viola, and modern violin. She performs with ensembles in Europe (Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Florilegium Musicum, Barok Orkest La Sorpresa, Dutch Baroque Orchestra, Utrecht Company of Music) Canada (Pacific Baroque Orchestra), and the US (Oregon Bach Festival Period Orchestra).
Elana’s first violin teacher was Faina Podolnaya in Ashland, and it was with Jefferson Baroque Orchestra that she was first introduced to the baroque violin. Elana holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance from the University of British Columbia where she studied with David Gillham. While in Vancouver BC, she also studied baroque violin with Chloe Meyers and Marc Destrubé. Elana studied baroque violin as a Master’s student at the Historical Performance Institute at Indiana University with Stanley Ritchie. Elana holds a Masters degree in baroque violin from the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague where she studied with Kati Debretzeni.
Thanks to the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation (NMF), Elana plays on a loaned eighteenth century (ca. 1780) Italian violin by Giuseppe Odoardi and a 2022 baroque bow by Luis
Emilio Rodriguez Carrington.
Michal Palzewicz, cello
Michal Palzewicz has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe, both as a soloist and ensemble player. He attended Warsaw Conservatory of Music in Poland and The Manhattan School of Music, where members of his quartet received full scholarships as well as artist-in-residence status. He has lived in Ashland, Oregon for over 20 years.
Michal has performed as a soloist with several orchestras and has played in numerous productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival including Mary Zimmerman’s production of The White Snake, which originated at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and went on to tour the U.S. as well as China.
Currently, Michal performs both as a solo artist (cello, violin, viola, and viola da gamba) and with two ensemble projects: in the Michal Palzewicz Trio with Daniel Sherrill (guitar) and Reed Bentley (percussion) and in Duo Jetté with Pat O’Scannell (viola da gamba).
He also enoys teaching cello to students of all ages. CelloLessons.net
Find out more about Michal at:
palzewicz.com
mptmusic.com
music.palzewicz.com
Contact him at 541-531-1832.
David Rogers, archlute
photo: Christopher Briscoe
Termed, “a prominent guitarist,” by the New York Times, David Rogers maintains an active solo and ensemble career as a classical guitarist and performer on early plucked strings. The Washington Post has praised his “astonishingly florid” solo improvisational passage work. He has been called a ‘modern master’ of the classical guitar’ by 20th Century Guitar. ClassicsToday.com has praised his “first rate instrumental artistry,” and the Lute Society of America Quarterly has called his technique “formidable.” He is an endorsing artist for GHS Strings and his compositions has been featured in major guitar magazines such as Fingerstyle Guitar in the United States and Akustic Gitarre in Germany.
David has recorded for Dorian, Callisto and Focus Recordings. He has taught master classes throughout North America, including the San Francisco Conservatory, The University of Southern California and The Interlochen National Arts Camp.
David was a musician with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 18 years and directed classical/jazz guitar studies at Southern Oregon University for 13 years.
David has studied historical plucked strings with Hopkinson Smith and Eugen Dombois at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland; with Thomas Binkley at Indiana University; and with Lyle Nordstrom at Oakland University. He studied classical guitar with Joseph Fava at Wayne State University.