REBEL Ensemble presents Concert of Baroque Orchestral Music

IMPERIAL TREASURES performed by REBEL Ensemble for Baroque Music
Concerti Grossi, Overtures and Concerti by Handel, Telemann, Zelenka, Vivaldi, Veracini and Wagenseil will be performed on original instruments.

The internationally-acclaimed chamber ensemble, REBEL will offer a program of orchestral chamber music by baroque composers of five great musical and royal epicenters of the 18th century — London, Hamburg, Darmstadt, Venice and Dresden — performed on period instruments at the historic and acoustically-excellent Bedford Presbyterian Church in Bedford, NY. The composers featured in this program are Handel, Vivaldi, Zelenka, Veracini, Telemann and Wagenseil.

The featured instrumentalists will be Meg Owens & Geoffrey Burgess, oboes; Jörg-Michael Schwarz & Karen Marie Marmer, violins; Risa Browder, viola; John Moran, cello; Stephanie Corwin, bassoon; Motomi Igarashi, bass and Dongsok Shin, harpsichord.

A fully-catered reception follows the concert where the audience can meet the artists.

Tickets are available by reservation (reserved seating by advance purchase only) or for general admission at the door.

REBEL (pronounced “Re-BEL” and named after French baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel), a chamber music ensemble specializing in 17th- & 18th-century music performing on period instruments, is arguably the most aired American baroque ensemble on radio today. REBEL was National Public Radio’s ensemble-in-residence in 1999 and has appeared live on NPR’s Performance Today and MPR’s St. Paul Sunday. They have been hailed by The New York Times as “Sophisticated and Beguiling” and praised by the Los Angeles Times for their “astonishingly vital music-making”. The ensemble records for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi , Dorian, ATMA and Naxos and tours internationally.