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On October 12 at 3:30 p.m., Jennifer Grim and Jonathan Rhodes Lee offer a recital on period instruments. Grim will perform on the traverso, or baroque flute, joined by Lee at the harpsichord. The afternoon’s program will feature music by eighteenth-century composers, including Frenchmen Michel Blavet (1700–1768) and Pierre Danican Philidor (1681–1731), as well as works by Johann Sebastian Bach’s two eldest sons, W.F. Bach (1710–1784) and C.P.E. Bach (1714–1788). The program is free and open to the public.
About the artists:
Hailed as "a deft, smooth flute soloist" by the New York Times, flutist Jennifer Grim has given solo and chamber performances throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. For over twenty years, she was the flutist of the award-winning Zéphyros Winds and the New York Chamber Soloists. She is a frequent guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society, Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival, Ensemble Flageolet, and has performed with such renowned ensembles such as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, American String Quartet, and with members of the Takacs Quartet and St. Lawrence Quartet. Grim’s 2022 album, Through Broken Time, (New Focus Recordings), received wide acclaim and featured works by David Sanford, Julia Wolfe, Tania Léon, Alvin Singleton, Allison Loggins-Hull, and Valerie Coleman. Take Effect (February 2023) stated: "A multi-dimensional effort that is quite meticulous and diverse, there just isn't a second here that's not exciting and memorable." The New York Times listed the album in an article titled "5 Albums You Can Listen to Right Now" for its "sharply executed program." (December 2022). Grim is currently Associate Professor at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. She previously served on the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A degree holder from Stanford University and Yale University, Grim is currently the Artistic Administrator for the Frost School at Festival Napa Valley, while also serving as President of the Board of Directors of Chamber Music America and Vice President of the National Flute Association.
Jonathan Rhodes Lee is active as a performer on early keyboard instruments and as a musicologist. Lee has performed as harpsichord soloist and continuo player across North America and Europe. He can be heard on the MSR, Equilibrium, and Navona labels, and he has appeared with ensembles such as the Las Vegas Sinfonietta, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, the Arizona Bach Festival (Phoenix), Mercury Baroque (Houston), the New Century Chamber Orchestra (San Francisco), Cosmopolitan Baroque (Las Vegas) and the San Antonio Symphony. Lee holds degrees from Colgate University, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the University of California, Berkeley, and he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, Netherlands. As a musicologist, Lee has published articles in Cambridge Opera Journal, Eighteenth-Century Music, Music and Letters, The Journal of Musicology, the Händel-Jahrbuch, the A-R Music Anthology, and The Heroic in Music (Boydell, 2022). His book, Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, was published in 2020 by Routledge. Lee also issued the first volume of Pierre Nicolas La Font’s harpsichord works with A-R Editions in 2016. His work has been supported by the Nevada Arts Council, the James R. Anthony Endowment (funded by the American Musicological Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), the Society for Theatre Research (U.K.), the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund, the Netherlands-America Foundation, and the Fulbright Scholar Program. Lee serves as Associate Professor of Music and director of the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Center at UNLV.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Doc Rando Recital Hall, 4347 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89119, United States
