About this Event
Program: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Organ in G Major, BWV 1027
Adagio
Allegro, ma non tanto
Andante
Allegro moderato
Chorale on Das alte Jahr vergangen ist for Organ, BWV 614
The old year has passed away.
We thank Thee, O Christ our Lord,
For having guided us so faithfully throughout this year
In our need and danger.
La vieille année est bien partie,
Nous te remercions, Seigneur Jésus Christ,
De ce que, dans un si grand danger,
Tu nous as protégés un si long temps et une si longue année.
S. Steuerlein, 1583
Concerto in A Minor for Organ, BWV 593
Transcription of the Concerto for 2 violins and strings, Op. 3, n° 8 (1711) by Antonio Vivaldi
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Sonata for Viola de Gamba and Organ in D Major, BWV 1028
Adagio
Allegro
Andante
Allegro
<blockquote />Performed by:
Carolyn Shuster Fournier, organ
Jonathan Dunford, viola da gamba
CAROLYN SHUSTER FOURNIER
A French-American organist and musicologist, Carolyn Shuster Fournier studied the piano and the violin before beginning organ lessons at the age of thirteen. After obtaining a Bachelor of Music degree from the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, she studied in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain, André Isoir, Michel Chapuis and Jean Saint-Arroman. She was awarded First Prizes in Organ at the Rueil-Malmaison and Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatories, as well as a Master’s Degree in Musicology at the Paris Sorbonne University and a Doctorate of Musicology at the University of Tours.
Organist at the American Cathedral in Paris in 1989, she was then appointed titular of the 1867 Aristide Cavaillé-Coll choir organ at the Church of the Holy Trinity where she founded their weekly Thursday noontime concert series which lasted over twenty years. She has performed over 650 concerts on historic organs in Europe and the United States, inaugurated several organs on both sides of the Atlantic, premiered numerous contemporary works and recorded CDs and DVDs. She has contributed to RISM and has written numerous articles for specialized organ journals and the book, Un siècle de vie musicale à l’Église de la Sainte-Trinité à Paris, de Théodore Salomé à Olivier Messiaen (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2014). A member of the SACEM, in 2007 Carolyn Shuster Fournier was awarded the distinction of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture and Communications.
This evening, Carolyn will play on a four-stop Claude and Patrick Armand positive organ and on the twelve-stop German Baroque-style organ constructed by Alfred Kern in 1976.
JONATHAN DUNFORD
After studying the Viola da Gamba at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Jonathan Dunford was awarded a scholarship in 1980 for further training by Jordi Savall at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He obtained his Master’s Degree in Viola da Gamba from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1987, then his State Diploma of Early Music in 1989 in France. He has been living in Paris since 1985 and is married to the gambist Sylvia Abramowicz. He taught at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg between 1990 and 1997 and also at the Conservatoire de Metz. He has been teaching at the Conservatoire de Saint-Cloud since 2013.
He has conducted extensive research at the Bibliothèque nationale de France on music for viola da gamba. In 2004, he was appointed workshop leader for viola da gamba for the database "Philidor" at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. He has published numerous articles on the viola da gamba (Goldberg, l'Œil, record booklets) and regularly participates in radio programmes (France Musique, Radio Bleu, etc.) and television programmes (Mezzo). In 2016 he founded his own digital label, "Astres Disques."
Jonathan Dunford plays on a bass viola da gamba built in 1741 by the Parisian luthier Solomon. His son Thomas Dunford, born in Paris in 1988, plays the lute and theorbo and participates in recordings and in early music festivals.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Saint Michael's Paris, 7 Rue d'Aguesseau, Paris, France
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