Name: Edward Parmentier plays "Music For The Royal Courts"
Start: 2024-11-16T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Mount Olive Lutheran Church

Edward Parmentier plays "Music For The Royal Courts"

tickets at: https://www.earlymusicmn.org/tickets
This rare solo performance by the iconic and internationally-renowned harpsichordist, Edward Parmentier, is not to be missed! Known for his dazzling technique and charismatic interpretations, Parmentier’s playing brings the harpsichord to life in vibrant new ways.
"Music For The Royal Courts: French, German, and English Harpsichord Music"
Before Spotify, before iPods, before radio and records, how would you hear tunes around your palace? Oh, that’s easy (well, if you’re a monarch at least). Simply hire the finest songsmiths as your court performers. Join harpsichordist Edward Parmentier in a regal feast of music by François Couperin, William Byrd, and other keyboardist composers on royal retainer.
PROGRAM:
Couperin • Selections from Book One for Harpsichord
Froberger • Toccata No. 2 in D Minor
Byrd • Pavan and Galliard Passamezzo
D'Anglebert • Selections from Suite No. 3 in D Minor
ABOUT
The American harpsichordist (and organist), Edward Parmentier, studied with Albert Fuller in New York City and Gustav Leonhardt, in Amsterdam. He holds degrees in classical languages, literatures and musicology from Princeton University and in humanities and teaching from Harvard University. Parmentier is internationally renowned for his brilliant performances of early keyboard music. A specialist in the harpsichord music of J. S. Bach, the English virginalists, and the French clavecinistes, has performed widely throughout the USA, Russia, Western Europe, Japan, and Korea. He is a frequent recitalist, lecturer and adjudicator at symposia and festivals. His solo appearances include recitals on both harpsichord and historic organs. He also appears frequently in ensemble settings as a continuist and concerto soloist, and conducts modern instrument chamber orchestras in performances of Baroque and classical repertory.
Parmentier is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Music, Emeritus, School of Music, Theater and Dance, University of Michigan. For 38 years he taught harpsichord performance and academic courses and seminars in early music. He conducted the Renaissance/Baroque Choir, early music instrumental ensembles, and co-directed the Baroque Chamber Orchestra. He taught harpsichord performance workshops each summer. His recordings have won widespread critical and popular acclaim. On the Wildboar label: English virginal music, 17th-century German harpsichord music, 17th-century French harpsichord music (sonatas of Scarlatti), Iberian music played on an 18th-century Portuguese fortepiano, early Italian harpsichord music, Arcangelo Corelli ensemble works, the anthology Splendor of the Harpsichord, Scarlatti sonatas, and the complete Bach Partitas, Toccatas (BWV 910-916), and English Suites (BWV 806-811). He has also recorded Bach’s trio sonatas BWV 525-530 in an ensemble version (“Musica Pacifica” of recorder-violin-cello-harpsichord) on Virgin Veritas, and various other non-Bach recordings published on Crystal, Titanic, and University of Michigan discs.