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October 16, 17 Zephyrus

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Gallery Concerts launches its 2010–11 season with Zephyrus performing the program of French Baroque chamber music that earned them rave reviews at the National Gallery in Washington, DC. Heralded by the Indianapolis Post for its “spirited performances . . . spectacularly well-played” and deemed “five of the most outstanding early musicians in North America” by IONARTS (Washington, DC), this all-star ensemble includes Ingrid Matthews, violin, Courtney Westcott, flute, John Lenti, lute, Josh Lee, viola da gamba, and Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord.

November 20, 21 Opus.20 String Quartet 

The electrifying debut of Seattle’s newest early-music ensemble, the Opus 20 String Quartet, opened the current season on a note of great excitement and fulfilled expectations. Violinists Adam LaMotte and Cecilia Archuleta, violist Laurel Wells, and cellist Nathan Whittaker have planned another program that will enchant you with intimate string quartets by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven—all performed with period instruments.

December 11, 12 A Classical Christmas!

Start your holiday celebrations in a joyous mood with A Classical Christmas! Exquisite lyric soprano Karen Urlie, who so pleased audiences this season, will join cellist Nathan Whittaker and fortepianists George Bozarth and Tamara Friedman in an inspiring program of holiday music by Schubert, C. P. E. Bach, Handel, and others, and chamber music by Beethoven. You’ll not want to miss this rich and festive fare—always our most popular concert of the season.

January 22, 23 Viva Italia!

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What a great toot it will be when the virtuosic Duo Electra—recorder player Vicki Boeckman and harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree—blows into town with Viva Italia! This concert will celebrate the duo’s new CD of sparkling recorder sonatas by the Italian eccentric, Francesco Barsanti, as well as the wildly expressive repertoire of his Italian predecessors and comrades—all played so deftly by this rhapsodic duo!

March 12, 13 Handel’s Divas

A high point of the season will be Handel’s Divas, which will launch Seattle’s month-long International Handel Festival. Soprano Julianne Baird, the world’s most recorded early-music singer, acclaimed in capitals throughout Europe and North America, violinist Tekla Cunningham, viola da gambist Margriet Tindemans, and harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree will explore the rip-roaring repertoire that George Frideric Handel individually tailored for the magnificent heroines of his operas and oratorios.

April 9, 10 Trio Paradies

Welcome spring with the dulcet sounds of violin, cello, and early Romantic fortepiano as the Trio Paradies performs the music of the Young Romantics—Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann. Violinist Cecilia Archuleta and cellist Page Smith will join pianist Tamara Friedman and her magnificent 1820s Empire-style Viennese grand—the only one you’ll hear in the Pacific Northwest!