Recent Performance: Fringe Event at Berkeley Festival and Exhibition June 11, 2022
and June 3rd, 2023 at the SFEMS Summer Mini Festival!
Barbarini’s Tambourine
18th c. Instrumental Music and Dance by Marin Marais, Louis Couperin, Caix D’Herveloix and Jean Phillipe Rameau.
With historical reconstructions and original choreography by Jennifer Meller, Artistic Director of Dance Through Time, the program features dances from Jean-Phillipe Rameau’s opera “Dardanus” performed by the celebrated Italian dancer, Barbara Campanini affectionately known as “La Barbarina”.
Vicki Melin, traverso; Farley Pearce, viola da gamba and Katherine Heater, harpsichord, and Irenie Melin-Gompper, dance
Saturday June 11, 2022 at 11:00 AM
St. Clement’s Episcopal Church
2837 Claremont Blvd
Berkeley, CA
Tickets at the Door: General $20 / Students and Seniors $15
SFEMS Events Require Proof of Vaccination and Wearing of Masks
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Barbarini’s Tambourine
Nash Baroque
St. Clement’s Episcopal Church
Berkeley, CA
June 11, 2022
Deuxiéme Suite en D majeur ********* Louis Caix d’Herveloix (1670-1759)
from Pièces pour la Flute-Traversiere, 1726
Prelude
Muzette
Rossignol
L’Henriette
L’Angelique
Les Petites Doits
Chaconne in C Major ********* Louis Couperin (c1626-1651)
Suite in e minor ********* Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Courante
Sarabande a l’éspagnol
Rondeau Champêtre
Minuet from Dardanus, Act III (1739) ******** Jean-Phillipe Rameau ( 1683-1764)
Air trés vif pour “Les Plaisirs” from Dardanus, Prologue
“La Timide” from Concert III, Pièces de Clavecin en Concert (1741)
Air Gracieux from Dardanus, Act II
Air Gai en Rondeau from Dardanus, Act III
“Tambourin” from Concert III, Pièces de Clavecin en Concert
Vicki Melin, traverso
Farley Pearce, viola da gamba
Katherine Heater, harpsichord
Irenie Melin-Gompper, dance
Choreography by Jennifer Meller, Artistic Director, Dance Through Time
Dance and Stylistic Coach, Carly Fox of New York Baroque Dance Company
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Katherine Heater, early keyboards, plays locally with early music groups such as Voices of Music, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Musica Pacifica. She has performed throughout the United States, including with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho and at the the Bloomington Early Music Festival, and the Tropical Baroque Festival of Miami. She received an Arts Bachelor from the University of California, Berkeley in music and a Masters of Music in historical performance from Oberlin Conservatory. At the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam Ms. Heater studied harpsichord with Bob van Asperen and fortepiano with Stanley Hoogland. Also an active teacher, Ms. Heater teaches harpsichord at UC Berkeley, the Crowden Center, as well as privately.
Vicki Melin Classical, Baroque and Renaissance Flutes, has performed in early music groups throughout the U.S. and the Bay area such as the American Bach Soloists, with the ABS Academy in the San Francisco Bach Festival, Voices of Music, Musica Angelica (L.A.), Live Oak Baroque Orchestra, and California Bach Society. Ms Melin attended Boston University for her Masters of Music, studying with Christopher Krueger and The Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Hague, The Netherlands, where she received an Advanced Diploma in Performance, studying with Wilbert Hazelzet. Ms. Melin lives in San Francisco and teaches baroque flute privately and at UC Berkeley. She also thoroughly enjoys teaching young people every Summer at the SFEMS Music Discovery Workshops.
Farley Pearce is a San Francisco freelance musician who plays cello, viols, violone, and contrabass. He has played with the baroque orchestras of Vancouver, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and is a member of the Voices of Music ensemble and the Sex Chordae Consort of Viols. He also has appeared with ABS, Archetti, Magnificat!, Musica Pacifica, Marin Baroque, and the Albany Consort, as well as symphony orchestras in the Bay Area. His frequent recitals have featured old and new music for period contrabass as well as late 18th century music for viol and fortepiano. He also performs often on the church bass, most recently on a Music Sources program with Sigiswald Kuijken.
Irenie Melin-Gompper dancer, currently lives in New York City, where she dances with the New York Baroque Dance Company and studies contemporary, ballet and modern techniques such as Graham and Horton in the Alvin Ailey Professional Division program. She previously studied ballet for 7 years at the San Francisco Ballet School and at Summer Intensive courses such as the Bolshoi Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet School in Copenhagen. Having begun her forays a few years ago into historical dance, she has studied with Jen Meller, Artistic Director of Dance Through Time and has taken master classes with Phillippa Waite, Director of Consort de danse Baroque. She has had further studies with Catherine Turocy, Caroline Copeland and Carly Fox of the New York Baroque Dance Company.
Jen Meller, choreography, is a musician and dancer, and enjoys exploring connections between the two disciplines. She works with early music ensembles in the Bay Area to create performances and events centered around early dance and music. She has taught master classes in historical dance at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, St. Mary’s College, Dominican University, and College of the Pacific and works regularly in collaboration with the Educational Department of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, with the San Francisco Early Music Society, and is Professor of Baroque Dance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Jennifer teaches Baroque Dance classes at ODC in San Francisco and became Artistic Director of Dance Through Time in 2019.
