Barbara Kallaur, flute, John Abberger, oboe, Christopher
Verrette, violin, Allison Edberg, violin and viola, Elizabeth Macdonald, cello and gamba, Thomas Gerber, harpsichord

2007-08 Season-at-a-Glance

ENSEMBLE VOLTAIRE
“Bach, Student and Teacher”
Allison Edberg, violin; Elizabeth Macdonald, viol; Thomas Gerber, harpsichord
music of Dieterich Buxtehude and J. S. Bach
7:30 pm
Friday, October 12
Trinity Episcopal Church
3243 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis

ENSEMBLE VOLTAIRE
“Bach, Student and Teacher II”
Barbara Kallaur, flute; Elizabeth Macdonald, viol; Thomas Gerber, harpsichord
music of J. S. Bach and his students
7:30 pm
Friday, January 11
Trinity Episcopal Church
3243 N. Meridian St.

Voltaire members Barbara Kallaur, flute, Elizabeth Macdonald, viol,
and Thomas Gerber, harpsichord, play chamber music by J. S. Bach and
several of his many pupils, including his second son, Carl Philipp
Emanuel Bach (1714-1788).

*In March, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Voltaire
present another program in their ongoing collaborative Bach Project,
an annual series of concerts examining the cantatas of J. S. Bach.

INDIANAPOLIS BAROQUE ORCHESTRA and ENSEMBLE VOLTAIRE
“Bach Project”
John Abberger, conductor and oboist; Gabriel Crouch, bass
J. S. Bach’s Cantata 158 and Oboe Concerto
5:00 pm
Sunday, March 16
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
10 W. 61st St., Indianapolis
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7:30 pm
Monday, March 17
Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, University of Indianapolis
1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis

 

Creator and director of the Bach Project series is Ensemble Voltaire
oboist John Abberger, who also serves as principal oboist of Toronto's
period instruments Baroque orchestra, Tafelmusik.

This year’s Bach Project offering features bass Gabriel Crouch, a
former member of the world renowned British men’s vocal group, The
King’s Singers, who now lives in Indianapolis and serves as choral
director at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.

On the program, Crouch sings, among other pieces, J. S. Bach’s Cantata
158, Der Friede sei mit dir, and Abberger plays a Bach Oboe Concerto.

 

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