When:
Saturday, Nov 23, 2019 7:30p -
8:30p

Where:
The First Baptist Church of Medford
29 Oakland Street
Medford, MA 02155

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Meetup, Music

Event website:
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The First Baptist Church of Medford is proud to present the Cardamom Quartet in a concert titled "Reimagining the canon: music by women composers."


Lisa Goddard and Rachel Panitch, violins
Gillian Gallagher, viola
Ariel Friedman, cello


Saturday, November 23rd
7:30PM


FREE ADMISSION || $10 Suggested Donation


Grazyna Bacewicz, String Quartet No. 4, 1951
Elena Ruehr, String Quartet No. 4, 2005
Caroline Shaw, Punctum, 2009/2013
Jlin, Little Black Book, 2018
Rachel Panitch, Gatehouse Quartet, 2019


Now in their sixth season, Boston’s Cardamom Quartet is dedicated to performing music written by women composers. The ensemble offers a program of works by Grazyna Bacewicz, Elizabeth Maconchy, Caroline Shaw, Rachel Panitch, and Jlin.


Cardamom Quartet is a Boston-based ensemble engaged in reimagining the traditional canon and committed to sharing music with a wide variety of audiences. The quartet performs new and old works, including pieces written by members in the ensemble, with a focus on music of women and non-binary composers. Cardamom Quartet has performed in libraries, art galleries, houses of worship, senior centers, school programs, farmers’ markets, and living rooms throughout New England. In 2018, the group received a grant from The Boston Foundation in order to perform at organizations serving women in need in the Boston area and their cellist won the New England Conservatory Alumni Award on behalf of the quartet. In 2017, they received a grant from the City of Boston & Boston Cultural Council to lead an art-science residency with students at Boston Arts Academy. Cardamom Quartet has been featured on multiple series at the Boston Public Library and in a 2018 article in the journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music. In 2015 and 2016, they completed residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute and were the string quartet in residence at El Sistema Somerville, an immersive after-school music program for elementary school students in 2014. The quartet members originally convened in late 2013 to read music together, and found a shared love of tea and all things cozy, which led them to name the quartet after the queen of spices: cardamom. - Lisa Goddard is an avid orchestral and chamber musician on both historical and modern instruments. Lisa plays regularly with the Portland Symphony in Maine, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. Lisa is fascinated by the roots of her instrument, and has performed with the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Grand Harmonie, and Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra on classical and baroque instruments. On modern instruments, Lisa is a founding member of Cardamom Quartet, a Boston-based ensemble engaged in reimagining the traditional canon and committed to sharing music with a wide variety of audiences, and a member of the Providence-based Ensemble Parallax. Lisa runs a Suzuki violin program (the Goddard Violin Studio) from her home in Jamaica Plain, and is on the board of the Massachusetts Suzuki Association. She holds a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory, and Bachelors degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory in violin performance and Oberlin College in biology. Rachel Panitch is a Boston-based violinist, improviser, composer, and teaching artist. She has been an artist-in-residence in neighborhoods, in schools, and in Zion and Acadia National Parks. Rachel performs Classical music with the Cardamom Quartet, is a dance fiddler with French Roast, and weaves stories with Thread Ensemble (an improvisatory trio of violins, voices and vibraphone) and with Grammy award-winner Bill Harley. Rachel’s music is featured on a PBS Utah Bucket List episode, and the National Park Service’s “100 Years of Arts in the Parks” video series. Rachel specializes in teaching improvisation and fiddling. In 2009, Rachel founded Rhode Island Fiddle Project, a free music program teaching traditional fiddle and dance music to students ages 7-17, and is currently a Resident Musician with performance and education organization, musiConnects. In 2015 she was chosen as a Jubilation Fellow, a national award recognizing “individuals with an exceptional talent for helping young people feel fully alive through rhythm." Rachel received her Masters of Music in Contemporary Improvisation from New England Conservatory, and holds a BA in Anthropology from Vassar College. Violist Gillian Gallagher grew up in Saratoga Springs, NY, and attended the Juilliard School where she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees studying with Heidi Castleman, Misha Amory, and Hsin-Yun Huang. Gillian made her Weill Recital Hall debut in 2007 as founding violist of the Attacca Quartet, with whom she was awarded the Alice Coleman Grand Prize in the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006. Gillian performed with the Attacca Quartet for six years, during which time the quartet studied with the Guarneri, Juilliard, Emerson, Vermeer, Tokyo, and St. Lawrence string quartets. She went on to tour the United States from 2007 to 2014 with violinist and composer Mark O'Connor and cellist Mike Block as violist of the Appalachia Waltz Trio and, later, the O'Connor Quartet. Deeply committed to music education, Gillian has been on the faculty of Boston University's Tanglewood Institute, the Berklee College of Music Summer String Program, Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camps, Point Counterpoint Chamber Music Camp and New York's Center for Arts Education. Highlights from recent seasons include performances at Carnegie Hall and the NY Phil Biennial as violist of the new music ensemble Hotel Elefant, fiddling in Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, and performing the music of composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone as a member of the house band for the dance company BalletCollective. This season’s concerts include performances with the Newport String Project, Cardamom Quartet, and a premiere of a new work by composer Mary Kouyoumdjian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with string trio Triune. Ariel Friedman is a multi-genre cellist, composer and educator. A winner of ASTA’s Alternative Styles Award, she is steeped both in the music of American roots traditions and a broad range of classical repertoire. Ariel tours the U.S. and abroad with her sister as Ari & Mia, award-winning songwriters and highly acclaimed as New England’s Americana sister act, and has performed nationally and internationally with many other folk-based groups. Most recently she is one of two 2018 recipients of New England Conservatory's Alumni Award. An advocate of new music and a composer herself, Ariel performs with Boston Modern Orchestra Project and has written music for and collaborated with many ensembles and soloists. Recent highlights include a commission from Box Not Found—Boston's premiere contemporary violin and clarinet duo—“Joshua Fit the Battle,” and "Out of the Flowers" for string orchestra, commissioned and performed by young artists of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and later re-arranged for Cardamom Quartet. In demand as an educator, Ariel has been on faculty at Point Counterpoint, teaches at Brookline Music School throughout the school year, and has her own private studio. She has taught at music camps and workshops from New England to New Zealand. Ariel received her Bachelors of Music from Northwestern University in 2008 and her Masters of Music from New England Conservatory in 2011. Her primary teachers have included Hans Jorgen Jensen, Hankus Netsky, Carla Kihlstedt, and Stratis Minakakis.


www.cardamomquartet.com
www.firstbaptistchurchmedford.org/concerts
https://www.facebook.com/events/643729092700846/

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