Award-winning ensemble to perform in Grayslake
Trio Speranza, winner of the Early Music America 2014 Baroque Performance Competition Presentation Prize, will perform "Stylus Phantasticus: Old and New" at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 22, at the Byron Colby Barn in Grayslake.
"Stylus Phantasticus: Old and New" explores the musical world of Northern Europe with a sojourn through works by Germanic composers. Dietrich Buxtehude's compositions exemplify this "fantastic style" that influenced contemporaries and successive generations of composers.
Trio Speranza explores the Stylus Phantasticus from its roots in Buxtehude through the early works of J.S. Bach, and its evolution into the Galant style of Telemann, Abel, and others.
Trio Speranza is a dynamic new ensemble dedicated to presenting engaging performances of both familiar and lesser-known repertoire from the Baroque era. Anna Griffis (violin), Cora Swenson Lee (cello), and Jason Moy (harpsichord) are all prolific early music performers and have collaborated extensively before forming Trio Speranza in Boston in 2013.
Trio Speranza made their debut in a Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concert at the historic Trinity Church on Copley Square in the summer of 2013 and reprised their program of French Baroque chamber music by Barriere, Francoeur, Leclair and Boismortier with two performances in Chicago in early 2014.
Trio Speranza's "Stylus Phantasticus: Old and New" performance closes the 13th season of the Early Music Series at the Byron Colby Barn, featuring renowned musicians performing music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
Concert admission is $18 for adults and is available at the door only via cash or check (no credit cards). To inspire early appreciation for the arts, children younger than 16 are admitted free.
The Byron Colby Barn is at 1561 Jones Point Road in Grayslake, inside the Prairie Crossing conservation community. For more information about the Early Music Series, visit www.libertyprairie.org/earlymusic.
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