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Early Music Festival |
4:15 pm concert,3:00 pm pre-concert presentationJubilee! Community, Downtown Asheville |
January 31 , 2008 |
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Hazel Ketchum and Christopher Berg will be exploring Music of Elizabethan England for lutes, voice, and guitars in varying combination. As a duo, they have become known for their technical command, scholarly insight, and innovative programming. They have performed to capacity crowds throughout the Southeast and New England. The State newspaper wrote of a recent performance, “packed with pleasure… expertly played guitars and lutes, wondrously nimble passage work.” Beginning at 3:00, the duo will be giving a free pre-concert presentation entitled “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Lute, but Didn’t Know Where to Ask” providing background on the instruments and techniques of the music they’re performing. An earlier concert time and affordable ticket prices gear the offering towards students, families, and the curious of all ages. Be sure to reserve seats for the Medieval Feast after the performance. |
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Christopher Berg and Hazel Ketchum |
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To contact us: |
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Phone: 828-505-2858 E-mail: info@eemf.net |
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Hazel Ketchum is a lutenist, guitarist, and singer. Since receiving her Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California she has had a lively performing and recording career. Ms. Ketchum has performed throughout the United States as soloist and at the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Regensburg, Germany as member of the medieval group SONUS with whom she has recorded three compact discs on the Dorian Discovery label. In addition to her work with SONUS and The Rossignol Duo, Ms. Ketchum performs original music with the Hungry Monks and Irish music with Donnybrook Legacy.
Christopher Berg received his training at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, in master classes with Andrés Segovia at the University of Southern California , and at the Schola Cantorum Basilensis in Switzerland . He has performed recitals in Carnegie Recital Hall and Merkin Hall in New York in addition to hundreds of recital and concerto appearances throughout the United States including the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago. His New York debut concert at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1981 was praised by the New York Times for its "special sensitivity." Recent tours have included recitals at the New England Guitar Festival in Boston , the Radford University International Guitar Festival in Virginia , the Appalachian Guitar Festival in Boone , NC , and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has been honored by the National Endowment for the Arts as a recipient of a Solo Recitalist Fellowship and by the South Carolina Arts Commission as a recipient of two Solo Artist Fellowships. The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) called his playing “a stellar display of guitar virtuosity,” and The State (Columbia, SC) found his performance of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez “electrifying...hugely enjoyable and freshly played.” Christopher Berg also brings early music to life on Renaissance and Baroque lutes and early guitars. His solo performances on these rarely heard instruments are known for their virtuosity and lyricism. In the words of The State newspaper, “Berg, as always, dazzled.” He has performed numerous concerts of Renaissance music with soprano and lutenist Hazel Ketchum, his partner in the Rossignol Duo . He performs Classical and Romantic song literature with soprano Susan Parker-Shimp, his partner in Eurydice's Dream.
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