As part of the Sixth Biennial Grand Rapids Bach Festival, the Grand Valley Bach marathon features hundreds of student and faculty performers from six area colleges and universities at the Cook-DeWitt Center, Allendale Campus.
Music by Bach will also be performed throughout the day from the Cook Carillon Tower by Professor Julianne Vanden Wyngaard, university carillonneur; Helen Hofmeister Hawley, minister of music, Westminister Presbyterian Church; and members of the GVSU Carillon Collaborative including Karen Meyers, Loretta Lanning, and Anna Colby.
Grand Valley highlights include a special Arts at Noon Series concert featuring noted Baroque violinist Ingrid Matthews on a period instrument. She will also give a master class at 3 p.m. Matthews is the music director of Seattle Baroque, and one of today's most respected exponents of her instrument. She won international critical acclaim for her extensive discography as a soloist, which ranges from the early seventeen-century Italian repertoire to the complete sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin of J.S. Bach. Matthews has served on the faculties of the University of Toronto, University of Washington, Indiana University, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Admission is free for all events. For more information call (616) 331-3484, or visit www.gvsu.edu/music .
Full schedule of performances is as follows:
- 10:05 a.m. Grand Rapids Community College
- 11:05 a.m. Grand Valley State University
- noon Arts at Noon Series. Ingrid Matthews, Baroque violin solo recital
- 1:05 p.m. Aquinas College
- 2:05 p.m. Hope College
- 3:05 - 5:05 p.m. Ingrid Matthews Master Class
- 5:05 p.m. Cornerstone University
- 6:05 p.m. Calvin College
- 8 p.m. GVSU Chamber Orchestra with Dylana Jenson, violin; Darren Lael, piano; Brian Asher Alhadeff, conductor.
