This music performance is presented by the Department of Music at BYU-Idaho.
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Please join the BYU-Idaho University Baroque Ensemble on Tuesday, June 23 at 7:30pm in the Barrus Concert Hall for an evening of English Baroque music, directed by Dr. Robert Tueller and featuring guest soloist Arita Acton. Tickets are $8 / $5 for students and available through the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office. Event dress is requested. English Baroque music emerged during the late 17th and early 18th centuries and can be recognized by grand, ornate and complex musical structures. The program includes John Blow’s Suite from Venus and Adonis, Henry Purcell’s Suite from Abdelazer, Carl Friederich Abel’s Concerto in G Major for Viola da Gamba, and concludes with George Frideric Handel’s Concerto Grosso in F Major, one of his most celebrated instrumental works. Featured soloist Arita Acton has performed in concert halls from Vancouver to Boston and received recognition in chamber music and concerto competitions throughout the northwestern United States. After completing a music degree at BYU-Idaho, she received a Master’s degree in viola performance with an emphasis in historical viol performance at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Students in the University Baroque Ensemble perform on period instruments patterned after 17th and 18th century examples, with emphasis on appropriate style and how this music may have sounded in its own time period.