Audain Art Museum hosts The Collectors’ Cosmos Renaissance Orchestra Concert, May 13
Pacific Baroque Orchestra’s Alexander Weimann, Chloe Meyers perform on virginal and violin respectively, surrounded by rarely seen prints by European masters
Audain Art Museum presents The Collectors’ Cosmos Renaissance Orchestra Concert on May 13 from 6:30 to 8 pm
AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE at Audain Art Museum, The Collectors’ Cosmos Renaissance Orchestra Concert, aims to transport people through art and music.
The upcoming event’s visual arts component is The Collectors’ Cosmos: The Meakins-McClaran Print Collection. Featuring a vast display of rarely seen Dutch and Flemish prints from the 16th- and 17th-centuries, the exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada and curated by AAM director and chief curator, Curtis Collins. (It’s on view at the Whistler venue until May 15.)
The May 13 concert is set to take place within the exhibition space, surrounding viewers with artworks by such notable European masters as Rembrandt van Rijn, Hendrick Goltzius, and Jacob van Ruisdael.
Pacific Baroque Orchestra conductor and keyboardist Alexander Weimann and concertmaster Chloe Meyers, a violinist, will be offering an evening of baroque music.
Weimann has travelled the globe with ensembles like Tragicomedia, Cantus Cölln, and Tafelmusik and conducted Montreal’s Arion Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Victoria Symphony, and Symphony Nova Scotia, among many others. He also appears on some 100 CDs, including his recordings of the complete keyboard works by Alessandro Scarlatti. His 2013 album with Karina Gauvin and Arion Baroque Orchestra, Prima Donna, won a Juno award.
Meyers, meanwhile, appears with early music ensembles across North America as a leader, orchestra member, and chamber musician. She also appears on numerous discs, including three Juno-nominated recordings she led as concertmaster.
At The Collectors’ Cosmos Renaissance Orchestra Concert, Weimann will play a virginal (a member of the harpsichord family) crafted by Craig C. Tomlinson. The West Vancouver-based maker of rare folk instruments bases all of his designs on French, Flemish, Italian, and German schools of building. He uses well-seasoned timbers of yellow poplar, German spruce, Swiss pear, Italian cypress, and European beech along with ebony, boxwood, and holly logs. His instruments can be heard being played in concert halls by leading musicians and ensembles around the world.
Tickets and more details can be found here.
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