"Loyal Song"
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Tickets: $25 | Members: $20
For tickets, call 609-777-3599 or 609-396-1776.
This intimate performance is limited to 40 tickets.
Light refreshments will be served.
This program is sponsored by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey
The Practitioners of Musick ensemble was founded to survey the musical riches of 17th and 18th century Great Britain and Ireland and the Colonial and early Federal periods in America. The ensemble has presented or supported scholarly programs under the auspices of the National Park Service, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the National Trust of Great Britain, Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University, Historic Deerfield, The New Jersey State Museum, Colonial Williamsburg, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, New York State Historical Association, The Holland Society of New York, New Jersey Historical Society, Crossroads of the American Revolution, The New Jersey Historical Commission, The Princeton University Library, Glucksman Ireland House of New York University, and the Yale Center for British Art amongst many others.
John Burkhalter, recorders, studied the performance of early music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston under Daniel Pinkham and the performance of Baroque music at Harvard University under the noted Dutch recorder virtuoso, scholar and conductor Frans Bruggen. In addition, he received instruction from the distinguished Swiss Baroque oboist and recorder virtuoso Michel Piguet. Mr. Burkhalter, founder of The Practitioners of Musick, also performs with Le Triomphe de l'amour, Brandywine Baroque, the newly formed Princeton University group Early Music Princeton, La Fiocco, Riverview Consort, and "Les Agréments de musique" He regularly performs in various English Country Dance Bands in association most notably, with the Germantown Colonial Assembly in Philadelphia and New York City’s 92nd Street Y.
Harpsichordist Donovan Klotzbeacher studied organ at the University of Minnesota under Heinrich Fleischer and continued his musical studies under Mary Krimmel and George Markey at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. He has performed throughout the Northeast as harpsichordist and appeared in a series of New Jersey Network [NJN] broadcasts featuring period music in 18th century houses and taverns in the state. For many years he has been Director of Music at the historic First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, New Jersey. As composer, he has written numerous anthems, service music and cantatas with instruments that have been performed by members of the New Jersey Symphony.
Rebecca Mariman, soprano, a specialist in Baroque repertoire, is best known to local audiences for her work with the vocal ensemble, Fuma Sacra, led by Andrew Megill. She has appeared with many other early-music ensembles, including Artek, Bourbon Baroque, Corda Nova, Tempesta di Mare, Brandywine Baroque, the Dryden Ensemble, Le Triomphe de l’Amour, and The Practitioners of Musick. Ms. Mariman’s passion for historical drama includes her recent appearance with Brandywine Baroque in a production of The Woodman by William Shield, a rare 18th century comic opera gem. Ms. Mariman is also a member of the Carmel Bach Festival Chorale where she has performed annually as an actor for the Family Concert at the California Festival. Ms. Mariman has previously collaborated with The Practitioners of Musick in a program of 18th century British music at the Princeton University Art Museum to musically accompany the loan exhibition of 18th century British landscape paintings from The National Gallery of Wales and a program for the exhibition “Gainsborough’s Family Album”. Rebecca Mariman earned her BA in theater from Dickinson College and her Masters in voice performance from Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
John Burkhalter, recorders, studied the performance of early music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston under Daniel Pinkham and the performance of Baroque music at Harvard University under the noted Dutch recorder virtuoso, scholar and conductor Frans Bruggen. In addition, he received instruction from the distinguished Swiss Baroque oboist and recorder virtuoso Michel Piguet. Mr. Burkhalter, founder of The Practitioners of Musick, also performs with Le Triomphe de l'amour, Brandywine Baroque, the newly formed Princeton University group Early Music Princeton, La Fiocco, Riverview Consort, and "Les Agréments de musique" He regularly performs in various English Country Dance Bands in association most notably, with the Germantown Colonial Assembly in Philadelphia and New York City’s 92nd Street Y.
Harpsichordist Donovan Klotzbeacher studied organ at the University of Minnesota under Heinrich Fleischer and continued his musical studies under Mary Krimmel and George Markey at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. He has performed throughout the Northeast as harpsichordist and appeared in a series of New Jersey Network [NJN] broadcasts featuring period music in 18th century houses and taverns in the state. For many years he has been Director of Music at the historic First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, New Jersey. As composer, he has written numerous anthems, service music and cantatas with instruments that have been performed by members of the New Jersey Symphony.
Rebecca Mariman, soprano, a specialist in Baroque repertoire, is best known to local audiences for her work with the vocal ensemble, Fuma Sacra, led by Andrew Megill. She has appeared with many other early-music ensembles, including Artek, Bourbon Baroque, Corda Nova, Tempesta di Mare, Brandywine Baroque, the Dryden Ensemble, Le Triomphe de l’Amour, and The Practitioners of Musick. Ms. Mariman’s passion for historical drama includes her recent appearance with Brandywine Baroque in a production of The Woodman by William Shield, a rare 18th century comic opera gem. Ms. Mariman is also a member of the Carmel Bach Festival Chorale where she has performed annually as an actor for the Family Concert at the California Festival. Ms. Mariman has previously collaborated with The Practitioners of Musick in a program of 18th century British music at the Princeton University Art Museum to musically accompany the loan exhibition of 18th century British landscape paintings from The National Gallery of Wales and a program for the exhibition “Gainsborough’s Family Album”. Rebecca Mariman earned her BA in theater from Dickinson College and her Masters in voice performance from Westminster Choir College of Rider University.