Monica Huggett
Kenneth Weiss

Performers

• Kenneth Weiss, Harpsichord
• Monica Huggett, Violin

Program

• BIBER Sonata No. 5 for Violin and Continuo in E Minor
• BIBER Passacaglia in G Minor for Unaccompanied Violin
• BIBER Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Continuo in F Major
• BACH Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in B Minor, BWV 1014
• BACH Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903
• BACH Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1016
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  Encore:
• BACH Cantabile, ma un poco Adagio from Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1019a
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  Program is approximately 1 hour, 35 minutes, including one intermission

Bios

• Kenneth Weiss
  
  Kenneth Weiss was born in New York City, where he graduated from the The School of Performing Arts: A Division of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. He received a bachelor of music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and studied with Gustav Leonhardt at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam.
  
  Mr. Weiss performs as a soloist with Europa Galante and the Collegium Vocale Gent. Since 2005, he has been giving Bach recitals with Fabio Biondi, including concerts at the Festival d’Aix en Provence and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.
  
  Mr. Weiss’s recordings, which can be heard on Empreinte Digitale and Satirino Records, include Bach’s Goldberg Variations; transcriptions of Rameau’s operas and ballets (coproduced with the Cité de la musique and recorded on historical instruments from the Musée de la musique); Bach’s Italian Concerto, French Overture, and Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue; and Scarlatti’s Essercizi per gravicembalo. His most recent release is a live performance of the Goldberg Variations, recorded at the Théâtre Saint Louis in Pau, France.
  
  Mr. Weiss teaches at the Conservatoire de Paris and is a harpsichord professor at The Juilliard School.

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• Monica Huggett
  
  Monica Huggett was born in London, the fifth of seven children in a family of Irish, English, and French background. During her youth, she and her siblings listened to a great variety of music, from pop and rock to jazz and classical, which had a tremendous influence on her musical personality. While studying the modern violin at the Royal Academy of Music, she was introduced to the Baroque violin and felt an immediate connection with the instrument. She has since been one of its most fervent champions, and today holds an international reputation as one of the foremost Baroque violinists of our time.
  
  Ms. Huggett has a busy international career as a soloist, a director, and a chamber musician. She has recorded for EMI, Decca, Teldec, Erato, and Philips, among other labels. In 2002, she was awarded the Gramophone Early Music Award for her CD of Biber’s sonatas with her ensemble, Sonnerie.
  
  Ms. Huggett has collaborated with many of the great directors in the Baroque-performance world, and particularly values her work with Ton Koopman as concertmistress of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, from 1980–1987.
  
  In recent years, Ms. Huggett has devoted more time to directing, regularly making guest appearances with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the European Union Baroque Orchestra, and the Irish Baroque Orchestra. She is also Artistic Director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra in the US.
  
  Ms. Huggett has performed in England and Scotland with Sonnerie and the English String Orchestra. She has also appeared with the Collegium Pro Musica in Genoa, Italy, and has given solo performances and master classes at the Bach Festival in Berea, Ohio. Additionally, she has led the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla at Spain’s Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada in a special series of concerts celebrating Don Quixote.
  
  Ms. Huggett was made a Fellow of London’s Royal Academy of Music in 1994. In 2008, she was named Artistic Director of The Juilliard School’s historical performance program. Her recording with Sonnerie of the early versions of Bach’s Orchestral Suites was recently nominated for a Grammy Award.

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