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Mini-Concerts, September 2020 for Bach Society of Minnesota

I performed a series of 16 "Mini-Concerts" - short, outdoor, socially distanced solo recitals 12-15 minutes in length, all over the Twin Cities and St. Cloud, September 17th-19th, 2020 as a part of Bach Society of Minnesota's Vagabond Season.

Over this same week, well over 100 of these outdoor mini-concerts were performed by a handful of players as a response to the silence in our concert halls over these last 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. These concerts took place in neighborhoods all over Minneapolis and St. Paul, with a handful also in Rochester, St. Cloud, and Duluth, MN. I'm very moved by and proud of the work done by my colleagues @ Bach Society of Minnesota to make this a reality, despite the complications of staging an outdoor series featuring unamplified, classical instruments in a brisk September in Minnesota!

This video contains excerpts from my 9th performance of the day on Saturday, September 19th, 2020.

Selections:

Addendum: We oboists are notorious for walking around with our thermometers and hygrometers and complaining loudly (or flat our refusing to play) when the hall is a few degrees too cold.

While I had to reschedule a few events due to even more extreme cold, I let go of some of that to share some unaccompanied repertoire on this windy, 56ยบ day in the twin cities. Thus (briefly?) ending 27 weeks of not performing due to COVID concerns and cancellations (both of which very much are still in full effect.)

Zelenka Trio Sonata #5

During my undergrad at Indiana University, my dear friend Heather and I used to "de-stress" by going up to the large rehearsal rooms late at night, and sightreading the trio sonatas of Jan Dismas Zelenka together until our faces and fingers could take no more. Some 20 years later, I had the privilege of performing Trio Sonata #5 with Dr. Heather Peyton on her faculty recital at the University of Northern Iowa.