Faculty Recital Series: Baroque Chamber Music for Viola de Gamba featuring Anne Legene, bass and treble viols September 11, 2010

Simon's Rock Faculty Recital Series
presents
Baroque Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
featuring Anne Legêne, bass and treble viols

and guest artists-
Pamela Dellal, voice,
Karen Burciaga, treble viol and baroque violin
Jane Hershey, Tobi Szüts, viola da gamba
Larry Wallach and Mariken Palmboom, organ and harpsichord

Music by Bassano, Lawes, Marais, Rameau, Buxtehude and Bach.

Anne Legêne studied cello with Jean Decroos, principal cellist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands, her native country. She performs a wide range of chamber music, with many of the region's fine musicians, and often with her husband, pianist and harpsichordist Larry Wallach. She is currently finishing a Graduate Performer's Diploma in Early Music at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA, studying viola da gamba with Jane Hershey and baroque cello with Phoebe Carrai. She was a member of the baroque orchestra "Foundling" in Providence, RI, and has played with ensembles "The Italian Connection" and "Les Inégales," the viol consort "Long and Away", The Harvard Choir and Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, and the Berkshire Bach Society. In the summer she teaches at the Early Music Week at World Fellowship Center near Conway, NH.

Anne teaches cello and conducts the chamber orchestra at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She teaches cello in her home studio, and for many years was a cello teacher and orchestra conductor at area Waldorf schools.