Summer Baroque in the Trees

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Saturday, August 26th, 2023
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Salt Spring Baroque's popular outdoor garden concerts are back! This year there are two concerts, one on Saturday August 26th featuring the Gallo Chamber Players, and one on Sunday August 27th featuring Contrapunctus. The venue is a private garden in the Channel Ridge area on Salt Spring Island, the address will be given with your ticket sale. Please bring your own lawn chair. There will be a 20 minute intermission where refreshments will be served.

Tickets available at www.saltspringbaroque.com or at the door. Tickets are $25 per concert, or attend both for $40.

Saturday August 26th 2:00 pm: Gallo Chamber Players

BAROQUE TALES: Storytelling in Music

Majka Demcak, baroque violin

Rebecca Ruthven, baroque violin

Shin-Jung Nam, baroque cello

Connor Page, harpsichord

Gallo Chamber Players are a collective of performers specializing in music from the Baroque period – from 1600 to 1750. The collaborative spirit of the core players brings a vast repertoire of music to their audiences. They present concerts in various ensemble sizes, from chamber orchestras to solos, and include guest performers, both local and from abroad. Based in Vancouver, GCP aims to bring the joy and love of gut strings and historically stylistic playing to the local communities of BC. In this concert, Gallo Chamber Players will be exploring how to identify different characters and classic fairytale tropes in music, as well as how composers were inspired to retell the stories they knew through music.

Sunday August 27th 2:00 pm: Contrapunctus

BAROQUE VARIETALS: A garden concert of wind and string chamber music

Paul Luchkow, baroque violin

Marea Chernoff, baroque oboe and recorder

Andrew Clark, natural horn Katrina Russell, baroque bassoon

Contrapunctus is an ensemble dedicated to the performance of the virtuoso instrumental music of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Its members have collaborated in many concerts over the past decade, and have come together to promote the vast amount of wonderful repertoire that was written for various combinations of strings, wind instruments, and continuo. Performing on historical instruments, the ensemble aims to bring the lively timbres, colours and historical style of the time to its audiences. For this occasion, we are moving into repertoire of the Eighteenth century with a mix of dances, outdoor music and more intimate pieces, featuring some of the more unusual combinations of instruments including the Baroque Horn, Violin, Oboe, Recorder and Bassoon.