Barthold Kuijken In Recital

Presented by:

North Wind Concerts

Event Details

A very small number of RUSH SEATS for this concert will be available at the door shortly before the concert. Please note that tickets at the door will be slightly more expensive ($45, $40 and $28 respectively).

If you miss the concert but you’d like to have a dose of Bart’s musical insight, we’re also presenting a masterclass/Q&A with Bart on Monday, February 13 at 7:30, at St Thomas’s Anglican Church. Please join us for that! Auditor tickets ($20) are available on the BeMused page for the event:  https://bemusednetwork.com/events/detail/332

Don’t miss this rare and wonderful opportunity to hear one of the world’s most celebrated Baroque flutists, Belgium’s Barthold Kuijken, in recital! Baroque Music beside the Grange is delighted to present a special solo performance by this internationally acclaimed musician, whose work as a soloist, chamber musician, conductor and teacher has inspired and delighted audiences and colleagues around the globe.

The concert features a ‘dream’ program of some of the most exquisite Baroque music for solo flute: the sonatas in A minor by  J.S. Bach and his son C.P.E. Bach, two fantasias by G.P. Telemann, and solo suites from the earlier part of the 18^th century by Michel de la Barre and S.L. Weiss. (See below for more program details.)

In the intimate atmosphere and perfect acoustics of the Heliconian Hall in downtown Toronto, this special recital is bound to be a magical event. Don’t miss this opportunity – it’s a small hall, so buy your tickets soon! You’ll also save money on the door price by purchasing tickets in advance here.

Baroque Music beside the Grange is delighted to present this special recital in the intimate atmosphere and perfect acoustics of the Heliconian Hall in downtown Toronto.

There will also be a master class/Q&A with Barthold Kuijken on the evening of Monday February 13. This will be held at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church (on Huron St. south of Bloor) starting at 7:30 p.m. There’s a page here on BeMused where you can acquire an auditor’s ticket if you wish. If you are interested in playing, please write to bmbg2006@gmail.com.

BARTHOLD KUIJKEN (baroque flute and recorder) was born in 1949. He grew up in a musical environment: two of his elder brothers were studying music and became increasingly interested in early music and early instruments. He studied modern flute at the Bruges Conservatory and the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague. For playing early music he originally turned to the recorder, but while still studying, he had the good fortune of finding a splendid original baroque flute, which became in fact his best teacher. Research on authentic instruments in museums and private collections, frequent collaboration with various flute and recorder makers, and assiduous study of 17th-, 18th- and 19^th-century sources helped him to specialize in the performance of early music on original instruments. At the same time, on the Boehm-flute, he was a member of the Brussels-based ensemble "Musiques Nouvelles", focusing on avant-garde music. Soon he started to play with his brothers Wieland (viola da gamba and baroque cello) and Sigiswald (baroque violin and viola da gamba), with René Jacobs (countertenor), Paul Dombrecht (baroque oboe), Lucy van Dael (baroque violin), and with the harpsichordists Robert Kohnen and Gustav Leonhardt, more recently also Bob van Asperen and Ewald Demeyere. For many years he was baroque flutist in the orchestras "Collegium Aureum" and, later, in “La petite Bande", the baroque orchestra conducted by his brother Sigiswald. He plays concerts all over the world, extending his repertory to early 19th-century music (with the fortepianists Luc Devos and Piet Kuijken) or occasionally to Debussy. He has recorded extensively for various labels: Sony classical, Harmonia Mundi - BMG, Philips - Seon, Accent, Arcana, Atma, Opus 111. Besides his activities as a flute and recorder player, he is appearing more and more often as a conductor (f.i. with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, of which he is the artistic director). His scholarly work includes articles in various journals, a new annotated Urtext edition of J.S. Bach's flute compositions (Breitkopf & Härtel) and the Critical Edition of the six C.P.E. Bach flute concertos for the C.P.E. Bach Collected Works Edition (Packard Humanities Institute). In 2014 he retired from the Royal Conservatories of The Hague and Brussels, where he had been teaching baroque flute since 1976, resp. 1975. He is often invited to serve as guest professor or as a jury member in international competitions. In 2007 he obtained a PhD in the Arts at the VUB (Brussels University); in 2013 he published The Notation Is Not the Music – Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance (Indiana University Press). The National flute Association presented him the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.

Featured Program

Michel de la Barre, Suite in D Major (1702)

G. Ph. Telemann, Fantasias in D Major and D Minor (1732)

J.S. Bach, Sonata BWV 1030 in A Minor for solo flute (c. 1720)

C.P.E. Bach, Sonata Wq 132 in A Minor for unaccompanied flute (1747)

S. L. Weiss, Suite in G Major for unaccompanied flute, after his lute works (c. 1719)