01/21/2025
THIS SUNDAY at 3pm hear Sarah Cunningham, with The Sylvan Consort, performing the music of William Lawes and his contemporaries.
LAWES AND ORDER!
Sunday, January 26th at 3pm
Church of the Good Shepherd Rosemont
1116 Lancaster Ave, Bryn Mawr PA 19010
Tickets: $30/general, $20 senior, $10/student, under 18 free
PURCHASE TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lawes-and-order-tickets-1120744800869?aff=oddtdtcreator
Sarah Cunningham is recognized as one of the foremost viola da gambists worldwide. She trained at Harvard University, the Longy School of Music (where she also studied harpsichord with Lisa Crawford) and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Holland with Wieland Kuijken. She was co-founder, with Monica Huggett, of Trio Sonnerie, with whom she recorded most of the important chamber music for violin and viol, and toured on four continents between 1982 and 1997. She was invited by Sir James Galway to collaborate on his CDs of Bach's flute music, and toured with him in Europe and the USA. Her solo CDs were released on ASV and EMI/Virgin Classics, and she has appeared as recitalist from Helsinki to Vancouver. As concerto soloist she has recorded works by Telemann with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Monica Huggett. Her recording of J.S.Bach’s viola da gamba and harpsichord sonatas, with Richard Egarr, was recently released on Avie Records. She has initiated an extended project recording videos of music by Marin Marais, her interpretation based on rare handwritten markings from the 18th century, found in the University of Rochester’s Sibley Library. Since 2010 she has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School's newly created Historical Performance Department, and since fall of 2018 she also teaches at Princeton University. Her long-time fascination with improvisation has led to collaborations with dancers Tara Brandel (Ireland) and Leah Stein (Philadelphia), and with percussionist Kyle Struve, as well as with poets and story-tellers here and abroad. Her 2016 degree from Bryn Mawr College, in Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance, brought together visual art, creative writing, dance, and performance art as well as music.
