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Baroque Road Trip: Summer Edition

August 2, 2022 by Barbara Hamilton

Ready to travel this summer? Get out your passport and join the Colorado Chamber Players on a delightful musical journey through Rome, Paris, Amiens, London, Köthen, and Toledo!

Pictured above are our wonderful baroque musicians, clockwise from upper left: Barbara Hamilton, baroque viola and viola d’amore; Daniel Urbanowicz, baroque viola and viola d’amore; Sarah Graf, viola da gamba; Hannah Robbins, viola da gamba; Paul Primus, Harpsichord; Lily Primus, Harp; and Sarah Biber, viola da gamba and baroque cello.

Our short program will present the baroque “traveling composers”- Domenico Scarlatti, Federico Giardini, Carl Friedrich Abel, and Diego Ortiz. Louis de Caix d’Hervelois and Johann Sebastian Bach stayed in their own countries. European baroque music will fill the summer night with joy and the delights of travel. Come join us for a splendid and celebratory concert, with beautiful acoustics and air-conditioning at First Universalist Church!

You are welcome to just attend the concert. We also will have a reception after the concert with hors d’oeuvres, dessert, and wine and beers that are paired with the region or country of each composer, for an extra fee.

*Please note ticket prices, and click here to register:

$25 for concert only

$40 for concert and reception

$70 when you buy two tickets to the concert and reception

Children 12 and under are free

*Masks required during the concert. Masks optional at the reception.

Holiday Concert for Violin and Harp in Thornton

December 22, 2021 by Barbara Hamilton

Happy holidays, everyone! This is a free concert, but kindly register at 720-977-5777 and reference Activity #631421.

Please plan on showing proof of vaccination and wearing a face covering during the performance.
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MIsshapen Pearl On Demand Nov. 19-Dec. 3

November 19, 2021 by Barbara Hamilton

The CCP proudly presents music of the 17th and 18th centuries, with music of three historically excluded women composers. TICKET LINK HERE

Baroque, which comes from the Portuguese word for misshapen pearl, barroco, was first used as a derogatory term by 19th century critics who found Baroque art to be old fashioned.

Today, we joyfully celebrate the music of the baroque, and ask the question: where did women composers fit into the Baroque era? Were women composers the actual Misshapen Pearls?

Please note: this program is only being performed ON DEMAND online. For tickets, click here.

Program:

Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729): G minor trio sonata, arr. For two violas d’amore, gamba and archlute

Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704): Sonata duodecima, arr. For viola d’amore, gamba and archlute

Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1623) : Domine, arr. For 2 violas d’amore, gamba and archlute

Georg Phillip Telemann (1681-1767): Fantasia No. 7 in E-Flat Major for Solo Viola, TWV 40:20

Heinrich Biber (1644-1704): Partita IV from the Harmonia Artificiosa, for scordatura violin, scordatura viola, gamba and archlute

Performers:

Dan Urbanowicz, baroque violin and viola d’amore

Barbara Hamilton, baroque viola and viola d’amore

Sarah Biber, viola da gamba

Peter Schimpf, archlute

We Go Lower

October 24, 2021 by Barbara Hamilton

Brilliant young double bassist August Ramos joins the Colorado Chamber Players in an exuberant and joyful program.

Paul Primus and John Fadial, Violin
Barbara Hamilton, Viola
Beth Vanderborgh, Cello
August Ramos, Double Bass

Program:
Quintet for String Quartet and Double Bass, D Major, G339……..Luigi Boccherini

String Quartet in G minor……………Joseph de Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-George)

Quintet for String Quartet and Double Bass, G Major, op. 77….Antonín Dvořák

Tickets: click here

We Go Lower: October 22nd in Laramie, Wyoming

October 22, 2021 by Barbara Hamilton

Brilliant young double bassist August Ramos joins the Colorado Chamber Players in an exuberant and joyful program, performed in the Concert Hall at the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. Please click here to access the live stream on Friday Oct. 22nd, 7:30 pm.

Mr. Ramos is the new Double Bass teacher at the University of Wyoming, and a member of the Colorado Symphony.