JULY 31, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Antonio Vivaldi, (1678-1741), Concerto for Strings in C Major, RV 117, (1720/24)
Allegro alla Francese
Largo
Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi, (1678-1741), “In Furore Iustissimae Irae”, RV 626,
Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Allegro “In furore iustissimae irae”
Recitativo “Miserationem Pater piissime”
Largo “Tunc meus fletus evadet laetus”
Allegro “Alleluia”
Intermission
Antonio Vivaldi, (1678-1741), Four Seasons, (1721-25),
Krista Bennion Feeney, violin
Concerto for Violin in E Major, Op. 8, RV 269, “Spring”
Allegro
Largo e pianissimo
Allegro
Concerto for Violin in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, “Summer”
Allegro mà non molto
Adagio
Presto
Concerto for Violin in F Major, Op. 8, RV 293, “Autumn”
Allegro
Adagio molto
Allegro
Concerto for Violin in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, “Winter”
Allegro non molto
Largo
Allegro
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) began in 1974 as a group of virtuoso musicians performing chamber music concerts at Greenwich Village’s Church of St. Luke in the Fields. Today, the Orchestra performs at New York’s major concert venues across diverse musical styles and genres and has collaborated with artists ranging from Renée Fleming and Joshua Bell to Bono and Metallica. The Orchestra has participated in 118 recordings, four of which have won Grammy Awards, has commissioned more than 50 new works, and has given more than 175 world, U.S., and New York City premieres. In the fall of 2018, internationally celebrated expert in 18th-Century music, Bernard Labadie, will join the Orchestra as Principal Conductor, continuing the Orchestra’s long tradition of working with proponents of historical performance practice.OSL’s signature programming includes a subscription series presented by Carnegie Hall; an annual multi-week collaboration with Paul Taylor American Modern Dance at Lincoln Center; an annual summer residency at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts; and a chamber music festival featuring appearances at The Morgan Library & Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center. Nearly half of OSL’s performances each year are presented free of charge through its education and community programs. These include the five-borough Music in Color concert tour championing composers of color; the Free School Concert series of orchestral and cross-genre programs reaching over 10,000 New York City public school students annually; and a range of creative family programs and concerts. Additionally, OSL provides free instrumental coaching and presents student performances though its Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s and its Mentorship Program for Pre-Professional Musicians.OSL built and operates The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City’s only rehearsal, recording, education, and performance space expressly dedicated to classical music. The Center serves more than 500 ensembles and more than 30,000 musicians each year and is an indispensable resource for classical music performance and production in the city. More than 170 studio recordings have been produced at The DiMenna Center since it opened in 2011.
Soprano Sherezade Panthaki’s international success has been fueled by superbly honed musicianship; “shimmering sensitivity” (Cleveland Plain Dealer); a “radiant” voice (The Washington Post); and vividly passionate interpretations, “mining deep emotion from the subtle shaping of the lines” (The New York Times). An acknowledged star in the early-music field, Ms. Panthaki has developed ongoing collaborations with many of the world’s leading interpreters including Nicholas McGegan, Mark Morris, Simon Carrington, the late John Scott, Matthew Halls, and Masaaki Suzuki. Panthaki’s recent performance with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and conductor Nicholas McGegan was named one of the “Top 10 Classical Music Events of 2015” by The San Francisco Chronicle.Highlighting Ms. Panthaki’s 2017/18 season were performances of Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and with the St. Louis Symphony (Nicholas McGegan conducting). She also made her return to the Milwaukee Symphony, her debut with Orlando Philharmonic, and performed with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Music of the Baroque, Ars Lyrica, and Bach Collegium Japan in a United States tour of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
Born and raised in India, Ms. Panthaki began her musical education at an early age. Following intensive study and earning top distinction as a young pianist, she turned to singing and found a more personal and expressive means to connect with audiences. She holds a Masters degree in Voice Performance from the University of Illinois, and an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. She is the winner of multiple awards at Yale University, including the prestigious Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize.
Krista Bennion Feeney has enjoyed an unusually varied career much in demand as a soloist, chamber musician, music director, and concertmaster. Krista has been a member of the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble (serving for eight years as director of chamber music) and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s since 1983, where she performs frequently in the roles of concertmaster and violin soloist. She is currently involved in rediscovering and reviving a musical sound world from the past as the founding first violinist of the Serenade Orchestra and Quartet, playing music of the late-18th and early-19th centuries on historic instruments with original instrumental configurations. From 1999-2006, she was the music director of the unconducted New Century Chamber Orchestra based in San Francisco.
She has made several solo appearances with the San Francisco Symphony (making her debut in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e minor at age 15), with the St. Louis Symphony, the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra in the world premiere of SolTierraLuna (a concerto written for her by Terry Riley), the Mostly Mozart Festival, and the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and at the Kennedy Center, in addition to several historic instrument ensembles.
Krista is the founding first violinist of the DNA Quintet, Loma Mar Quartet, and Ridge String Quartet (1979-1991), which, along with pianist Rudolf Firkusny, won the Diapason d’Or and a Grammy Award nomination in 1992 for its RCA recording of Dvorak’s Piano Quintets. The DNA Quintet, comprised of the Loma Mar Quartet with the addition of bassist John Feeney, has released world-premiere recordings of string quartets and quintets of Domenico Dragonetti on historic instruments to critical and popular acclaim, bringing this uniquely beautiful music to light after being hidden for more than 165 years in the British Library. The Loma Mar Quartet has also recorded original works written for the ensemble by Paul McCartney for EMI, and its members were recently featured as soloists in Arnold Schoenberg’s Concerto for Quartet and Orchestra with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, and with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s for Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance performances. Krista studied violin with Anthony Doheny, then Isadore Tinkleman and Stuart Canin at the San Francisco Conservatory, working later at the Curtis Institute with Jaime Laredo, Felix Galimer and Mischa Schneider.