2023-24 Season

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Genius of Bach
Brandenburg 5 & Goldberg Variations
September 28 – October 1, 2023

Baroque cellist René Schiffer, praised for his “interpretive imagination and patrician command of the cello” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), joins Three Notch’d Road for two famous masterpieces of J.S. Bach: the Goldberg Variations arranged for string ensemble, and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto featuring David Ross on baroque flute, Fiona Hughes on baroque violin, and harpsichordist Jennifer Streeter. This instrumental concert opens our thirteenth season, themed “Masterpiece” as each of our four programs will feature a famous work of early music.

Pre-concert talk by René Schiffer, Fiona Hughes, David Ross & Jennifer Streeter on transcribing Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the period instruments played in this program ~ 30 minutes before each subscription concert

Fiona Hughes, violin solo
Matvey Lapin, violin ripieno
Jason Fisher, viola
René Schiffer, cello
Samuel Suggs, bass
David Ross, flute
Jennifer Streeter, harpsichord

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Tickets Friday, September 29, 7:30pm
Christ Lutheran Church
2807 N. Augusta St., Staunton

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Tickets Saturday, September 30, 7:30pm
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
7599 Rockfish Gap (Rt. 250 West), Greenwood (Crozet)

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Tickets Sunday, October 1, 4:00pm
Grace Episcopal Church
5607 Gordonsville Rd., Keswick (Charlottesville)

Special Performance in Lynchburg
On Thursday, September 28, 7:30pm, Forte Chamber Music presents “Genius of Bach”
First Presbyterian Church
1215 V.E.S. Road, Lynchburg
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SACRED HARP
English, Irish & American Christmas
December 1-3, 2023

For Christmas, Three Notch’d Road returns to our specialty: early American hymnody and its roots in the Old World, featuring soprano Sheila Dietrich, lutenist Cameron Welke, and founding member Anne Timberlake (recorders). As we did for our most recent album Shining Shore (released in 2022 to international acclaim), this program will interweave English and American folk and sacred music to celebrate the season, with an added Irish twist! This program’s featured masterpiece is The Sacred Harp (1844), an American shape note source developed from English 18th century rural church music.

Fiona Hughes, violin
Anne Timberlake, recorders
Sheila Dietrich, soprano
Ben Geier, tenor
Jared Swope, bass
Cameron Welke, theorbo & lute
Ryan Lowe, cello

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Tickets Friday, December 1, 7:30pm
Christ Lutheran Church
2807 N. Augusta St., Staunton

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Tickets Saturday, December 2, 7:30pm
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
7599 Rockfish Gap (Rt. 250 West), Greenwood (Crozet)

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Tickets Sunday, December 3, 4:00pm
Grace Episcopal Church
5607 Gordonsville Rd., Keswick (Charlottesville)

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Clarinet Quintet
Mozart’s Viennese Heritage
January 26-28, 2024

Celebrating Mozart’s Birthday weekend, Three Notch’d Road will feature one of his great masterpieces: the Clarinet Quintet, K.581 (1789). The program will also include other works of Viennese origin and a string quartet by Josef Haydn, played on Classical period instruments with gut strings and transitional bows of a design just prior to modern instruments. Violinist Aisslinn Nosky (reviewed by the San Diego Union-Tribune: “Nosky offered Haydn at his most virile, most persuasive, but also his most playful…”) is featured along with historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino.

Dominic Giardino, clarinet
Aisslinn Nosky, violin
Fiona Hughes, violin
Natalie Rose Kress, viola
Benjamin Wyatt, cello

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Tickets Friday, January 26, 7:30pm
Trinity Episcopal Church
214 W. Beverley St., Staunton

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Tickets Saturday, January 27, 7:30pm
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
7599 Rockfish Gap (Rt. 250 West), Greenwood (Crozet)

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Tickets Sunday, January 28, 4:00pm
Grace Episcopal Church
5607 Gordonsville Rd., Keswick (Charlottesville)

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Polyhymnia
Praetorius for Easter
April 27-28, 2024

Three Notch’d Road performs selections from the Polyhymnia, Caduceatrix, et Panegyrica, Michael Praetorius’ magnum opus published in 1615, at the very beginning of the Baroque era. Fusing the ornate innovations of Italian Catholics like Giovanni Gabrielli with the simplicity and singability of the German Lutheran chorale, Praetorius masterfully creates an immersive, interactive musical experience unlike any other. Featuring liturgical works appropriate to Eastertide, and led by guest artistic program director Jeremy Ward, the consort of instruments (violin, viola, sackbutt, cello, organ) will answer a consort of voices: soprano Sheila Dietrich, countertenor Nathan Medley, tenor Ben Geier, and bass Peter Walker.

Jeremy Ward, cello & guest artistic programming
Sheila Dietrich, soprano
Nathan Medley, countertenor
Ben Geier, tenor
Joel Kumro, tenor
Peter Walker, bass
Fiona Hughes, violin & soprano
Matvey Lapin, violin & viola
Paul Von Hoff, sackbutt (early trombone)
Joel VanderZee, organ

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Tickets Saturday, April 27, 7:30pm
First Presbyterian Church
500 Park St., Charlottesville

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Tickets Sunday, April 28, 4:00pm
Trinity Episcopal Church
214 W. Beverley St., Staunton

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