Music for healing and comfort
Performing on lute, baroque guitar, original 19th century guitar and modern classical guitar, PLU Guitar and Lute faculty member Elizabeth CD Brown brings us a program based around the themes of healing and comfort, in response to the pain and stress we have experienced in the last year. Featuring music by Thomas Flippin, including a brief introduction by Thomas himself, as well as music by John Dowland, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Fernando Sor, Justin Holland, and Ida Presti.
Elizabeth's Bio:
Elizabeth CD Brown, lutenist, guitarist
A
specialist in standard classical guitar as well as various early guitars and
lutes, Elizabeth C. D. Brown is a very active performer in the
United States. Highlights from recent seasons include being a featured soloist
at the Northwest Guitar Festival, performing concertos by Vivaldi and Sierra
and premiering a new work for guitar and orchestra with the Seattle Symphony.
She has performed in operas by Purcell, Blow, Paisiello, Rossini and Verdi, as
well as all of Monteverdi's surviving operatic works. Elizabeth's first solo
recording, La Folia de España: Dances for Guitar, features works
for baroque, 19th century, and modern guitars, and has been praised for its
"...apparently effortless ease." (Lute News, UK) She is also featured
in the recording Dolce Desio as a member of the early music
trio Le Nuove Musiche, and in the recording Navidad: Christmas in the
New World with Seattle Pro Musica. Her second solo recording, In
Her Honor, includes music from the Princess [Queen] Anne Guitarbook and the
Elisabeth of Hesse Lutebook, as well as her own arrangements of works
by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. An enthusiastic advocate for the
guitar and lute, Elizabeth has given numerous outreach performances at schools,
senior centers, and community centers for the Seattle Classic Guitar Society
and the Early Music Seattle, as well as by arrangement while on tour. She is
head of the Guitar and Lute program at Pacific Lutheran University, and has
taught at Cornish College of the Arts and Seattle Pacific University. See
her on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/ElizabethCDBrown or
for more information visit: www.elizabethcdbrown.com
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