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The Aulos Ensemble, and Juianne Baird play in the final intallment of the Secrest Artist Series
By Elizabeth Hoyle
Arts and Entertainment Editor
This year's Secrest Artists' Series will conclude with a concert by the Aulos Ensemble and soprano Julianne Baird.
These two distinguished performers will give their concert titled, "If Music be the Food of Love" at 8 p.m. April 25.
The Aulos Ensemble, a group of five Julliard graduates, is famous for its performances on the period instruments oboe, recorder, flute, violin, cello and harpsichord. Formed in 1973, Aulos has gained acclaim through tours, recordings, radio broadcasts and concerts such as the one given in Wait Chapel.
Its first recording for the Musical Heritage Society, Original Telemann was released in 1981, and this began the start of its recording frenzy.
Since then, Aulos has released over a dozen CDs and several CD sets. Music by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann and Rameau has been the focus of Aulos' interpretations.
Members of Aulos hail from all parts of the country. Flutist Christopher Krueger began his musical education in Boston and graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music.
Oboist Marc Schachman and violinist Linda Quan both are from California and graduated from the Julliard School.
Myron Lutzke,the cellist, was born in New Jersey and attended Brandeis University and the Julliard School.
Harpsichordist Arthur Haas was born in New York but grew up in Los Angeles and attended the Julliard School and the University of California at Los Angeles. All of the talented instrumentalists have their own recordings.
Aulos' performance will also feature soprano Julianne Baird. Considered one of the most distinguished sopranos of this time, Baird specializes in early music, but she also performs 19th century rags and contemporary music.
She has performed with other artists series and orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Not only performing concerts in the United States, Baird has traveled to France, Poland, Austria, Germany and Holland.
Her operatic experience includes pieces such as Mozart's "Apollo and Hyacinthus," Handel's "Ariodante" and Pergolesi's "La Serva Padrona."
Making over 65 recordings, Baird has also taken on an ongoing Handel opera project which focuses on releasing the composer's music.
Baird received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the Eastman School of Music and earned her doctorate from Stanford University and then went on to complete her studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
Not limiting her talents to performance, Baird has taught at Princeton University, New England Conservatory and Rutgers University.
In addition to the concert, Baird will give a master class from 3-5 p.m. April 24.
Students have already been selected to participate in the class but the university community is invited to attend.
The concert April 25 will feature performances of musical works by Johann Janitsch, Henry Purcell, Claudio Monteverdi, Francois Couperin, Johann Sebastian Bach and others.
The performance will take place at 8 p.m. in Wait Chapel at 8 p.m. Student tickets are free and can be picked up at Benson University Center information desk.
Tickets are $17.50 for adults and $12.50 for senior citizens and non-university students. They are available through the University Theater Box Office noon-5:30 p.m. weekdays at Ext. 5295.