The Vivaldi Project will return to the Greencastle Music Festival this Wednesday, June 25 for a performance that will highlight two stalwart supporters and pillars in the community.
The free 7:30 p.m. concert in Gobin Church is being sponsored by Bill and Lucy Wieland, who are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. In addition to their unique baroque and classical string repertoire, The Vivaldi Project will perform a brief piece Bill wrote to mark the occasion. All are invited to a reception with light refreshments following the concert.
The GSMF’s programs are a gift to the community from individual donors, Doc and the Dandelion: Your Local Bed and Breakfasts, and an endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation. As its major sponsor, The Inn at DePauw hosts the festival’s out-of-town guest artists.
For those unable to attend in person, the performance will be livestreamed on the GSMF’s YouTube page: https://youtube.com/@greencastlevirtualmusicfes6357?si=FjDqBHXIl2HDqveR.
The Vivaldi Project is dedicated to presenting innovative programs of baroque and classical string repertoire that combine scholarship and performance to both educate and delight audiences. The period-instrument ensemble takes its name from the virtuoso violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi, in recognition of his pivotal position between earlier baroque and later classical composers.
Since it was founded in 2006, The Vivaldi Project has performed in the Washington, D.C., area and throughout the country, including live performances and interviews for Washington's WETA, North Carolina's WCPE and WUNC, WBAA's Acoustic Blend, and Minnesota Public Radio. In 2010, the ensemble toured the Piedmont region of North Carolina with an unprecedented performance of all six of C.P.E. Bach's String Sinfonias, W. 182, under guest conductor John Hsu. The ensemble's current project is exploring and recording obscured string trios from the mid- to late-18th century. Their recording series, “Discovering The Classical String Trio,” has received critical acclaim both for the innovative repertoire and "superb" playing (Strings).
Fanfare has raved about The Vivaldi Project, noting, “The group’s exquisite sense of ensemble, vibrant sound and ardent cantabile represent period instrument playing at its best.”
About the performers:
Allison Edberg Nyquist is one of the preeminent performers of baroque and modern violin. She has performed throughout North America and collaborated with many top baroque ensembles, including Chatham Baroque, Olde Friends, and Apollo's Fire. A highly regarded educator, she has served on the faculties at Indiana State University, DePauw University, Ohio State University Lawrence University and the Interlochen Arts Camp. She is currently an adjunct professor of baroque violin at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. She is also concertmaster of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and the artistic director of Music City Baroque in Nashville, Tenn. After living three years in the Chicago suburbs, she now resides in Warren County.
Elizabeth Field is the founder of The Vivaldi Project. Distinguished for her passionate and stylistic playing on both period and modern instruments, she is concertmaster of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) and also performs with a wide variety of ensembles throughout the United States. In addition to period instrument recordings for Hungaroton, Naxos, and Dorian, Field has performed and recorded extensively for Deutsche Grammophon with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Now an adjunct professor at George Washington University, she has held professorships at Sacramento State University and the University of California, Davis, and has served twice as the Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist in Residence at Lafayette College.
Stephanie Vial is a widely respected cellist praised for her technical flair and expressive sense of phrasing. She performs regularly in early-music ensembles throughout the United States and has given solo and chamber music concerts, lectures, and master classes at numerous universities and institutions. Together with Field, she is co-director of The Vivaldi Project as well as its educational arm, the Institute for Early Music on Modern Instruments, which offers professional string players opportunities to study historical performance practices using their own modern instruments. She has made Durham, N.C., her home since 1997, where she performs regularly and is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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