Description: | | On Sunday, September 29th at 4:00 p.m., the USF School of Music will feature a faculty/guest recital
by the Bay Baroque Ensemble, the leading Baroque ensemble in the Tampa Bay area. Organized by
long-time USF faculty member Dr. John Robison, the concert will feature USF adjunct professor Anne
Marie Scotto (harpsichord), guest artists Patrick Baran (violin) and Theresa Villani (viola da gamba),
and guest soprano Maggie Coleman; John Robison will perform on several instruments, including
Baroque oboe and recorder. The faculty/guest event will feature music by some of the finest
Baroque composers from the late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries, including Johann
Sebastian Bach, George Philipp Telemann, and Tomaso Albinoni. The Bay Baroque Ensemble,
which is the only group in the Tampa Bay area to consistently play on replicas of historical
instruments at one of the most common Baroque pitches (A = 409), performs on replicas of the early
eighteenth-century two-keyed oboe, the recorder, viola da gamba, and an Italian-style harpsichord. |