Westminster Choir College is set to host a free concert of French baroque music.
Les Agréments de musique is scheduled to present a concert titled Le Goût Français: An Evening of French Baroque Music 7:30 p.m. July 29 in Bristol Chapel on the Westminster campus, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton.
The performance features John Burkhalter playing recorders and Minju Lee on harpsichord, with special guest tenor David Kellet.
The program will highlight French Baroque works by composers who were associated with the courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV, including Étienne Moulinié, Henry Demarests, Michel Lambert and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre. In addition, they will perform works by the French composer Charles Dieupart and his contemporary Jean-Baptiste Loeillet.
Les Agréments de musique was founded by Lee and Burkhalter to survey the grandeur and intimacy of the musical riches associated with the courts of Louis XIII, his son and heir Louis XIV and in turn his great grand-son Louis XV.
Burkhalter studied the performance of early music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston under Daniel Pinkham and the performance of Baroque music at Harvard University under the noted Dutch recorder virtuoso, scholar and conductor Frans Bruggen. He also performs with Le Triomphe de l’amour, Brandywine Baroque and the Princeton University early music group Musica Allta.
Lee earned her bachelor’s degree in Music Composition at Hangyang University in Korea, her master’s degree and Doctor of Musical Arts in Harpsichord Performance under Arthur Haas at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Artists Diploma with a concentration in Harpsichord at Oberlin Conservatory of Music under Lisa Crawford. She has many years of experience teaching harpsichord music, theory and basso continuo in the Korea National University of Art, Hangyang University and elsewhere.
Kellett has performed more than 45 principal and secondary roles in opera and operetta. As composer David Amram’s tenor of choice, Kellett has sung his opera Twelfth Night and performed his songs in appearances at Lincoln Center celebrating the 50th anniversary of Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare Festival. He is a member of the performance faculty in the Department of Music at Princeton University where he teaches voice.
More information is online at rider.edu/arts.
