Music review: the Baroque Music of Latin America

Chatham Baroque has performed in Carnegie Hall, released five CDs to critical acclaim, been nominated for an INDIE Award and is one of only a handful of chamber music groups in the country to receive a prestigious Chamber Music America Residency Matching Grant. In fact, it just finished a year of touring before it came to Birmingham in February 2003.

In this concert of baroque Latin American music, Chatham Baroque explores the contrast between two different musical traditions: the secular and the sacred. They use the common elements to present rare Latin American baroque gems. Chatham Baroque offers a brilliant performance and an important contribution to the Col

Danny Mallon (percussion) holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in percussion from the Mannes College of Music, Where he has been a faculty member since 1991. In addition to his three recordings with Chatham Baroque on the Dorian label, he can be heard on Pifaro’s new Dorian recording and on “Perigee and Apogee” by composer Beata Moon. He has recently performed with Jordi Saval’s period orchestra, “Le Concert Des Nations,” at Alice Tully Hall and the Library of Congress; The NY Collegium; AmorArtis Chorus and Baroque Orchestra; and with Paula Robison and Ken Cooper at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the past year, he performed with Chatham Baroque at the Berkeley Early Music Festival; the International Festival of Latin American Renaissance and Baroque Music in Bolivia; Pomona College, California; the Festival of Baroque Music in San Louis Potosi, Mexico; and at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Through the next year, he will join Chatham Baroque on tour in Charleston, South Carolina at Piccolo Spoleto; Boston Early Music Festival; California; and Kentucky.

In this concert, Chatham Baroque adapted a variety of seventeenth century Spanish dances and their arrangements demonstrate how music might have been performed by ensembles in baroque Spain using instruments that were available at the time. It is an unusual ensemble that doesn't depend upon harpsichord for its continuo's chords. Instead, Scott Pauley plays a variety of plucked instruments (theorbo and baroque guitar at these concerts) in consort with the bass line strengthened.

Julie Andrijeski (baroque violin) moved to Pittsburgh to join Chatham Baroque in 1996. In addition to Chatham Baroque's busy schedule, she maintains an active freelance career, appearing with groups across the country including the New York Col

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