Concerts

David Schulenberg 
Recent and Upcoming Performances and Other Public Events

Vivaldi & Vino! House concert with Mary Oleskiewicz, flute, and Cynthia Roberts, violin; music by Leclair, Quantz, and Vivaldi, sponsored by Snug Harbor Wine, Duxbury, Mass. (private location, Sept. 18, 2021)

Bach’s sonata BWV 1030 for harpsichord and flute, with Mary Oleskiewicz, one of the American Bach Society’s “Tiny Bach Concerts” (released May 24, 2021, also on YouTube)

Podcast on Bach and the Six Solos for violin, with Carrie Anne Tipton, ready for listening on the website of Bach Society Houston (recorded Feb. 11, 2021)

Pre-concert talk, “The Bach Motets,” Church of St. Luke-in-the-Fields, New York (March 12, 2020, 7 p.m.)

Paper, “Mozart and the Bach Tradition,” joint meeting of the American Bach Society and the Mozart Society of America, Stanford (Feb. 15, 2020)

Soloist (second harpsichord), J.S. Bach, Quadruple Concerto BWV 1065, Hong Kong Baptist University (May 29, 2019). Hear a radio interview and short duo-recital with one of the three other soloists, Joyce Lindorff, recorded at Radio4 Hong Kong on May 30, 2019.

Bach’s “Triple Concerto” BWV 1044 and Its Models: lecture-performance for the American Bach Societyat the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, 15 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, Conn. (Sat., April 28, 2018, 1:45 p.m.). J.S. Bach, Concerto in A minor for harpsichord, flute, violin, and strings, together with the prelude and fugue for harpsichord BWV 894 and a reconstruction of the trio-sonata movement BWV 527a/2. With Mary Oleskiewicz, flute, and Jude Ziliak, violin

Virtuosos of Eighteenth-Century Europe, Wagner College (October 25, 2017). C.P.E. Bach, Concerto in E minor for harpsichord and strings, W. 24; J.G. Graun, Quartet in D for viola, 2 violins, and continuo, GWV A:14:1; Handel, Armida abbandonata; and Nicolas Bernier’s Le caffé (coffee cantata). With Sylvia Maisonet, soprano; Jude Ziliak and Augusta McKay Lodge, violins; Georgina McKay Lodge, viola; and Sarah Stone, cello

“Telemann as ‘General Capellmeister’ to the Bach Family,” Temple University, Philadelphia (October 13, 2017), talk for conference Georg Philipp Telemann: Enlightenment and Postmodern Perspectives

“Froberger and the Invention of a New Keyboard Style” (April 22, 2017), lecture-recital for annual meeting of the Society for 17th-Century Music, Providence, R.I.

Bach’s Cantata 82 (Ich habe genung), Wagner College (April 12, 2017). Also Susanne by Jacquet de La Guerre. With Sylvia Maisonet, soprano, and Mary Oleskiewicz, flute

“Expression and Discrétion: Froberger, Bach, and Performance” (November 2, 2016), lecture recital for International Conference on Creativity and Performance, Hong Kong Baptist University

“Froberger and His Legacy,” harpsichord recital, University at Albany, N.Y. (Sept. 16, 2016). Works by Frescobaldi, Louis Couperin, and J. S. Bach alongside those of Froberger, commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the latter’s birth

John Cage, Apartment House 1776, Jordan Hall, New Enland Conservatory, Boston (June 20, 2016). Part of the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice concert series. Harpsichordist with Callithumpian Consort, directed by Stephen Drury

“Bach Family Dialogues,” at Wagner College (Mar. 30, 2016). J. S. Bach’s Cantata 57 and A-major violin sonata (BWV 1015); C. P. E. Bach’s “Sanguineus and Melancholicus” (W. 161/1); and selections from J. C. Bach’s Requiem. With students and faculty from Wagner College, joined by alumni of the Juilliard School, Wagner College

“Conversations Between Virtuosos: Trio Sonatas From 18th-Century Germany.” Midtown Concerts series (Oct. 8, 2015). Dialogues for “Sanguineus and Melancholicus” by C.P.E. Bach and J.G. Graun, performed with Jude Ziliak, violinist, at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, 325 Park Ave. at E. 50th St., New York (free concert)

W.F. Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in G minor, with vocal works by Purcell, Ariosti, and J.S. Bach (April 8, 2015), performed with members of Juilliard 415 and the Wagner College voice faculty, in the Campus Hall Performance Center at Wagner College (Staten Island, N.Y.)

Clavichord Recital: A C.P.E. Bach Retrospective (March 22, 2015). Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University, sponsored by the Boston Clavichord Society

A New Voice for the Clavier: C.P.E. Bach and the Changing Idiom of Keyboard Music (Nov. 8, 2014), lecture-recital for the American Musicological Society, 2014 national meeting, Milwaukee, Wis.

Recital: J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue; C.P.E. Bach: keyboard sonatas and chamber music (Oct. 25, 2014), at the Idaho Bach Festival (Moscow, Idaho)

“Performing the Music of C.P.E. Bach Today” (Oct. 25, 2014), a talk at the Idaho Bach Festival (Moscow, Idaho)

J.S. Bach: Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, and C.P.E. Bach: D-Minor Harpsichord Concerto W. 23 (Oct. 24, 2014), at the Idaho Bach Festival (Moscow, Idaho)

J.S. Bach: Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, and C.P.E. Bach: Harpsichord Concerto W. 23 (Oct. 15, 2014), with members of Juilliard 415, in the Campus Hall Performance Center at Wagner College (Staten Island, N.Y.)

Workshop: New Editions of Bach’s Complete Organ Works (June 25, 2014), with George Stauffer, for the American Guild of Organists, national meeting, at the Boston Marriott Hotel (further information here)

“The ‘Version’ Problem in Bach’s Preludes and Fugues for Organ” (June 24, 2014): talk for the American Guild of Organists, national meeting, at the Boston Marriott Hotel (further information here)

Recital and panel discussion: Music of C. P. E. Bach (June 6-7, 2014). Part of the Focus on Piano Literature symposium at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Further information here.

Lecture-recital: C. P. E. Bach’s Revolutionary Keyboard Music of the 1740s (May 3, 2014). A presentation for the American Bach Society, meeting at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Further information here.

“C.P.E. Bach and the Metaphorical Voice”: talk for the New England chapter of the American Musicological Society, at Boston Conservatory, on the composer’s three hundredth birthday (March 8, 2014)

Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier: complete performance with commentary, in three gatherings (Jan. 19, March 16, and May 18, 2013). On three Saturday evenings at Taylor House, 50 Burroughs Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston.