Highlands Duo to perform Baroque period pieces at Ouachita Oct. 25
October 19, 2018
- Tiffany LeeOuachita Baptist University’s School of Fine Arts will host the Highlands Duo in concert
as part of its guest artist series. The concert, which is free and open to the public,
will be held Thursday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in McBeth Recital Hall.
The Highlands Duo includes American violinist Dr. Benjamin Shute and Malaysian harpsichordist
Anastasia Abu Bakar.
“The performance will feature one of the most common instrumentations of the sonatas
written during the Baroque period, violin and continuo (harpsichord), and one that
our students and colleagues seldom have a chance to hear on campus,” said Dr. Carlos
Feller, visiting assistant professor of music at Ouachita. “In addition to that, the
works will be performed as they sounded almost 300 years ago, on instruments that
are as similar to the original ones as possible and following performance practices
of that time.”
The Highlands Duo has performed in many European venues, including the Schlosskonzerte
Bad Krozingen and Schlossfestspiele Marburg, as well as American institutions such
as Dickinson College, Oklahoma Baptist University, Oklahoma City University, Southeast
Oklahoma State University and Wheaton College Conservatory of Music.
Shute and Bakar first performed together in 2009 while studying at the Hochschule
für Musik in Freiburg, Germany.
“Ben, Anastasia and I taught together at another university, and we shared a common
interest in early music – mostly from the Baroque period (1600-1750) – performed on
period instruments, which are replicas of instruments made during that era,” Feller
said.
Additionally, Shute and Bakar will work directly with students as part of their visit
to campus. Dr. Shute will deliver a lecture on Friday, Oct. 26, at 10 a.m. Bakar will
meet with Ouachita piano students on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 3 p.m. to demonstrate
the harpsichord and coach students currently studying Baroque repertory.
For more information about the event, contact Dr. Carlos Feller at [email protected] or (870) 245-4160.
By Tiffany Lee // Download full header photo.
October 19, 2018
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