Friday, October 18, 2019 — 5:30pm
Music of Quantz, Bach, and Telemann
Joseph Fasel, Baroque oboe and oboe d’amore, recorder
Charles McMillan, recorders
Ken Perlow, viola da gamba
Juanita Madland, harpsichord
Joseph Fasel earned a B.S. in mathematics at NMSU and a Ph.D. in computer science at Purdue University. Having retired from a career at LANL, he is now a full-time musician. Joe has been playing clarinet from the age of ten and is the principal clarinetist of the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra. He has been a recorder player nearly as long, playing in Renaissance consorts and Baroque chamber ensembles. Since his retirement, he has been studying Baroque oboe with MaryAnn Shore and plays oboe and recorder in the period-instrument band Turquoise Trail Baroque. As a singer, Joe is a countertenor and has sung alto in several choirs in the Santa Fe area. He has also served as choirmaster in Episcopal parishes in Lafayette, Indiana and Los Alamos.
Charles McMillan began playing baroque chamber music on the recorder while in graduate school. He studied with Judy Linsenberg while in the San Francisco Bay Area and has participated in master classes with Marion Verbruggen, Shira Kamen, Frances Blaker and The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet. He is also a physicist.
An immigrant to New Mexico from the flatland of Illinois, Ken Perlow is a semi-professional gambist who has been a guest artist with the Newberry Consort, Ars Musica Chicago, the Chicago Early Music Consort, Catacoustic Consort, Second City Musick, Ensemble Musical Offering, and the Illinois Philharmonic. He studied viola da gamba performance at Roosevelt University with Mary Springfels. Ken is a founding director of the Santa Fe-based early music consortium Severall Friends and served as Treasurer of the Viola da Gamba Society of America from 1996 to 2014, Manager of the Newberry Consort from 2004 to 2009, and Interim Executive Director of Early Music America in 2001-02, after retiring from a career as a computer engineer and consultant at Bell Laboratories. Ken currently serves on the boards of directors of his wireless internet service cooperative and his synagogue in Santa Fe. He is an avid student of Renaissance neo-Platonism.
This is the third concert offered by Juanita Madland for TGIF at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe. The first was piano solo, and second was Schubert’s Winterreise with Alicia Solomon, trained in Graz. Juanita received a Master’s degree in Piano Performance from Evelyne Brancart, Belgium laureate, and Director of Indiana University Piano Department. She also has a BA in music education and piano. In college, she performed Baroque music extensively. Juanita became most interested in harpsichord since he husband David bought her a two manual harpsichord after Ruckers, 1646. Internationally known Kathleen MacIntosh helped her learn much!