The Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, under Artistic Director Julie Andrijeski, announce their 15th season. The first and longest-running early music chamber orchestra in the Southeast, based in Roswell in North Fulton County, Georgia, are proud to announce three concerts and four performance dates for 2011-2012, featuring several “modern world premieres” of music, old and new.
February 4, 2012: Handel’s Dixit Dominus: Songs of War and Peace, Ancient and Modern, featuring the Georgia Tech Chamber Choir, at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, 7:00 pm.
February 5, 2012: A second performance of Handel’s Dixit Dominus with the Georgia Tech Chamber Choir at Roswell Presbyterian Church, 3:00 pm.
The ABO returns to Midtown! Dr. Jerry Ulrich conducts the choir and orchestra in Handel’s 1707 sacred work Dixit Dominus, based on Psalm 110, then leaps to the 21st century with the premiere of Ulrich’s composition Lucem Pax, based on Psalm 46.
May 20, 2012: Spring Celebration at Roswell Presbyterian Church, 4:00 pm.
Director and Violinist Julie Andrijeski leads the Orchestra in a vivacious performance of “Spring” from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and other festive works, featuring flutes, oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo.
Advance Tickets for all concerts at Roswell Presbyterian Church are on sale now at http://atlantabaroque.ticketleap.com/. Regular admission $17, day-of-show $20. Season Ticket packages and discounts for Seniors, Students and Groups are all available.
Directions to Roswell Presbyterian Church are here.
September 18, 2011: La Battalia! 17th-century Battle Music, at Roswell Presbyterian Church, 4:00 pm.
Violinist and director Julie Andrijeski leads two opposing string choirs in the fantastical musical battles of Biber and Schmeltzer. With this one-show-only concert, the Orchestra premieres two works never heard anywhere in the world since the late 1600s, by Schmeltzer and Hugi. Renowned musicologist Charles Brewer leads our musical journey to the legendary 17th-century gardens and palace of Krom??íž in Moravia for compositions by Vejvanovsky, Rittler, and more, featuring two Baroque trumpets.
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