our 2022 winter/spring season

Jeana Melilli presents a concert collection of trio and accompanied sonatas from the eighteenth century. These were the most popular instrumental works of their time. Their flexible instrumentation lent themselves to evenings of music-making, among friends and family, including both men and women musicians. Featuring works from J. S. Bach, Jean-Marie Leclair, Anna Bon, Sophia Dussek, and Ignatius Sancho. Jeana is principal flute of the Savannah Philharmonic and a PhD candidate in musicology at the University of Florida.

Also with Marcy Jean Brenner, viola da gamba and Thomas J. White, harpsichord/piano.  

The esteemed pianist Jeremy Denk—MacArthur Fellow, writer, and noted musical commentator—performed Book I of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the preludes and fugues that Beethoven referred to as his musical bible. Denk has written insightfully about Bach as a great humanist, describing how the composer’s music represents an “intoxicating combination”—a feeling of the divine balanced with the earthly beauty of logic and discipline. The New York Times has extolled Denk’s “profound affinity with Bach” as a performer, and the Philadelphia Inquirer has called his Bach recitals “mesmerizing.”