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Façades & Duplicities$20 | $15 SENIORS | $10 STUDENTS | UNDER 18 FREE
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Eric Miller and Phillip Serna, violas da gamba
Join ViolMedium in Façades & Duplicities, a multidimensional
exploration of the rich harmonic, timbral and dramatic potentials
offered by violas da gamba! The viol is the medium through
which gambists Eric Miller & Phillip Serna bridge contemporary &
historically-informed performance in experimental and innovative
programming exemplified in masterworks by Abel, Bartók, Finger,
Marais, Schaffrath, & more!
ERIC MILLER, educator and performer, performs as a viola da gambist
and cellist around the Midwest. A specialist in repertoire from the
16th through 18th centuries, Eric performs solo recitals on viola da
gamba and is a member of the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble. He also
collaborates frequently with songwriters, including Indie Folk artist
Katie Burns with whom he has recorded five albums. Eric is the founder
and director of the Madison Youth Viol Consort, a program for students
grades 8-12. In addition, Eric teaches a large private cello studio
and has taught orchestra in public schools at all levels since 2009.
As a classically trained cellist, Eric holds degrees from Northern
Illinois University and UW-Madison where he trained with two
consummate chamber musicians, Marc Johnson and Parry Karp.
In addition to his double bass career as soloist, orchestral performer
and chamber musician, PHILLIP W. SERNA has emerged among the
nation's leading advocates of the viol - the viola da gamba.
Co-founding the Chicago-area historical-performance ensembles Black
Tulip, New Comma Baroque, ViolMedium, and the Spirit of Gambo - a
Chicago Consort of Viols, he’s appeared across the United States
with groups ranging from Burning River Baroque, the Chicago Early
Music Consort, Les Touches, the Newberry Consort, and many others. He
can be heard on WFMT Chicago, Wisconsin Public Radio, Milwaukee Public
Radio, and on releases from Clarion, Cedille, and Varèse Sarabande
Records. Holding Masters and Doctoral degrees from Northwestern
University, Phillip teaches at Valparaiso University, North Central
College, the Music Institute of Chicago, the J. S. Bach Academy of
Music and is assistant director of Illinois' first public-school
period-instrument program at Adlai E. Stevenson High School. Phillip
has served on the faculties of the Madison Early Music Festival, the
Whitewater Early Music Festival, and is the music director of Viols in
Our Schools earning him Early Music America's 2010 Laurette Goldberg
Award for lifetime achievement in Early Music outreach.
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