Read the review of Paul and Michael's recent Victoria concert with guitarist Alex Dunn:
http://www.horizon.bc.ca/miv/reviews/r2009-09-26-dgrb.html

Paul and Michael just received news they have been awarded a BC Arts Council Grant!
We will be proceeding with a commercial CD project, to be recorded in February 2010. Stay tuned for more details!

Thanks to all who made our second season of Summer Sonata Series Concerts a huge success! The dates have been set for our 2010 series. Keep these Fridays open: June 11, June 25, July 9!

The Summer Sonata Series
presents
Paul Luchkow, violin &
Michael Jarvis, harpsichord and fortepiano
in three concerts of baroque and classical chamber music on period instruments.

Friday, June 19: Music from the Late 17th - early 18th centuries by Leclair, Schmelzer, Croft, Veracini, and Couperin

Friday, June 26: Music by Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Fortepiano.

Friday, July 10: A Haydn Celebration: Piano Trios and Sonatas, with Nathan Whittaker, classical ‘cello.

All concerts start at 7.30 pm.

St. Mark’s Trinity Church
1805 Larch Street between W. 2nd & W. 4th, Vancouver.

Single tickets: $20 general/$10 youth.
Three Concert Series: $50 general/ $25 youth.
Tickets & more information please call 778-231-5126

+++++++++++++++++++++

Paul Luchkow is a versatile violinist and violist whose activities cover the range of music from the 17th century to the present day on modern and period instruments. A regular feature of Vancouver's Early Music scene, Paul is a long-time member of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, appears frequently in concerts for Early Music Vancouver, and Festival Vancouver, and was a founding member of the Burney Ensemble and of Vancouver's 17th century string band "La Cetra". He has performed with the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony, the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and in studio ensembles, recording for popular music groups, film, television, and theatre.

After graduating with a M.Mus. degree from the University of British Columbia, Paul moved to Holland where he became a member of the chamber orchestra "Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam". In addition to Sinfonietta tours through Holland, France, and South Africa, he played with the Netherlands Radio Symphony and the Baroque Orchestra of the Netherlands Bach Society. Since his return to Vancouver, Paul continues to travel, touring with local ensembles and playing regularly with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Trinity Consort (Portland), and Baroque Northwest in Seattle Washington.

An active performer of contemporary music on modern violin and newly written music for period instruments, Paul has performed, often in premiers, music of Jean Coulthard, Michael Osterle, Peter Hannan, Bradshaw Pack, Jocelyn Morlock, Linda Catlin Smith, John Abram, Martin Arnold and Ray Zhuo (to name a few!). Paul has participated in recordings for the BIS, Koch, Spool, ATMA Classique, CBC Records, and Artifact Music labels and his concert performances are frequently broadcast on the CBC (radio and television) and NPR networks. Paul’s most recent project involves the exploration of chamber music of the Classical and Romantic periods on period instruments with (guess who…) Michael Jarvis.

Michael Jarvis has been acclaimed as one of Canada's finest harpsichordists, fortepianists and continuo players, and has performed with many of Canada's leading orchestras and chamber ensembles. He has also conducted the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, and was for 15 years Artistic Director of the period instrument ensemble The Baroque Players (of Hamilton.) In addition to performing across Canada, he has performed as soloist and continuo player throughout the USA, England, Italy and Bermuda. He has worked with, accompanied, conducted, or played continuo for many of Canada's finest singers from Maureen Forrester to Russell Braun and is regularly a featured soloist or continuo player at many festivals, including The Elora Festival, the Guelph Spring Festival, The Grand River Baroque Festival, The Festival of the Sound, and Music at Westben.

Michael is featured on two national Canadian television specials "A Baroque Christmas" and "A Baroque Easter". Now seasonal favourites, they may be seen on Vision and Bravo-tv. He is also co-host and star of the 13-part television series "Come into the Parlour". Featuring co-host and star Carolyn Sinclair, soprano, and their original 1857 Chickering square grand, the series features some of Canada's finest musicians from the opera and concert stages, including baritone Russell Braun, mezzo Kimberley Barber, violinist Mayumi Seiler, tenor Eric Shaw, baritone Bruce Kelly, 'cellist Margaret Gay, and violinst Julie Baumgartel. "Come into the Parlour" runs nationally in Canada on Bravo-TV and Vision.

His performing editions of 17th and 18th century choral and organ music are published by GIA, Chicago. Michael has taught fortepiano at the University of British Columbia and harpsichord, continuo, and baroque vocal ornamentation at the University of Toronto. He has also taught harpsichord performance at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and at Havergal College, Toronto. He is also Director of Music at St. Jude's Parish and Shrine in Vancouver, BC. He is on faculty as harpsichordist and vocal coach at the Early Music Vancouver Summer Baroque Vocal Programme "The Compleat Singer". Upcoming performances this Fall include playing harpsichord for the 25th Anniversary North American Tour of Les Violons du Roy with conductor Bernard Labadie with performances in Quebec City; Montreal; Carnegie Hall, New York; and the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Nathan Whittaker, classical cello, received his first cello at age eight and pursued study at the Georgia Academy of Music where he won the Alice B. Williams Award. In 1995, he was awarded the Woodward Scholarship at the Taft School where he studied cello with acclaimed performer and teacher, Peter Wiley. He graduated Cum Laude and was the recipient of the P.T.Young Music Award. He has studied and performed at the Brevard Music Center, Interlochen Music Festival, and the Killington Music Festival. In 2003, Mr. Whittaker graduated Cum Laude from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Cello Performance and received a Masters Degree in Cello Performance from Indiana University the following year. His private instructors have included Helga Winold, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Stanley Ritchie, Shelley Taylor and Robert Marsh. For five seasons, he has performed in the Bloomington Early Music Festival and was twice appointed cellist at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

Currently, Mr. Whittaker is enjoying a career of teaching and performing. For the past several years, Mr. Whittaker has served on the faculty at the Indiana University String academy, the principle cellist of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and associate principle cellist with the Terra Haute Symphony Orchestra, the primary lecturer for the “Behind the Scenes” program, and established a successful private studio in central Indiana. In addition to his activity as a modern cellist, Mr. Whittaker is a recognized baroque cellist and has performed both as a soloist and a continuo cellist with such recognized performers as Stanley Ritchie, Alison Edberg, and Rachel Barton Pine. Recently, he performed four concerts at the Bloomington Early Music Festival with such groups as The Atwater Consort, The Meridian Vocal Consort, and the Bath Street Studio. Now based in Seattle, Mr. Whittaker is pursuing a doctoral degree in cello performance with Toby Saks at the University of Washington, establishing a private teaching studio, and is a member of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra.