Concerts to-date
May 16, 1993
Inaugural Meeting of WEKS and a harpsichord recital by Cynthia Hiebert
and Jean-Philippe Beaulieu. Programme: Concerto
in A for 2 harpsichords by Johann Ludwig Krebs; an unmeasured Prelude from the Third
Suite, First Book, by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and Sonata in F for four hands by
Johann Christian Bach. Location: At the home of Robert Karpiak, Waterloo.
Harpsichord courtesy of Cynthia Hiebert and Robert Karpiak.
October 26, 1993
Dr Edward L. Kottick (professor Emeritus of Musicology, University
of Iowa). Lecture: "The Incredible Gravicembalo col Forte e
Piano: The Story of the Early Piano". Location: Faculty of
Music, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo.
Lecture and Demonstration: "How Do You Tune Your Harpsichord? The
Wonderful World of Temperaments". Location: Wilfrid Laurier University,
Waterloo
October 26, 1993
Dr Edward L. Kottick (professor Emeritus of Musicology, University
of Iowa). Lecture: "The English Virginalists".
Location: Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo.
Lecture: "Types of Early Stringed Keyboard Instruments" illustrating
the variety of harpsichords, clavichords, and fortepianos found in the great museums and
private collections of the world. Location: Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo
May 29 1994
Boyd McDonald (fortepianist, Wilfrid Laurier University).
Lecture/Demonstration: "The Study of Early Keyboard Music on Original
Instruments as a Guide to Performance on the Modern Piano". The performance
included "Ricercar a 3" from "The Musical Offering" and examples of
'Empfindsamkeit' and 'Galand Style' from works by Phillip Emmanuel Bach and Johann
Christian Bach; insights into J.S. Bach's compositional process revealed in the
examination of an 'unmeasured prelude' to his Fugue in A minor (BWV 994) and Busoni's
thoughts on 'transcription', 'pedaling' and respect for the piano' revisited, followed by
a performance of his transcription for modern piano of Bach's Organ Prelude and Fugue in D
major (BWV 532). Location: Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo.
May 29, 1994
David Antscherl (WEKS member). "Wood,
wire and quill". An informal talk and demonstration for amateurs instrument
makers by a member of WEKS.
July 9, 1994
Cynthia Hiebert (harpsichordist, Waterloo, Ontario). Concert
"Les délices de l'été". Works by JS Bach, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre,
Rameau, Peter Hatch (modern work "In a Vernacular Way"). Location:
Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo
February 24, 1995
Michael Purves-Smith (music professor at Wilfrid Laurier
University). Lecture on the music in the art of the Renaissance with pictorial and
musical illustrations. Location: Conrad Grebel College, University of
Waterloo, Waterloo.
March 4, 1995
Bradley Lehman (harpsichordist, Ann Arbor, MI). Harpsichord
recital of works by J.S. Bach, Christian Erbach, Johann Jakob Froberger, William Byrd,
Antoine Forqueray, Bela Bartok and William Bolcom. Location: Conrad Grebel
College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo.
June 3, 1995
Cynthia Hiebert (harpsichordist, Waterloo, Ontario) and Boyd
McDonald (fortepianist, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo). Concert of duet
music for one and two keyboards by J.S. Bach, J.C. Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Clementi and Boyd
McDonald (WEKS member). Location: Glen Acres Baptist Church, Kitchener
March 10, 1996
Robert Karpiak (professor of Russian Cultural History, University of
Waterloo, Waterloo). Public lecture: "Russian Music at the Court of Catherine
The Great" with pictorial and musical illustrations.
Piano recital by Viviana Sofronitsky of keyboard works by Dmitry Bortniansky and other
eighteenth-century Russian composers.
March 7, 1998
Robert Karpiak (professor of Russian Cultural History, University of
Waterloo, Waterloo). Presentation "Culture of the
Keyboard in Eigtheenth-Century Russian". Location: Symposium on Russian
Music and Culture in the 18th to the 20th Centuries, University of Guelph.
April 11,1999
Concert "Baroque Splendour" in
collaboration with the Kitchener-Waterloo Chanber Orchestra. Works by Vivaldi,
Rameau, Corelli, Soler, J.S.Bach, and Handel. WEKS provided harpsichordists Barrie
Cabena, Jonathan Oldengarm, and Jan Overduin and three harpsichords courtesy of David
Antscherl, Robert Karpiak, and Marc Paré.
