BROOKLYN BAROQUE
| Next Concert: Sunday, May 31 at 2 PM Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown, NY |
THE ENSEMBLE
Brooklyn Baroque debuted in the fall of 2000, when cellist David Bakamjian
joined the long-standing duo of Baroque flutist Andrew Bolotowsky and
harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky. Since then, the group has performed
frequently in the New York area and has been invited to play in other states
across the country. The trio is the ensemble-in-residence at the eighteenth-
century Morris-Jumel Mansion, where it performs in a yearly series. (Check
out the Mansion at www.morrisjumel.org)
Brooklyn Baroque specializes in the music of Bach and his contemporaries,
but tis concerts often range further back into the seventeenth century or as far
forward as Beethoven. The ensemble's debut CD, Northern Lights (QC
1005), a program of German Baroque works, won critical acclaim, as did its
second disc, The Pleasures of the French (QC 1007). To read more about
these recordings, click on the Recordings button on the left. For upcoming
concerts, check the Upcoming Concerts button.
ITS MEMBERS
Flutist Andrew Bolotowsky studied with Elaine Schaffer, William Kincaid, and
Jean-Pierre Rampal. He has performed over 3,000 solo recitals and
participated in countless chamber music and orchestral concerts. He has
performed with the Pan American, Westchester Philharmonic, and Brooklyn
Philharmonic orchestras and has worked with Downtown Music Productions,
Music Downtown, the American Festival of Microtonal Music, Concert Royal,
the Soho Baroque Opera, Muse (Colonial American Music), the Delbarton
Baroque Ensemble, and New Amsterdam Baroque. Mr. Bolotowsky has been
heard on radio stations WQXR, WBAI, WNCN, and WNYC; has appeared on
television stations NBC, CBS, and NYC; and has recorded for Naxos, Quill
Classics, Orion Recordings, Golden Age Records, Opus I, and Station Hill
Records. He can be heard on the internet in Jim Theobald’s work “Above
Ground” for Flute and Electronic Tape. With Rebecca Pechefsky, he has
recorded sonatas for flute and obbligato harpsichord by Johann Ludwig
Krebs (Quill Classics), and with Rebecca Pechefsky and David Bakamjian,
he has recorded Bach's flute sonatas and his Partita for Unaccompanied
Flute.
Cellist David Bakamjian performs regularly as a recitalist, chamber player,
recording artist, and member of several ensembles in the New York area. He
has performed at New York's premier concert halls, appeared several times
on National Public Radio and WQXR (New York), and was a winner or finalist
in four international chamber music competitions. While a member of the
Casa Verde Trio, he completed six critically acclaimed national tours as well
as a monthlong tour of China. He has appeared as soloist with the Allentown
Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Beijing Symphony, the Bachanalia
Festival Orchestra, and the Lehigh University Symphony Orchestra. He
performs with the American Symphony Orchestra and is principal cellist of the
New York Grand Opera and the High Mountain Symphony in New Jersey. In
addition, he was principal cellist for the Miss Saigon theater orchestra and
has served as principal cellist for the Queens Symphony, Colonial Symphony,
Bachanalia, and many others. An advocate for historical performance
practice, Bakamjian is a member of Brooklyn Baroque and has performed
with the Long Island Baroque Ensemble, Concert Royal, Sinfonia New York,
and other period-instrument ensembles. He is on the faculty at Lehigh
University and is in great demand as a chamber music coach, serving on the
faculties of Princeton Play Week, Summertrios, and the Summer Conference
for String Education and Chamber Music in New Jersey, where he is the
director of the adult chamber music program. After earning his Bachelor of
Arts degree from Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot, he went
on to attain his Master of Music and Doctoral of Musical Arts degrees at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he studied cello with
Timothy Eddy and chamber music with Bernard Greenhouse.
Well known in the New York area, Rebecca Pechefsky has performed in
such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and in such series as
Music at Morris-Jumel and Baroque Across the River. She has been heard at
the Boston Early Music Festival and the concert series of the Miami Bach
Society, the Harpsichord Center (California), the Zoellner Arts Center
(Pennsylvania), and elsewhere. For Quill Classics she has recorded the
complete harpsichord music of François d’Agincour as well as Bach and His
Circle and a recital of works by Brunnemüller, Bach, and La Guerre. Her
recordings have been heard across the United States on NPR stations. Also
committed to contemporary music, she has premiered works by Mary Inwood,
Graham Lynch, Frank J. Oteri, Louis Pelosi, Johnny Reinhard, and Ben
Yarmolinsky. Currently organist at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Glendale,
Queens, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Erik Ryding, with whom she
coauthored the award-winning biography Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere,
recently issued in paperback as well as on Kindle. Ms. Pechefsky graduated
from Juilliard’s pre-college division as a piano student and later studied
harpsichord with Louis Bagger, Kenneth Cooper, and Raymond Erickson.
Brooklyn Baroque debuted in the fall of 2000, when cellist David Bakamjian
joined the long-standing duo of Baroque flutist Andrew Bolotowsky and
harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky. Since then, the group has performed
frequently in the New York area and has been invited to play in other states
across the country. The trio is the ensemble-in-residence at the eighteenth-
century Morris-Jumel Mansion, where it performs in a yearly series. (Check
out the Mansion at www.morrisjumel.org)
Brooklyn Baroque specializes in the music of Bach and his contemporaries,
but tis concerts often range further back into the seventeenth century or as far
forward as Beethoven. The ensemble's debut CD, Northern Lights (QC
1005), a program of German Baroque works, won critical acclaim, as did its
second disc, The Pleasures of the French (QC 1007). To read more about
these recordings, click on the Recordings button on the left. For upcoming
concerts, check the Upcoming Concerts button.
ITS MEMBERS
Flutist Andrew Bolotowsky studied with Elaine Schaffer, William Kincaid, and
Jean-Pierre Rampal. He has performed over 3,000 solo recitals and
participated in countless chamber music and orchestral concerts. He has
performed with the Pan American, Westchester Philharmonic, and Brooklyn
Philharmonic orchestras and has worked with Downtown Music Productions,
Music Downtown, the American Festival of Microtonal Music, Concert Royal,
the Soho Baroque Opera, Muse (Colonial American Music), the Delbarton
Baroque Ensemble, and New Amsterdam Baroque. Mr. Bolotowsky has been
heard on radio stations WQXR, WBAI, WNCN, and WNYC; has appeared on
television stations NBC, CBS, and NYC; and has recorded for Naxos, Quill
Classics, Orion Recordings, Golden Age Records, Opus I, and Station Hill
Records. He can be heard on the internet in Jim Theobald’s work “Above
Ground” for Flute and Electronic Tape. With Rebecca Pechefsky, he has
recorded sonatas for flute and obbligato harpsichord by Johann Ludwig
Krebs (Quill Classics), and with Rebecca Pechefsky and David Bakamjian,
he has recorded Bach's flute sonatas and his Partita for Unaccompanied
Flute.
Cellist David Bakamjian performs regularly as a recitalist, chamber player,
recording artist, and member of several ensembles in the New York area. He
has performed at New York's premier concert halls, appeared several times
on National Public Radio and WQXR (New York), and was a winner or finalist
in four international chamber music competitions. While a member of the
Casa Verde Trio, he completed six critically acclaimed national tours as well
as a monthlong tour of China. He has appeared as soloist with the Allentown
Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Beijing Symphony, the Bachanalia
Festival Orchestra, and the Lehigh University Symphony Orchestra. He
performs with the American Symphony Orchestra and is principal cellist of the
New York Grand Opera and the High Mountain Symphony in New Jersey. In
addition, he was principal cellist for the Miss Saigon theater orchestra and
has served as principal cellist for the Queens Symphony, Colonial Symphony,
Bachanalia, and many others. An advocate for historical performance
practice, Bakamjian is a member of Brooklyn Baroque and has performed
with the Long Island Baroque Ensemble, Concert Royal, Sinfonia New York,
and other period-instrument ensembles. He is on the faculty at Lehigh
University and is in great demand as a chamber music coach, serving on the
faculties of Princeton Play Week, Summertrios, and the Summer Conference
for String Education and Chamber Music in New Jersey, where he is the
director of the adult chamber music program. After earning his Bachelor of
Arts degree from Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot, he went
on to attain his Master of Music and Doctoral of Musical Arts degrees at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he studied cello with
Timothy Eddy and chamber music with Bernard Greenhouse.
Well known in the New York area, Rebecca Pechefsky has performed in
such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and in such series as
Music at Morris-Jumel and Baroque Across the River. She has been heard at
the Boston Early Music Festival and the concert series of the Miami Bach
Society, the Harpsichord Center (California), the Zoellner Arts Center
(Pennsylvania), and elsewhere. For Quill Classics she has recorded the
complete harpsichord music of François d’Agincour as well as Bach and His
Circle and a recital of works by Brunnemüller, Bach, and La Guerre. Her
recordings have been heard across the United States on NPR stations. Also
committed to contemporary music, she has premiered works by Mary Inwood,
Graham Lynch, Frank J. Oteri, Louis Pelosi, Johnny Reinhard, and Ben
Yarmolinsky. Currently organist at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Glendale,
Queens, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Erik Ryding, with whom she
coauthored the award-winning biography Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere,
recently issued in paperback as well as on Kindle. Ms. Pechefsky graduated
from Juilliard’s pre-college division as a piano student and later studied
harpsichord with Louis Bagger, Kenneth Cooper, and Raymond Erickson.
| “These fantastic artists have some strange power—their performance is so compelling and lively that it seems to reach right out of the speakers and grab my attention and does not let go.” Christopher Chaffee, American Record Guide |
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