GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Berkshire Bach Society concludes its 2021-2022 season on Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 4pm with harpsichordist Mariken Palmboom in a concert of harpsichord music from Germany, England, Italy, and France at the New Marlborough Meeting House.

 

"We have so many harpsichord fans in our audience we thought we'd indulge them by presenting a program dedicated solely to music for the instrument," said Terrill McDade, Interim Executive Director of The Berkshire Bach Society.  "There is such a wide variety of repertoire to choose from. As with the church organ, the harpsichord was truly universal in the Baroque era and it's enlightening to hear how composers from different countries wrote for it. Mariken has selected works that really display the differences and the similarities, which makes for something of a grand European tour in this concert." 

 

Educated at the Royal Conservatories in The Hague and Antwerp, harpsichordist Mariken Palmboom, has performed throughout Europe and the U.S. as a soloist and ensemble player in important early music festivals and other venues.  She teaches both here and abroad, and has frequently led Baroque chamber music workshops in Holland, California, the Berkshires, and elsewhere.  

 

The program includes works by J.S. Bach, Byrd, Frescobaldi, Louis and François Couperin, and Domenico Scarlatti, and is an anniversary of sorts—the first book of Bach's Clavier and François Couperin's third book of his Pieces for Keyboard were both published in 1722, three hundred years ago.   

 

Tickets available at the door and online at www.berkshirebach.org/events.  All seats $35, Berkshire Bach member discounts apply, and as always, children under 18 and students with valid ID admitted free.