Très.
Photo by Sharon Shea "My goal is to build a chamber group with regular members, worthy of the beautiful place in which we live, and to find ways to connect the two. The granite, the terrain, the architecture of the North Shore all inspire our music making! I say bring the music right here to our own back yard." -Lisa Brooke |
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Très.
The name Très., French for "very," connotes what some consider the Baroque aesthetic: all that is extravagant, ornate, lavish, even bizarre or excessive. Très. strives to create programs that reflect this baroque ideal, whether Très joyeux, Très vibrant, or Très charmant.
Performing with many of North America’s premier early music ensembles, the members of Très. (Michael Beattie, harpsichord; Lisa Brooke, baroque violin; Deborah Rentz-Moore, mezzo-soprano; Daniel Rowe, baroque cello) are active in Boston’s music community and tour internationally. Très. is firmly committed to early chamber music at the local level as well, and has received numerous cultural council grants over the past 5 years for performances on the North Shore of Massachusetts, where three of our members reside. Our concerts have been funded in part by grants from the Salem, Lynn, Amesbury, Beverly, Andover, Hamilton-Wenham, and Marblehead cultural councils. We have also received funding for concerts through SOHIP and Grace Church in Salem. Our outreach concerts have been funded by the Nashua Symphony (Très. outreach link) and the Summit Estate. In our North Shore concerts, we write about local historic events which occurred at the time the music was composed. Our performances have been featured at the Boston Early Music Festival, the SoHIP concert series, on WHRB radio and on CBS-TV4 by Joyce Kulhawik, which highlighted our sold out First Night Boston 2004 concerts.
Read Will Pirone's review of our 2006 Seven Gables concert as published in the Salem Gazette
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