Polish Music at the Polish Hall

An exciting and virtuosic program of Polish Baroque chamber music! Composers represented include Adam Jarzebski (1590-1649), Johannes Stobaeus Grudentinus (1580-1646), Jacek Rozycki (c.1635-c.1703), Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-1763)
Performed by "Musica Maestrale" early music masters:

Max Fuller, cello
Victoria Gunn, viola
Brandon Labadie, shawm, recorder, and oboe
Adam Lamotte, violin
Catherine Olson, soprano
Hideki Yamaya, theorbo and archlute

Catherine Olson
Passionately committed to both art and audience, Catherine's stage work ranges from 17th Century Opera to American Songbook. Catherine has appeared recently with bohemian cabaret ensemble Vagabond Opera, Northwest New Music, Musica Maestrale for concerts of English lute songs and early Italian repertoire, and a new group of musical theatre story-tellers: Heretic Opera. Recent roles include Despina (Così fan tutte), Cupid (Orpheus in the Underworld) and Meg (Brigadoon), as well as work on contemporary music projects, including film music by José Sánchez-Verdú to Nosferatu at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Young Camille Claudel in Theresa Koon's Promise, and Esmerelda in Queen of Knives, a new opera by Eric Stern. After seeing the Polish countryside while visiting family in Eastern Slovakia, Catherine is excited to be making her first foray into this beautiful country's Baroque music.

Hideki Yamaya, based in Portland, Oregon, is a lutenist and guitarist who is actively teaching and performing all over the West Coast. He has a B.A. in Music and an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied with Robert Strizich, and an M.F.A. in Guitar and Lute Performance from University of California, Irvine, where he studied with John Schneiderman. He also studied with James Tyler at University of Southern California and with Paul Beier at Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan, Italy. He has had master classes with the foremost guitarists and lutenists of today, including Robert Barto, Victor Coelho, David Dolata, Ronn McFarlane, Richard Savino, Stephen Stubbs, David Tanenbaum, Scott Tennant, and Benjamin Verdery. In demand both as a soloist and as a continuo/chamber player, Hideki has performed with and for Portland Baroque Orchestra, Portland Opera, Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Baroque Northwest, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, and Astoria Music Festival. He is an internationally acclaimed musician and has performed in Canada, Japan, Great Britain, and Italy.