Night Music is a period instrument chamber ensemble based in the greater Philadelphia area. We perform music of the Classical period: roughly, 1750-1825. We believe there is a wealth of excellent Classical music by composers familiar and obscure that is largely unheard today. Our mission is to explore and expose this repertoire to today’s audiences.
NIGHT MUSIC
Geoffrey Burgess, oboe Daniel Elyar, viola Rebecca Harris, violin Marika Holmqvist, violin Rebecca Humphrey, cello Heather Miller Lardin, violone Steven Zohn, Flute WHAT OUR AUDIENCE MEMBERS SAY:
“One of the most enjoyable musical experiences of my life!”
“A rejuvenating and delightful evening.”
“A wonderful performance in the perfect setting”
STEVEN ZOHN Co-Director
Steven Zohn performs on historical flutes with many ensembles in the eastern United States. He holds principal positions with the Philadelphia Bach Collegium and NYS Baroque, and other recent performing engagements include appearances with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the Dryden Ensemble, and Tempesta di Mare. Among his latest recordings are a world premiere of Telemann’s moral cantatas with soprano Julianne Baird, chamber music from Sara Levy’s Berlin salon with the Raritan Players, and orchestral music by Telemann with Tempesta di Mare.
For a decade, Zohn served as founding Artistic Director of the period-instrument orchestra Publick Musick in New York State. His most recent organizational venture was a city-wide concert festival in Philadelphia, in partnership with Tempesta di Mare, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death. He has taught for The Juilliard School’s graduate program in historical performance and for Amherst Early Music, and his contributions to the study and performance of early music was recognized by the American Musicological Society with its Noah Greenberg Award.
As a musicologist, Zohn is a recognized authority on the music of Telemann and the Bach family. His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the German Academic Exchange Service. His book Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann’s Instrumental Works (Oxford University Press, 2008) received the William H. Scheide Prize of the American Bach Society. In the Telemann year of 2017, he organized an international scholarly conference on the composer’s vocal music, the first such event held outside Germany. Zohn is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Music History at Temple University. Photo credit: Becky Oehlers Photography
Heather miller Lardin co-Director
Heather Miller Lardin enjoys a diverse career performing and teaching on historical and modern double basses and viola da gamba. In Philadelphia, she appears with Tempesta di Mare, the Philadelphia Bach Collegium, and nearby Brandywine Baroque. Other recent engagements have brought Heather to perform with the Staunton Music Festival, the Handel & Haydn Society, the Dryden Ensemble, NYS Baroque, and Pegasus Early Music. From 2006-2013 she served as Artistic Director of the Ithaca, NY-based period instrument ensemble NYS Baroque.
As director of the Temple University Early Music Ensemble, Heather leads viol and recorder consorts, voices, lutes, and Baroque ensembles. She also directs the annual Amherst Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop held each January in Old City Philadelphia and Camden. In January 2018, Lardin launched an in-school Suzuki double bass program sponsored by Musicopia at Andrew Jackson School in South Philadelphia. In her home studio, she teaches Suzuki double bass and viola da gamba to young students with her two Maine Coon cats assisting.
Heather is the editor of the early bass feature “Rumblings” in Bass World, the journal of the International Society of Bassists (ISB), and regularly presents lectures and recitals at the ISB’s biannual conventions. She serves on the faculty of the Curtis Young Artists Summerfest and on the board of the Greater Philadelphia Suzuki Association.
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