“Bach’s Library”: Music of Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, Böhm, Marais, Telemann, Marcello and Bach
Parker Ramsay, baroque harp
Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba
Parker Ramsay has forged a career defying easy categorization. Equally at home on modern and period harps, he pursues his passions in tackling new and underperformed works and bringing his instrument to new audiences. Recent and upcoming performances include solo performances at Alice Tully Hall, the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, the Phillips Collection, Cal Performances, Shriver Hall, IRCAM, King’s College, Cambridge, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. He has collaborated with ensembles such Mark Morris Dance Group, Latitude 49, Apollo’s Fire, the Van Kuijk Quartet and has undertaken residencies at the University of California, San Diego, Princeton University and IRCAM.
Gold medalist and first-ever American laureate of the International Bach-Abel Competition (2018) Arnie Tanimoto has quickly established himself as one of the foremost viol players in the United States. He has performed and recorded in venues across North America and Europe with the likes of Barthold Kuijken, the Boston Early Music Festival Ensemble, and the Smithsonian Consort of Viols. Arnie is a core member of Mountainside Baroque and a founding member of the Academy of Sacred Drama. Alongside harpist Parker Ramsay, he co-directs A Golden Wire. He serves on faculty at Princeton University, and regularly teaches at the Mountainside Baroque Summer Academy and the Viola da Gamba Society Conclave.
A Golden Wire is a period instrument ensemble based in New York City. Founded in 2019, it is co-directed by gambist Arnie Tanimoto and harpist Parker Ramsay. Specializing in early modern music from France and England, A Golden Wire performs across the United States to present programs of underperformed and undiscovered repertoire.
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