2023-24 Season

Poster for "The Coronation of Poppea" presented by Intermountain Opera Bozeman, showing two individuals in dramatic costumes. Event dates are September 29th and 30th at Hope Lutheran Church.

Poster from Opera Montana

The Coronation of Poppea

Nine BaMM musicians, who specialize in the early Baroque, formed the orchestra for the first Baroque opera ever staged by Opera Montana (formerly Inter-Mountain Opera Bozeman).

Locations

9/29-30 Hope Lutheran Church, Bozeman

Performers

Jeffrey Grossman, conductor | Vicki Boeckman & Kathryn Montoya, recorder | Carrie Krause & Andrew McIntosh, baroque violin | John Lenti & Kevin Payne, theorbo |  Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, baroque cello | Elizabeth Motter, baroque harp

Program

The Coronation of Poppea Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Etude en Blanc, Richie Carter, from Kalispell, Montana

Sonata Tramontana: À la Française!

Celebrating the release of the album, Sonata Tramontana, with a new set of repertoire from seventeenth-century France.

Locations

11/1 The Bokonon, with reception at Linda Foy Gallery Twin Bridges | 11/2 Home of Jim & Julie Rollins Billings | 11/3 Discovery Center, American Prairie Lewistown | 11/4 Old Main Gallery Bozeman | 11/5 Main Stope Gallery Butte  | 11/6 Home of Sam Sanchez & Tim Coulter Helena | 11/7 Home of Cyndy & Ray Atin Missoula | 11/8 St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral Spokane | 11/10 Whitman School of Music Walla Walla | 11/11 Faith Lutheran Church Seattle | 11/12 Hessler Barn Whidbey Island. Outreach: 11/1 The Springs Retirement Community Bozeman | 11/2 Bozeman High School Orchestra Bozeman | 11/4 Guitar & Violin Masterclass, Day Bank Building Lewistown | 11/7 Country School Avon | 11/8 Live performance and interview Spokane Public Radio | 11/8 Eastern Washington University School of Music Convocations & Orchestral Coaching

Performers

John Lenti, theorbo, and Carrie Krause, baroque violin

Program

Sonatille VI, Op 19 Michele Corrette (1707-1795)
‘Concerts Royaux’ No 1 & 2 François Couperin (1668-1733)
Partita No 3 in E major for Solo Violin J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Chaconne for Solo Theorbo Robert de Visée (1650-1725)
Sonata No 1 in D major E. Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
Suite No 1 in G (1705) Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747)
A painting of a sunset over a body of water.

Designed using Imagine AI Art Generator by Andrew Major, Bozeman

The Waking Sun

A collaborative holiday program with Roots in the Sky that draws relationships between 21st century music and that of the German Baroque.

Locations

12/15 Hope Lutheran Church Bozeman | 12/16 Big Sky Chapel Big Sky | 12/17 Holy Rosary Bozeman

Performers

Carrie Krause & Loy Marks, violin; Lindsey Strand-Polyak, viola; Julia Slovarp, cello; Josel Schnackel, bass; Julie Gosswiller, organ; Brandon Acker, theorbo.  Singers from Roots in the Sky.

Program

O sűßer Jesu Christ, SWV 405 Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Das newgebohrne Kindelein, BuxWV 13 Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61 J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Selection from Terpsichore & Carols Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
The Waking Sun Kile Smith (b. 1956)

 

 Costume for Medea in the opera ‘Jason and Medea’, engraved by Rene Gaillard (c.1780 )

Handel’s Heroines

Music from Handel’s much loved operas, oratorios and other works

Locations

1/31 UM School of Music Missoula | 2/1 Holter Museum of Art Helena | 2/3 Peace of Christ Church Bozeman | 2/4 Community Congregational Church Columbus | 2/5 Calvary Episcopal Church Red Lodge. Outreach: 1/31 Masterclasses in keyboard, violin, cello, and voice University of Montana | 1/31 Live performance on MTPR (Montana Public Radio)

Jan 31 UM masterclasses in keyboard, violin, cello, and voice

Live performance on MTPR

Performers

Sylvia Leith mezzo-soprano | Davina Clarke & Carrie Krause baroque violin | Beth Vanderborgh baroque cello | Ian Pritchard harpsichord

Program

 

Overture from Theodora, HWV 68 G.F. Handel (1685-1759)
“Dopo Notte” from Ariodante, HWV 33  
“Where Shall I Fly?” from Hercules, HWV 60  
Handel Trio Sonata in G Major, Op 5 No 4, HWV 399, Allegro, A tempo ordinario-Allegro non presto, Passacaille, Gigue: Presto  
“Defend Her Heav’n!” from Theodora  
“As with Rosy Steps the Morn” from Theodora  

Handel Trio Sonata in D Major, Op 5 No 2, HWV 397, Musette: Anante-Allegro

  
Sinfonia, Act III from Alcina, HWV 34  
“Iris, Hence Away” from Semele, HWV 58  

 

A drawing of a rainbow over the ocean.

 Excerpt from Regenbogen op zee en op land, Jan Brandes, 1778 – 1784

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Romantic and contemporary pieces celebrating LGBTQ composers.

Locations

2/29 Home of Clyde Aspevig & Carol Guzman Bozeman | 3/1 Big Timber Lutheran Church Big Timber | 3/2 MSU Recital Hall Bozeman | 3/3 First Presbyterian Church Dillon | 3/4 Home of Erin Vang, Helena. Outreach: 3/4 Montana Chamber Music Noon Notes at Bozeman Public Library for 150 3rd graders and members of the public

Performers

Carrie Krause violin | Julie Gosswiller piano

Program

Sonatina in D Major, D. 385 (1816) Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata for Violin, FP 119 (1943) Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op 42 (1878) Piotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Canzone for Violin & Piano (1961) Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Caprice No 24, Op 40 (1918) Paganini/arr. by Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
A painting of a white peacock on a green background.

 Peacock, Ohara Koson, 1925 – 1936

Pachelbel’s “Musical Delights”

Featuring Pachelbel’s scordatura collection entitled “Musical Delights” with two ‘mis-tuned’ violins along with theorbo and organ

Locations

6/12 Trinity Episcopal Church Jeffers | 6/13 Coulter House Helena | 6/14  Peace of Christ Community Church Bozeman | 6/16 Columbus Community Congregational Church Columbus | 6/17 Kania House Shepherd

Performers

Carrie Krause & Andrew McIntosh baroque violin | John Lenti theorbo | Ian Pritchard organ

Program

Partie V in C Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Partie II in C minor Pachelbel
Sonata III in F major Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Partie I in F major Pachelbel
Partie IV in E minor Pachelbel
Sonata V in E minor Biber
Partie VI in B-flat major Pachelbel
Partie III in E-flat major Pachelbel
A painting of a man watching birds looking at music in a room.

 Interieur met vogelconcert, Cornelis Saftleven, 1620-1715

Lands of the Free: Languages of Improvisation

Styles of improvising differed as much as their nation’s languages, and this program explores the ways they coexisted and influenced each other in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Locations

8/14 Ringling Church, Ringling | 8/15 Lachapelle-Krause House, Bozeman | 8/20 Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky | 8/22 Montana Artists Refuge, Basin | 8/23 Kania House, Shepherd | 8/24 St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Virginia City

Performers

Carrie Krause & Manami Mizumoto, baroque violin | Phoebe Carrai, baroque cello | John Lenti, theorbo

Program

Sonata a 2 violins in F John Caspar Kerll (1627-1693)
Passagio Rotto from Ayres for Violin, Book 2 Nicola Matteis (1650ca-1714)
Sonata Settima in A minor Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)
Ricercar No. 7 from Ricercari, canone, e sonate per violoncello, 1689 Domenico Gabrielli (1651-1690)
Sonata Settima for 2 violins and continuo Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589-1630)
Les Folies d’Espagne Ornees de Variations, from Les Variations Amusantes Nicolas Chedeville (1705-1782)
Partie IV in e minor (b-e-b-e), from Musicalische Ergötzung, Sonata (Adagio)-Aria-Courante-Aria-Chaconne Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Trio Sonata Op. 4 No. 4 in D major, I. Preludio (Grave), II. Corrent (Allegro), III. Adagio-Giga (Allegro) Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)