Presented by Montana InSite Theatre. An 80-minute walking production that explores the connection between trees and humans. Musicians: Angella Ahn & Carrie Krause, violin Chi-Chi Bestmann, viola Julia Slovarp, cello Eric Funk, composer June 27 @ 6pm, Backyard of...
The awesome Kevin Hale at KGLT features local musicians and artists Sunday mornings. June 8 at 11am - "The Thistle" Carrie talks with Kevin Hale about all things "Thistle" including our amazing artists and the Cape Breton tradition, along with its intersections with...
Dear Friends, On the heels of an especially robust 2024-25 season, it’s a pleasure to get back to our intimate roots in chamber music with a season featuring more the mellow colors of the viola da gamba and baroque viola. It's a thrill we’re able to offer our...
Heartfelt thanks to our generous donors! Once again, our Give Big donors propelled us beyond our $4,000 goal, this time by 171%. During the 24 hours of Give Big on May 1–2, 31 donors contributed $6,858. A special thank you to BaMM board president Richard Wolff for...
Notorious BOZ is a long-form improv show that celebrates the city of Bozeman, its history and its incredible citizens. Every show will feature a guest "Armando" or monologist who will share stories from their life. The cast will then use those stories as inspiration...
"Fabulous Fanny: A Concert Journey fo the Mendelssohn's Berlin" is on the radio. Recorded by Bob Wall of KGVM at the concert held at Old Main Gallery, Bozeman, January 10, 2025. Tune in on Wed Jan 29 at 8 pm MST at https://kgvm.org/
On March 22 & 23, 2005, Bozeman Symphony's Concertmaster, Carrie Krause, will perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, which is considered to be his most lyrical work. Visit the Bozeman Symphony website for details.
Tune into KGVM on Wednesday and Saturday for an interview with Carrie Krause and Bob Wall playing and conversing highlights of Handel's Messiah! December 18 at 7 pm December 21 at 6 pm On air at 95.9 fm or streaming at kgvm.org
Baroque Music Montana has a new album in the works. Recording has wrapped up after three glorious days in November at Tippet Rise Arts Center. Rehearsals took place at Carrie Krause's Bozeman home in the foothills of the Hyalite mountains, and concerts of the...
Thanks to our first 30 Kickstarter backers, BaMM is on track to record its second album, called I Melt Like Snow in the Sun of Your Beauty. If you’d like to be a backer of this ambitious project, you have until October 11 to get special rewards only available on...
"The common bleting musicke is the drone, hobuis and curtoll." -Stephen Batman, 1582 One of the most significant innovations in sixteenth century woodwind instrument building was the development of the double bore principle. Two parallel holes drilled in the same...
Resounds: Arts and Culture on the High Plains, on Yellowstone Public Radio, features interviews with individuals and organizations creating art in its myriad forms throughout YPR's listening area. Hosts Jennifer Corning and Corby Skinner bring listeners access to the...
BaMM participated in a celebration of long-time Bozeman arts benefactors Drs. Dennis & Anne Wentz. Held at the Ellen Theater on September 28, BaMM was joined by the arts organizations who have benefited greatly from the vision and generosity of the Wentzes. The...
Bach at Trails, June 18, 2024
The 2024-25 Season Reveal party, a celebration for friends and supporters of BaMM, was held at the home of Michael & Sharon Beehler on May 30. This annual appreciation event is always a highlight of the year as we gather to celebrate the past season, enjoy each...
A big heartfelt thanks to all our donors to our 2024 Give Big campaign, May 2-3. We surpassed our $4,000 goal and received $6,800 from 30 donors! We could not be more grateful. These gifts will go toward next season, our most ambitious yet. Christie & Bruce...
Purchase Sonata Tramontana (link goes to Jereco Studios) See more on Jereco Studios Instagram Read more about the...
"Rare Baroque Performance in RL," an article in the Carbon County News about the upcoming BaMM concerts called Handel's Heroines.
The Montana Arts Council highlighted 2023's Youthful Splendor concert on pages 9 and 10 of their summer newspaper: https://art.mt.gov/PDFs/SOA_News-Paper_Summer2023-sm.pdf Youthful Splendor is BaMM's biennial concert by young musicians, directed by Carrie Krause.
Textura.org recently published an interview in September 2023 with Carrie Krause, accompanied by a review of Sonata Tramontana Textura Interview Textura review of Sonata Tramontana
A heartfelt thank you to our generous Give Big Gallatin Valley donors. BaMM raised more than $5,000, on May 4-5, 2023.
In Celebration of Earth, performed by Carrie Krause and Julie Gosswiller on April 1, 2023, at Reynolds Hall on the campus of Montana State University, is available on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6maPU3XV6zs
Excerpts of some of our performances are our YouTube channel. Come visit and subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-d1S5_dzO_bxVL7U7HlNg
Two videos: Sonata for 3 Violins and Continuo by Giovanni Fontana, and Sonata Seconda a 3, Libro 6 by Giovanni Buonamente. Played by Rachel Podger, Carrie Krause and Manami Mizumoto, baroque violins, Nate Helgeson, dulcian, and John Lenti, theorbo. From Baroque Music...
11th & Grant with Eric Funk premiered an episode (Season 14, Episode 6) devoted to BaMM on Feb 16, 2023, featuring Reggie Mobley, countertenor; Elliot Figg, harpsichord; John Lenti, theorbo; and Carrie Krause, baroque violin. The show is the premiere outlet for...
CANDIDE'S VOLTAIRE, featuring Arwen Meyers, soprano; Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Carrie Krause, baroque violin; Sarah Stone, viola da gamba; and John Lenti, theorbo View video of the February 12 show, including John Lenti's pre-concert talk on Voltaire. John's talk...
Fun radio programs coming up! Tune in live or stream (MST): Sunday Jan 22, 9 am on KGLT - violinists Davina Clarke and Carrie Krause discuss their friendship, performance careers as baroque violinists, new albums, and Jan 25 Bozeman concert http://www.kglt.net/ Monday...
Jim Tenevan's Jan 5, 2023 interview with Carrie Krause for the radio show "From the Studio" is podcast here. "Bozeman, Montana-based violinist Carrie Krause firmly believes that music from the Baroque era (roughly 1600-1750) is uniquely communicative and accessible to...
Montana State University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is offering a three-session course called "Baroque Music - Rediscovering our European Musical History," taught by BaMM's Carrie Krause. It meets on Wed, 10 am–noon, Feb 22–Mar 8, 2023, at Hope...
It was a great stroke of coincidence that while shopping for a modern violin, in the modern violin shop center of America, my former teacher was in town visiting the same shop! Andres Cardenes is dear friends with the owner of Bein & Fushi Violins, and here we all...
BaMM is now registered at AmazonSmile where Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to nonprofits.
The August 17, 2022, La Boheme concert held at St. Paul's Episcopal church was a rousing success and was covered in the August 25 issue of the Madisonian newspaper. Proceeds from the concert were donated to the church for restoration of their historic stained glass...
Baroque Music Montana raised more than $8,000 during Gallatin Valley's Give Big 2022 event May 4 and 5, thanks to your generosity. You make our future bright! This support is tremendously meaningful to our organization in sharing joy and beauty through music.
Baroque Music Montana is thrilled to participate once again in Big Gallatin Valley, the 24-hour online and live celebration of nonprofits in Gallatin County. We hope you will consider BaMM as you make your contributions on May 5 and 6. It's your chance to help...
A note from Carrie Krause on her upcoming recording, Sontana Tramontana, with lutenist John Lenti After touring the program in early November - visiting dear new locations of Shelby, Big Sandy, and Lewistown as well as one of our favorites in Bozeman, Old Main Gallery...
The Beyond Baroque concert Recital via Railroad: Historic Montana Violin & Piano, 1890-1920, performed on April 2, 2022, in Reynold Hall on the MSU campus can be seen in its entirety on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO9j7miP2W0. Featuring Carrie Krause...
Sara Levy's Salon concert musicians Carrie Krause, Davina Clarke, Tawnya Popoff, Caroline Nicolas, and composer Athena Carson will be featured on Kevin Hale's classical music show live on KGLT and on Bob Wall's Musician's Spotlight on KGVM. Sun, Jan 2 at 7 pm on KGLT....
Host Joy LaClair interviewed Carrie Krause on September 30, 2021, for her radio show Ecotones, on KGVM, 95.9, Bozeman's wonderful community radio station. The interview was conducted in preparation for BaMM's performance of Amadeus: The Concert, but it covers much...
Carrie Krause was named as one of 20 under 40, an award given by the Bozeman Chronicle to spotlight southwest Montana’s top young business professionals. Award criteria include achieved success as an entrepreneur and improvement of quality of life for others in the...
The cover art for BaMM's upcoming CD, Sonata Tramontana, has been chosen, and it's gorgeous! It is a painting called Etude En Blanc and was painted by Richie Carter, from Kalispell. Carrie first saw his work at Old Main Gallery in Bozeman, where she performed during...
Watch highlights from the Faculty Performance from the Period Performance Workshop here: https://youtu.be/Y5GBr1Hvmyg. The workshop was held August 20-22, 2021, during which 6 faculty and 45 students explored historical performance. Sadly, due to Covid, we were not...
The Bozeman Bach, a music video starring Carrie Krause, won Best Music Video from Naples Film Awards for July 2021! The film was made by Thomas Thomas, founder of Bozeman Arts–Live! and broadcast on Salon/Sanctuary Concerts from New York in May 2021, as part of an...
BaMM's April guest Valencia Baryton Project has released its new CD on July 23. It's called Haydn Baryton Trios: Treasures from the Esterháza Palace, and you can listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1z0mQSvXttaMLBvW2G46bQ?si=WSf3dlkzQ-i5rTjMFajwjw...
In April 2022, the Valencia Baryton Project will be visiting us from Spain for a series of concerts with BaMM, featuring an instrument called the baryton. The baryton will be played by Matthew Baker, and in this article from BerkleeNow, he talks about bringing this...
A BaMM RECORDING! Sonata Tramontana available for pre-order We are pleased to offer advance sales of BaMM’s inaugural recording, Sonata Tramontana. This will be the first commercially-released period instrument recording in Montana, for CD and digital release, of our...
Our Bozeman graphic designer, Matt Cameron, created the Bach Roads of Montana logo. He was inspired by J.S. Bach's initials, in his own hand. From "Manuscripts, Pens and Composers," by Jeffrey Dane: In Bach's day paper was relatively costly, and this may partly...
We did set a record for Give Big! With $3,000 in matching gifts, more than 30 donors raised $7,870 for Baroque Music Montana! This was a 70% increase in number of donors and a whopping 250% increase in money raised over last year. [video width="1920" height="1080"...
Carrie Krause performs J.S. Bach's Violin Sonata no. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001, against a majestic mountain backdrop of Montana’s awe-inspiring natural beauty. Streaming from May 20–27 by Salon/Sanctuary Concerts as part of an early music series called B Live. "A...
Carrie Krause just bought a new, beautiful violin, built in 1740 by Andreas Ferdinand Mayr, known as the maker of Mozart's childhood violin. It will make its first performance premiere in Bozeman during Bach Roads of Montana! Since 2015, Carrie has been playing a...
Join Carrie Krause, violin, and Julie Gosswiller, piano, in pieces celebrating black and women musicians. Tune in on Bozeman Arts—Live! on Thursday, April 8, at 7 pm. This concert is made possible by The Bozeman Symphony and Montana State University School of Music....
This the third year Baroque Music Montana is participating in Give Big, a 24-hour celebration of giving to raise funds for nonprofits serving Gallatin Valley. From 6 pm Thursday, May 6 until 6 pm Friday, May 7. Visit givebiggv.org. Last year, more than 20 donors gave...
Baroque Music Montana and Intermountain Opera Bozeman partner for the first time in a virtual program, on March 20, featuring instrumental and vocal works dedicated to rebirth, hope, and new life. Familiar classics like Vivaldi's "Spring" will be paired with...
Carrie Krause was profiled in the Bozeman Symphony's new Musician Spotlight Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GagYBCSUgI
Every two years, students perform well-crafted baroque concerti with an orchestra of Bozeman's top professional musicians, including three rehearsals and a public concert on Baroque Music Montana's concert series. To apply: Send an audition recording of your compete...
Carrie Krause tunes BaMM's harpsichord in preparation for the recording of the Youthful Splendor concert, to be broadcast on Bozeman Arts—Live on February 10, 2021, at 7 pm. The filming and Bozeman Arts—Live's Thomas Thomas (left) and BaMM board member Rob Maher. ...
BaMM's Carrie Krause will be the soloist with the Billings Symphony on January 23, 2020, playing Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In addition to the live concert, the performance will be streamed. Visit https://billingssymphony.org/shows/classic-series/vivaldi/ for details.
Heigh Ho Holiday!, the holiday concert by Baroque Music Montana and the Bozeman Symphony, premiered on December 12, 2020, and received about 3,000 broadcast views from listeners all over the world, including Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Norway, Austria, Germany, New...
Recording for the Heigh, Ho, Holiday! concert took place on December 6 at First Presbyterian Church. The concert will be available to stream on Saturday, December 12, at 7 pm on BozemanArts-Live.com. Host Thomas Thomas, creator of Bozeman Arts-Live, headed the...
During the 2019-20 Season, Covid-19 made us find new ways to bring outstanding Baroque music to the people of Montana. Read all about it >
Gallatin Valley Land Trust and Baroque Music Montana co-hosted "Bach at the Trails" on October 3, 2020, with students playing at Langhor, Peets Hill, and Sourdough Trails in Bozeman. Thanks to EJ Porth at GVLT for her excitement in making this possible, and to all...
Due to Covid, we are unable to start our season as planned. Subscriptions unused this season may be rolled over to next season, allowing purchase this season of individual concert tickets as desired.
Thanks to you, our recording project fundraising was a success. Exceeding our $5,500 goal, but meeting our needs, we raised $12,805! But sadly, due to the course of Covid, John Lenti was unable to travel for the scheduled recording session. But Carrie was able...
The New York Times printed this article called "5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Baroque Music," https://tinyurl.com/y3cuq9yn, on October 7, 2020, as part of a series that has so far featured classical music, the piano, opera, the cello, Mozart, 21st-century...
Gallatin Valley Land Trust is partnering with Baroque Music Montana to bring Bach to the trails this weekend. On Saturday, October 3, from 12 noon to 1 pm, the Gallatin Valley Advanced String Students are setting up at Sourdough, Langhor Park and Peets Hill trailheads...
Our new portable, retractable banner is beautiful! Incorporating the BaMM logo, designed by Tina Stenger (diabladesign.com), and a photo of a violin made and photographed by Andrew Carruthers (andrewcarruthers.com), Bozeman graphic designer Matt Cameron created this...
A live classical concert experience with violinist Carrie Krause and a stellar guest musician cast, including Julia Slovarp, cello, performed selections from Ravel and Kodaly on August 10, 2010. Krause was then joined by Annabeth Shirley, cello, and Nate Helgeson,...
There are still CDs available for purchase of the spectacular November 16, 2019, performance of the complete collection of the remarkably varied pieces, by J.S. Bach, featuring outstanding local musicians. This live performance, held at Hope Lutheran Church in...
Due to the coronavirus, we are moving our annual Friends celebration to next spring. This way, if need be, we can hold the event outdoors. Our first gathering was last October, and it was great fun! We deeply appreciate our Friends. Simply put, we couldn't exist...
Starting with our August I-90 Collective concerts, Più con Meno - More with Less, tickets will go through EventBrite. Previously, we were using a system native to WordPress, which our website is in. (And you can sign up to be on the waiting list for sold out...
Enjoy these clips of BaMM musicians Carrie Krause and Adriane Post acting up in a Valentine's concert with top Baroque band Apollo's Fire. PORPORA/arr. Sorrell "Alto Giove" / FONTANA Sonata no. 8 in D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FMsFm2Cl-o VIVALDI: Ciaccona in C...
Artists from Bozeman and our surrounding communities have been live-streaming from their shelter spaces on Bozeman Arts —Live!, with a capital campaign simultaneous with each broadcast going to the artist. BaMM's own Carrie Krause was recently featured on April 30,...
Heartfelt thanks to the 20+ donors who contributed more than $1,600 to Baroque Music Montana. This generosity represents a close to 40 percent increase over last year, our first. Some 5,606 Gallatin Valley community members gave $1,735,532 to 195 participating...
7:30 pm on Thursday, April 30, at bozemanarts-live.com. Carrie Krause will play a program of selections from J.S. Bach’s Partita in E major—a violinist’s desert island go-to, L.G. Guillemain’s collections of ‘Amusements’ (1762) for the violin of virtuoso French tunes,...
In response to COVID-19, the June concerts of Baroque Music Montana's 2019-20 season will be performed at a later time. Stay tuned for updates regarding the remainder of the season.
For the second time, Baroque Music Montana is participating in Give Big, a 24-hour celebration of giving to raise funds for nonprofits serving Gallatin Valley. From 6 pm Thursday, April 30 until 6 pm Friday, May 1. Visit givebiggv.org.
A piece from the I-90 Collective's August 23, 2019, performance at the Beehler House in Bozeman is being featured on Performance Today. This national public radio broadcast will take place on Thursday, February 6, 2020. (Yellowstone Public Radio time is 9 am.) The...
If you are up early on Sunday morning, local KGVM radio will broadcast some excerpts of the BaMM Brandenburg Concertos during the 7-8 am portion of Joy LeClaire’s “Harmonics” weekly music program on January 5 FM broadcast: 95.9 MHz KGVM website: http://kgvm.org/...
Happy New Year! In keeping with website naming convention, we have changed our domain name extension from .com to .org. In other words, we are now baroquemusicmontana.org instead of baroquemusicmontana.com. This better reflects our non-profit status. You will want...
If you missed the spectacular November 16, 2019, concert of the Brandenburg Concertos or would like to relive the experience, a Live recording is available from Jereco Studios in Bozeman. Available $20 CD or $18 online. Part of the proceeds will come back to Baroque...
In case you missed it, or if you'd like to relive this wonderful event held on November 8, 2019, here is video recorded and put together by board member Rob Maher. The photo shows Carrie Krause with board president Ben Phinney and Barbara Phinney.
Carrie Krause, Sue Makeever, Megan Ali, Matthew O'Sullivan, Anna Jesaitis, and Julia Slovarp will perform Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 4 and 5, on Nov 2 at noon at the Bozeman Library. This is in advance of BaMM's performance of all of them on Nov 16 (plus a lecture...
Tim Macdonald & Jeremy Ward, a Scottish Baroque Duo from Chicago, will perform during Noon Notes on Monday, October 7, Noon in the Community Room of the Bozeman Public Library and one Tuesday, October 8, Noon in the Hager Auditorium of the Museum of the Rockies....
Thank you so much to our generous donors who gave big during Give Big on May 2 and 3. More than $1,000 was raised, and we are so grateful for your support.
Six young Bozeman musicians presented concertos by Bach, Vivaldi, and Leclair, to an audience of more than 100, in beautiful Inspiration Hall in the Asbjornson Building at MSU, on April 27, 2019. Solo violinists were Dylan and Derek Wonenberg, Ian Novak, Grace...
It is with excitement and pride we announce our 2019-20 season! For the first time, season subscription tickets will be offered for Bozeman concerts. Keep an eye on our website for details. Here is the lineup for Bozeman: The Complete Brandenburg Concertos November...
BaMM would like to share this press release about an upcoming concert series, featuring Carrie Krause as concertmaster. Musikanten Montana announces the 17th annual Montana Early Music Festival January 17-20, featuring the Montana premiere of HIP (Historically...
We are pleased to announce our tour with the Dark Horse Consort in June 2019.
A new harpsichord has come to Bozeman!