Saturday, February 16, 2013, 8pm
Bass Sounds: Music for Unaccompanied Cello from the Early Baroque
6th Degree Concert Series at St. Clement’s
St. Clement’s Eucharistic Shrine
1105 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
In this unique concert, Emily explores lesser-known repertoire for the unaccompanied cello. Musicians and classical music fans alike are familiar with the Cello Suites of J.S. Bach; this program examines the predecessors to these famous pieces. Ricercars by Antonii and Gabrielli showcase the cello as a true bass line voice—many of them don’t expand beyond the tenor range and make good use of the low register. The music is dark, mysterious, and peculiar at times, but never fails to convey a time period of rich musical expression. J.S. Bach’s first Cello Suite will close the program. General Admission; $15 online or $30 at the door.
Saturday, January 5, 2013, 7pm
New Year’s Resolution Baroque Cello Bootcamp Concert
Appleton Chapel, The Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA
Participants of Phoebe Carriai’s annual Baroque Cello Bootcamp will play short works showcasing the Baroque cello repertoire. Emily will be featured as both a soloist and continuo player. Free Admission.
Sunday, November 18, 2012, 4pm
Dragonetti Diaries: Inside the Mind of a Prodigy
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
The Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA
This concert reconstructs the world of bassist Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti, a Venetian virtuoso who managed to cross paths, over his long career, with everyone who was anyone. His Bass Concerto headlines the program, along with a grab bag of many of his favorites and friends—a Vivaldi double flute concerto, a Corelli concerto grosso, a Bach chorale, a Beethoven dance, a Mendelssohn prelude and fugue, and Mozart’s miraculously terrible “Musical Joke.” Bassist Douglas Balliett returns to Harvard for a pyrotechnic tour de force: fistfuls of small notes on a very large instrument! $10 General Admission, $5 students/seniors. RSVP on Facebook.
Saturday, November 3, 2012, 8pm
Ground Breaking: Ground bass and heartbreak from the early Italian Baroque
Cambridge Friends Meeting House
5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA
Explore the secular music traditions of Italy in the 17th century. Revel in the ubiquitous ground bass lines of the time, weep with love songs by Strozzi and Luzzaschi, and delight in the quirks and surprises of canzonas by Frescobaldi and toccatas by Rossi. $15 suggested donation. RSVP on Facebook. Additional free performance in Wellesley.
Monday, November 5, 2012, 11:30am
Ground Breaking: Ground bass and heartbreak from the early Italian Baroque
Weston-Wellesley Lifetime Learning, Unitarian-Universalist Society
309 Washington Street, Wellesley Hills, MA
Free Admission
Sunday, October 28, 2012, 4pm
The Harvest: Early American Songs of Thanks and Praise
The Boston Camerata
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
A program of uniquely compelling spiritual song from the manuscript archives of the Shakers along with a generous selection of other pioneering works from early American songbooks of Boston, New Hampshire, and beyond.Tickets available here (use “HBCO” coupon code at checkout).
Saturday, August 18, 2012, 5:30pm and 8pm
Spanish Opera and Zarzuela Scenes
Iberica Early Music Festival presents El Fuego
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1 Roanoke Ave, Jamaica Plain, MA
Experience the deception, jealousy and passion from the 18th century characters’ love triangle entanglements featured in a selection of arias, duets and choruses from Jose de Nebra and Antonio de Literes stage works. A fine contrast of Italianate baroque drama and Spanish folk music set to the contagious rhythms of castanets. $10 general.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012—Thursday, August 1, 2012, 8pm
I Was Glad: Music of the English Chapel Royal
The Society for Historically Informed Performance presents The Whitehall Project
Weston (7/31), Andover (8/1), and Boston (8/2); more info on locations here.
This program surveys the sacred music of Whitehall through the organ music and anthems with strings of Purcell, his teachers, and his contemporaries. $20 general, $15 student senior.
Monday, May 14, 2012, 7pm
Lauds, Loss, and Longing
In collaboration with Elise Groves for her Graduate Voice Recital
Longy School of Music Early Music Department
Beacon Hill Friends House, Boston
Emily will be playing continuo on anonymous 17th century Italian works on a program also featuring Hildegarde von Bingen, Campra, and Rossi. Free Admission.
Sunday, May 6, 2012, 6pm
In collaboration with Camila Parias for her Graduate Voice Recital
Longy School of Music Early Music Department
Church of the Advent, Boston
Emily will be playing continuo in works by Strozzi. Free Admission.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 8pm
The Intimate French Baroque: Cantate, Sonate, and Motette
Longy School of Music Early Music Department
First Church Cambridge, Jewett Hall
Vocal and instrumental works from 17th and 18th century France. Works by Couperin, Lully, Boismortier, Bernier, and others. Free Admission. Watch videos from this concert here and here.
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 6pm
Emily Davidson, Graduating Masters Recital
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St. in Cambridge, MA
Emily’s full-length solo recital featuring exciting and lesser-known gems of the baroque cello repertoire. J.S. Bach’s elusive and underplayed 4th cello suite, Geminiani’s curiously French 6th cello sonata, Selma y Salaverde’s wild and exciting bass fantasia and duo canzona, and Corrette’s riveting “Le Phénix” for four cellos. Free admission. Streaming live www.concertwindow.com/longy . Free Admission. Watch videos from this concert here.
Saturday and Sunday, January 28 and 29, 4pm and 3pm
“Frederick’s Court” with Musical Offering
Kaji Aso Studio, Boston (1/28) and St. Anne’s in-the-Fields, Lincoln (1/29)
Works by Quantz, Graun, Janistch, Hasse, and W.F. Bach. Watch videos from this concert here and here.
Friday and Saturday, December 16 and 17, 2011, 8pm
Opera: Orontea by Antonio Cesti
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St. in Cambridge, MA
A fully-staged production of one of the most popular operas in 17th century Italy, performed with a period instrument orchestra. Free Admission.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 8pm
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra presents Chamber Music
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
Free Admission. Watch a video from this concert here.
Friday, July 22, 2011, 7pm
American Bach Soloists Academy
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Masterworks Series: Handel’s Ariodante
An opera in three acts directed by Jeffrey Thomas, featuring Margaret Wendt, Cecilia Leitner, Terri Richter, Eric Jurenas, Steven Soph, John Taylor Ward, and Jon Lee Keenan.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 8pm
American Bach Soloists Academy
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Academy-in-Action Concert III
Chamber works by J.S. Bach and Janitsch. Emily plays continuo in a sonata for two viola da gambas and flute by Telemann. Free admission.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 8pm
American Bach Soloists Academy
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Academy-in-Action Concert II
Orchestral works by Telemann and Corelli. Emily performs in arias from the cantatas of J.S. Bach. Free admission.
Monday, July 18, 2011, 8pm
American Bach Soloists Academy
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Academy-in-Action Concert I
Chamber music by J.S. Bach, Heinichen, and Hottetterre. Emily performs in a trio sonata by Telemann. Free Admission.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 12:30pm
Boston Early Music Festival
First Church in Boston
Early Music America’s Young Performers Festival
Longy School of Music Early Music Ensemble
“Ayres of England & Arie di Roma.” Emily performs in a duo by Stradella and as continuo throughout the program. Free admission.
Monday, June 13, 2011, 12:30pm
Boston Early Music Festival
First Church in Boston
Early Music America’s Young Performers Festival
Harvard Early Music Society presents Bacchus et Erigone from Les fêtes de Paphos by Mondonville
The second act of Mondonville’s opera Les fêtes de Paphos performed with a period instrument orchestra. Free admission. Watch a video from this concert here.
Sunday, June 12, 2011, 2pm
Boston Early Music Festival
First Lutheran Church of Boston
Oriana Consort
Works by Byrd and Mozart. Free Admission.
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 8pm
Longy School of Music Early Music Department
“Music in the Papal Courts of Rome”
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St. in Cambridge, MA
Works by Landi, Luzzaschi, D’India, Rossi. Emily appears in a duo by Stradella a solo canzona by Frescobaldi, and as continuo throughout the program. Free admission. Watch videos from this concert here and here.
Sunday, May 1, 2011, 2pm
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and Harvard University Choir
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
Handel’s Messiah
Arguably Handel’s greatest work, performed in its entirety. Free admission.
Saturday, April 30, 8pm
Oriana Consort
The Austria/Brooklyn Connection
First Parish Church in Concord, MA
Works by Brahms, Mozart, Mahler, and Copland. Suggested donation $15; students & seniors $12.
Friday, April 29, 8pm
Improvisation to Performance: Historical Models
Wolfinsohn Recital Room at The Longy School
A program of 17th century division pieces. Emily performs on a solo bass setting of “Susanna” by Selma y Salaverde. Free admission.
Saturday, April 16, 2011, 7pm
Peter Geiersbach’s Baroque Cello Master’s Recital
First Church in Cambridge, Lindsay Chapel
A recital of solo baroque cello repertoire with works by J.S. Bach, Frescobaldi. Emily performs with Peter in a sonata by Barrière. Free admission.
Friday, April 15, 2011, 8pm
Oriana consort
The Austria/Brooklyn Connection
First Lutheran Church of Boston
Works by Brahms, Mozart, Mahler, and Copland. Suggested donation $15; students & seniors $12.
Monday, December 20, 2010, 7pm
Longy School of Music presents The German Cantata
First Church in Cambridge
Works by J.S. Bach, Schütz, Buxtehude, Telemann, and Caldara. Emily plays continuo throughout. Free admission. Watch a video from this concert here.
Sunday, November 21, 2010, 7pm
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
“Le Gout Français”
Works in the French style by Lully, Charpentier, Gilles, Bach, Telemann, and Rameau. $10 general, $5 students and seniors.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 7:30pm
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
Chamber music by Geminiani, Biber, and J.S. Bach. Emily performs in a trio sonata by Telemann. Free admission.
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 5pm
Emily Davidson Solo Baroque Cello Recital
Center Church in Hartford, CT
Works by Stradella, J.S. Bach, Barrière, Handel, and Geminiani. Free admission. Watch a video from this concert here.