ChamberQUEER presents: BaroQUEER at ShapeShifter Lab

From sarabandes to tangos (and everything in between), ChamberQUEER’s BaroQUEER program at ShapeShifter Lab explores the influence of dance forms on the canon of early western classical music in Europe and its colonies, as well as their legacy in the music of today. This program recontextualizes “historically informed performance” as a critically conscious conversation with the past, highlighting the co-opting of French and English country dances by the French court as ground zero for a trajectory of musical evolution that extended far enough into the present to include the disco-influenced Stay on It by Julius Eastman.
Additional featured repertoire in this recital will include works by Charpentier (Que je sens de plaisir from La Feste de Ruel), Cullen O’Neil (Suite in G Minor), Arcangelo Corelli (from the Trio Sonatas), Rufus Wainwright (Poses), Astor Piazzolla (Oblivion), and more surprises.
Accompanying ChamberQUEER’s core lineup of Jules Biber (baroque cello), Danielle Buonaiuto (soprano) and Brian Mummert (baritone), the evening will also feature special guest performers Rafa Prendergast (baroque violin), Keats Dieffenbach (baroque violin), Peter Lim (harpsichord and recorder), and Eli McCormack (male soprano). Musicologist and friend of ChamberQUEER Isaac Jean-François has provided research and curatorial support for this program.