Aulos, 
   CHRISTOPHER KRIEGER, flute

   MARC SCHACHMAN, oboe

   LINDA QUAN, violin

   MARTIN LUTZKE, violoncello
   ARTHUR HAAS, harpsichord

April 11, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.

Formed in 1973 by five Juilliard graduates, The Aulos Ensemble remains one of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished groups devoted to the performance of music in its historical context.  The ensemble has remained at the forefront of a movement that was to capture the imagination of the American listening public. In 1978 with the release of their recording, "Masterpieces of the High Baroque", Aulos' reputation for exhilarating performances informed with scholarly insight was firmly established. In those groundbreaking years, the group's innovative programming featured a blend of flute, oboe, violin, cello, and harpsichord, later adding a viola da gamba.  Aulos established an uncompromising standard of excellence in performance that resulted in invitations from virtually all of this country's major chamber music presenters. This exposure helped create a new audience awareness for the rich rewards of this repertoire performed on "period instruments."

Among the stars of the "original instrument" movement that have appeared with the Ensemble over the years are harpsichordists Trevor Pinnock and Albert Fuller, violinists Jaap Schroeder and Stanley Ritchie, cellist Anner Bylsma, oboist Michel Piguet, and vocalists Jan de Gaetani, Bethany Beardslee, Charles Bressler, Julianne Baird, Dawn Upshaw, Sanford Sylvan, and Derek Lee Ragin.

Now in its fourth decade, Aulos continues to explore new projects and develop outlets for its music-making.  The 2006-7 season saw its first presentation of Handel's masque Acis and Galatea, performed in a version approximating the size of the composer's vision for the piece—5 singers and 8 instrumentalists without a conductor—it was a huge hit with presenters, audiences and critics.  The New York Times wrote: "In all, it was an utter delight".  The Ensemble has developed a true chamber orchestra program as well, featuring Handel's complete Water Music in a performance with between 17 and 23 players.  Where appropriate, Aulos has created residencies in which the group and its guests teach and coach young professionals and then join them in these performances.  And 15 years after the release of their Christmas CD from the Metropolitan Museum, the Ensemble and Julianne Baird collaborated on In Dulci Jubilo, a recording featuring much of  the new material uncovered in those many years of Christmas concerts.  This CD was released in the fall of 2006 to critical acclaim, and is the beginning in a new series of recordings in an affiliation with Centaur Records. 

Released in the fall of 2008, Aulos’ unique version of two of Rameau's wonderful opera suites, Les Indes Galantes and Les Fêtes d'hébé, based on suggestions of the composer in 'short-score' manuscripts was the first recording ever done in this chamber ensemble setting.

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