đź“… Date: Friday, February 7, 2025
đź•’ Start Time: 4:00 PM
đź“Ť Location: Harkness Chapel, Classroom
👥 Who: Free – open to the public
Our weekly Friday afternoon colloquia feature current research presentations by distinguished visiting scholars, as well as by our own faculty and graduate students in musicology, historical performance practice, and music education.
Following each session, receptions offer a valuable opportunity for social interaction, helping to foster a strong sense of community, camaraderie, and mutual support within the department.
About the Talk
“Curiouser and Curiouser: The Five-String Violin in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"
“Curiouser and Curiouser” is an exploration of the Quinton, a five-stringed instrument with violin and viol characteristics that made its appearance in France around 1730. Very little is known about the Quinton; there are very few references to this instrument, and no specific music written for it. This presentation illuminates different paths taken to find and perform repertoire that may have been played on the Quinton, or on an earlier five-stringed instrument that emerged at the turn of the 18th century. With special guests Mark Edwards (harpsichord) and Catherina Meints (pardessus de viol).
About the Speaker
Julie Andrijeski is a performer, scholar, and teacher of early music and dance. After obtaining degrees in modern violin performance at the University of Denver (B.M.) and Northwestern University (M.M.), Andrijeski came to Cleveland to continue her studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Linda Cerone and thereafter received a D.M.A. from Case Western Reserve University in Historical Performance.
Andrijeski joined the Music Department faculty at CWRU in 2007 and is currently Head of Historical Performance Practice Program and Artistic Coordinator of HPP Ensembles. Additionally, she is Teacher of Baroque Violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Andrijeski’s unique style is built upon her knowledgeable blend of early music and dance, imbuing her performances and teaching with gestural and rhythmic nuance. She is often invited to share her skills and research at other institutions, including a semi-annual residency as Visiting Lecturer at the Juilliard School and engagements at the Oberlin Conservatory, Temple University, the Peabody Conservatory, and Indiana University, among others.
Andrijeski’s special interest in 17th-century music has led to the publication of a chapter on violin performance from that era in the second edition of A Performer’s Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music (Indiana University Press). Her performances with the ensemble Quicksilver as Co-Director with Robert Mealy often focus on this century. The group’s first recording, Stile Moderno: New Music from the Seventeenth Century, made the Top Ten list in New Yorker magazine in 2014. Andrijeski received a coveted Creative Workforce Fellowship in 2016 from Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Arts and Culture to further her research and performance of 17th-century music in manuscript.
Andrijeski maintains an active performing schedule. In addition to her work with Quicksilver, she is Artistic Director and Concertmaster of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and performs with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra among other diverse early music groups across the nation and abroad.
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