Arts Alive Presents the Bach Aria Soloists

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Arts Alive is pleased to host a rare opportunity to visit a premier contemporary art collection in a beautiful Sunset Hills home and then stay for a special concert in their lovely garden presented by the Bach Aria Soloists, including Elizabeth Suh Lane and Beau Bledsoe.

Saturday, June 26th
6:00 pm

This event is partially sponsored by UMB Bank, which will allow us to offer an especially nice reception and garden seating.

We must limit attendance to 60 guests so please sign up early to insure a place at this event.

**The exact location will be sent to you as we near the date.**

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As always, tickets are only $25 each
and include food and drink

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About Bach Aria Soloists

The Bach Aria Soloists, celebrating their tenth anniversary this season, are the dynamic ensemble dedicated to presenting the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporaries and those inspired by him to the community.

Through informative performances of vocal and instrumental chamber music, master classes, and BachReach education, the Bach Aria Soloists brings the brilliant music of Bach, the Baroque, and the contemporary to new life in the intimate settings for which this music was intended.

World Premieres are a staple with the Bach Aria Soloists. In 2004, the BAS premiered composer Susan Kander's imaginatively inspired Partite Americaine at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design. In 2006, Bach Aria Soloists commissioned Elizabeth Koeppen, Associate Artistic Director of Parsons Dance in New York City, to choreograph and perform the world premiere, Accompagnata, a ViolinDance, combining the solo violin Sonatas and Partitas of Bach with modern dance. The year 2007 marked the first visit of the world's preeminent Bach scholar,Dr. Christoph Wolff, to Kansas City to narrate the BAS Bach Unlocked concert for a record-breaking crowd at the Kansas City Public Library. Dr. Wolff is currently the Adams University Professor of Music at Harvard University, Director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, and President of the Repertoire International des Sources Musicales.

In 2009, an innovative partnership with the Owen/Cox Dance Group featured two world premiere collaborations: Bach's beautiful Sonata No. 6 for Violin and Harpsichord and Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello.

Elizabeth Suh-Lane, founder, Executive-Artistic Director, and solo violinist of the BAS has performed concerts worldwide as a chamber, solo, and orchestral musician. She was a member of one of the world's great orchestras, the London Symphony Orchestra, and performed regularly with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Since her return to the US, she has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago's Music of the Baroque, and is in demand as a chamber musician and teacher across the US. This year, she will perform a series of concerts with renowned musicians, Matt Haimovitz, cello and Andy Simionescu, violin.

Beau Bledsoe is constantly evolving by exploring new repertoire, cultures and programming. His studies in southern Spain and involvement with the tango scene of Buenos Aires have led him to create a large body of evocative arrangements, transcriptions and compositions. Mr. Bledsoe has worked extensively with the Guthrie Theater, classical violinist Gregory Sandomirsky and with the Argentine Tango quintet Tango Lorca, as well as Flamenco dancers Miel Castagna and Rey Duran. His music is regularly programmed on radio1 BBC, "Segovia a Yupanki" Radio Nacional Argentina, and "All Songs Considered" on NPR.

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