Duo Marchand takes its name from a family of court musicians that flourished in 17th-century France. In recent seasons the Duo has performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Cloisters; Connecticut Early Music Festival; CityMusic in Columbus (OH); the Great Falls (VA) Chamber Music Series; The Hudson (NY) Opera House; the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers; The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration in Cold Spring; the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments; The French Church on Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz (NY); Baroque Sundays at Stony Brook; Moravian College in Bethlehem (PA); the Lute Society of America Conference and Seminar in Cleveland; Washington D.C.'s historic downtown Church of the Epiphany; the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York; and the Yale Center for British Art.
Duo Marchand performed a series of concerts under the auspices of the New York Public Library's exhibition of illuminated manuscripts, "The Splendor of the Word." The Duo was also presented by the New York Botanical Garden in a series of performances ancillary to its special exhibition, "The New Renaissance Garden." The Duo's program of songs from the Shakespeare plays has twice been broadcast nationwide over Sirius XM Radio.
"A skilled, cogently thought-out performance. . . . Young's gentle voice glided easily between her highest and lowest notes, adhering carefully to phrasing that made both musical and poetic sense. The duo . . . captured every emotional color and musical inflection."
—The Washington Post
on "Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs from Shakespeare"
LISTEN!
This merry pleasant Spring
ARTIST BIOS
"Young has an elegant, dark-hued soprano voice that she employs with a winning mixture of formal restraint and emotional intensity. Her diction is excellent, her pitch sense spot-on."
—The Washington Post
" . . . Marcia Young's soprano adds a welcome degree of clarity and focus to the overall sound."
—American Record Guide
(On "Masters, Monsters, & Mazes"—TREFOIL—MSR 1095)
Soprano and historical harper MARCIA YOUNG is a regular member of the renaissance group My Lord Chamberlain's Consort and the medieval trio Trefoil, which has toured widely since its founding in 2000. In recent years she has performed with the Folger Consort, the Newberry Consort, Parthenia, and the renaissance band Piffaro, and has been heard in recital on the Ars Antiqua series in Chappaqua (NY); The Distinguished Artists Series in Syosset; the HotShops gallery space in Omaha; and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Young has taught vocal and instrumental classes at the San Francisco Early Music Society's Medieval and Renaissance Workshop. During the academic year she serves as Director of Performance Studies for the Department of Music, Stern College, Yeshiva University. She is also a classical radio host for WQXR-New York.
"Rutherford was in every way a sympathetic partner. . . . [he] plucked his lute with digital dexterity and an unusually keen sense of shading."
—The Washington Post
ANDY RUTHERFORD began studying the lute in connection with his interest in 17th-century art, especially the paintings of Caravaggio and Vermeer, which often feature the instrument. A regular member of My Lord Chamberlain's Consort, Rutherford has also appeared at Tanglewood and Lincoln Center with the Mark Morris Dance Group, and on the Temple of Dendur series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He performs regularly with such ensembles as Empire Baroque, Parthenia, the New York Consort of Viols, Musica Antiqua New York, Chacona, New York's Ensemble for Early Music, and the Big Apple Baroque Band. Internationally recognized as a builder of lute-family instruments, Mr. Rutherford has taught and lectured on the history of lute design at the Lute Society of America Conference and Seminar.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS LEE
SEASON 2018-2019
Thursday, April 11, 2019, 3:00 p.m.
Carnegie East House, New York (private performance)
Sounds and Sweet Aires: Songs from Shakespeare
Saturday, April 27, 2019, 4:00 p.m.
Edgartown Library, Martha's Vineyard
Musicke for the Theatre
Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 7pm
Kosciuzsko Foundation, New York
A Pastoral Sampler
Music Before 1800 Spring Gala
Sunday, December 29, 2019, 2:00 p.m.
Guilderland Public Library
Guilderland, New York
A Renaissance Holiday
SEASON 2017-2018
Sunday, November 12, 2017, 3:00 p.m.
The Hyde Collection
Glens Falls, New York
Music for Monarchs
Presented by the DiBlasiis Chamber Music Series
Sunday, November 26, 2017, 2:00 p.m.
East Greenbush Community Library
East Greenbush, New York
Eliza Is the Fairest Queen
Saturday, December 2, 7:00 p.m.
A Victorian Christmas Concert
The Salisbury Four [with Marcia Young, voice and harp]
The Academy Building
24 Main Street, Salisbury CT
Presented by The Salisbury Association
Sunday, December 3, 2017, 2-3 p.m.
Andy Rutherford, lute
Troy Public Library
As part of 35th annual Troy Victorian Stroll
Saturday, April 7, 2018, 3:00 p.m.
Sounds and Sweet Aires: Songs from Shakespeare
Floyd Memorial Library
539 First Street, Greenport NY
Program TBA
Sunday, April 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.
Eliza Is the Fairest Queen: Shakespeare's World
Edgartown Public Library
Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA
Saturday, July 21, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Conservancy Hall
Glen, New York
Program TBA
SEASON 2015-2016
Saturday, December 12, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
Church of St. Joseph in the Village
Noe, Noe! Renaissance and Baroque Christmas
With Canticum Scholari
Sunday, April 17, 2016, 5:00 p.m.
Music at St. Paul's
St. Paul's in Englewood
133 Engle Street, Englewood NJ
Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs from Shakespeare
Thursday, April 21, 2016, 3:00 p.m.
'Tis Nature's Voice
Carnegie East House, New York
(Private performance)
Saturday, April 30, 2016, time TBA
Edgartown Public Library
Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard
Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs from Shakespeare
Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 12:30 p.m.
A Little Midday Music
Church of the Transfiguration
One East 29th Street, New York
'Tis Nature's Voice
SEASON 2014-2015
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 12:00 noon
Eliza Is the Fairest Queen
Hudson Valley Community College
80 Vandenburgh Avenue, Troy NY
Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 12:30 p.m.
A Little Midday Music
Church of the Transfiguration
One East 29th Street, New York
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos
With special guest Ruth Cunningham of Anonymous 4,
voice, Baroque flute, recorder
Friday, December 12, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
Church of St. Joseph in the Village
Noe, Noe! Renaissance and Baroque Christmas
With Canticum Scholari
Sunday, March 1, 2015, 2:00 p.m.
Bethlehem Public Library
Delmar, New York
Fairest Isle: Music for Monarchs
Thursday, April 23, 2015, 3:00 p.m.
Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs from Shakespeare
Carnegie East House, New York
(Private performance)
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 12:30 p.m.
A Little Midday Music
Church of the Transfiguration
One East 29th Street, New York
Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs from Shakespeare
Tuesday, June 9, 1:30 p.m.
Beacon Hill Friends House
6 Chestnut Street, Boston MA
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos
With special guest Ruth Cunningham of Anonymous 4,
voice, Baroque flute, recorder
Boston Early Music Festival Fringe
SEASON 2013-2014
Thursday, October 17, 2013, 1:15 p.m.
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos
With special guest Ruth Cunningham of Anonymous 4,
voice, Baroque flute, recorder
Friday, February 28, 2014, 8:00 p.m.
Tune Thy Music to Thy Heart: The harp and cittern in
Moravian daily life
Biennial conference, Society for 18th-Century Music
Peter Hall, Moravian College
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Wednesday, April 23, 6:00 p.m.
Joy of Spring
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York
Old Cadets Chapel (Private performance)
Thursday, April 24, 2014, 3:00 p.m.
Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs from Shakespeare
Carnegie East House, New York (Private performance)
Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
Eliza Is the Fairest Queen
Royal Oak Foundation, New York
Sunday, May 4, 2014, 4:00 p.m.
Music at St. Paul's
St. Paul's in Englewood
133 Engle Street, Englewood NJ
Fairest Isle: Songs for Sovereigns
SEASON 2012-2013
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music
Tune thy music to thy heart
Borhek Chapel, Comenius Hall
Moravian College
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Saturday, November 17, 2012, time TBA
Third Presbyterian Church
Troy, New York
(Private event)
Program TBA
Sunday, January 27, 2013, 3:00 pm
Music on Madison
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos
With special guest Ruth Cunningham of Anonymous 4,
voice, Baroque flute, recorder
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Music at Noon
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy NY
Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs of Shakespeare
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 12:30 p.m.
A Little Midday Music
Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner)
One East 29th Street, New York
Songs of Scotland and Ireland
For cittern, voice, and harp
Sunday, May 19, 2013, 4:00 p.m.
Music at St. Paul's
St. Paul's in Englewood
133 Engle Street, Englewood NJ
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos
With guest performer Karol Steadman, soprano
Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 12:30 p.m.
A Little Midday Music
Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner)
One East 29th Street, New York
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos
With guest performer Karol Steadman, soprano
Friday, June 14, 1:30pm
Boston Early Music Fringe
Beacon Hill Friends Meeting House
6 Chestnut Street, Boston
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos
With special guest Ruth Cunningham of Anonymous4,
soprano and Baroque flute
OTHER RECENT CONCERTS
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 1:15pm
Midtown Concerts
Immanuel Church, 122 East 88th St., New York
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos
With special guest Ruth Cunningham of Anonymous4,
soprano and Baroque flute
Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
East Greenbush Community Library
East Greenbush, New York
Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs from Shakespeare
Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 12:30 p.m.
A Little Midday Music
Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner)
One East 29th Street, New York
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos
With special guest Ruth Cunningham of Anonymous4,
soprano and Baroque flute
Tuesday, May 29, 12:15pm
Noonday Concerts
Church of the Epiphany
Washington, D.C.
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos
With special guest Ruth Cunningham of Anonymous4,
soprano and Baroque flute
Sunday, January 27, 2013, 3:00pm
Music on Madison
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York
Sunday, September 25, 2011, 4:00pm
Pine Hollow Arboretum Benefit Concert and Reception
'Tis Nature's Voice
Historic Slingerlands Methodist Church
1497 New Scotland Road
Slingerlands, New York
Admission: $20 donation
Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 12 noon
Tuesdays at Noon
St. Paul's Church
58 Third Street, Troy NY
The Rose, the Shamrock, and the Thistle:
Songs of the British Isles
Saturday, March 19, 7:30pm
St. Mark's Early Music Concert Series
St. Mark's Episcopal
754 Montauk Highway, Islip, Long Island
Musicke Dear Solace: In praise of song
Sunday, March 20, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
Baroque Sundays at Three
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, Long Island, New York
Tuesday, March 28, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Stern College, Yeshiva University
Ivry student Center, Schottenstein Hall
29th and Lexington, New York
Faculty Recital
With David Glaser, viola da gamba
Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 12:30 p.m.
A Little Midday Music
Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner)
One East 29th Street, New York
Program TBA
Thursday, June 16, 2011, 11:00 a.m.
Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concert
My Cousin Vinny: Shoestring Italian Relations
Beacon Hill Friends House
6 Chestnut Street, Boston MA
Friday, October 15, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music
Moravian Archive, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Awake, My Cetra: Moravian Music and the Cittern
Saturday, October 16, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Connecticut Early Music Festival
New London, Connecticut
My Cousin Vinny: Shoestring Italian Relations
Details TBA
Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 1:15 p.m.
Midtown Concerts
Immanuel Church, 122 East 88th St., New York
Wake all the dead, what ho! What ho! Songs of death and the spirit world
Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 1:30 p.m.
Hudson River Museum
511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers NY
A Renaissance Holiday
Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 12:30 p.m.
A Little Midday Music series
Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner)
One East 29th Street, New York
Sounds and Sweet Ayres: Songs of Shakespeare
Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concerts
Church of the Epiphany
Washington, D.C.
Jubal's Lyre: A 1770 Musicale
Friday, July 2, 2010, 1:15 p.m.
Lute Society of America Conference and Seminar
Harkness Chapel, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
My Cousin Vinny: Shoestring Italian Relations
Thursday, April 23, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Thursdays at 8
Church of the Ascension
221 West 107th Street (at Amsterdam)
Sounds and Sweet Aires: Songs from Shakespeare's Plays
Monday, April 27, 2009, 1:00 p.m.
Concerts at One, St. Paul's Chapel
Jubal's Lyre: A 1770 Musicale
Broadway and Fulton Street, New York
Tuesday, May 12, 8:00 p.m.
Faculty Concert, Stern College for Women
With David Glaser, viola da gamba
Ivry Student Center, Schottenstein Hall
29th Street at Lexington Avenue, New York
Friday, June 12, 2009, 1:30 p.m.
Jubal's Lyre: A 1770 Musicale
Boston Early Music Festival
The College Club of Boston
44 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 12:30 p.m.
A Little Midday Music series
Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner)
One East 29th Street, New York
Jubal's Lyre: A 1770 Musicale
Saturday, October 3, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
Jubal's Lyre: A 1770 Musicale
Morris-Jumel Mansion
Roger Morris Park
65 Jumel Terrace at 160th St., East of St. Nicholas Ave.
New York, NY 10032
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 1:15 p.m.
Music for the Spirit, Midtown Concerts
Church of St. Bartholomew
Park Avenue at 50th Street, New York
Jubal's Lyre: A 1770 Musicale
Mother's Day (Sunday, May 11, 2008), 4:00 p.m.
Music and Arts Healing Ministry
St. Jacobi Evangelical Lutheran Church
5406 Fourth Avenue, Sunset Park
Brooklyn, New York
Jubal's Lyre: A 1770 Musicale
Tuesday, June 23, 2008, 10:30 p.m.
Lute Society of America Conference and Seminar
Harkness Chapel, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Jubal's Lyre: A 1770 Musicale
Monday, September 8, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York
A Merry Heart: Music for a Wandering People
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History
A Merry Heart: Music for a Wandering People
15 West 16th Street, New York
CURRENT PROGRAMS
Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell's Sopranos.—Luscious soprano duets, arias, and instrumental dances from the 17th-century theatrical works of Purcell and Blow. With special guest Ruth Cunningham of Anonymous 4 on voice, recorder, and Baroque flute.
'Tis Nature's Voice.—The Duo sings of Nature and her charms in 17th-century songs and pastoral dance melodies. Birds and flowers, sunlight and shadow, and the fierce and gentle gods of the natural world play leading roles in the verses of Renaissance poets like Campion, Jonson, and Shakespeare.
Wake all the Dead, what ho! What ho!—Originally conceived as a 17th-century Halloween program, featuring songs of death and the spirit world—including "Fortune my foe," the famous "Hanging Tune" of Elizabethan England.
Jubal's Lyre: A 1770 Musicale—
This program gives an overview of the domestic music-making scene of Colonial America, which maintained close ties to trends and fashions in the British Isles, including the London stage. The spotlight is on Duo Marchand's vintage 1770 "English Guittar" (at left) and Baroque triple harp.
Sounds and Sweet Airs.—Songs from the Shakespeare plays in settings from the Bard's time, as well as from later 17th-century productions with incidental music by such composers as Purcell and Blow.
Courtly Pastimes.—Music of fashion in the European courts of the 16th century, including examples of the Italian frottola, the Parisian chanson, and songs and instrumentals from the music- and dance-loving court of Henry VIII.
Songs for Sovereigns.—Music designed to flatter and delight Queen Elizabeth—as well as her successor, King James—with direct references to such royal virtues as beauty, chastity, wisdom, benevolence, and courage in battle. Instrumentals include "Queen Elizabeth's Galliard," "The Queen's Goodnight," and Elizabeth's favorite dance tune, "La volta."
Amor e gratioso: Music for a Renaissance Spring.—The pastoral tradition in 16th-century French, Italian, and English song, together with lute fantasias and instrumental dances.
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