Join us for a program featuring music by Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), Josef Antonín Štěpán (1726–1797), and Leopold Koželuh (1747–1818), performed by Harmonia Stellarum Houston.
Performance is Monday, January 30th, 6:30 p.m. at Czech Center Museum Houston. Doors open at 6 p.m. with light refreshments. Complimentary valet parking will be available.
Harmonia Stellarum Houston is an ensemble of vocal and instrumental virtuosos who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed performances of well-known as well as newly discovered musical masterworks.
TIME AND LOCATION
Czech Center Museum Houston
Doors open at 6 p.m. Concert starts at 6:30 p.m.
ABOUT
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) Arianna a Naxos Cantata for soprano and fortepiano
Josef Antonín Štěpán (1726–1797) Sonata for violin and fortepiano Allegro vivace – Andantino – Tempo di Menuetto
Leopold (bapt. Jan Antonín) Koželuh (1747–1818) Quanto è mai tormentosa Cantata for Soprano, Violin, and Fortepiano
TICKETS
General Admission- $50 CCMH member - $30
Student - $20 (valid ID required upon entry)
We hope to have you join us!
meet the artists:
Dutch soprano Josefien Stoppelenburg is best known for her dazzling vocal agility and her passionate and insightful interpretations. Stoppelenburg has performed all over the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America as a Baroque and oratorio specialist, and as a concert singer. She has performed most major oratorio works by Handel, Haydn, Bach, and Mozart. Stoppelenburg has performed for the Dutch royal family on several occasions.
New York born Manami Mizumoto, started her lifelong relationship with music at age 3 on the violin. Manami is a graduate of the Juilliard School where she earned a Bachelor’s with Catherine Cho and Joel Smirnoff, a Masters in Historical Performance, and graduated with the Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant. In 2022, she was selected as the newest member of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and continues to be a Fellow of The English Concert in America, elected in 2021.
Austrian conductor, harpsichordist, and musicologist Mario Aschauer has made his life’s work the interface of music scholarship and performance. Mario holds degrees from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, the University of Vienna, and the Linz Bruckner Conservatory. Upon completion of a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale School of Music, he accepted a faculty position at Sam Houston State University where he is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Early Music Research and Performance. He also teaches harpsichord and basso continuo at Rice University and serves as organist at First Lutheran Houston.