Adriane Post, Edwin Huizinga; solo violins
Beth Wenstrom, violin
Kyle Miller, Karina Schmitz; violas
Loren Ludwig; viola da gamba
Kivie Cahn-Lipman; viola da gamba and lirone
Paul Dwyer; violoncello
Doug Balliett; violone
Simon Martyn-Ellis; theorbo
Elliot Figg; harpsichord and organ

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Antonio Bertali: Sonata a 8 in a minor --- ACRONYM

Kyle Miller; viola
Karina Schmitz, Edwin Huizinga, Adriane Post, Beth Wenstrom; violins
Paul Dwyer; violoncello
Doug Balliett; violone
Simon Martyn-Ellis; theorbo
Elliot Figg; harpsichord

Antonio Bertali: Sonata a 5 in g minor --- ACRONYM

Edwin Huizinga, Beth Wenstrom; violins
Kivie Cahn-Lipman; viola da gamba
Simon Martyn-Ellis; theorbo
Elliot Figg; harpsichord and organ

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Antonio Bertali: Sonata a 2 in G Major --- ACRONYM

Adriane Post, Edwin Huizinga, Beth Wenstrom; violins
Kyle Miller, Karina Szhmitz; violas
Loren Ludwig; viola da gamba
Paul Dwyer; violoncello
Doug Balliett; violone
Simon Martyn-Ellis; theorbo
Ben Katz; harpsichord

Johann Pezel: Sonata Ciacona a 6 in B-flat Major --- ACRONYM

Sample the first four tracks from ACRONYM's latest album, featuring the wild harmonic and metric surprises of the instrumental music of Giovanni Valentini (c1582-1649)

Giovanni Valentini: Canzon a 6 In G Minor

Giovanni Valentini: Sonata a 5 In C Major

Giovanni Valentini: Aria a 2 In G Minor

Giovanni Valentini: Sonata a 5 In G Minor

Excerpts from ACRONYM's fourth studio recording: Wunderkammer!



Wunderkammer

Daniel Eberlin: Sonata a2 in E Minor

Andreas Oswald: Sonata a3 in E Minor

Johann Philipp Krieger: Sonata a4 in F Major

Adam Drese: Sonata a6 in C Major

Samuel Capricornus:  Sonata a8 in A Minor

Baroque string ensemble ACRONYM is dedicated to giving modern premieres of the wild instrumental music of the seventeenth century. The 12-member group formed in 2012 to create the first recording of the Alphabet Sonatas of Johann Pezel. ACRONYM’s following disc, sonatas by Antonio Bertali, was released in 2014 to critical acclaim; Alex Ross selected this disc as a CD Pick, and Early Music America Magazine wrote “the idiomatic performances and spacious recording by these young musicians are absolutely first rate. This is a disc…belonging in everyone’s collection.”

Recent and upcoming engagements for ACRONYM include Music Before 1800 (NYC), Academy of Early Music (Ann Arbor), Miami Bach Society’s Tropical Baroque Festival, Mawahie Performing Arts Center’s Close Encounters (Great Barrington, MA), Electric Earth Concerts (Peterborough, NH), Five Boroughs Music Festival (NYC), Midtown Concerts (NYC), Holy Trinity Lutheran (NYC) and the Glencairn Museum (Bryn Athyn, PA).

In 2015 ACRONYM released a third album – the first recordings of Giovanni Valentini’s instrumental works – which was praised in Gramophone for being “played with expertise, enthusiasm, and an almost tactile sense of timbre.” In 2016 ACRONYM released its fourth album: Wunderkammer. Forthcoming projects include the first recording of Valentini’s 1616 book of madrigals with the vocal ensemble Les Canards Chantants and a disc of the music of Rosenmüller with baritone Jesse Blumberg.

ACRONYM’s musicians (violinists Edwin Huizinga, Johanna Novom, Beth Wenstrom, Adriane Post; violists Karina Schmitz, Kyle Miller; gambist Loren Ludwig; cellists Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Paul Dwyer; bassists Doug Balliett; theorbist Simon Martyn-Ellis; and keyboardist Elliot Figg) can be heard in Apollo’s Fire, Tafelmusik, Handel and Haydn Society, International Contemporary Ensemble and Chicago Lyric Opera.

ACRONYM ensemble

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