Due to the current state of affairs, we have cancelled the Oboe Lovers Concert. We have also moved our Bachfest Silent Auction ONLINE! Current details about these changes are below, but we will be sending out more information online and via our newsletter. We encourage you to keep visiting our website and check your emails for more details coming soon.
CANCELED: OBOE LOVERS DELIGHT CONCERT
Featuring Bach’s “Air on a G String” & Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Oboes
Sunday, May 24 at 4 p.m.
Christ Lutheran Church, 701 S. Charles Street, Inner Harbor Baltimore
This concert was part of Bach in Baltimore’s 2018-2019 Season. View the full season in our Archives.
FULL PROGRAM:
Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major
Vivaldi’s Concerto for two oboes
Albinoni’s Concerto for two oboes Op 9, No. 9
Bach’s “Air on the G String” from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major
FEATURED MUSICIANS:
Sandra (Gerster) Lisicky, oboe
Michael Lisicky, oboe
STUDENT VOICE EXCHANGE:
Wilde Lake High School Choir
BACHFEST FUNDRAISER:
Out of an abundance of caution for the health and well-being of our patrons, musicians, and the greater community, Bach in Baltimore has moved the previously scheduled Bachfest Fundraiser online – stay tuned for more exciting details!
As the flowers bloom and birds serenade, Bach in Baltimore invites you to delight in the bright and penetrating sound of the stately oboe. The afternoon concert presents Vivaldi’s Concerto for two oboes along with Albinoni’s own Concerto for two oboes. The poignant oboe concertos will pair nicely with Bach’s rich and harmonic Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major. We conclude our lovely spring concert with Bach’s beloved “Air on the G String,” from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major. In addition to the powerful fanfare of trumpets, this suite is famous for its slow and stirring movement where the violin plays the melody down an octave and only one string, the G string.
The previously scheduled 10th Annual BachFest Fundraiser has moved online! Details to come.
Tickets for Concert & Bachfest: $25 Regular / $27 Door
Sandra Lisicky, oboe
Sandra (Gerster) Lisicky, oboe, has played with the Bach in Baltimore Orchestra since 2006. She recalls her first concert with Bach in Baltimore performing Bach’s Cantata 1, along with her husband Michael on the English horn.
Additionally, she is the Principal Oboist of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival (Harrisonburg, VA) since 1994, performs regularly with the Baltimore and Maryland Symphonies. Formerly Principal Oboist of the Hartford Symphony, Connecticut Opera, Berkshire Opera, New Sousa Band and Opera New England, Ms. Lisicky was also a member of the Richmond and Virginia (Norfolk) Symphonies, Virginia Opera and Williamsburg Symphonia.
She has collaborated with the New World, Franciscan and Cavani String Quartets on numerous occasions and was a founding member of Soni Fidelis Quintet, a resident ensemble of the Hartt School of Music. In 1998 she participated in a special chamber music concert in London for Prime Minister Tony Blair and members of his Cabinet.
As an oboist there is nothing more rewarding, uplifting, exciting and challenging than playing Bach! What a gift to perform his wonderful repertoire every month with my superlative and supportive Bach in Baltimore colleagues!
Sandra Lisicky, Oboe
Ms. Lisicky has held teaching appointments at more than twenty educational institutions, including James Madison and Virginia Commonwealth Universities, and the Universities of Richmond and Connecticut. She is currently a faculty member of the Baltimore School for the Arts and Peabody Institute and serves as the music coordinator for BSA’s TWIGS program.
Michael Lisicky, oboe
Oboist Michael Lisicky has been performing with the Baltimore Symphony since 2003. He has been praised by critics for his “magical nuances” (Baltimore Sun), “tonal purity” (Richmond Times-Dispatch) and “quite wonderful musicianship” (Boston Globe).
He was a member of the Richmond Symphony and served on the faculty of the University of Richmond, performing as a soloist with the RSO on six occasions. He is also a former member of the Savannah Symphony.
A graduate of the New England Conservatory, Mr. Lisicky has performed as a principal oboist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, and the Taipei Philharmonic.
Lisicky is a founding member of the ensemble, Trio La Milpa, along with BSO principal oboist Katherine Needleman and oboist Sandra Gerster.