Baroque Continues to Beckon

Baroque lovers have an earlier chance to hear even more surprising music from the era as Camerata Pacifica launches its third mini-series of Baroque concerts with Friday’s concert at Hahn Hall featuring series music director-curator and flutist Emi Ferguson, a 2023 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and jazz/Baroque keyboard specialist Dan Tepfer, who has enjoyed Billboard chart-topping success. The program is anchored by Bach’s iconic Two-Part Inventions, with Tepfer performing the well-known work on amplified clavichord – the acoustic version said to be the composer’s favorite instrument – creating a fascinating dialogue between Baroque traditions and his own contemporary improvisation; his own inventions on the keys that Bach omitted. The work was recorded on Tepfer’s 2023 solo album J.S. Bach / Dan Tepfer, Inventions / Reinventions. Ferguson will also offer her own take of Bach in “Partita Recomposed,” performing on traverso “Partita Recomposed,” her re-imagining of Bach’s “Partita for solo flute.” To open the concert, the two team up toshowcase music by Francesco Antonio Bonporti, a composer whose “inventions” influenced Bach himself, so much so that his duo Inventions were misattributed to Bach for centuries. Visit www.cameratapacifica.org for details and tickets to the January 17 concert.