BEMF Youth Ensemble
Julia McKenzie,
Director
BEMF Beyond Borders 2025
Nina Stern & Cléa Galhano, Directors with guest artists
A String Fort Smith
Lori Fay, Founder and Director
“Folk Music,” Set 1: BEMF Youth Ensemble & A String Fort Smith
Ballet des Coqs
Sonata sopra la Bergamasca
Madre, la de los Primores (excerpt)
Michael Praetorius (German, ca. 1571–1621)
Potentiae Collegium; Josselin Roger, recorder
Salomone Rossi (Jewish-Italian, 1570–1630)
Lydia Brosnahan & Theoden Brown, recorder
Juana Inèz de la Cruz (Mexican, 1651–1695)
The Fairy Queen Turlough O’Carolan (Irish, ca. 1670–1738)
Peat Fire Flame
High Baroque Set: BEMF Youth Ensemble & A String Fort Smith
Marche and Musette
From Burlesque de Quixote, TWV 55:G10
Son Attaque des Moulins à Vent (His Attack on the Windmills)
Le Couché de Quixote (The bedtime of Don Quixote)
Concerto for Viola d’Amore (excerpt)
Scottish Folk Dance (18th c.)
Anna Magdalena Bach Book (German, 1725)
Georg Philipp Telemann (German, 1681–1767)
Benjamin Henderson, harpsichord
Antonio Vivaldi (Italian, 1678–1741)
The Boston Early Music Festival extends heartfelt thanks to
American Recorder Society
Sponsors of BEMF Beyond Borders program
Peter L. Faber
Sponsor of Nina Stern and Cléa Galhano, Directors of the 2025 BEMF Beyond Borders program
Appleby Charitable Foundation
Sponsors of the BEMF Beyond Borders program
Diane and John Paul Britton
Partial Sponsor of the BEMF Youth Ensemble
Amanda and Melvyn Pond
Partial Sponsor of the BEMF Beyond Borders program and Patsy Rogers
Partial Sponsor of the BEMF Youth Ensemble
Chamber Concertino in D for 2 Violins, Viola d’Amore, Gavin Armstrong (b. 2007)
Viola da Gamba, and Harpsichord, Op. 12
Gavin Armstrong, viola d’amore; Jihye Yun & Jovana Zivanovic, violin; Eliot Couvreux-Sharif, viola da gamba; Julia McKenzie, harpsichord
La Réjouissance (excerpt)
from Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
George Frideric Handel (German, 1685–1759)
Nemanja Zivanovic, piccolo trumpet
“Folk Music,” Set 2: BEMF Youth Ensemble, A String Fort Smith & BEMF Beyond Borders
Shandy Hall Country Dance Ignatius Sancho (African-British, ca. 1729–1780)
Lisette, Quitté la Plaine
Oliver Furman, flute
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French, 1712–1778)
Fey-O Haitian Folk Song (ca. 1792)
Tsing-Hua University Recorder Consort & Espaço Cultural da Grota Recorder Ensemble
BEMF Beyond Borders: Filmed Performances
PI Program, Royal Conservatoire The Hague, The Netherlands
Khalil Gibran School of Music, Bcharreh, Lebanon
S’Cool Sounds/Crossing Thresholds Music Program, Nairobi, Kenya
BEMF Beyond Borders: Espaço Cultural da Grota, Lenora Pinto Mendes, Director
Menueto para cravo a 4 mãos
Marcos Portugal (1762–1830); arranged by Carlos Rodrigues
Marcha Anonymous (18th c.); arranged by Carlos Rodrigues
Quando Bárbara encontra Chiquinha
Mourao
Patricia Michelini (b. 1971); based on compositions by Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677) and Chiquinha Gonzaga (1847–1935)
César Guerra Peixe (1914–1999); arranged by Milena Souza
BEMF Beyond Borders: Tsing-Hua University Recorder Consort, Hsin-Chu Recorder Orchestra & Guan-Xi
Junior High School Recorder Ensemble, Chen Meng-Heng, Conductor
Raclette
Tapas
Mejillones — Albondigas — Tortilla
Glen Shannon (b. 1966)
Raphael Benjamin Meyer (b. 1987)
W Double-manual German harpsichord by Allan Winkler, Medford, Massachusetts, 1989, X after Fleischer, property of the Boston Early Music Festival.
LOVE & POWER
Violin
Alexandra Conahan
Blake Canty
Daniel Da Costa
William Emans
Cecily Goho
Julia Hirsch
Henry Jones
Trisha Kim
Elizabeth Kong
Naomi Lee
Nicholas Leras
Eric Li
Rohan Licht
Christine Nguyen
Saras Raghavan
Adithya Subramanian
Sahaj Swaroop
Tate Perna-Timperio
Anjali Vaidya
Leonie Werdich
Jihye Yun
Percy Yeaw
Jovana Zivanovic
BEMF Youth Ensemble
Julia McKenzie, Director & harpsichord
Viola
Gavin Armstrong, viola d’amore
Amy Nguyen
Tyler Perna-Timperio
Milana Zivanovic
Violoncello
Allison Elias
Ben Hashim
William Yang-Schmidt
Colin Xu
Double Bass
Madeleine Garth
Flute
Oliver Furman
Piccolo Trumpet
Nemanja Zivanovic
Percussion
Kira Johnson
BEMF BEYOND BORDERS
Potentiae Collegium Ensemble
Eliot Couvreux-Sharif, bass viol
Daniel Da Costa, treble viol
Cecily Goho, tenor viol
Trisha Kim, bass viol
Eric Li, treble viol
Rohan Licht, bass viol
Amy Nguyen, tenor viol
Christine Nguyen, treble viol
Saras Raghavan, tenor viol
Recorder
Camilo Gutierrez-Lara
Josselin Roger
Lydia Brosnahan
Theoden Brown
Instructors
Sarah Cantor, recorders
Mel Fitzhugh, strings
Mariana Green, strings
Job Salazar Fonseca, bass viol & violin
Nina Stern & Cléa Galhano, Directors & recorders
Espaço Cultural da Grota, Niterói, Brazil
Lenora Pinto Mendes, Director
Recorder
Camilli Vitoria Dias Nascimento
Michelle da Silva Pinheiro
Daniella Anatalício Pereira da Fonseca
Carlos Rodrigues da Silva
Maria Luisa da Conceição da Silva
Percussion
Vagner da Silva Alves
Tsing-Hua University
Recorder Consort
Wu Wei-Hsuan, treble
Su Yu-Chin, contra bass
Hsu Ching-Chiehm, great bass
Lin I-Syuan, tenor
Hsu Ming-Chun, bass
Tan Yong-Ho, contra bass
Chen Yu-Wei, soprano
Lee Hsing-An, soprano
Yu Jun-Yuan, bass
Violin
Rin Ahlert
Gregory Allen
Justin Han
Karly Jones
Hieu Le
Trieu Le
Vincent Lin
Omar Martinez
Austin Stewart
Chen Meng-Heng, Conductor
Hsin-Chu Recorder Orchestra
Chen Tsai-Yen, soprano
Hung Chih-Hsuan, tenor
Lin Meng-Syuan, bass
Wu Yu-Chen, treble
Wang Yu-Han, tenor
Chiu Chi-Ling, tenor
Chang Chih-Hao, great bass
Guan-Xi Junior High School
Recorder Ensemble
Tseng Yu-Chun, treble
Tseng Wei-Cheng, bass
Fan Bing-Yan, soprano
Tsou Tsai-Jie, treble
Sung Sheng-Yuan, bass
Fan Yu-Chieh, bass
A String Fort Smith Faculty
Lori Fay, Founder and Director & violin
Anthony Verge, Assistant Director and viola & violin
Cory Winters, viola
Robert Bradshaw, violoncello
Nathan Boyd, double bass
Student members
Viola
Allison Edens
Thanh Lu
Tru Reynolds
Violoncello
Joshua Chung
Paul Doan
Double Bass
Jessica Domingo
Luis Galdamez Jr.
Adren Stahl
Alumnus
Emily Bieker, violin
Guest Artists
Benjamin Henderson, harpsichord
Angel Duron, viola
Charlotte Scott, viola