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Ensemble
BREVE specializes
in
performing music of the
17th and
18th centuries on
original
instruments. Based in
New York
City since 1985, the
group
has toured the United
States,
Mexico, and Europe,
offering
unique programs
of
extraordinary variety and
charm to
audiences of all ages
and
cultures.
 Telemania!
showcases
the
brilliance,
wit, and spark of
German
Baroque composer
Georg
Philipp Telemann,
and
highlights his celebrated
music
for flute and recorder.
Deborah
Booth, playing
a varied
assortment of
instruments,
is joined by
harpsichordist,
Stephen Rapp
performing
solos, duos, and
trios
(arranged for two).
Since
its inception, BREVE’s
purpose
has been to perform
music
from many eras on
authentic
instruments and in
historically
informed style.
In
addition to playing music
from the
Middle Ages, the
Renaissance,
Baroque, and
Classical
eras, BREVE has
commissioned
new works by
contemporary
composers
for its
modern instrument
combinations.
The ensemble
adds
other players and
instruments
as needed for
varied
repertoire.
Ensemble
BREVE offers
lecture
demonstrations and
children’s
programs, as well
as its
regular full-length
concerts.
“All
performances
were
clean, intelligent,
stylistically
aware and
rhythmically
and
dynamically
alive.”
—The
New York Times
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 Deborah
Booth
Deborah
Booth is a flute and recorder performer of historical and modern
instruments
and the co-founder and director of Ensemble BREVE.
Performances
include the Handel & Haydn Society, the Orchestra of St.
Luke’s,
Boston Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music, Trinity Bach
Vespers
(NYC), Big Apple Baroque, recorder soloist with the Ciompi
Quartet,
Gotham City Baroque Orchestra, Long Island Baroque Ensemble,
Bacchanalia
Baroque Ensemble, and Ivory Consort.
The
Times
reviewed
her performances as “technically precise and musically
expressive.”
Recordings include a CD as flute and recorder soloist with
the
American Boy Choir (American
Songfest),
as well as soundtrack for
the
television show Blue's
Clues.
Ms. Booth teaches in New York City and
Greenwich,
CT; directs the Princeton Recorder Academy; and has taught
and
played each summer at the Amherst Early Music Festival and numerous
other
summer festivals such as Pinewoods Early Music Week. Conducting
experience
includes The Recorder Orchestra of New York (RONY) from
2004
to 2008.
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 Stephen
Rapp
Praised
by critics for “exceptional technique and musicianship” (Hanover,
Germany),
Stephen Rapp has been harpsichordist for Ensemble BREVE
since
2009. He also appears regularly with the Connecticut Early Music
Festival
Orchestra and has been concerto soloist with the American
Classical
Orchestra, REBEL Baroque Orchestra, and ARTEK. A
frequent
organ recitalist, his tours have taken him to Europe as well as
throughout
the United Sates.
Stephen
Rapp’s recordings include a solo organ CD, New
Bach,
on the Raven
label,
and A
North German Christmas with
the American Classical Orchestra
on
the Musical Heritage Society label.
Director
of Music at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Stamford, Connecticut,
since
1992, Stephen Rapp has taught music history at Concordia College,
Bronxville
and given workshops and masterclasses on baroque repertoire
for
the American Guild of Organists. Recently he spent a semester
accompanying
singers at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in the early
music
Voxtet.
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Brief
History
 Ensemble
BREVE has given performances in
NYC
at Trinity Wall Street, St. Paul’s Chapel,
Midtown
Concerts (St. Bart’s), the Cathedral
of
St. John the Divine, St. Patrick’s Cathedral
(Lady’s
Chapel), and Early Music at St. Ignatius
(West
End Avenue). The group has been a
regular
favorite on several church concert series
in
Greenwich CT, Princeton NJ, and Nyack NY.
BREVE
has played at the Boston Early Music
Festival
and regularly presents concerts on the
series,
Downtown Music at Grace in White
Plains
NY.
College
performances include Early Music
at
St. Paul’s Chapel and Casa Italiana at
Columbia
University, State Universities of New
York
at New Paltz and Oneonta, Bennington
College,
Marshall University, New Mexico State
University,
University of Arizona, and Rhode
Island
College.
The
ensemble has performed at the Jewish
Museum
(NYC), the Vanderbilt Museum
(Centerport
NY), and the Huntington (WV)
Museum
of Art.
BREVE
was in residence at SSMA at the
University
of Siena, Italy and toured Tuscany
with
a variety of early music programs.
Upcoming
performances include
Telemania!
on
the Midtown Concerts series at
Immanuel
Lutheran Church in New York and
other
programs at the Roerich Museum (NYC)
and
St. John’s Lutheran Church in Stamford
CT.
Instruments
Ensemble
BREVE tours with a remarkable Italian
single
harpsichord made by Owen Daly of Salem,
Oregon.
The harpsichord’s sound is crisp and
articulate,
and provides wonderful rhythmic
support
of the sort that northern composers
such
as Telemann prized for performances of
their
music.
Deborah
Booth performs with a varied
assortment
of 17th and 18th century copies of
flutes
and recorders from the workshops of Von
Huene,
Cameron and Prescott.
Contact
Deborah
Booth
884 West End Avenue, #125, NY, NY 10025
TEL
212-864-6490 CEL 646-596-4880
deborah@flute-recorder-deborahbooth.com
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