Engagements
Upcoming Events
2019
February 15, 2019
Suitte Royale, Early Music Ensemble
Ruta Bloomfield (harpsichord), John L. Robinson (flauto taillo, flauto basso and bass dulcian), James Garafalo (viola da gamba). Guest artist: Dr. Asuncion Ojeda (Baroque flute).
The Master’s University (21726 Placerita Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita, CA 91321), 7:30 p.m.
For more information, please e-mail SuitteRoyale@gmail.com or call 310-729-0173.
February 16, 2019
Suitte Royale, Early Music Ensemble
Ruta Bloomfield (harpsichord), John L. Robinson (flauto taillo, flauto basso and bass dulcian), James Garafalo (viola da gamba). Guest artist: Dr. Asuncion Ojeda (Baroque flute).
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Glendale (1020 N Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91202), 7:00 p.m.
For more information, please e-mail SuitteRoyale@gmail.com or call 310-729-0173.
Past Events
2018
August 31, 2018
Music of the Baroque: Early, Middle, and Late
Suitte Royale, Early Music Ensemble
Ruta Bloomfield (harpsichord), John L. Robinson (flauto taillo, flauto dolce), James Garafalo (viola da gamba). Guest artist: M. Anne Rardin (Baroque violin).
Featuring works by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Michel de La Barre, Gaspard Le Roux, Johann Pfeiffer, and Daniel Speer.
Powell Library, The Master’s University (21726 Placerita Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita, CA 91321), 7:30 p.m.
For more information, please e-mail SuitteRoyale@gmail.com or call 310-729-0173.
January 26, 2018
Le Jardin des Instruments
Suitte Royale, Early Music Ensemble
Ruta Bloomfield (harpsichord), John L. Robinson (flauto taillo, flauto dolce), James Garafalo (viola da gamba). Guest artist: Alexa Haynes-Pilon (treble viol, Baroque cello, Baroque bassoon).
Featuring works by Johann Molter, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Johann Kuhnau, Luis-Antoine Dornel, François Couperin, Antonio Lotti, and Georg Philipp Telemann.
Powell Library, The Master’s University (21726 Placerita Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita, CA 91321), 7:00 p.m.
For more information, please e-mail SuitteRoyale@gmail.com or call 310-729-0173.
2017
May 9, 2017
Divergent Domains: French Musical Portraits and German Program Music
A concert exploring multiple contrasts through music by court composer Bernard de Bury and church musician Johann Kuhnau: France and Germany; Versailles and Leipzig; secular and sacred; suite and sonata.
British Harpsichord Society at the Handel House (25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom), 6:30 p.m.
https://handelhendrix.org/whats-on/british-harpsichord-society/
April 25, 2017
Divergent Domains: French Musical Portraits and German Program Music
“Les petits Concerts dans les Copeaux”
A concert exploring multiple contrasts through music by court composer Bernard de Bury and church musician Johann Kuhnau: France and Germany; Versailles and Leipzig; secular and sacred; suite and sonata.
Atelier von Nagel (20 rue Bouvier, Paris, France), 7:30 p.m.
April 7, 2017
Biblical Sonatas by Johann Kuhnau and Aria with Thirty Variations (Goldberg Variations) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Historische Tasteninstrumente – Martin Schwabe (Mierendorffstraße 24, Leipzig, Germany), 7:30 p.m.
http://www.schwabe-instrument.eu/en/
March 22, 2017
Divergent Domains: French Musical Portraits and German Program Music
A concert exploring multiple contrasts through music by court composer Bernard de Bury and church musician Johann Kuhnau: France and Germany; Versailles and Leipzig; secular and sacred; suite and sonata.
Sugrįžimai International Music Festival, Stasio Vainiūno namuose (Goštauto g. 2, Vilnius, Lithuania), 6:00 p.m.
http://www.lmrf.lt/events/view/2020
March 3, 2017
Music of the Baroque and Beyond
Suitte Royale, Early Music Ensemble
Featuring works by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Bernard de Bury, Clarles Dieupart, Guillaume Dufay, Louis de Caix d’Hervelois, and Andre Campra, and Steven Jent.
Odyssey Theatre (2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025), 8:00 p.m.
http://www.odysseytheatre.com/music.php
January 2017
Music of the Baroque and Beyond
Debut Concert of Suitte Royale, an early music ensemble made up of Ruta Bloomfield (harpsichord), John L. Robinson (flauto taillo), and Jim Garafalo (viola da gamba). Guest vocalist Elizabeth Laughton.
Featuring works by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Bernard de Bury, Clarles Dieupart, Guillaume Dufay, Louis de Caix d’Hervelois, and Andre Campra, and Steven Jent.
First Baptist Church of Glendale (Glendale, CA), 7:00 p.m.
2016
March 2016
J.S. Bach’s Aria with Thirty Variations, BWV 988: Performance Decisions (Lecture-Recital)
Conference of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America, Oberlin Conservatory (OH)
Jephtha Oratorios/Cantata
CGU Concerts at CST (Claremont, CA), Vocal Doctoral Recital of Clara Lee
Featuring works by G. Carissimi, Handel, De la Guerre
2015
November 2015
Music for Two Harpsichords
Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble, Guest Artist (Pasadena, CA)
Featuring L’ Apothéose de Corelli (F. Couperin), Concerto in F Major (W.F. Bach), and Concerto in A Minor (J. Krebs)
October 2015
Aria with Thirty Variations, BWV 988 by J.S. Bach
Pacific Artist Series II, Guest Artist, Fresno Pacific University (Fresno, CA)
CGU Concerts at CST, Guest Artist (Claremont, CA)
September 2015
Aria with Thirty Variations, BWV 988 by J.S. Bach
The Master’s College Faculty Recital (Santa Clarita, CA)
Faith Community Church (Santa Clarita, CA)
May 2015
Highlights from Bernard de Bury
International Conference of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
2014
July 2014
Two Movements from Suite III by Bernard de Bury
16th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music (Salzburg, Austria)
March 2014
Joint violin and harpsichord recital with Aroussiak Baltaian (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
The Master’s College (Santa Clarita, CA)
Featuring works by J.S. Bach, Pietro Locatelli, Jean-Marie Leclair, Tomaso Albinoni, and Giuseppe Tartini.
2012
February 2012
Alpha and Omega
CGU Concerts at CST, Claremont Graduate University Concerts (Claremont CA)
The Master’s College (Santa Clarita, CA)
Faith Community Church (Santa Clarita, CA)
Featuring some of the earliest and latest music for harpsichord. Works by Martin Peerson, William Byrd, Louis Couperin, Ercole Pasquini, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Ivar Lunde, Gyorgy Ligeti, Harold Meltzer, Eugene Anderson
2010
October 2010
Music from Versailles: Works by Bernard de Bury
Iowa City Early Keyboard Society, Guest Artist
Featuring de Bury’s Four Suites for Harpsichord
September 2010
Music from Versailles: Works by Bernard de Bury
Point Loma Nazarene University, Guest Artist (San Diego, CA)
Featuring de Bury’s Four Suites for Harpsichord
February 2010
Biblical Sonatas and Bach
The Master’s College (Santa Clarita, CA)
Featuring Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and Capriccio in Bb (J.S. Bach), works by Johann Kuhnau, and two Biblical sonatas
2009
November 2009
Music from Versailles: Works by Bernard de Bury
Midday Music at Mudd concert series presented jointly by Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology (Claremont, CA)
Featuring de Bury’s Four Suites for Harpsichord
April 2009
Collegium Musicum: Chamber concert
Friday at Noon Concert Series, Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA).
Featuring works by Matthew Locke, Nicola Matteis, Henry Purcell, William Boyce, and George Frederic Handel
February 2009
Four Suites by Bernard de Bury
The Master’s College (Santa Clarita, CA)
The first performance of the Four Suites outside of France since the eighteenth century
2008
November 2008
Collegium Musicum: Chamber Music from 17th Century Italy
Friday at Noon Concert Series, Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA)
Featuring works by Andrea Falconieri, Giovanni Battista Vitali, Domenico Gabrielli, and Biagio Marini