Haydn's Vienna

Step into the grandeur of 18th-century Vienna with the Oklahoma Baroque Orchestra's captivating concert, "Haydn's Vienna." As part of our season’s theme, "A Musical (R)evolution," this program highlights the transformative power and enduring legacy of the Baroque era’s musical innovators.

Featuring the remarkable Sylvia Berry on the fortepiano and the exquisite soprano Sarah Moyer, this concert will showcase the revolutionary works of Marianna Martinez, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Franz Joseph Haydn. Experience the dramatic evolution of music through these masterful compositions that redefined the boundaries of the classical tradition.

Marianna Martinez: Sinfonia in C major, (Ouverture)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Voi avete un cor fedele, K. 217  

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 64 in A major, Hob. I:64

Marianna Martinez: Il primo amore 

Franz Joseph Haydn: Keyboard Concerto in D major, H.XVIII:11 

Sylvia Berry Bio:

Philadelphia native Sylvia Berry has performed extensively at home and abroad as a soloist and chamber musician. Hailed by Early Music America as "a complete master of rhetoric, whether in driving passagework or [in] cantabile adagios,” she is known not only for her exciting performances, but for her engaging commentary about the music and the instruments she plays. Her disc of Haydn's London Sonatas - recorded for Acis on an 1806 Broadwood - garnered critical acclaim. A review in Fanfare enthused, “To say that Berry plays these works with vim, vigor, verve, and vitality, is actually a bit of an understatement.” 

Ms. Berry is one of North America's leading exponents of the fortepiano, as well as other historical keyboard instruments, including the harpsichord, virginal, and clavichord. She dedicates herself to the performance practices of the 18th and early 19th centuries, with an avid interest in the sociological phenomena surrounding the music of that period. In addition to her performing activities, Ms. Berry is a respected scholar and has written and lectured widely on these topics.

Starting with the viola at age eleven and the piano at age thirteen, Berry went on to study at the New England Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in the Nertherlands. As a student in the field of early music, she was fortunate to study and coach chamber with many luminaries and pioneers, including Malcolm Bilson, Lisa Goode Crawford,  David Boe, Wilbert Hazelzet, Elizabeth Wallfisch, and Eric Hoeprich.Highlights of past performances include appearances on the Fringe Series of the Utrecht Early Music Festival; the Benton Fletcher Collection at Fenton House in London; “Drive Time Live” on WGBH Radio; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; the Cambridge Society for Early Music; the Connecticut Early Music Festival; the Portland (ME) Early Music Festival. She is also active as a writer, penning numerous sets of CD liner notes (most notably for Bart van Oort's recordings of The Complete Keyboard Works of Mozart released in 2006) as well as articles for magazines and journals such as Early Music America, Keyboard Perspectives (the yearbook of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies) and the Journal of European Piano Teachers Association: Netherlands and Belgium Edition. 

Her ensemble The Berry Collective features a rotating cast of some of today’s best performers in the field of Early Music who perform in orchestras such as The Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Tafelmusik, A Far Cry, Anima Eterna Brugge, and Grand Harmonie. The focus is on music ranging from the time of Schobert (a little-known German composer working in France whose music was very influential to composers such as Mozart and Boccherini) to Schubert, a beloved titan of early romanticism whose music shines forth with new brilliance when performed on historical instruments.

Website: www.sylviaberry.org

Sarah Moyer Bio:

Known for her “purity and flawless range” (South Florida Classical Review), soprano Sarah Moyer’s most recent and upcoming work as a concert artist includes performances with Oklahoma Baroque Orchestra, Boulder Bach Festival, Haydn’s Creation with Fort Lewis College, Gjielo’s Dreamweaver with Kantorei for SWACDA, Jomelli’s Requiem with Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion with Colorado Bach Ensemble, Handel’s Messiah with Bourbon Baroque, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, as well as countless Bach cantatas with Emmanuel Music, and Monteverdi’s Lamento della Nympha with Skylark Vocal Ensemble. She has also performed as a soloist with the Cape Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Chamber Symphony, Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, among others. As a soloist, she has performed world premieres by Harbison: No better time than now, Theofanidis: Four Levertov Settings, Runestad: The Hope of Loving, Cohen: Sauntering Songs, Kallembach: Easter Oratorio, and Grant: SALT, and American premieres by Melani: Teodora and Nørgård: Nova Genitura and Seadrift.

As a choral artist, she appears with GRAMMY® nominated groups Skylark, Seraphic Fire, Conspirare, Clarion Music Society, True Concord, as well as Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Variant 6, Spire, The Thirteen, and Ensemble Origo. She can be heard as a soloist on Skylark’s GRAMMY® nominated albums Seven Words from the Cross, Once Upon a Time, and It’s a Long Way, as well as many other Skylark albums, and has also recorded albums with Variant 6, Seraphic Fire (Mercy, in Hildegard’s Ordo Virtutum), Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Lorelei, Boston Revels (soloist), True Concord, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

Sarah was a finalist in the 2019 Handel Aria Competition and is a 2015 recipient of the St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award. She received her Bachelor's degree in Music from Oklahoma State University and her Masters degree in Music from New England Conservatory. She grew up in Bixby, Oklahoma, and now lives in Denver, CO with her husband, son, and catahoula leopard. When Sarah is not singing concert repertoire, she enjoys reviving popular songs from the early 20th century while accompanying herself on the ukulele, and hiking in the Rockies with her family.

Website: www.sopranosarahmoyer.com