MacArthur Fellow (and Harvard Professor of the Practice) Claire Chase presents a program that alternates between Baroque music and 20th- and 21st-century works at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. One of the world’s great recitalists and champions of flute music, she is joined by distinguished colleagues Aisslinn Nosky, Katinka Kleijn, and Alex Peh on period instruments in this fascinating program.

PROGRAM

Marin Marais Les Folies d’Espagne (1701)
J.B. Boismortier Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 51 (1734)
J.S. Bach Sonata sopr’il soggetto Reale from “The Musical Offering,” BWV 1079 (1747)
Olivier Messiaen Le Merle noir (1952)
Tania Léon Ritual (1987)
Kaija Saariaho Mirrors (1997)
Marcos Balter Alone (2013)
Michael Oesterle Stand Still, mvt. 3 (2013)
Tania Léon Singsong (2023, rev. 2025)