YSU’s Muse Series will feature guest artists Fiona Gillespie and Paul Holmes Morton 7 p.m. Sunday, May 9 on the Cliffe College and McDonough YouTube channels. The Dana School of Music and McDonough Museum of Art will present the virtual concert.
The performance includes guests Fiona Gillespie (voice and Irish whistle) and Paul Holmes Morton (theorbo, baroque guitar, banjo), with Caitlin Hedge (violin, viola d’amore, voice) and Kivie Cahn-Lipman (cello, viola da gamba, and lirone).
The concert will feature music by Giulio Caccini and James Oswald, arrangements by Franz Joseph Haydn, and original compositions by Gillespie.
About the artists
GILLESPIEFiona Gillespie is a folk and classically-trained singer, songwriter, composer, and music educator living between New York City and eastern Pennsylvania. Raised in a family of traditional Celtic musicians, Gillespie grew up step dancing, singing ballads, and playing the Irish whistle, on which she competed nationally and internationally until 2006. She holds degrees in voice performance from Westminster Choir College and the University of North Texas. She is a co-founder and manager of the band The Chivalrous Crickets, which explores the crossover between English, Celtic, and Old Time American folk music with music of the Renaissance and Baroque, as well as writing many original songs and tunes. She also performs frequently in Baroque-Folk crossover duo, Disordering the Attic, with Paul Holmes Morton.
MORTONPaul Holmes Morton culminated his schooling with a specialized focus in Baroque continuo performance practice, providing an improvised gamut of textures and harmonies applied to opera, orchestra, chamber music, and vocal accompaniment. Traveling throughout the world as a continuo lutenist, Morton performs regularly with Ruckus, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Mercury and more. He earned degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School.
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