Cameo Baroque
Cameo Baroque
Founded in 2014, Cameo Baroque — Leslie Stroud, traverso (Baroque flute); Beth Hilgartner, recorders and voice; Ernie Drown, harpsichord; and Laurie Rabut, viola da gamba — is CAF's "in-house" ensemble, and specializes in the music of the Baroque era performed on period instruments. In addition to participating in CAMEO Arts Foundation's Benefit Concert program, which underwrites benefit concerts supporting efforts as wide ranging as literacy programs, warming shelters, fuel assistance, food shelves and homeless shelters, disaster relief, solar energy, and asylum seekers, Cameo Baroque also provides, by arrangement, musical enrichment programs to schools and other institutions. Contact Beth Hilgartner (beth@cameoarts.org) for more information.
Cameo Baroque is dedicated to bringing some less well-known masterworks of the Baroque to audiences; most programs include at least one work that has been transcribed and/or arranged by Beth Hilgartner from 17th and 18th century manuscripts available online from the International Music Score Library Project (imslp.org). These editions are available to the public through Cameo Baroque Editions.
Upcoming Concerts:
Handel and his Rivals
Experience some music of G.F. Handel, and of his enemies and rivals. Handel's London was a fascinating world, musically; and though Handel was a towering figure, it wasn't always easy being (or staying) on top! This program features instrumental and vocal works by Handel, and also works by Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Thomas Augustine Arne, John Frederick Lampe, and from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.
Performances:
7 PM on Saturday, May 10, 2025 at the First Congregational
Church, 10 South Park Street, Lebanon NH 03766
7 PM on Friday, May 23, 2025 at Centre Congregational Church
193 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301
3 PM on Sunday, May 25, 2025 at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 203 South Main Street, Northfield, Vermont 05663
Experience some music of G.F. Handel, and of his enemies and rivals. Handel's London was a fascinating world, musically; and though Handel was a towering figure, it wasn't always easy being (or staying) on top! This program features instrumental and vocal works by Handel, and also works by Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Thomas Augustine Arne, John Frederick Lampe, and from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.
Performances:
7 PM on Saturday, May 10, 2025 at the First Congregational
Church, 10 South Park Street, Lebanon NH 03766
7 PM on Friday, May 23, 2025 at Centre Congregational Church
193 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301
3 PM on Sunday, May 25, 2025 at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 203 South Main Street, Northfield, Vermont 05663
Admission to these concerts is by free will offering, all of which goes to the stated beneficiaries.
Cameo Baroque is the Upper Valley’s local period instrument ensemble.
Leslie Stroud, traverso; Beth Hilgartner, recorders and voice; Laurie Rabut, viola da gamba; Ernie Drown, harpsichord.
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Cameo Baroque goes virtual!
We have ANOTHER virtual concert available: This year's benefit for the Upper Valley Haven (so all the donation information is the same as below). The concert is "A Joyful Offering." It's divided into two parts (before and after intermission). Here are the links:
I hope you will listen and enjoy—and donate to the Upper Valley Haven.
You can hear/see a video of our latest concert, A Telemann Triptych, on Vimeo. It's a benefit concert for the Upper Valley Haven's 19 Days of the Valley
effort, and the funds you donate will be eligible for matching funds generously contributed by a grant from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, so please be as generous as you can. You can donate through the Upper Valley Haven's website
(please leave a comment saying you are responding to the CAF benefit concert!), or by mailing a check -- made out to the Upper Valley Haven -- to us at 27 Camp Street, Barre, VT 05641
Cameo Baroque Editions
The work of Beth Hilgartner, Cameo Baroque Editions are modern performing editions transcribed from 17th and 18th century manuscripts available through the International Music Score Library Project (imslp.org). A complete listing of available works, and information on how to order is available on the CB Editions page.
Cameo Baroque Editions
