Arion Baroque Orchestra – Love Letters – February 14, 2024 LiveEvents February 6, 2024 490 Arion Baroque Orchestra presents Love Letters As an original way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, Arion presents under the inspired direction of Australian violinist Sophie Gent a felicitous mix of Italian and English baroque concerti grossi, in a program that weaves together music and poems evocative of love’s emotional complexities and delights. Artists Sophie Gent, violin and direction Australian-born violinist Sophie Gent studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Ryo Terakado. She has since become one of Europe’s most highly regarded baroque violinists, and is extremely active as a soloist, orchestral leader, chamber musician and teacher. She is concertmaster with Ensemble Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon) and the Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot). She has also lead the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent, Barokkanerne (Oslo), Les Muffatti (Belgium), and Genesis Baroque (Australia). In chamber music formations she works regularly with Ensemble Masques, Ensemble Arcangelo (Jonathan Cohen), Il Convito (Maude Gratton), le Caravansérail (Bertrand Cuiller), and with Kris Bezuidenhuit and Jean Rondeau. She was teacher of baroque violin for several years at the Amsterdam Conservatorium, as well as at the CRR Boulogne- Billancourt, and currently teaches at The Early Music Academy in Vannes and Cluny Early Music Workshop. Sophie plays a violin by Jacob Stainer from 1676. Arion Baroque Orchestra Program VIVALDI Sinfonias GIOVANNI BENEDETTO PLATTI Concerti grossi No. 5 et No. 10 after Corelli CAPEL BOND Concerti grossi No. 2 and No. 5 FRANCESCO GEMINIANI Concerto in D minor H.116, Op. 7 Concerto grosso No. 12 in D minor ”la Folia”, after Corelli AVISON Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 5 in D minor, after Scarlatti GIUSEPPE ANTONIO BRESCIANELLO Ciaccona in A Major Wednesday, February 14, 2024 – 7:30pm To purchase your tickets visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/