Elinor Frey cello

Elizaveta Miller harpsichord

Journey to Spain with the music of Domenico Scarlatti and l’ Accademia de’ Dissonanti

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BIOGRAPHY

ELINOR FREY

Born in Seattle and living in Montréal, Elinor Frey is a leading American-Canadian cellist, gambist, and researcher. Her albums on the Belgian label Passacaille and Canadian label Analekta – many of which are world premiere recordings – include Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco Cello Sonatas, winner of a Diapason d’Or, and Early Italian Cello Concertos, winner of the 2023 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year (small ensemble). Her critical edition of Dall’Abaco’s cello music is published in collaboration with Walhall Editions. Elinor is the artistic director of Accademia de’ Dissonanti, an organization for performance and research. She has performed throughout the Americas and in Europe in recital and with numerous chamber ensembles and orchestras (Rosa Barocca, Constantinople, Les idées heureuses, Il Gardellino, Tafelmusik, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, etc.). As a guest leader (forthcoming with the London Symphonia, Ontario, in past seasons with Kingston Baroque Consort, Dorian Baroque, Siren Baroque, and others) Elinor specializes in Galant and early-Classical ensemble repertoire. In March 2023, she performed Boccherini and Sammartini concertos with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and in May 2023, she performed the Telemann Suite for viola da gamba and orchestra with Symphony Nova Scotia, Halifax. Recipient of dozens of grants and prizes supporting performance and research, including the US-Italy Fulbright Fellowship (studying with Paolo Beschi in Como, Italy) and a recent research residency at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Elinor holds degrees from McGill, Mannes, and Juilliard. She teaches Baroque cello and performance practice at McGill University and the Université de Montréal and is a Visiting Fellow in Music (2020–2023) at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Frey was awarded Québec’s Opus Prize for “Performer of the Year” in 2021.

ELIZAVETA MILLER

Elizaveta Miller studied in Aix-en-Provence, France, at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory and at Yale University. A gifted multi-instrumentalist, she plays most keyboard instruments: harpsichord, fortepiano and piano as well as clavichord and organ. Her repertoire spans six centuries of music, from medieval to contemporary. In 2013, she won first prize at the Bruges Musica Antiqua Competition. She has performed throughout Europe and Russia, taking part in the Bruges MA Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Bozar Music, Dubrovnik Music Festival and The Homecoming Music Festival. As a continuo player, she has collaborated with numerous conductors, including Václav Luks, Reinhard Goebel, Maxim Emelyanychev, Robert Hollingsworth, Christian Curnyn, and others. She taught at the Moscow State Conservatory in the historical instruments department for 9 years but resigned and left the country in March 2022, in solidarity with Ukraine in its war against Russia

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