The 57th Indianapolis Early Music Festival - Matthias Maute

Sunday, July 23, 2:30 PM

Presenting Matthias Maute’s own recreations of

Vivaldi’s The Four Nations.

accompanied by an all-star band featuring IU Faculty Members,

Ingrid Matthews and Joanna Blenduff

Matthias Maute has achieved an international reputation as conductor, recorder and flute player and as a composer. Mr. Maute is Artistic Director of Ensemble Caprice. His solo career has soared since winning First Prize in the soloist category at the renowned Early Music Competition in Bruges, Belgium in 1990. He made his debut at Lincoln Center in New York in December 2008. In 2003 and 2005, he was the featured recorder soloist at the Boston Early Music Festival. He has delighted audiences at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival in 2010, 2015, 2018 and virtually, in 2021.

Matthias Maute’s compositions hold an important place in the world of contemporary recorder music and are published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Amadeus, Moeck and Carus. Mr. Maute has made some twenty recordings on the Analekta, Vanguard Classics, Bella Musica, Dorian, Bridge and Atma Classique labels. He teaches at Université de Montréal and McGill University in Montreal.

This program brings you four of Vivaldi’s concertos assigned to different nations (France, Spain, England, India). Since the music is lost except for Il Gran Mogul, this reconstructed version tries to be truthful to Vivaldi’s exuberant style while featuring some national characteristics like the imitation of guitars in La Spagna, the Spanish concerto.

The four concertos featured in this program are:

1. Concerto La Francia

2. Concerto L’Inhilterro Siciliano Arioso

3. Concerto Il Gran Mogul

4. Concerto La Spagna Cadenza Le Nacchere