Anne Black
A multi-faceted artist fluent in many media, Anne Black has built a richly varied career in the performing and visual arts.
She is Principal Viola of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and Cantata Singers, and also performs with many Boston organizations, including Boston Pops, Emmanuel Music, Boston Lyric Opera, Masterworks Chorale, and the Record Players. A champion of new music, Ms. Black is violist of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble and appears often with Collage New Music, including Collage’s Grammy-nominated recording of John Harbison’s Mottetti di Montale. She has performed and recorded over a dozen works by microtonal composer Ezra Sims, and commissioned his “Concert Piece” for viola and chamber orchestra which she premiered and recorded with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston in 1990. She was viola d’amore soloist in Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots with the American Symphony in 2009.
A member of Handel + Haydn Society's period instrument orchestra, she also performs with Boston Baroque, Aston Magna Festival, Peregrine Consort, and Rowe's Lane Quartet. She performed on Mozart's own Viola, during its first trip to the US, for a live performance and recording at WGBH in June 2013; her article about this experience was published in Journal of the American Viola Society. She was viola d'amore soloist with Boston Baroque, and the Blanche Moyse Chorale in Marlboro,Vermont.
She has produced and edited several album projects with her husband, recording engineer Frank Cunningham, including albums for violinist Daniel Stepner and pianist Sally Pinkas, violinist Masha Lankovsky and pianist Byron Schenkman, and currently, a solo album with Ed Barker, Principal Bass of the Boston Symphony. She also produced two albums for Guy Fishman, Principal Cello of the Handel + Haydn Society Orchestra.
A prize-winning photographer and artist in multiple media, she was a resident artist at the Arlington Center for the Arts from 2004-2017, and now works out of a studio in West Concord, MA.
Upcoming Events
July 14, 2018, 7 pm
Music at North Church, Eastport, ME
http://tidesinstitute.org/music-at-north-church/
James David Christie (Organist and Director)
Teresa Wakim (Soprano)
Guiomar Turgeon (Violin I),
Laura Papandrea (Violin II)
Anne Black (Viola)
Sarah Freiberg Ellison (Violoncello)
Andrew Arceci (Violone)
Joshua Cohen (Baroque Trumpet)
An early music festival consisting of two early music performances will be held the weekend of July 14 and 15, 2018 at TIMA’s acclaimed historic 1819 North Church building. The main space with its 23 foot high ceiling is known for its exceptional acoustics (considered the best in the region) in a very historic setting. The performances will include a custom made Schlicker chamber organ that will be installed in the building in June, 2018 in a recently built specially constructed space at the rear of building. A new larger performance platform has also recently been constructed in front of where the organ will be housed. An evening early music performance by Ensemble Abendmusik will be held on Saturday, July 14, 2018 beginning at 7 pm and will feature eight performers including James David Christie, organist for the Boston Symphony as organist, a baroque trumpet, a soprano vocalist and five string instrumentalists. An afternoon solo organ recital by James David Christie will be held beginning at 3 pm on Sunday, July 15, 2018. Performers for the two concerts will be in residence for the week before to rehearse for the concerts.
Tickets for each performance are $15 and may be purchased at the Tides Institute during open hours, by phone, or online.
Videos
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Rodney Lister - Friendly Fire I: Ode to the Confederate Dead
WGBH Music: Mozart on Mozart's Own Instruments
Discography
Selected Discography
Solo/Chamber Music:
Mottetti di Montale, John Harbison Koch International Classics (2005)
Collage New Music, David Hoose, conductor; Janice Felty and Margaret Lattimore
*nominated for the 48th
Annual Grammy Awards for “Best Small Ensemble” (2006)
Collage New Music Performs Donald Sur Albany Records (2009)
The Microtonal Music of Ezra Sims CRI 643
“Concert Piece for Viola”, with flute clarinet, cello and chamber orchestra (1990)
Anne Black, solo viola
with members of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble,
and The Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston
Gisèle Ben-Dor, conductor
“Night Piece” (1989) for flute, clarinet, viola, cello and computer
“Quintet” (1987) for clarinet and string quartet
with members of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble
Music of Ezra Sims Northeastern NR 224
“Two for One” for violin and viola
“--and as I was saying...” for solo viola
Arthur Levering – Still Raining, Still Dreaming New World Records (2008)
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble
A Prague Spring – music of Peter Homans MMC Recordings (2008)
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble
Ian Krouse Koch International Classics (2000)
“Tientos” for flute, violin, viola, cello
with Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble
Liberty Tree: Early American Music 1776-1861 Errato (1998)
Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen, Director
Classical Flute Quartets Titanic Records Ti-172 (1989)
The Mannheim Quartet
Orchestral/Principal Viola:
Transfigured Notes GM Recordings (1998)
Schoenberg, Babbitt, Stravinsky
Gunther Schuller, conductor
The Construction of Boston, Scott Wheeler Naxos (2007)
Chorus and Orchestra of Boston Cecelia, Donald Teeters, conductor
Producing and Recording Services with Anne Black and Frank Cunningham
Frank is one of the most experienced engineers in Boston, and has recorded classical, jazz, and other acoustic music throughout New England. He has CD releases on several classical labels, and specializes in recording "on location." In the studio, he and Anne work as a production team, matching her musical insights with his engineering. In "post production" they cooperate in the full process from initial musical editing to final mastering.
Together, their work is in the catalogs of Centaur, Fleur de Son, CRI, Arsis, Stomp Off, Vox Classics, and GM Recordings. Frank's regular clients for live recordings include Cantata Singers, Aston Magna, Boston Early Music Festival, Collage New Music, Boston Musica Viva, and Dinosaur Annex.
We use the best, most reliable equipment available and are prepared to make your session an efficient and satisfying experience.