Judith Lebküchner-Neugebauer, Thüringer Allgemeine (Erfurt, Germany), 6 December 2017
FRANKLIN LEI, Baroque lute
Bach in Dornheim (zum 333. Bach-Geburtstag)
To commemorate J.S. Bach’s 333th birth year, “Bach in Dornheim” is a repeat of Franklin Lei’s November 17, 2017 performance at St. Bartholomäus in Dornheim, Germany. In this small church Bach was married on October 17, 1707 to his second cousin Maria Barbara. Both BWV 995, which Bach himself transcribed from his Fifth Cello Suite, and BWV 1004 which concludes with the famous Chaconne, were composed in times of great sorrow in 1720, when Maria Barbara died. Both will be played on a 13-course Baroque lute of the type Bach himself owned.
Monday, June 4, 2018, 5:00 PM
TRINITY CHAPEL
2320 Dana Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
Price: $10
Biography
Franklin studied Renaissance and Baroque lutes at the Musikhochschule Rheinland in Cologne under Michael Schäffer, and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under Eugen Dombois and Hopkinson Smith. In 1979, after his first international tour of London, Leicester and Copenhagen, he made his festival debut in Trinity Chamber Concerts’ Festival of Guitars (and One Lute…) It was the beginning of many interesting festival appearances– The Guild of American Luthiers’ 5th Convention at the Palace of Fine Arts (1980), Blutenburger Gitarrentage in Munich (1982), the first China International Guitar Festival (1987) in Zhuhai, Berkeley Festival (1990 and 1998), Tage Alter Musik Regensburg (1989), San Francisco Jewish Music Festival (1998), and Melbourne Autumn Music Festival (2000).