Valencia Baryton Project
Matthew Baker, baryton
Brett Wallfish, viola
Alex Friedhoff, cello

A string trio with four instruments? A harpsichord hiding behind the cello? The Valencia Baryton Project has dedicated itself to the performance of music written for an ancient and little-known instrument, the baryton. A cross between the viola da gamba and lirone, with 10 resonating and plucked strings down the back of the instrument, the baryton gives the traditional string trio an entirely new dimension.

Program

Franz Joseph Haydn: Baryton Trio No. 67 in G Major

John Pickup: Prelude 1 (2021) 

Haydn: Baryton Trio No. 113 in D Major

Haydn: Baryton Trio No. 87 in A Minor

Steve Zink: The River (2020)

Haydn: Baryton Trio No. 71 in A Major

Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert

About the Valencia Baryton Project

The Valencia Baryton Project was formed by colleagues from the opera of the Palau de les Arts (Barcelona, Spain) and the Orchestre Nationale Montpellier with the vision of performing the nearly 160 works written by Franz Joseph Haydn as well as compositions by other composers, both modern and classical. At the heart of the ensemble is the traditional formation in trio–baryton, viola, and violoncello–for which Haydn wrote 123 works of outstanding beauty during his time as the court composer for the Prince Esterhazy of Austria.