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Sunday, May 16, 2010     5:00 pm

WillaKenzie Estate   15 guests    $125

Make a day of it in the heart of Willamette Valley wine country. We combine the breathtaking setting of the WillaKenzie Estate with an extraordinary bouquet of pinots, dinner, and music. Imagine the sounds of Max Fuller on baroque cello and viola da gamba and Bonnie Garrett on harpsichord before you sit down to a scrumptious buffet supper and some of the best wines in the valley. Sure to please even Bacchus!

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WillaKenzie Estate is located in Oregon's Willamette Valley on rolling hillsides in the Chehalem Mountains, approximately 60 minutes from Portland. You are responsible for providing your own transportation to the winery. A mini-concert will begin at approximately 5:30 pm followed by dinner with wines by WillaKenzie Estate. Link to more information about WillaKenzie Estate.

Bonnie Garrett is active throughout the western United States as a performer and teacher of harpsichord and piano. A co-founder of Portland Pro Musica, known for its popular Saturday Baroque series in the 1980s, she has also produced the series Papa Haydn and Friends and Vienna circa 1830, portions of which were aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting. Chosen to participate as fortepianist in the 1993 Aston Magna Academy Schubert's World: Viennese Culture in the Reign of Francis I, she has also toured with the acclaimed Dutch baritone Max van Egmond and violinist Jaap Schröder. She helped organize and then performed regularly on the Liederabend series at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and has appeared as fortepianist and harpsichordist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Artemis Trio, Oregon Symphony, Oregon Repertory Singers, and at numerous colleges and music festivals in Oregon, Washington and California, including the Oregon Bach Festival, Water Music Festival, Governor’s Artist Series in Olympia, and the Mozart Society of California. She has recorded with Saeculum Aureum Players. Selected by The Oregonian as an "Art Star of the Nineties," Garrett directs the private music instruction program at Reed College, where she also teaches piano and harpsichord, curates the early keyboard collection, and directs concert series including Friday at Four, Music in the Gallery, and Bach in High Places. In demand as adjudicator and presenter of workshops and master classes, she is presently engaged in a project focusing on performance considerations in the keyboard sonatas of Haydn.

Max A. Fuller, violoncellist and viola da gambist, has been performing since the age of 12. His passion has been classical music and at the early age of 16 he won the grand prize of the Phoenix Symphony Guild competition. During his teen years he attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen, and the Tanglewood Institute under Takayori Atsumi. Mr. Fuller attended Boston University where his principal teacher was Leslie Parnas. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the Juilliard School, in New York under Claus Adam. He attended the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, and the Fountainebleau School in France. Interests in early music led him to the Mannes School where he studied baroque cello and viola da gamba. He has worked with the New York Consort of Viols, New York University Collegium Consort, and has participated in the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute and the Bath Festival of Baroque Music in England. While living in New York, Max performed with Chamber Sound at Merkin Hall, the Maplewood ensemble for New York Public Television, Michigan's Ars Musica, New York's Musica Viva, Musica Antique, the Saratoga Baroque Festival, and the Long Island Baroque Ensemble, as well as Philadelphia's Philomel. In addition, he was a founding member of Vineyardmusick at the Vineyard Theater, New York, and the Manhattan Chamber Ensemble, which performed and lectured in New York City schools. While living in Arizona he performed throughout the state with Musica Dolce, and recorded for Omni Classics. He also performed with the Classical Chamber Players, Phoenix Bach Choir, International Cervantino and Alamos Festivals in Mexico, Phoenix Symphony, and Phoenix Boys Choir. Locally, he has performed with the Washington Chamber Orchestra, the Beaverton Lutheran Church and Jacob Herbert, the Rose City Presbyterian Bach Cantata Choir under Ralph Nelson, the William Byrd Festival and David Trendell, and The Old Church "Bach to Bach" on viola da gamba and cello, and ensemble La Stella at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.