Nature Speaks with Us Everywhere: An afternoon of baroque music with Heidi Dion, Brian Barting & Mike Shand

Heidi Dion, soprano, Brian Bartling, lute, and Mike Shand, Baroque flute present a varied program of Baroque music including sonatas of Weiss and Handel and several of Handel’s German arias.

Soprano Heidi Dion is a native of Somerset, MA. She holds a BA degree in visual design and illustration from U Mass Dartmouth. She has studied with Karyl Ryczek and Bonnie Pomfret. Heidi has been a member of Sine Nomine choir since its founding and has been the featured soprano soloist a number of times. She currently serves as music director of Saint Louis DeFrance parish in Swansea and is a professional breeder of English Cocker Spaniels.

Brian Bartling is a lutenist and guitarist based in Providence. Initially drawn to music through the string bass and the guitar, Brian later gravitated to the sonic possibilities of historical plucked instruments. He initially studied the classical guitar with Douglas Niedt, went on to study the Renaissance and Baroque lute with Doug Freundlich, and received further instruction on the lute from Nigel North and Anton Birula. In addition, Brian holds a graduate degree in Music Theory from the New England Conservatory of Music. Brian performs regularly with ensembles and as a soloist, with a special concentration on the extant literature for the Baroque lute.

Mike Shand has studied traverso (Baroque flute) with Linda Marianiello, Anne Briggs, Sandy Miller, Wendy Rolfe, and Janet See. He has performed solo and in ensembles in northern New Jersey, Newport, New Bedford and Boston. Several years ago, he founded the Treaty Rock Consort and, in 2010, the Greybeards. Mike has performed on the Loring-Greenough House concert series in Boston with Judith Conrad, in Buzzards Bay with the Delight Consort, and with the Greater Tiverton Community Chorus.

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