Black Tulip Period Instrument Ensemble
& Stoppelenburg + Spears
Wednesday
February 21, 2024
7:30 pm
Dixon, IL
Friday
February 23, 2024
7:00 pm
Lake Forest, IL
Sunday
February 25, 2024
2:30 pm
Chicago, IL
Black Tulip Period Instrument Ensemble
Join the Black Tulip Ensemble for a unique program that highlights music written by women composers from the 1700s!!! Francesca Caccini, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Isabella Leonarda, and Barbara Strozzi may not be household names…but once you are introduced to their music in this program, we know you’ll remember them for a long time to come!!
Unique to this program is the fact that musicians Josefien and Joel are also visual artists. They will be sharing their drawings and paintings with you at this event alongside their music!
Josefien Stoppelenburg
Painter
Dutch painter Josefien Stoppelenburg has garnered international praise and attention for her colorful and imaginative paintings. A keen admirer of Marc Chagall, Paul Gauguin, and Odilon Redon, Josefien has been a lifelong student of art and art history. She has presented exhibitions in the Netherlands and the USA. Stoppelenburg's work was used as opera sets, CD covers, postcards, in magazines, and her personalized paintings are in many private homes. She has exhibited her work in galleries, hospitals, and art fairs. She just sold out on her third series of Note Cards. She created artwork for the Green Lake Festival of Music, the Boulder Bach Festival, the Peninsula Music Festival, and the Arizona Bach Festival and was the Artist- in-Residence of the Evanston Art Center (Illinois). Her lectures on Art and Music were featured in the Chicago Artist Month in 2014.
About the process:
“ I usually start by putting colors on the canvas, start blending them and from this initial chaos, creatures, figures, plants, and stories appear.” Acrylic is a quick-drying medium, which forces the artist to be very concentrated in the moment, not unlike performing. Acrylic paint also provides the opportunity to build a painting with several thin layers of color. This glazing technique, the accumulative building of color, gives her paintings their radiance and deep glow. “
