Baroque trio to play free recital at IU

Dutch performers Jacques Ogg, Wilbert Hazelzet and Jaap ter Linden will be playing a free recital tomorrow night focusing on music of the Baroque period. They will perform at 8:30 p.m. in the IU Jacobs School of Music Recital Hall.\nAll three men are professors at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands.\nOgg, the harpsichordist, is also familiar with the fortepiano, an early piano. When he is not teaching at the Conservatory, recording or conducting, Ogg spends his time directing the Lyra Baroque Orchestra in Minneapolis, Minn. \nElizabeth Wright, harpsichord professor for the Early Music Institute at IU, said she went on sabbatical to Italy in 2002 while Ogg took her place teaching harpsichord. However, this will be the first visit to IU for the other two musicians.\nHazelzet plays the baroque flauto traverso, or cross flute. \nLinden plays the cello and gamba. For the performance Tuesday evening, he will be using the gamba to try to recreate the sound of Baroque period music. \nThe trio was invited to campus by the Early Music Institute with aid from the Jacobs School of Music. Along with the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Early Music Institute at IU is considered one of the best, said to professor Michael McCraw said. \n“Holland is really one of the biggest ensembles playing period instruments,” McCraw said. \nProfessor McCraw is also the director of the Early Music Institute. He is a talented baroque bassoonist and like Hazelzet, has played with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. \nWright said the teaching stylesdiffer between of a university conservatory. \n“The main difference is that conservatories teach you wonderfully your craft,” Wright said. \nUniversities, on the other hand, have the student study the instrument in context and how it works within a group, he said. \nThe attraction to these unconventional Baroque-era instruments can be described very simply. \n“Playing period instruments makes them come alive,” McCraw said. “They speak much more directly.”\nSung Lee is a student in the early music program and is also the administrative assistant in the Early Music Institute. Lee is an oboist and also plays the shawm, a medieval and renaissance oboe. \nHis inspiration to play these early music instruments comes from the style and the sound of the oboe, he said. \nAlong with playing a recital for the students at IU, the three men will be conducting master classes for students in the Early Music Institute.