BRATTLEBORO — Duo Amphion – Jesse Lepkoff, baroque flute and recorder, and Gregory Hayes, harpsichord – will present a concert of baroque pieces of varied national styles at the historic Brooks House lobby (atrium) on Gallery Walk evening, Friday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m.
The duo will feature works by C.P.E. Bach, Louis Couperin, Hotteterre, Leclair, Loeillet, and Bigaglia. There is a suggested donation of $12 for the concert.
Lepkoff resides in Marlboro and has been active as a musician for 35 years. He has had a long career playing renaissance and baroque music with various groups and especially with the Boston Camerata. He studied music at The Longy School of Music and The New England Conservatory and spent a year in graduate study with baroque flute virtuoso Wilbert Hazelzet at the Royal Conservatory, Netherlands.
He has performed in many festivals around the world including those in France, The Netherlands, Singapore, Israel, Japan, Norway, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and the U.S. His performances include appearances with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Musicians of Swanne Alley, The National Symphony, The Newberry Consort, and the Arcadia Players.
He performs regularly with The Boston Camerata and has recorded over a dozen CDs with the group on the Erato and Nonesuch labels including a medieval version of Tristan and Iseult, which won the Grand Prix Du Disque. He has recorded for Radio France, appeared live on WGBH radio, and has given lecture concerts at the Smithsonian, New England Conservatory, and Louisiana University, Lafayette.
Hayes has taught piano and harpsichord and coached chamber music at Dartmouth College since 1991. He is a busy chamber musician and orchestral keyboard player, and has played harpsichord, piano, and celesta often for the Vermont, Albany, and Springfield Symphony Orchestras.
He has also performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and Voices of Ascension orchestra (New York), and participated frequently in the New England Bach and Marlboro Music Festivals, and on the Mohawk Trail Concerts series. He plays regularly with Arcadia Players, a regional period-instrument ensemble. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Amherst College and his M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music.
He is longtime music director for the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, and for 14 years directed Da Camera Singers. He lives in Goshen, Mass., and has taught for many summers at Greenwood Music Camp in nearby Cummington.