EUGENE–Guest violinist Jaap Schroeder, fortepianist Bonnie Garrett and cellist Marc Vanscheeuwijck will present "Classical Music for Piano Trio," a Faculty Artist Series concert performed on period instruments, on Tuesday, April 10, at the University of Oregon School of Music.

Concert time is 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

The program includes "Trio for fortepiano, violin, and cello in F major" by Johann Schobert; "Duetto III for violin and cello in C major" by Tommaso Giordani; "Sonata for fortepiano, violin and cello in G minor" by Luigi Boccherini; and two selections by Haydn–"Sonata for violin, fortepiano and cello in G major" and "Trio for fortepiano, violin, and cello in E major."

This will be the second of two appearances by Schroeder within a week in Eugene. At 4 p.m. on Friday, April 6, he will give a free lecture-demonstration in the Alumni Lounge of Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University St. His talk, hosted by the Oregon Humanities Center, is taken from a book he is completing for Yale University Press, "J. S. Bach’s Partitas and Sonatas for Solo Violin: Reflections on Performance Practice."

A Dutch violinist who has led a revival in the way classical music is performed, taught and listened to, Schroeder has enjoyed a long and multifaceted career, including work as a chamber music player, baroque violin soloist, conductor, writer and teacher. He is an expert in baroque music and a pioneer in the field of historical performance practice.

While growing up in Amsterdam, Schroeder began playing the violin at age 8. After graduating from high school in 1943, he intended to study classical languages and history at the university. But due to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands–and German control of the universities–he instead went to the Sweelinck Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam to pursue advanced studies in violin. Thus began his professional career as a violinist.

Schroeder has been teaching at universities, conservatories and music festivals throughout Europe and North America for almost 40 years.

In the United States, Schroeder has taught at Juilliard, Yale, the University of Virginia, the University of Maryland, Case Western Reserve, Peabody Conservatory, Florida State University and the University of Florida at Gainesville.

In Europe, he has been on the faculty of such prominent universities and conservatories as the Paris Conservatory, the Sweelinck Conservatory and the Schola Cantorum in Basel, among others.

As a chamber musician, he has performed and recorded much of the classical string quartet literature. As a baroque violinist, he has researched and presented in concert little-known string music of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as the works of major composers of the Baroque era such as J.S. Bach’s solo sonatas and sonatas with harpsichord.

Garrett has been active as harpsichordist, fortepianist and pianist throughout the Pacific Northwest and in Ohio and Colorado. She directs the private music instruction program at Reed College, where she also teaches piano and harpsichord and directs several concert series, including "Friday at Four," "Music in the Gallery" and the popular "Bach in High Places."

A co-founder of Portland Pro Musica, known for its popular Saturday Baroque Series, she also has 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 Aston Magna Academy’s "Schubert’s World: Viennese Culture in the Reign of Francis I," she also has toured with the acclaimed Dutch baritone Max van Egmond and performed regularly on the Liederabend series at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.

As fortepianist and harpsichordist, she has appeared with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Artemis Trio, Oregon Symphony, Trinity Consort and Oregon Repertory Singers. She also has performed at numerous colleges and music festivals in Oregon, Washington and California, including the Oregon Bach Festival at the University of Oregon, the Governor’s Artist Series in Olympia and the Water Music Festival in Long Beach.

Garrett recently joined the keyboard faculty at Portland State University, where she also coaches baroque music. Selected by The Oregonian as an "Art Star of the Nineties," she is currently engaged in a project focusing on performance considerations in the keyboard music of Joseph Haydn. She has recorded recently on the Crystal label.

Vanscheeuwijck is a baroque cellist and an assistant professor of early music at the University of Oregon. He is a frequent performer and recording artist with European early music ensembles, including the Cappella Musicale di San Petronio (Bologna), the Collegium Marianum (Prague) and More Maiorum (Antwerp), and with such West Coast ensembles as Tutti Bassi (Portland) and Arcangeli Baroque Strings (Berkeley).

Vanscheeuwijck studied cello and chamber music at the Bruges and Ghent conservatories and baroque cello with Wouter Möller. He holds degrees in art history, Romance languages and pedagogy, as well as a doctorate in musicology from the University of Ghent.

Vanscheeuwijck’s current research focuses on late 17th-century sacred music in Italy, on the history of bass violins and on musical iconography (16th—18th centuries).

For more information, call the music school weekdays at (541) 346-5678. To confirm concert times and ticket information, call GuardLine from a Touch-Tone phone at 485-2000, ext. 2533, for a 24-hours-a-day taped message of the week’s events.

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