Baroque violinist Aimée Rieger describes the early Italian music featured in the Tallahassee Bach Parley’s “Roots in the Ground” performance on Nov. 7 as a continuous circle.

The “chaconne” musical composition serves as the base of this era of music, and uses a repeating set of chords underneath an improvised melody. This gives the music a circular feel and speaks to Rieger on a deeper level about her own journey as a performer, educator, wife and mother. 

“As a performer, you’re constantly reinventing yourself on this same but everchanging loop,” says Rieger. “I teach all the time and have two kids, so I was really thinking about my performance career and always recreating and reinventing myself.”  

Before joining the Tallahassee Bach Parley and rooting her family in Tallahassee, Rieger’s career took her around the world, performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player on modern and baroque violin. She’ll share this upcoming performance with her husband, Eric Rieger, a tenor vocalist and professor at Florida State University.

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