Events Diary 2005

January 2005

Sunday 2nd, Stella Vagans, 'Ay amor', Spanish baroque music, Plettenberg, Germany.

February 2005

Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th, lute song course with Imma Einsingbach (soprano), Musikhochschule, Bremen, Germany.

Thursday 10th, Elizabethan programme with The New London Consort, Teatro Olimpico, Rome.

Thursday 15th, public workshop on John Blow's 'Venus and Adonis', with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and singers from New Chamber Opera, New College Chapel, Oxford.

Wednesday 23rd, The King's Consort, directed by Robert King, Wigmore Hall, music by Monteverdi.

Thursday 24th, the Locrian Ensemble, Newport, South Wales. Music by Vivaldi.

Saturday 26th, the Locrian Ensemble, St Martin in the Fields, London. Music by Vivaldi.

March 2005

Saturday 5th, Monteverdi Vespers, Ex Cathedra, directed by Jeffrey Skidmore, Lichfield Cathedral.

Sunday 6th, Music for Elizabeth I, Musicians of the Globe, Real Alcázar de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.

Saturday 12th, concert of music by Carissimi with I Fagiolini, St James Church, Piccadilly, London.

Friday 18th, Monteverdi Vespers, Southwark Cathedral, London.

Saturday 19th, Bach, St John Passion, Orchestra of St John's, Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire.

Sunday 20th, concert with the Locrian Ensemble.

Wednesday 23rd, Bach, St John Passion, London Musici and the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

April 2005

Sunday 3rd, concert of music for Christina of Sweden, with the Realm of Music, Town Hall, St. Alban's, Hertfordshire..

Friday 8th, Wigmore Hall, London. 'Life after Death: the Viola da gamba in 18th century London'. Concert with the Parley of Instruments. With Philippa Hyde, soprano: Mark Caudle and Richard Campbell, viola da gamba and cello, Peter Holman, harpsichord. Programme includes baroque lute solos by Rudolf Straube.

Thursday 14th, Wigmore Hall, London: The King's Consort, directed by Robert King. Programme to include Vivaldi Cello Concertos with soloists Jonathan Cohen and Sarah McMahon.

Friday 15th - Sunday 17th: recording of Vivaldi Cello Concertos with The King's Consort.

Thursday 21st, concert of lute duets with Rainer Luckhardt, Emmendingen, Germany.

Friday 22nd, concert of lute duets with Rainer Luckhardt, Freiburg, Germany.

Sunday 24th, concert of lute duets with Rainer Luckhardt, Freiburg, Germany.

Thursday 28th, The King's Consort, director Robert King, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, St David's Hall, Cardiff.

May 2005

Thursday 8th, Stella Vagans, 'Ay amor!', Spanish baroque music, Bad Driburg, Germany.

Wednesday 11th, Monteverdi, 'L'Incoronazione di Poppea', cond.Christian Curnyn, Edinburgh.

Friday 13th, Monteverdi, 'L'Incoronazione di Poppea', cond. Christian Curnyn, Edinburgh.

Sunday 15th, South American Baroque with Ex Cathedra, Dresden, Germany.

Thursday 19th, Monteverdi, 'L'Incoronazione di Poppea', cond.Christian Curnyn, Aberdeen.

Saturday 21st, Monteverdi, 'L'Incoronazione di Poppea', cond.Christian Curnyn, Aberdeen.

Sunday 29th:concert of music for Charles II, with the Realm of Music,Town Hall, St. Alban's, Hertfordshire.

June 2005

(May 31st-June 17th; musicological research trip to Italy)

Wednesday 22nd, Shakespeare programme, the Musicians of the Globe, Globe Theatre, Neuss, nr Dusseldorf, Germany.

Sunday 26th, concert of music by Vivaldi, with the Locrian Ensemble, Buxton, Derbyshire.

July 2005

Friday 1st, Thaxted Festival, Suffolk

Monday 4th-Wednesday 6th; concerts in Denmark with The King's Consort

Tuesday 12th, Musicians of the Globe, music for Shakespeare, Chester.

Wednesday 13th, St Mary's Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, London N16, 8pm. A concert of music by Lanier and Merula, plus lute music by Robert Johnson and Alessandro Piccinini, as part of the Stoke Newington Festival. With Anna Dennis (soprano) and Vanessa Coode (viol).

Thursday 14th, 'An evening with the lute', lecture recital for Banbury Classical Guitar Society.

Saturday 16th, An Elizabethan progress, the Musicians of the Globe, York Early Music Festival.

Friday 29th, New World Symphonies in the Lake District, with Ex Cathedra

August 2005

Friday 12th, 7.30pm,solo recital of renaissance and baroque lute music, the King of Hearts Arts Centre, Norwich, in association with David Van Edwards's lute-building summer school.

Sunday 14th, concert with the Musicians of the Globe, Dubrovnik.

Saturday 20th, the Locrian Ensemble, St Martin in the Fields, London.

September 2005

August 29th - September 24th: Monteverdi, 'L'Incoronazione di Poppea', conducted by Christian Curnyn, with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, tour of Ireland.

October 2005

Thursday 6th,The King's Consort, Westminster,including Pergolesi's 'Stabat Mater'.

Friday 7th,The King's Consort, Tetbury, Glos; including Pergolesi's 'Stabat Mater'.

Sunday 9th, 3pm, 'Music and Sweet Poetry'. James Gilchrist, tenor; Lynda Sayce, lute and romantic guitar. Music by Dowland, Johnson, Beethoven and Schubert. St Nicholas's Church, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

New Course!!!

Music and Leisure in Arcadia

A course for singers and lutenists in Italy, with Imma Einsingbach (voice) and Lynda Sayce (lutes). October 15-22nd, 2005.

Why Italy?
That's easy: because the air is sweeter, the sky is bluer, and the wine redder... It is also the cradle of the Renaissance, and the natural home of the lute. As a music lover here you can combine your holiday and your hobby in the most enjoyable way. Under expert guidance you can explore and immerse yourself in some renaissance solo and ensemble repertoire – not only from Italy! In addition to that there will be plenty of time to delve into the “dolce far niente”, to take extensive walks, to go horse riding (directly from the venue), to make excursions and to familiarize yourself with the culinary delights of the region.

Venue:
The “Villa Magnolia” is a small family-run guesthouse in the Marche region between Ancona and Pesaro, 30 minutes' drive from the sea and close to the Monti Sibillini National Park. October is the time of the olive harvest, temperatures are comfortably warm and you can still swim in the sea. The picturesque towns of Ascoli Piceno and Offida are close by. In short: nature, culture and good cuisine at their best!
The operators of the venue are Swiss. For more details, and pictures of the venue, please visit their multi-lingual website www.villamagnolia.ch.

Costs:
The tuition fee for the course is 350 euros. It will be held if a minimum of eight active participants register. The maximum number of active participants is twelve. We will work together intensively all mornings or afternoons in small groups, and every participant will receive two to three hours of individual instruction. All other musical activities (with or without the tutors) may be decided on a day-by-day basis. Here accompanying partners and children are invited to join in! Applications for fee reductions will be considered, depending on individual circumstances.

Accommodation and meals:
The Villa Magnolia offers double rooms at 199 euros per person for seven nights. The availability of single rooms will depend on the number of participants. Further accommodation is available in the vicinity (about 10 minutes' drive), prices on request. Setting up a tent in the villa’s garden may also be a possibility. For campers there will be a fee of 10 euros per day for the use of the bathroom facilities. Since there are two kitchens available, participants may prepare their own meals, or you can have Italian meals prepared by a neighbour at a price of 29 euros per day for breakfast and dinner. Should there be more than fourteen participants (including accompanying family members) we are prepared to relocate the course to a place in Tuscany. There is more space in the “Agroturismo Cosonella” which is close to Pienza, about 80 miles from Florence.

Travel:
Participants must organize their own travel. The nearest airports are Ancona and Pescara. Cheap flights to both airports are available from London Stansted, with Ryanair. Lufthansa, Alitalia and British Airways all fly to Ancona from London Heathrow. You may check for alternative flights at www.airline-direct.de or www.cheapflights.co.uk. The villa magnolia website includes details of train connections (including car trains) from Germany and Switzerland. If coming by car, please plan for a 2-day drive from Germany or the UK. We will happily try to help in forming car-pools. Because we will be staying in the countryside it would be nice to have one or two cars available to us. If not, we can also rent a car there.

For further details please see Imma's site at www.singwerkstatt-bremen.de. Please note, for this course to go ahead we need to know approximate numbers and confirm our booking with the venue AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, so please do not leave it until the last minute to contact us!

November 2005

Tuesday 1st, lunchtime talk in the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, Faculty of Music, St Aldate's, Oxford. Tel: 01865 276139. An illustrated talk with live music, on my ongoing project with luthier Ivo Magherini, to reconstruct a lute consort based on instruments by Wendelio Venere.

Thursday 3rd-Thursday 10th, tour of Mexico with The Musicians of the Globe.

Saturday 12th November. Bach, St John Passion, with the Frideswide Ensemble. St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol.

Saturday 19th November. Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, Ripieno Choir. Esher.

December 2005

Saturday 3rd, Concert with Quintessential, Wendover Parish Church, Buckinghamshire.

Tuesday 6th, 'Christmas Vespers from Venice', with I Fagiolini. St George's Brandon Hill, Bristol.

Thursday 8th,Concert with The King's Consort, the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.

Saturday 10th, Concert with The Hildegard Choir, director Lucy Haigh. Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Monday 12th, 'Christmas Past', medieval and renaissance Christmas music, Emma Murphy (soprano, recorders), Ibi Aziz (viol), Lynda Sayce (lute, oud, renaissance flute). St Anne & St Agnes, Gresham St, London, EC1. 7.30pm.

Thursday 15th, Christmas Music by Candlelight, with the Locrian Ensemble. St Martin in the Fields, London.

Tuesday 20th, 'Christmas Vespers from Venice', wih I Fagiolini. St John's Smith Square, London.