-Concerts 2010
Here are some of the concerts and events that I will be involved with for 2010.
For a full list of concerts in your area, more details, ticket
enquiries – in fact, for any questions you have at all, please don’t hesitate
to contact me.
30 December 2009 – 5
January 2010,
This summer, the
8 January 2010, 8pm, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Ballarat
“Zelenka Litanies and Mass of St Francis Xavier”
Newman College Choir and
baroque orchestra directed by Gary Ekkel. Using
original scores, Jan Stockigt and Richard Divall have brought to light the originality and
spectacular orchestration, including four trumpets, tympani and virtuosic wind
solos, of this rediscovered Bohemian baroque composer much admired by JS Bach.
This is
the opening concert for the Organs of the Ballarat
Goldfields Festival, please check out their website
for more details:
13
January 2010, 8pm,
“Telemann – Paris Quartets”
Julia Fredersdorf
(baroque violin) Greg Dikmans (traverso)
Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba)
Ann Murphy (harpsichord). Described as the pinnacles
of baroque chamber music, the classical beauty of form and the charm and
sensitivity of melody in the
Organs of
the Ballarat Goldfields Festival,
please check out their website for more details:
17
January 2010, 2.30pm,
“Backstreet
Salon” Chilled out French Baroque music in the bohemian heart of Fitzroy. A perfect way to spend a
relaxing summer afternoon, lounging in our backstreet salon with a glass of
bubbly listening to the gorgeous sounds of baroque
Check out: www.latitude37baroque.com
17 March
2010, 7pm,
City Recital Hall,
23 &
24 March 2010, 7.30pm,
“Tapas”
I will be performing with
the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra for their Baroque Tapas
programme, which has just been released as a CD with
ABC Classics. For more details, visit:
23-25
April 2010, Early
Music Studio, 23 Royal Parade,
“Latitude 37 French Baroque Workshop”
With my trio Latitude 37, I
will be running this three-day workshop exploring the music of baroque
29 April
2010, 1.10pm,
Monash University Clayton Campus, Music Auditorium
(room 68)
“Latitude 37 lunchtime
concert”
A journey through Europe
to experience gems of the Baroque as part of
Visit www.arts.monash.edu.au/music/events for more information.
29 April
2010, 7.30pm, Wyselaskie
Auditorium, Uniting Church Centre for Theology & Ministry, 1 Morrison
Close
“Les Caracteres”
Cantatas
and instrumental music of the French Baroque by Boismortier
and contemporaries.
Xavier Julien-Laferriere, violin: Miriam
Ruggeri, soprano: Catherine Samouel,
harpsichord
with Laura
Vaughan and Reidun Turner, viola da
gamba
Formed in 2004 and based in
Faculty VCAM students FREE / $20 conc
& seniors / $30 — includes refreshments
2 May
2010, 3pm,
“ABC Sunday Live”
Love Letters – a passionate programme
of 17th century English and Italian songs performed live on ABC
Classic FM by Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo soprano) Sam Cohen (theorbo)
and myself. If
you can’t make it, listen in on the radio.
Visit www.abc.net.au/classic/sundaylive for more information.
13 May 2010,
7pm
“3mbs FM live broadcast”
As part of the 3mbs FM radiothon,
I will be performing solo live on air during the Early Music Experience,
playing Bassano, Hume and Marais. Tune in to 103.5 on your FM dial in
23 May
2010, 3pm,
“ABC Sunday Live”
With soprano Louisa Hunter-Bradley, Latitude 37
performs a dazzling programme of 17th century
Italian songs and instrumental music live on air. Come along to listen in person or tune in and
listen on the radio.
Visit www.abc.net.au/classic/sundaylive for more information.
29 May
2010, 6pm,
Pilgrim’s Church,
“Passion”
A concert with Adelaide Baroque exploring the passions that come together in the cultural melting pots of
Visit www.adelaidebaroque.com.au for more information.
5 & 6
June 2010, 5pm, Gasworks
Theatre,
“LACRIMAE RERUM – Actor, choir, solo voices and dance at Gasworks”
-Helen Gifford, THE TEARS OF
THINGS (2009) cantata for
actor/singer, solo speakers and choir. Texts from May Tilton’s memoir and
Virgil’s Aeneid first performance
-Heinrich Schütz, MUSIKALISCHE EXEQUIEN – A GERMAN REQUIEM (1636) choir, solo voices, viola da gamba and organ
-Claude Le Jeune, Darius Milhaud, Philippe Hersant, CHORAL PSALMS
Dance Exchange
/ director Russell Dumas
Jane Nolan (actor)
Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba)
Kim Bastin (organ)
The Astra Choir with solo singers and speakers,
conducted by John McCaughey
Helen
Gifford’s chronicle from the First World War was composed for actor Jane Nolan
with solo speakers and the Astra Choir. It relates
the story of Sister May Tilton, set against choral texts drawn from Virgil’s Aeneid.
The new piece is framed by French and German music from times of conflict. Schütz’s powerful funeral composition from the Thirty Years
War opens into the further field of dance – part of an exploratory season at
Gasworks Theatre with the celebrated group Dance Exchange.
Bookings through Gasworks on 9663-3253 ($3
booking fee) or
Online at www.gasworks.org.au (no booking fee)
18 &
19 June 2010, The Vines of Red Hill Winery,
“Midwinter Feast”
Join my exciting baroque trio Latitude 37 and chef
James Redfern at The Vines restaurant for a midwinter
banquet with music to match. A night not
to be missed!
Visit www.vinesofredhill.com.au for more information.
20 June
2010, 2.30pm, Wyselaskie
Auditorium, Uniting Church Centre for Theology & Ministry, 1
Morrison Close
“Trio du Soleil”
With harpsichordist Donald Nicolson and traverso player
Alison Catanach, another divine afternoon of French
baroque elegance with music by Couperin, Leclair, Blavet and Marais.
Tickets $20 / $15 / Family
for $30.
Call me on 0405 432 968 for bookings.
7 July
2010, 1.15pm, St James,
“
Join the
Check out www.sjks.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=272&Itemid=161
8, 9, 11
7 12 August 2010,
“Amfiparnasso”
“Comedy for the ear and the eye” is what its
author, the priest and jack-ofall-trades composer Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605) called
this sparkling set of scenic madrigals. Published in
Expect a rollercoaster of love triangles, along with the usual trickery and
treachery, set amongst a series of seriously flawed but suitably recognizable
characters.
The Song Company with
Drew Forsythe, actor/comedian
Tommie Andersson, theorbo/lute/guitar
Laura Vaughan, lirone/gamba
Roland Peelman, harpsichord
Check out www.songcompany.com.au/concerts/l-amfiparnasso
for more details.
24 August
2010,
10.00am, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall,
“Latitude 37 Coffee Concert
for Musica Viva”
Returning to their musical
heartland, Latitude 37 brings its trademark expressions of vitality and
excitement to a program of German Baroque music including JS Bach’s Sonata in E
minor, BWV 528 and works by
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber,
Johann Rosenmuller, Dietrich Buxtehude
and Johann Heinrich von Schmelzer.
Booking enquiries: www.musicaviva.com.au
26 August 2010,
7.30pm,
“A French Baroque Evening”
Together with harpsichordist
Ann Morgan, I will be presenting an elegant programme
of French Baroque repertoire in the lovely surrounds of the
Admission:
$36, Mem./Conc. $30, Stu. $15 - Series ticket $95, Mem./Conc. $80
www.artgalleryofballarat.com.au
Septmber 10-18 2010,
City Recital Hall,
“Baroque
Tarantella”
I will be performing with
the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra for their Baroque Tarantella season
featuring Christina Pluhar and l’Arpeggiata.
For more details, visit:
10
October 2010, 2pm, St
Aloysius’,
“The Biber
Rosary Sonatas”
A
rare opportunity to experience Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Rosary Sonatas in their original setting, with a
decade of the rosary being said between sonata. The
Rosary Sonatas endeavor to capture, in music, the experience of the three great
Mysteries of Christ: The Birth, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection, in three
settings of five "Mystery Sonatas" each. With a different scordatura tuning for each sonata, Biber
created a lasting monument in this series of fifteen sonatas depicting the
story of Jesus in a series of evocations expressing the range of emotional
reactions to the sequence of events. A very special event presented by
Latitude 37.
www.latitude37baroque.com for more details.
28
October 2010, 8pm,
“Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Auckland Philharmonia”
Bach’s St Matthew Passion is a sublime and
deeply-felt meditation on the passion of Christ, rich with solos and choral
passages of profound spirituality. Conducted by the APO’s
Principal Guest Conductor and baroque expert, Roy Goodman, this performance
stars
Check out http://apo.co.nz/2010_concerts/choral_masterpieces.aspx
for more details.
22
November 2010, 7.30pm,
Ballarat 45 Downstairs,
“Pantomime”
Latitude 37 abandons the courts of
Tickets $38 full/$25 conc./$15
student
bookings www.fortyfivedownstairs.com or
call 03 9662 9966
yu