-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, PENINSULA SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL

This summer, the Mornington Peninsula will once again be filled with the glorious sounds of classical and contemporary music when the third Peninsula Summer Music Festival takes place between December 30, 2009 and January 5, 2010.  Since its establishment in 2008, the Festival has offered audiences the experience of world-class music, food and wine in unique locations across the Peninsula region, and it has rapidly become an important event in Victoria’s cultural calendar.  I will be presenting a recital of the three Bach Sonata’s for viola da gamba and harpsichord as well as a concert exploring the humours with harpsichordist Donald Nicolson, and my trio Latitude 37 will be presenting an exquisite recital with singer David Greco of Stylus Phantasticus repertoire.  Check out the festival website for more details: www.peninsulafestival.com.au

 

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:

www.ballarat.com/organs/

 

13 January 2010, 8pm, Neil St Uniting Church, Cnr Neil and Macarthur Sts, Ballarat

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 Paris quartets delight the intellect and move the heart. 

 

Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival, please check out their website for more details:

www.ballarat.com/organs/

 

17 January 2010, 2.30pm, Paterson Building, Level 1, 181 Smith St, Collingwood

“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 Paris.  With guest artists James Holland (theorbo) and Sophie Ardiet (traverse) enjoy a relaxed gathering with a programme including Couperin, Rameau and Forqueray.
Check out:  www.latitude37baroque.com

 

 

17 March 2010, 7pm, City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney

23 & 24 March 2010, 7.30pm, Melbourne Recital Centre

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:

www.brandenburg.com.au

 

 

23-25 April 2010, Early Music Studio, 23 Royal Parade, Melbourne

 “Latitude 37 French Baroque Workshop”
With my trio Latitude 37, I will be running this three-day workshop exploring the music of baroque France.  Check out the website for more details:

www.latitude37baroque.com

 

 

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 Monash University's lunchtime concert series.  Hear the bells of Paris' St Genevieve in Marais' Sonnerie, sabour the elegance of Louis XIV's court of Versailles with Rameau's Pieces de clavecin en concert, revel in the profundity of Bach and hear Pachelbel's perennial favourite with new ears.

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 Parkville

 “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 Paris, Les Caractères has performed for festivals in France, Portugal and Switzerland as well as a series of chamber concerts and in schools. Xavier Julien-Laferriere, violin,  Miriam Ruggeri, soprano and Catherine Samouel, harpsichord will be joined by Melbourne musicians Laura Vaughan and Reidun Turner on viola da gamba.  

Faculty VCAM students FREE / $20 conc & seniors / $30 — includes refreshments

 

2 May 2010, 3pm, Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre, Southbank

 “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 Melbourne.

www.3mbs.org.au

 

23 May 2010, 3pm, Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre, Southbank

 “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, 12 Flinders St, Adelaide

 “Passion”

A concert with Adelaide Baroque exploring the passions that come together in the cultural melting pots of Spain and Italy in the 17th century. Hear popular songs of beauty and fervour, the Lamento of Barbara Strozzi and the fiery Cantada al Santisimo of Sebastian Duron; virtuosity and dance in the rhythms of gamba virtuoso Diego Ortiz and Corelli's famous La Folia variations for violin. A program to light up the night!

Visit www.adelaidebaroque.com.au for more information.

 

5 & 6 June 2010, 5pm, Gasworks Theatre, 21 Graham Street, Middle Park

 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, 150 Red Hill Rd, Red Hill

 “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 Parkville

 “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, 173 King St, Sydney

 Emerald City Viols”

Join the Emerald City viol consort and soprano Josie Ryan for this lunchtime concert featuring English Renaissance viol consort music and songs by Dowland.

Check out  www.sjks.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=272&Itemid=161

 

 

8, 9, 11 7 12 August 2010, Canberra, Wollongong, Sydney, Newcastle

 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 Venice in 1597, L’Amfiparnasso (ie, the place where the muses waste most of their time) uses familiar Commedia dell’arte characters as a pretext for superb musical entertainment.
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, Melbourne Recital Centre

 “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

Melbourne Recital Centre, Ph. 03 9699 3333

 

26 August 2010, 7.30pm, Ballarat Art Gallery, 40 Lydiard St North, Ballarat.

 “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 Ballarat Art Gallery.

Admission: $36, Mem./Conc. $30, Stu. $15 - Series ticket $95, Mem./Conc. $80

www.artgalleryofballarat.com.au

 

Septmber 10-18 2010, City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney and Melbourne Recital Centre

“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:

www.brandenburg.com.au

 

 

10 October 2010, 2pm, St Aloysius’, 233 Balaclava Rd, Caulfield North

 “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, Auckland Town Hall, The Edge, Auckland

 “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 New Zealand baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, stunning alto Susan Bickley, and an outstanding group of singers.

Check out http://apo.co.nz/2010_concerts/choral_masterpieces.aspx for more details.

 

 

22 November 2010, 7.30pm, Ballarat 45 Downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

 “Pantomime”
Latitude 37 abandons the courts of Versailles for a mischievous hair-raising run though the back streets of Paris. Encounter drunken ragamuffins, cheeky monkeys, and rambunctious carnival troupes, with the bells of Paris providing the scintillating backdrop to an exciting fun-filled romp.  You will be titillated, amused, and possibly manhandled in this celebration of the start of the festive season.

Tickets $38 full/$25 conc./$15 student

bookings www.fortyfivedownstairs.com or call 03 9662 9966

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yu