The 4th Newark Early Music Course, 11-13 April 2008 Course tutors: The Newark Early Music Course will run from 6 pm on Friday evening, 11 April, to 6 pm on Sunday evening, 13 April, 2008. As in previous years, it is open to players of Renaissance wind instruments of all standards, from relative beginners to experienced amateur players and advanced music students. As an extension of the work we have done in previous years, this year we are also inviting singers to attend. We hope to attract singers with a similarly wide rage of experience: the only requirement is an ability to read music (we will send scores in advance, so sight singing is not essential), and an interest in the music of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. The theme of the course this year is Giovanni Gabrieli and his influence on composers north of the Alps, focusing particularly on the music of Heinrich Schütz. We hope the weekend will run very much as in previous years, including performances at Mass in the parish church (a fabulous acoustic) and from the church tower (the third highest in England, only for those with a head for heights!). Have a look at www.gonzagaband.co.uk and click on 'Education' for a link to a review of the course by Wayne Plummer. The fee for the course is £90 (£60 for students), excluding accommodation and meals. We'll send an accommodation list to everyone who registers, and prices range from £18 per night for a B&B to around £75 for one of the better hotels. If you wish to register for the course, please send a deposit of £45 (£30) by 1 March to: The course tutors: Faye Newton – voice She has a diverse repertoire ranging from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries. She formed duo Trobairitz with vielle player Hazel Brooks, to specialise in the courtly song repertory of the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. The duo was a finalist in the Antwerp Early Music Competition in 2000 and has since performed at major early music festivals throughout Europe. Performance highlights include a tour of Slovenia, a Dutch Early Music Network tour, the Leeds International Medieval Congress and the debut performance of its ‘Medieval Femme Fatale’ programme at the York Early Music Festival, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Early Music Show’. The duo’s first CD, ‘The Language of Love’, was released on the Hyperion label in June 2007. Faye has appeared as a soloist with many acclaimed early music ensembles worldwide. She is a member of the New London Consort, directed by Philip Pickett, with whom she has given solo recitals in the Spitalfields Festival, Purcell Room and the York Early Music Festival, and with whom she is currently performing in a world tour of Jonathan Miller’s production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo. Her other recent projects include singing in a production of ‘The Tempest’ at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, a series of Bach cantatas with the Feinstein Ensemble in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London and concerts and recordings with His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, including a recently released CD of works by Giovanni Battista Grillo. Faye also teaches singing at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Early Music Performance and Research. Jamie Savan – cornetto In addition to directing The Gonzaga Band, Jamie is Artistic Director of His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, and performs regularly with many other leading period-instrument ensembles on the European scene, including Concerto Palatino, La Fenice, Oltremontano, the Gabrieli Consort and Players, and the King’s Consort. He is featured as soloist with the Oxford-based ensemble Charivari Agréable on the critically-acclaimed CD recording, Harmonia Caelestis. Jamie is a part-time Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull, and he teaches cornett at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and at the University of Birmingham. He also teaches regularly on the ‘Cantare et Sonare’ international early music courses in Bavaria and the Austrian Tyrol. Adam Woolf – trombone He is a keen exponent of the many guises of historical trombone playing and his enthusiasm has led him to partake in recordings and concerts all over the world with some of today's finest exponents of early music and specialist ensembles such as Concerto Palatino and La Fenice. His work can be heard on dozens of recordings covering a repertoire for the sackbut spanning over 600 years! Recent projects have included recording the sonatas of Dario Castello, virtuosic chamber music by Matthias Weckmann, Schmelzer, Biber and Buxtehude and early 15th-century playing techniques. Adam is a full-time member of several world-leading ensembles including His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, the Caecilia-Concert, Oltremontano and The Gonzaga Band. He is also principal trombone with Sir John Eliot Gardiner's English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. This work has included recording all the Cantatas of JS Bach, orchestral works by Brahms, and a groundbreaking live DVD recording of Berlioz Les Troyens. He is also principal trombone of The King’s Consort with whom he performed the Leopold Mozart concerto. In 2007 Adam was elected an honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music when he was awarded the ARAM for distinguished significant work in the music profession. |
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