Greenwich Festival Of Early Music 2010 - Complete Diary Of Events


- last updated 1st November
FRIDAY, 12th November 2010

10.30am - 6.00pm
Painted Hall & Queen Mary Ante Room

Exhibition
Instrument makers, music shops, publishers, recording companies organisations and education

Admission
Adults £8.00, 2 day ticket - £13.00, 3 day ticket - £17.00; Children under 14 free (Concessions:  Senior Citizens, UB40 holders, Students). TCM staff & students free entry with TCM resource card.


10.00am - 1.00pm
Peacock Room, King Charles Court


Master Class: Rachel Brown - Flute
for Conservatoire and University level students
Leading authority on historical performance practice, Rachel Brown is an inspirational performer and entertaining and illuminating teacher.

Admission free, limited places


11.00am - 11.45am
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
To Be Announced

Admission free, limited places


12.00noon - 12.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
To Be Announced

Admission free, limited places


1.00pm - 2.00pm
St Alfege Parish Church

Golden Lyre of Ur
The poignant discovery in 1929 of three lyres and a harp in a mass grave in Mesopotamia, led to six years of investigation into these instruments from 2,550 years BC. Their story is told today - one of deaths and mass-suicides, and royal court musicians who played to their very end.

Admission £5.00 on the door
Pre-booking available via box office




1.00pm - 1.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital

To Be Announced

Admission free, limited places


2.00pm - 2.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
Huw Saunders

Admission free, limited places


3.00pm - 4.00pm
Old Royal Naval College Chapel


Concert: Due Corde

Winners of the TCM Early Music Prize 2010, Due Corde specialise in performing 18th century violin sonatas with basso continuo on cello alone, allowing them to explore the improvisatory elements of this repertoire - melodic ornamentation and chordal realisation - within the unique texture and colourful sonority of a string duo

Admission £3.00 payable on entrance to concert (no pre-booking)


3.00pm - 3.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital

To Be Announced

Admission free, limited places


3.00pm - 5.00pm
Peacock Room, King Charles Court


Master Class: Steven Devine -  Introduction to the Fortepiano
Steven Devine gives a workshop and master class for aspiring fortepiano students

Admission free, limited places


4.00pm - 4.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
Owen Morse-Brown - Viols. Susanne Heinrich plays solo viol music

Admission free, limited places


5.45pm - 7.00pm
St Alfege Church

Concert:
QNG Recorder Quartet
Susanne Fröhlich
Andrea Guttmann
Hannah Pape
Heide Schwarz
(recorders)

Performing on upwards of 30 different recorders of varying sizes and shapes during the course of a typical performance, Quartet New Generation transports the listener into new sonic worlds, confirming the recorder's viability as a modern classical instrument.

Tickets £10 (concessions £8)

 Box Office: (020 8463 0100)

Book online at
www.ticketweb.co.uk
Booking opens 1st September 2010

Tickets also available on the door




“A self-consciously fresh concept in chamber music: four women in silky black cocktail dresses with a vast array of recorders and a mind-stretching repertoire…”[Irish Times]


Quartet New Generation


Concert promoted by
The Early Music Shop

7.45pm - 9.45pm
Old Royal Naval College Chapel


Concert: Café Mozart
with Sophie Bevan

Haydn a L’anglaise.
Songs by Haydn as found in English editions available in London when he arrived in 1791. Instrumental music converted into “Ballads”. Keyboard Rondos based on Haydn’s English Canzonettas and other keyboard music by his pupil Thomas Haigh.
Sophie Bevan (soprano), James Atherton (tenor), Jenny Thomas (baroque flute), Ian Gammie (guitar  and viola da Gamba); proprieter Derek McCullock; with Steven Devine (fortepiano)


Tickets £15 (concessions £12)
Box Office: (020 8463 0100) 

Book online at
www.ticketweb.co.uk
Booking opens 1st September 2010

Tickets also available on the door


Sophie Bevan recently graduated from the Benjamin Britten International Opera School where she studied as a Karaviotis Scholar with Lillian Watson. Her concert repertoire ranges from Handel's 'Samson' to James Macmillan's 'Parthenogenesis' and she has worked with conductors including Nicholas Cleobury, Martin Andre and Sir Charles Mackerras. 


SATURDAY, 13th November 2010

10.00am - 6.00pm
Painted Hall & Queen Mary Ante Room

Exhibition 
Instrument makers, music shops, publishers, recording companies organisations and education

Admission 
Adults £8.00, 2 day ticket - £13.00, 3 day ticket - £17.00; Children under 14 free (Concessions:  Senior Citizens, UB40 holders, Students). TCM staff & students free entry with TCM resource card.


11.00am - 12noon
Old Royal Naval
College Chapel

Concert: Trinity Laban Haydn Ensemble
Directed by renowned violinist Lucy Russell, the ensemble perform early classical works including several of Haydn’s wonderful Notturni.

Admission £3.00
payable on entrance to concert (no pre-booking)


11.00am - 11.45am
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
Michael Moussa - Oud. Variations and transitions of Arabic moods and scales through Umkolthum music analysis

Admission free, limited places


12noon - 12.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
Stephen Robinson (spinets). ‘ A CHOICE COLLECTION OF LESSONS’ A Programme of English keyboard music played by Rosemary Robinson (Spinet). Includes works by Byrd, Blow, Handel, Arne and Herbert Howells

Admission free, limited places


1.00pm - 2.00pm
St Alfege Church

Concert: John Henry and Steven Devine
Concerti and other works for one and two keyboard instruments by members of the Bach family – including JS, WF, CPE and JC

Admission £5.00 on the door
Pre-booking available via box office



1.00pm - 1.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
Owen Morse-Brown - Viols. Susanne Heinrich plays solo viol music.

Admission free, limited places


2.00pm - 2.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
Küng Recorders

Andreas Küng will present the Küng basses together with
QNG Quartet New Generation. They will perform a small concert, playing works by Händel, Sweelinck, Mozart and others.

Admission free, limited places


3.00pm - 4.00pm
Old Royal Naval
College Chapel

Concert: Rachel Brown - Baroque Flute
Virtuoso Rachel Brown performs Telemann’s Fantasias, as recorded in complete form for her own label Uppernote

Admission £3.00
payable on entrance to concert (no pre-booking)





3.00pm - 3.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
Martin Wenner (recorders) with Catherine Groom

Admission free, limited places


4.00pm - 4.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital

Bexley Harpsichord Workshops

Admission free, limited places


5.45pm - 7.00pm
St Alfege Church

Concert: The Burney Players
A programme of chamber music marking the 300th birthday of Thomas Arne, along with music and writings of Charles Burney

Admission £10 (concessions £8) on the door
Pre-booking available via box office



7.45 pm - 9.45pm
Old Royal Naval
College Chapel

Concert: Trinity Laban Early Music Ensemble and Choir

Marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of Monteverdi’s Vespers, the college ensembles present a programme of early 17th century Italian sacred music.

Tickets £12 (concessions £10)
Box Office: (020 8463 0100) 

Book online at
www.ticketweb.co.uk
Booking opens 1st September 2010

Tickets also available on the door



SUNDAY, 14th November 2010

10.00am - 5.30pm
Painted Hall & Queen Mary Ante Room

Exhibition 
Instrument makers, music shops, publishers, recording companies organisations and education

Admission 
Adults £8.00, 2 day ticket - £13.00, 3 day ticket - £17.00; Children under 14 free (Concessions:  Senior Citizens, UB40 holders, Students). TCM staff & students free entry with TCM resource card.)


10.30am - 12.30pm
Recital Rooms
Blackheath Halls

Concert:
Fitzwilliam Quartet

Celebrating their 40th anniversary, the Fitzwilliam Quartet gives a programme including Purcell, Bach, Mozart’s Hunt Quartet and Haydn’s Quartet in D major (The Frog).

Tickets £13.50 (concessions £11)
Box Office: (020 8463 0100)

Book online at
www.ticketweb.co.uk
Booking opens 1st September 2010

Tickets also available on the door




11.00am - 12.15pm
Old Royal Naval College Chapel


Festival Service

The choir of the chapel of St Peter and Paul present early sacred music in its original liturgical context.

Admission free to this act of worship in the Anglican tradition


11.00am - 11.45am
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
Mollenhauer Recorders. The QNG recorder quartet and Nik Tarasov present exciting recorder models designed by the Mollenhauer workshop.

Admission free, limited places



12 noon - 12.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
Ardival Harps. Bill Taylor will perform medieval and renaissance music from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales on historical harps made by Ardival Harps, including a gut-strung medieval harp, a wire-strung clarsach and a large renaissance bray harp

Admission free, limited places


1.00pm - 2.00pm
Peacock Room


Concert

Caroline Jones - recorders; Alison Crum - viols; Charles Matthews - harpsichord.
A sparkling selection of Trio Sonatas by Telemann and Prowo with solo sonatas by Handel, Fischer and Telemann.

Tickets £5.00 on the door


1.00pm - 1.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
To Be Announced

Admission free, limited places



2.00pm - 2.45pm
Admirals House

Makers Demonstration Recital
To Be Announced

Admission free, limited places


4.00pm - 5.30pm
Old Royal Naval College Chapel

Concert: Pernille Petersen - Recorder
The winner of the 2009 Moeck Competition returns to Greenwich for a solo recorder recital

Admission £10
(concessions £8) on the door

Pre-booking available via box office

Programme Details Here



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Tickets for exhibition available on the door only.