Making the British Sound, Conference, Instrumental
Music and British Traditions
London - Edinburgh 6 - 11 July 2009
www.galpinsociety.org/gxh
Horniman Museum (London)
INSTRUMENS
5 course guitar attributed to Sellas (Venice,
c.1650)
5 course guitar by Marchal (Paris, c.1770)
English guitar(cittern) by Preston (London,c.1760)
English guitar by Perry (Dublin, c.1760)
6 string guitar by Panormo (London, 1833)
PROGRAMME
Music from the restration period
* Francesco Corbetta: Ciaconna@i1648j
* Nicolla Matteis: Airs for guitar (1682)
* Nicolla Matteis: Airs for violin and continuo
Music surrounding Handel
* George Fredrich Handel: Suite for Musical
clock (c.1730)
Prelude-Fugue-Largo-Gigue
* Salvatore Lanzetti: from Sonata for Cello
and continuo(c.1745)
Andante-Fanfare
INTERVAL
Music for Guittar (Cistre, English guitar)
* Francesco Geminiani: Sonata for Guittar
and Cello (1760)
* Rudolf Straube: Suite (1768)
Fantasia- Largo-Hornpipe
*Johan Cristian Bach: Sonata for guittar
and violin (1770?)
Allegro- Largo- Allegro
Music from early 19th century
* Fernando Sor: Studies (1820s)
PERFORMERS
Taro Takeuchi(early guitars)
Taro Takeuchi was born in Kyoto, Japan and
studied early music at the Guildhall school
of music and drama London (with Nigel North).
Since leaving college, he has became active
in Europe and now regularly performs and
tours internationally.
He now lives in London and has worked with
The Parley of Instruments (Peter Holman)
Glyndeboune Opera,
Kings Consort, The Orchestra of Age of Enlightenment
(Simon Rattle).
He has made numerous recordings as a soloist
and a continuo player for EMI, Hyperion,
BBC, Deux-Elles and others.
Recently he has been working with Nigel Kennedy/Berliner
Phirhamonic Orchestra
and made several DVDs/CDs
of Vivaldi's concerti including [Four
Seasons].
He specializes early doube course guitars
and continuo playing on lute,theorbo and
guitar.
His solo recording on original baroque guitar
[FOLIAS!] is released from Deux-Elles (DXL1030)
and got highly acclaimed. @
New CD on original 18th & 19th century
guitar [The century that shaped the guitar]
was released in 2006.
REVIEWS
...As to Taro Takeuchi, Baroque guitar playing
does'nt come better than this in any
respect... GRAMOPHONE
...the music takes wings and flies. There
is real urge to clap at the end...EARLY MUSIC
NEWS
...his charismatic stage presence drew the
audience in and and there was hardly any
unnecessary noise in Purcell Room as he played
,,,CLASSICAL GUITAR MAGAZINE
...A real winner - I enjoyed
it immensely. ...INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Judy Tarling(violin)
Judy Tarling is a violinist and violist with
an international reputation in early music.
After a period playing in the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra, Judy became interested
in historical performance style and since
the 1970s has specialised in period performance.
As leader of The Parley of Instruments she
has made over eighty recordings for Hyperion
Records and performed throughout Europe and
the Americas. In 1985 The Parley assembled
an all-gut-strung Renaissance violin band,
the first of its kind in modern times, to
play and record the earliest repertoire for
the violin family from the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Judy was also principal
viola of The Hanover Band for twenty years,
taking part in dozens of recordings of the
symphonic repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries, and principal viola for Roy Goodmanfs
Brandenburg Consort. She also toured, recorded
and filmed performances of Beethoven and
Brahms with Roger Norringtonfs Classical
Players.
Her first book Baroque String Playing for ingenious learners (2000) has quickly become the standard text
in university performance practice departments
and conservatories world-wide. Strad magazine described it as aiming to ere-launch
the spirit of discovery in historical performancef.
Her second book, The Weapons of Rhetoric, a guide for musicians and audiences (2004) explores the common ground between
the performance of music in the espeakingf
style and the art of oratory. The book is
based on the ancient classical sources by
Cicero and Quintilian and the Renaissance
eloquence books which they spawned, and has
been hailed in America as possibly the emost
useful and intriguing book on Baroque performance
practice ever writtenf. Her third book Speaking With Quintilian, text, voice, performance, with Jane Oakshott, a voice coach, is to
be published shortly.
Judy has lectured on rhetorical performing
style at The Royal Academy and the Royal
College of Music in London, at the Universities
of Cambridge, Veracruz in Mexico and the
conservatories of music in Oslo, Utrecht
and Amsterdam. She has been made an honorary
Associate of the Royal Academy of Music for
distinguished achievement in the music profession.
Judy was recently gained a first class honours
degree in the Humanities with Classical Studies
at the Open University and is currently researching
a book exploring the connection between gardens,
gardeners and rhetoric in the seventeenth
century, for which she has been reading for
MA (Garden History) at Birkbeck College,
University of London.
Jennifer Morsches(cello)
Jennifer Morsches spent her formative years
in Alexandria, Virginia, studying cello with
David Hardy under the auspices of the scholarship
Fellowship and Apprenticeship Programs of
the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington,
D.C. During the summer months she participated
in orchestral and chamber music courses at
the New England Music Camp, Eastern Music
Festival and the Apple Hill Center for Chamber
Music in New Hampshire. She has been invited
as a guest artist and coach at Apple Hill
since 2002.
She pursued a liberal arts education at Smith
College, where she graduated magna cum laude,
Phi Beta Kappa and First Group Scholar with
degrees in Music and German Literature, and
was recipient of the Ernst Wallfisch Memorial
Prize in music upon graduation in 1990. Jennifer
was subsequently accepted into the studio
of Timothy Eddy at the Mannes College of
Music in New York City, where she received
her Master's degree. She continued to study
with Mr. Eddy at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook, where she received
her Doctorate of Musical Arts in 1995. During
her post-graduate years, she was a Fellow
at the Bach Aria Festival, the Quartet Program
and the Tanglewood Music Center. She received
regular chamber music coaching sessions with
members of the Juilliard String Quartet,
Eugene Lehner, Louis Krasner, Felix Galimir,
Julius Levine and Gilbert Kalish, and was
awarded the C.D. Jackson Prize for outstanding
merit and contribution at Tanglewood in 1994.
That summer she was also invited to perform
with Yo-Yo Ma as part of Wynton Marsalis'
educational music videos, recorded by Sony,
which have been aired on television worldwide.
She was a member of the Cassatt String Quartet
in New York City from 1995-96.
A growing interest in period instrument performance
led her to London in 1996. Since then she
has been in great demand as both continuo
cellist and chamber music collaborator in
the UK as well as on the Continent. As principal
cellist of the highly acclaimed baroque ensemble
Florilegium, with whom she regularly records
for Channel Classics, she has toured extensively
throughout the globe and performs regularly
at, among other venues, the Wigmore Hall,
Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall.
Jennifer performs and tours chamber music
in Germany with Trio 1790 (CPO records) and
in the Netherlands with the quartet, Island
(Centaur Records). Additionally, she is a
member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
the English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre des
Champs Elysees and the Amsterdam Baroque
Orchestra. This past spring she was invited
to be the continuo cellist for Luc Bondy's
production of Hercules at the Nederlands
Opera. She also regularly performs in recital
with countertenors Michael Chance and Derek
Lee Ragin.
On modern cello, Jennifer participates in
chamber music festivals such as El Paso Pro-Musica,
Bravo! Colorado, Consonances Festival in
Saint Nazaire, France, the Barossa Music
Festival in Australia and the Flanders Festival
in Belgium. She has given world premieres
of chamber works by David Matthews, Ben-Zion
Orgad, Luna Pearl Wolff and Michael Wolpe.
She has performed live on BBC Radio 3, BBC
World Service, Deutschlandfunk, CBC (Canada),
ABC (Australia), WGBH-Boston, WQXR-New York
and NPR in the United States.
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100 London Rd, Forest Hill, London, SE23
3PQ
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