Come and Sing/Play

We have now staged two of these events,

Saturday 20 January 2007
New World Symphonies
and Saturday 19 January 2008
Biber's Requiem in A
at St. Michael and All Angels Church, Bramcote, Nottingham

Richard Roddis and Nicolette Moonen (see below) directed both workshops for singers and players. In each case about 130 people took part.

The first, in 2007, centred on New World Symphonies - Latin American liturgical music of the 16th and early 17th centuries. We explored in some of the repertoire for our next concert Music of the Americas. We experienced and enjoyed the grandeur and the exuberance of the Christian/Incan cross-culture of the Baroque New World.

Richard Roddis with the singers ..... Nicolette Moonen with the instrumentalists

In the second, in 2008, welooked at one of one of the best kept secrets of the Baroque era, the Requiem à 15 in A by Heinrich Biber, the centrepiece of our next concert on 1 March, Royal Requiem.

Lunch

To see more pictures of the 2007 event click here.

Instrumental specialist Nicolette Moonen is a renowned Baroque violinist. Nicolette studied modern violin at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatoire, and baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuyken. Since being resident in the UK, she has performed with most of the country’s leading period instrument ensembles and has been increasingly in demand as a leader and teacher. She leads Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Jeffrey Skidmore, and is founder-leader of The Bach Players. She teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Birmingham Conservatoire.

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