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Valentina Marghinotti, Soprano (IT)
Born in Cagliari (Italy), after the bachelor in Greek and
Latin Literatures, she devoted herself entirely to Music;
she took the Diploma of the traditional course for operatic
singers at the Conservatoire of music G.Pl. da Palestrina
in her city guided by Elisabetta Scano.
Last June she took the Master of Arts in Performance at
the Hochschule für Musik in Basel guided by Isolde
Siebert .
She analysed the vocal technique with Margreet Honig,
Bernadette Manca di Nissa, Luciana Serra, Cheryl
Studer, Antonio Juvarra, Karen Saillant, Peggy Bouveret,
and the Baroque repertoire with Sara Mingardo, Gloria
Banditelli, Sergio Foresti.
In 2011 she won the first place in the competition for
young singers of Sardinia organized by the Ente Concerti
“Marialisa de Carolis” in Sassari.
In 2012 she made her debut in Orff's Carmina Burana
conducted by Pierpaolo Scattolin (Tempio Pausania,
Oristano, Cagliari); in Domenico Alaleona's Mirra,
interpreting the role of Mirra (Cagliari, Bergamo); in Jules
Massenet' sacred oratory La Vierge interpreting the part
of Marie Salomé, conducted by Marco Fracassi
(München); in J. S. Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium with Gloria Banditelli, Nico Van der Meel, Sergio Foresti
and the baroque ensemble Camerata Artemisia (Cagliari, Sassari); In 2013 she had her debut in Rigoletto
as Gilda conducted by Lorenzo Pusceddu, in Sinnai (Cagliari). In 2014 she recorded Masterpieces of Fux,
Caldara with the Aziel Ensemble; she was Dido in the scenical collage: Dido ohne Aeneas, in cooperation
with Theater Basel. In 2015 she made her debut as Serpina in Pergolesi's Serva Padrona with the Chamber
th
Academy Basel. She won the baroque singing section in the 7 Baroque music and Musicological studies
International Competition Principe Francesco Maria Ruspoli (Federico Maria Sardelli President of the Jury).
In 2015/2016 season she will debut as Papagena in Mozart's Zauberflöte at the Theater Basel.
Basel 21/10/2015
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The Renaissance Singers (UK)
The Renaissance Singers were founded in 1944 by Michael Howard to spearhead the revival of interest in
performing Renaissance sacred polyphony at the dawn of the early music movement. The choir went on to
make pioneering recordings and work with some of the greatest musicians of the day. The choir was inactive
during the 1980s but was revived in 1992 under the directorship of the late Michael Procter. The choir has
since flourished under the batons of Edward Wickham, JanJoost van Elburg and David Allinson. In recent
years the choir has appeared at festivals throughout the UK and given a regular series of concerts and
workshops in central London. They have also enjoyed collaborations with the Utrecht Chamber Choir in
2001, the Torino Vocal Ensemble in 2005 and the Lelikoor chamber choir in both London and Amsterdam in
2008. More recently, the choir has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as part of its 'Adopt a Composer' project,
in which it worked on a newly-commissioned piece by Stef Connor; it also toured to Piedmont, Italy. It has
been invited on several occasions to perform at the British Museum and the Royal Academy, most recently
at the Royal Academy to accompany its Giovanni Battista Moroni exhibition.
David Allinson is Director of Music at Canterbury Christ Church University. He was previously Teaching
Fellow in Music at Bristol University, where he lectured and conducting the prestigious University Singers He
is an experienced singer and conductor with a special love for Renaissance choral music. Besides The
Renaissance Singers he has conducted numerous choirs and most notably is the founding director of the
early music ensemble Cantores.
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He has directed numerous workshops and residential schools in the UK and Europe, at venues as diverse as
the South Bank Centre, London, the Grote Kerk, Amsterdam, and the Basilica de S Francesco, Assisi. David
studied music at St Peter's College, Oxford and University College, Durham . He completed a PhD (on the
devotional and intellectual context of early Tudor church music) at Exeter University in 1998. After his PhD
he helped to edit the revised Grove Dictionary of Music, contributing several entries, then becoming assistant
editor of music periodicals including Choir & Organ. For more, please visit David's own website
www.davidallinson.com .
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Odd Size - Messias a 4 (SE)
Odd Size är fyra musiker ur Utomjordiska: Elisabeth Holmertz, sopran, Per Buhre, barockviolin och
countertenor, Ingrid Andersson, barockcello, Fredrik Bock, barockgitarr.
Fyra musiker som tar sig an uppgifter som vid första anblicken kan verka omöjliga. Händels oratorium
”Messias” framförd av bara fyra personer? Odd Size har laborerat fram en egen version av Händels super-hit
och resultatet blir något pånyfött, sprittande, lekfullt, innerligt och kanske lite galet. I Odd Size's Messias
finns varken kör, orkester eller dirigent. Musikerna balanserar på gränsen till det omöjliga och lyssnaren får
en chans att komma Händels odödliga mästerverk riktigt nära.
Elisabeth Holmertz
er en af Skandinaviens mest profilerade sangere indenfor tidlig og nutidig musik. Hun operadebuterede 2005
med titelrollen i Ophelias: death by water singing af Henrik Hellstenius og har efter det gestaltet flere
deliriske, hårde og/eller forføriske kvindeskikkelser på scenen. Hun har også været solist med Norsk
Kringkastningsorkester, Danmarks Radios Underholdningsorkester, Cikada, Norsk kammerorkester m.fl.
Elisabeth er svensk, bosat i Oslo og har en stor del av sit hjerte i København. - www.elisabethholmertz.com
Fredrik Bock
Over the past ten years Fredrik Bock has worked as lutenist and guitarist while based in Copenhagen and
Malmö. Taking his inspiration from the music of the Renaissance and Baroque, Fredrik plays a number of the
many instruments of the guitar and lute family, both as soloist and together with established soloists,
ensembles and orchestras. Fredrik´s natural curiosity and interest in other genres often lead to musical
encounters off the beaten track: one day at a folk song festival, the next with pub musicians, and now and
then contemporary classical music. Fredrik performs regularly with some of Europes´s leading ensembles
and orchestras, including Barokksolistene, Concerto Copenhagen, Elisabeth Holmertz, Theatre of Voices,
Atalante, Poul Høxbro and The Finnish Baroque Orchestra. Fredrik is one of few lutenists to become a
specialist on Baroque guitar, and his uncompromising pursuit of artistic excellence has garnered him a
number of grants and prizes. He has moreover contributed to a good many radio and television recordings,
and CD and DVD productions. Fredrik first solo recording ”Music for a Queen” with music by Michelangelo
Bartolotti will be released on Lawo Classics 2013.
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Lene Langballe studied recorder at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen with Vicki Boeckman and
graduated from The Civica Scuola in Milan (Italy) with Pedro Memelsdorff. She discovered the cornett and
continued her studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, studying recorder with Conrad Steinmann
and cornetto with Bruce Dickey.
Lene has performed with numerous ensembles such as Concerto
Copenhagen, Alta Punta, Musica Fiorita, Ars Nova among others, and appears on several recordings. In
2003 she founded ensemble Authentia, her own platform for music from the renaissance and baroque. Lene
teaches recorder and performance practice at the Academy of Music in Copenhagen.