the 2016 Programme - Sligo Festival of Baroque Music

21 SLIGO FESTIVAL
OF BAROQUE MUSIC
ST
The Model, Sligo
23rd - 25th September 2016
At a Glance
Friday 23 September
2 pm
8 pm
Schools Concert: An introduction to Baroque Music
Opening Concert: Arias and Concertos of the Late Baroque
London Handel Players with soprano Raphaela Papadakis
Saturday 24 September
11 am
1 pm
3.30 pm
7.30 pm
10 pm
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Ensemble Playing Masterclass: Session 1
Afternoon Recital: The flutes of the Baroque Era
Ensemble Playing Masterclass: Session 2
Evening Concert: Sonorities and sensibilities. London Handel Players
Late Night Concert: Music of Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre.
The Small Wonder: Pauline Graham - soprano, Debbie Diamond - violin,
Sarah Groser - gamba, Yonit Kosovske - harpsichord
Tickets
The Hawk’s Well Theatre
www.hawkswell.com
Tel: (071) 916 1518
and Ward’s Pharmacy, O’Connell Street
and at the festival desk during the festival
Festival Ticket (admits to all concerts) €75/50
Under 12 Free
Under 18 Half price
Half price concession
for students aged 12 to 18 years,
thanks to support from Music Generation Sligo
Sunday 25 September
11 am
2 pm
4 pm
7.30 pm
Ensemble Playing Masterclass: Session 3
Afternoon Concert: Amongst friends. Sligo Baroque Orchestra
Ensemble Masterclass play-through
Closing Concert: The Piper and the Faerie Queen. Camerata Kilkenny
Ensemble Playing Masterclasses
Ensemble Playing Masterclasses (will take place) throughout the festival in a series of sessions.
The masterclasses will be given by several of the festivals performers and each group should have
access to all the tutors. The sessions will culminate in a final play-through by the participants on
Sunday afternoon. These masterclasses will allow members of existing ensembles and also
individual instrumentalists to experience expert mentoring. Individuals will be matched with others
to form a combination to work through a baroque piece.
An Ensemble can be two or more instruments.
Times of sessions may be influenced by number of participants and performers rehearsal needs.
Observers welcome at all masterclasses.
See website and Facebook for further details.
To book a place contact Rod Alston Tel (071) 985 4122 [email protected]
Music Generation is a national music education
programme for children and young people,
initiated by Music Network, co-funded by U2,
The Ireland Funds, The Department of Education
& Skills and Sligo Music Education Partnership.
Music Generation Sligo is part of the network of
local music education partnerships established
under this programme, managed and 50% funded
locally by Sligo Music Education Partnership,
Mayo Sligo Leitrim ETB, Sligo County Council,
Sligo Education Centre, Sligo County Childcare
Committee, Cranmore Regeneration and the local
music sector.
Schools Concert €6/€3 conc.
An introduction to Baroque Music
Friday 23 September
2 pm
Friday 23 September
8 pm
Some of the performers at this year’s festival will give a brief introduction to the fascinating
character of European music from the 16th to the 18th centuries. A chance to look at and try some
of the instruments involved. A great introduction to the soundworld of Baroque music.
Schools contact: [email protected]
Opening Concert €25/20 conc.
Arias and Concertos of the Late Baroque
London Handel Players with soprano Raphaela Papadakis
London Handel Players: Adrian Butterfield - director/violin.
Rachel Brown - flute, recorder. Oliver Webber - violin. Nicola Cleary - violin.
Wendi Kelly - viola. Katherine Sharman - cello. Nicholas Parle - harpsichord.
Programme
Georg Philipp Telemann Concerto for Flute and Violin in E minor
(1681-1767)
{Allegro}; Adagio; Presto; Adagio; Allegro
George Frederic Handel
(1685-1759)
Arias Ombre piante from Rodelinda
and Il volo from Riccardo Primo
Jean-Marie Leclair
(1697-1764)
Violin Concerto Op.7 No.5 in A minor
Vivace; Largo; Allegro assai
Interval
George Frederic Handel
Sweet Bird from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Antonio Vivaldi
(1678-1741)
Sopranino Recorder Concerto in C major RV443
{Allegro}; Largo; Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Cantata BWV 209 Non sa che sia dolore
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London Handel Players
For over fifteen years, since making their debut at Handel’s parish church, St. George’s Hanover Square,
as part of the London Handel Festival in 2000, the London Handel Players have thrilled audiences
across the world with their performances and recordings. They appear regularly at Wigmore Hall and at
many of the leading festivals in the UK, Europe and North America, performing baroque chamber music
and concertos and collaborating with the world's greatest singers. They have performed across Canada
and the United States, making their New York debut at the Frick Museum in 2012 and returning to
perform at Carnegie Hall in 2014. Their recent appearances include Spitalfields, London Handel, Tilford
Bach, Cork Early Music, Göttingen International Handel, Gregynog, Kings Lynn, Stratford, Newbury
Spring, Stour, Halle International Handel, York Early Music and Brighton Early Music Festivals.
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The members of the group pursue busy solo, directing and conducting careers, work with many of the
major early-instrument ensembles in the UK and abroad and are professors at the conservatoires in
London. They bring together a wealth of recording experience and their four Handel recordings, of his
Op.2 and Op.5 trio sonatas, his complete violin sonatas and one entitled “Handel at Home”, all for
Somm Recordings, have been highly acclaimed. A further double CD, of the complete Sonata Op.1 by
Francesco Geminiani, was released in December 2012 and their new double disc of Bach Flute Sonatas
and Arias was released in January 2016. They also appear frequently on BBC Radio 3.
Committed teachers at every level, the London Handel Players present masterclasses and workshops for
students, keen amateurs and children, including an annual project with schools in conjunction with the
Handel House Museum and the London Handel Festival.
Raphaela Papadakis
Award-winning British soprano Raphaela Papadakis recently made her professional operatic début at
Garsington Opera as Bathilde in Offenbach’s Vert-Vert, and understudied the Nymph in Michael Boyd’s
new production of Orfeo for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She is about to graduate from the
prestigious Artist Diploma course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where her studies are
supported by an Independent Opera Voice Fellowship, a Leverhulme Arts Scholarship, the Countess of
Munster Musical Trust and JM Finn & Co. Before beginning her studies at the Guildhall School, Raphaela
graduated from Clare College, Cambridge University with a first class degree in English Literature.
A committed recitalist, and a Samling and IMA Artist, Raphaela made her song recital début at Carnegie
Hall in New York following an Artist Residency at the Banff Centre, Canada and has been selected to take
part with Stean’s Music Institute at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. She is the winner of the National Mozart
Competition, the Clonter Opera and Audience prizes, Maureen Lehane Award, has reached the semi-finals
of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the Royal Overseas League Competition and the Das Lied competition.
Adrian Butterfield
Adrian Butterfield is a violinist, director, conductor and teacher who specialises in performing music from
1600-1900 on period instruments. He is Musical Director of the Tilford Bach Society and Associate Director
of the London Handel Festival and regularly directs the London Handel Orchestra and Players as well as
working as a guest soloist and director in Europe and North America with modern and period ensembles.
Born in London, he started playing the violin at the age of four, was a chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral and
went on to read music at Trinity College, Cambridge and study as a postgraduate at the Royal College of
Music. He has worked with most of the period-instrument ensembles in London. He has taken part in
numerous recordings and his world premiere recordings of Leclair’s first two books of violin sonatas have
been widely acclaimed.
In addition to being a founding member of the London Handel Players he also leads the period-instrument
quartet, the Revolutionary Drawing Room, which has been celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015. He
teaches at the Royal College of Music and on the Aestas Musica baroque course in Croatia.
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Nicholas Parle
The Australian harpsichordist and organist, Nicholas Parle, studied harpsichord with David Kinsella while
completing a BMus degree at the University of Sydney. Upon receiving a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee
Award for Young Australians in 1985, he moved to London to broaden his musical horizons and is indebted
to the many colleagues throughout the world from whom he has learnt so much. In 1989 he won the 1st
Prize at the International Harpsichord Competition in Brugge, Belgium, at that time only the third time in
thirty years that a first prize had been awarded. Nicholas Parle appears as both a soloist and continuo player
throughout Europe, Japan and Australia. Now professor of harpsichord at the Guildhall School of Music &
Drama in London, his other teaching engagements include courses in Poland, Hungary, Australia and Japan.
Ensemble Playing Masterclass: Session 1
Saturday 24 September 11 am
Afternoon Recital €12/8 conc.
Saturday 24 September 1 pm
The flutes of the Baroque Era
Rachel Brown - flute, recorder. Nicholas Parle - harpsichord
Renowned flautist Rachel Brown will discuss two flutes of the baroque era,
illustrating them with performances of movements for flute and recorder with
works by Van Eyck, Sammartini, Handel and Quantz.
Ensemble Playing Masterclass: Session 2
Saturday 24 September 3.30 pm
Evening Concert €20/18 conc.
Saturday 24 September 7.30 pm
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Sonorities and sensibilities
London Handel Players
Rachel Brown - flute, recorder. Adrian Butterfield - violin.
Katherine Sharman - cello. Nicholas Parle - harpsichord.
Programme
George Frederic Handel
(1685-1759)
Trio Sonata Op.5 No.1 in A major HWV 396 for 2 violins and
continuo
Andante; Allegro; Larghetto; Allegro; Gavotte Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Sonata for Flute and continuo in E minor BWV 1034
Adagio ma non tanto; Allegro; Andante; Allegro
Francesco Geminiani
(1687-1762)
Trio Sonata Op.1 No.10 in E major
Adagio; Allegro; Adagio; Allegro
Arcangelo Corelli
(1653-1713)
Violin Sonata Op.5 No.12 in D minor La Folia
Interval
Georg Philipp Telemann
(1681-1767)
Recorder Sonata in F minor TWV 41:f1
Triste; Allegro; Andante; Vivace
George Frederic Handel
Violin Sonata in D major HWV 371
Affettuoso; Allegro; Larghetto; Allegro
Georg Philipp Telemann
Paris Quartet No.3 in A major
Soave; Allegro; Andante; Vivace
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Rachel Brown
Recognised as one of the leading exponents of historical flutes, Rachel Brown is in great demand
worldwide, as a soloist, orchestral player and teacher. As principal flute and recorder player with the
Academy of Ancient Music, the Hanover Band, the Brandenburg Consort, Collegium Musicum 90, Ex
Cathedra and more recently Arcangelo. She has recorded extensively and performed throughout Europe,
North and South America, Japan, China and Australia. Rachel is the author of The Early Flute, A Practical
Guide (Cambridge University Press) and has published cadenzas for the Mozart Concertos (Bärenreiter) and
two volumes of Quantz Flute Sonatas (Uppernote). She teaches on annual summer schools in Brazil
(Officinal), Croatia (Aestas Musica) and the UK (Pro Corda) and has a thriving flute class at the Royal
College of Music. Yet it is with her ‘dream-team’ London Handel Players, that Rachel has immersed herself
in the rich chamber repertoire. Their performance at the 2013 Göttingen Handel Festival was reviewed:
“What was at once captured was the pure, silky smooth and wonderfully expressive flute sound of Rachel
Brown. It is not impossible that even Orpheus, in his time, considered - whoever plays the flute like this,
might almost soften stones”.
Göttinger Tageblatt
Rachel’s recording of Bach Flute Sonatas and
Arias with Laurence Cummings and the
London Handel Players was recently released.
Late Night Concert €15/12 conc.
The Small Wonder
Music of Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
Pauline Graham - soprano. Debbie Diamond - baroque violin.
Sarah Groser - viola da gamba. Yonit Kosovske - harpsichord.
Programme
“Esther” from Cantates françoises sur des sujets tirez de l'Ecriture (1708)
Sonata no. 1 in D minor for violin & continuo (1707)
(Movement 1, Untitled); Presto; Adagio; Presto-Adagio; Presto; Aria; Presto
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Harpsichord Suite in A minor (1687)
Prelude; Allemande; Courante; Sarabande; Gavotte; Menuet; Gigue; Chaconne
“Judith” from Cantates françoises sur des sujets tirez de l'Ecriture (1708)
Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (c.1665–1729) was one of the more celebrated female composers
in the French Baroque era. As a child she made appearances at the court of King Louis XIV and
elsewhere in France. Impressing and charming her audiences, she earned the nickname “la petite
merveille,” “the small wonder.” As a young teenager she could easily sight-sing difficult music, improvise
at the keyboard for hours, accompany herself and others on the harpsichord, and compose or play
pieces in any key requested of her. Her main compositions included two publications of solo pieces for
harpsichord, violin sonatas, a trio sonata, a Te Deum, and her opera Céphale et Procris, the first and
possibly only opera known to have been written by a woman in France. In addition, she composed
several cantatas, both secular and “sacred,” the latter of which are based on Biblical characters, among
them the heroines “Judith” and “Esther,” celebrated in this performance, along with the first violin sonata
in D minor and the harpsichord Suite in A minor.
Saturday 24 September 10 pm
Pauline Graham
Scottish soprano Pauline Graham graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow and
continued her vocal studies at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, specialising in early music; her teachers
included Jill Feldman and Rita Dams. She completed a doctorate on William Byrd’s sacred music under the
supervision of Prof. Harry White at University College Dublin, with a scholarship provided by the Irish
Research Council, and contributed articles to The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. She has performed at
early music festivals in Galway, Utrecht and Cremona, working with conductors such as Ton Koopman and
Konrad Junghänel, and has been broadcast on RTÉ radio and television. Forthcoming performances
include Schubert’s Winterreise with Yonit Kosovske and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Dido) in Scotland.
Pauline is active as a teacher and vocal practitioner, and has led workshops at the University of Limerick,
Queen’s University Belfast and DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama, as well as lecturing in music
education at Froebel College and Griffith College Dublin. She recently established her own practice to help
artists and musicians explore the spiritual dimension of their creative work.
Debbie Diamond
London-based violinist Debbie Diamond is originally from Toronto, Canada. She received her Master’s
Degree in Historical Performance from the University of Toronto and continued her doctoral studies at the
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She has given solo recitals in Canada, the United States, Israel,
Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom. From 1996–1999 Debbie lived in Israel, where she was the
leader of the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra and a member of the Jerusalem Consort. She was also founder,
leader and artistic director of Ensemble Nuance and Barock ’n’ Roll, as well as a member of the IsraeliIrish band Black Velvet.
Since 1999 Debbie has been a regular member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and has
worked for eminent conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Mark Elder,
Vladimir Jurowski, Ivan Fischer, Sir Roger Norrington and Franz Bruggen. She has performed regularly
with the English Baroque Soloists, L’Orchestre Romantique et Revolutionnaire (both conducted by Sir
John Eliot Gardiner), and has appeared as soloist with Fiori Musicali, Ensemble Sonnerie, the Sweelinck
Ensemble, and as guest violinist with the chamber group Red Priest. As a teacher, Debbie has taught in
Latvia, United States, and Ireland. Currently she teaches period performance at the Junior Academy, Royal
Academy of Music, London. She has been teaching modern violin for many years, and is currently
teaching violin at primary and secondary schools, in addition to a thriving private studio.
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Sarah Groser
Sarah Groser first played the viol as an eight year old, encouraged by her viol-playing father, whilst
waiting to start on the cello. She concentrated on the cello until her late teens when she heard viols
playing in consort and was captivated by the sound. At Manchester University she was able to study
both Baroque cello and viol with Charles Medlam of London Baroque, and continued on to Rotterdams
Conservatorium to study Baroque cello with Jaap ter Linden. Later she had lessons with Jordi Savall as
an external student at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Since her studies, Sarah has concentrated on the
viol, and more recently the violone.
She was a member of the Rose Consort of viols for 15 years and of Sonnerie under Monica Huggett for
three years. She has also played with London Baroque, Fretwork, Charivari Agreable, and the Dowland
Consort. In 2001 Sarah moved from England to West Cork, Ireland, where she is in frequent demand as
both a solo bass viol player and as a continuo player. In Ireland, she has played with The Irish Baroque
Orchestra, the IBO Concert Soloists, Camerata Kilkenny, Morisca, The Orchestra of St Cecilia, Madrigal
75, and as a duo with Sarah Cunningham.
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Yonit Kosovske
Yonit Kosovske maintains an active career as both a historical keyboardist and modern pianist that
encompasses repertoire spanning the Renaissance through New Music. Originally from the United
States, Yonit moved to Ireland in 2011 when she was appointed Lecturer in Music on the faculty of the
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. She has previously taught at the
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music from where she holds a Doctor of Music degree in
harpsichord performance. Other degrees include a Master of Music from San Francisco Conservatory
and a Bachelor of Music from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Jersey.
Her book “Historical Harpsichord Technique, Developing La douceur du toucher” was published by
Indiana University Press in 2011, a work synthesizing her doctoral research into the connection
between technique and expressivity on harpsichord. In addition to concerts scheduled throughout
2016–2017, Yonit's plans include her new "Chrome Attic" project, an online multi-media blog featuring
her research, performance and reflections upon solo chromatic harpsichord repertoire c1550–1700.
Ensemble Playing Masterclass: Session 3
Sunday 25 September
11 am
Afternoon Concert €12/8 conc.
Amongst friends - Sligo Baroque Orchestra with
Director Nicola Cleary and Julia Corry, baroque flute
in a programme built around the personality and music of
Georg Philipp Telemann.
Telemann and his music were greatly admired in 18th Century Germany, his influence all-pervasive, many
contemporary musicians thought of him with both respect and affection. The SBO with guest soloist Julia
Corry will attempt to demonstrate something of the breadth and depth of Telemann’s work, as well as
pieces by some of his many musical friends.
Nicola Cleary
Nicola Cleary started to learn the violin with Maeve Broderick at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
She continued as a scholarship student at the Royal College of Music with Felix Andrievsky and Gregory
Zhislin. Further postgraduate studies were at the Hochschule in Vienna. She has recorded and toured
extensively as a member of Deutsche Kammerakademie, European Chamber Orchestra, Mozart Chamber
Orchestra Salzburg, National Symphony Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Ireland and
Orchestra of St Cecilia. She is leader of The Wexford Festival Orchestra and a member of Paris-based
Orchestra Orfeo 55. Nicola has been leader of Sligo Baroque Orchestra for over three years, has
performed concertos by Vivaldi, Heinichen, Mozart and Haydn with the SBO. She has been actively
involved in playing and promoting chamber music including the Informal Music Afternoon series in
Sligo. Nicola plays a Piatellini violin dating from 1789.
Julia Corry
Born in New Zealand, Julia Corry studied at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague with Barthold Kuijken
(1990-1998). Julia has recorded the flute sonatas of JS Bach for Arte Nova Classis, has performed and
participated in recordings and radio broadcasts including Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Akademie für
Alte Musik, Australian Chamber Orchestra and Concerto Italiano. She has collaborated in performances with
Philippe Pierlot, Christopher Hogwood, Paul Dombrecht, Emma Kirkby, Christophe Rousset and Jordi Savall.
Based in Ireland since 2001, she has established a flute school in Westport and performs frequently with Irish
Baroque Orchestra. Julia has performed with Camerata Kilkenny and the Irish Baroque Orchestra Chamber
Soloists. During the month of September, Julia will be involved with mentoring the young flutes from the
Sligo Baroque Orchestra on baroque flute.
Sunday 25 September
2 pm
Supported by Music Network’s Music Capital Scheme,
funded by The Department of Arts, Heritage and the
Gaeltacht. Music Network is funded by
The Arts Council
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Sligo Baroque Orchestra
Violin - Nicola Cleary (leader),
Steve Wickham, Marie O Byrne,
Sarah Watters, Grace Feeney, Natascha Dietz,
Jessie Whitehead, Clare Horler, Kate Galvin,
Kelly Carver
Viola - Cillian Houston, Dionne Tims,
Frances Bell
Cello - Anna Houston
Flute - Charlotte Kinsella, David Watters,
Megan Corcoran
Oboe - John Flanagan
Bassoon - Milo Cummins
French horn - Kelly Carver
Harp - Emily Gaine
Harpsichord - Rod Alston
Sligo Baroque Orchestra
Sligo Baroque Orchestra was formed (as Sligo Early Music Ensemble) in 1990. It has a membership of
professional, student and amateur instrumentalists and combines a focus on music from the Baroque with
a readiness for innovation. During the last 12 months the SBO’s activities have included an innovative
combination of contemporary dance with the performance of arias and duets from Handel’s Floridante;
several appearances in Sligo’s Informal Music Afternoons, one of which married the music of Rameau to
the reading of a children’s picture book; A Winter’s Tale Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater; their annual Student
Soloist Concert and a collaboration with African band Tropicana Musica.
Ensemble Playing Masterclass: Play-Through
Sunday 25 September
4 pm
Closing Concert €25/20 conc.
Sunday 25 September
7.30 pm
The Piper and the Faerie Queen
Camerata Kilkenny with David Power - Uilleann Pipes
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A programme of music inspired by fantastical literary works from the 17th century, alongside traditional
Irish music with associated themes performed by the great Irish Uileann piper David Power.
Camerata Kilkenny: Maya Homburger - baroque violin. Claire Duff - baroque violin.
Marja Gaynor - baroque viola. Sarah McMahon - baroque cello. Barry Guy - bass
Malcolm Proud - harpsichord/organ.
Programme
Anon
An Droighneann Donn (The Brown Thorn)
H.I.F. Biber
(1644-1703)
Mystery Sonata No. 1 The Annunciation
Air, Set and Dance
An Leanbh Sídhe and The Garden of Daisies
(The Fairy Child)
Georg Philip Telemann
(1681-1767)
Gulliver Suite for 2 violins TWV 40:108
Daydreams of the Laputians and their attendant flappers
Loure of the well-mannered Houyhnhnms & Wild dance of the
untamed Yahoos
Gigue of the Brobdingngians
Chaconne of the Lilliputians
Air and Long Dance
An Raibh tú at an gCarraig and Rí na Síoghe (The King of the Fairies)
Georg Philip Telemann
Overture: La Musette
Suite for strings and continuo in G minor No.6 TWV 55:g1
Anon
Reels: The Pinch of Snuff and The Salamanca
Biagio Marini
(1594-1663)
Passacalia à 4 (2 violins/viola/bass)
George Frederic Handel
(1685-1759)
Pastoral (Pifa) from Messiah
Henry Purcell
(1659-1695)
Suite from the Fairy Queen
Prelude/Hornpipe/Overture/Air/Rondeau/Prelude/Entry Dance/Hornpipe/
Dance of the Fairies/Chaconne/Air/Jig/Prelude/Dance for the Followers of
Night/Air/Dance for the Green Men/Monkey’s Dance/Air/Air
The Fox Chase
John Dowland
(1563-1626)
The Piper’s Galliard
Turlough O’Carolan
(1670-1738)
The Fairy Queen
Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór (Fairy Hills)
David Power
David Power is a master of the uilleann pipes. Influenced by the great pipers of the past, he has won AllIreland and Oireachtas piping prizes and makes appearances at many international festivals. He has been a
member of music groups, including Liam Clancy's Fairweather Band, Gorumna and, more recently, Masters
of Tradition and Pipers Union. He performed in the off-Broadway production Love's Pure Light, recorded
music for the Irish Repertory Theatre's staging of The Field and was a cast member and musician in the
Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet, starring Gabriel Byrne. He has three critically
acclaimed solo recordings to his name: My Love is in America, Cuaichin Ghleann Neifin and The Eighteen
Moloney (2014). He has performed with poets Michael Davitt, Kerry Hardie, Seamus Heaney, Dermot
Bolger, Maighread Medbh, Grace Wells, Clodagh Beresford-Dunne, Doireann Ní Ghriofa and Robert Pinsky.
In addition, he worked with accordionist Tony MacMahon, writer Dermot Bolger and Director John
Comisky to develop a show called The Frost is All Over, which gained significant attention. He regularly
performs with fiddle player Martin Hayes and his most recent collaboration is a project for stage with poets
Kerry Hardie and Olivia O'Leary, based on the 6th Century Irish Christian church, which had its debut at
the Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2015.
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Camerata Kilkenny
Founded by the Irish international harpsichordist and organist Malcolm Proud and the Swiss violinist
Maya Homburger, Camerata Kilkenny is a period-instrument group specialising in the performance of
Baroque music. Many of its programmes combine 17th- and 18th- century musicwith the works of
contemporary composers. It consists of artists from Ireland with guest renowned artists from further
afield: Lenneke Ruiten, Wilbert Hazelzet (the Netherlands), Thomas Demenga (Switzerland), Calmus
Ensemble (Leipzig). Camerata Kilkenny gave its début recital at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in August
1999. In October that year it performed a programme of Baroque music and compositions by Barry Guy
and Roger Marsh in ‘Now and Then’, the highly acclaimed series at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. In
celebration of Barry Guy’s 60th birthday in 2007, Camerata Kilkenny with Dutch soprano Lenneke Ruiten
performed a programme of Bach cantatas (Weichet nur; Jauchzet Gott) and compositions by Barry Guy
(Ceremony, Inachis) in Kilkenny. Since then Camerata Kilkenny has performed in Switzerland (Zurich,
Bern), Austria, Germany, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia and in Ireland; at the West Cork Chamber Music
Festival, the Sligo Festival of Baroque Music, the Festival of Great Irish Houses, the Galway Early Music
Festival, the East Cork Early Music Festival ‘Music in the Mosaics’ in Timoleague, the Kilkenny Arts
Festival, the Hugh Lane Gallery and at the Barrow River Arts Festival.
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In April 2010, Camerata Kilkenny and Wilbert Hazelzet took part in the CC Maasmechelen Festival in
Belgium following which they recorded (with funding from the Music Network/Irish Arts Council Music
Recording Scheme) Bach’s ‘Musical Offering’. It was released on the Maya Recordings label in January
2011 and has received excellent reviews throughout Ireland, Europe and North America.
Their first CD of Biber’s Mystery Sonatas with violinist Maya Homburger was listed in the prestigious
German music industry ‘Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik’ awards in 2007.
Appearances in 2011 included concerts at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, Castleconnel Chamber Music Series
Limerick, at the CC Maasmechelan Festival in Belgium and the Maya Recordings Festival in Winterthur,
Switzerland. In March 2012, Camerata Kilkenny performed a programme of Bach at the Barrow River
Arts Festival followed by a tour to Amsterdam, Paris and Leuven (Belgium). In May 2013, they joined
forces with the Calmus Ensemble of Leipzig for concerts in Kilkenny and Dublin as part of the cultural
programme in honour of Ireland’s Presidency of the E.U. Council of Ministers. In Autumn 2013, they
toured Switzerland performing in Sils Maria and Stammheim.
In Spring of 2014, they again performed with the Calmus Ensemble in Switzerland, CC Maasmechelan,
Belgium and at the Barrow River Arts Festival and in the Autumn they will tour a programme of Bach
around Ireland with soprano German Anja Pöche-Lipfert and flautist Rachel Beckett.
All of the members of Camerata Kilkenny playing in this year’s festival have performed as part of
Camerata Kilkenny and also in other ensembles as part of previous Sligo Baroque Festivals.
Thank You
Our thanks go to so many who have helped to create this year's festival. Particular thanks to all the staff at The
Model for their hospitality and constant support. Thanks to Wards Pharmacy and the Hawk’s Well Theatre for
ticket sales. To Paddy and Barbara, Luisa and Des, Vivion and Lizzie, Nicola and Pat for providing accommodation
and hospitality for the performers. To Margrit Fahy for all her support and to Eamonn and Aiden Bell for the
proofreading assistance. To John Flanagan for managing the website; Rhona Mc Grath from Music Generation;
Mary Mc Donagh from Sligo Arts Office and CAG Chartered Accountants.
Thanks also to Robert Deegan of Lancaster for his support with the
harpsichords.
Event Sponsors
Patrons
Rod Alston
Secret Gardens of Sligo
Mullaneys Solicitors
Dr Klocker Dental Surgery
M. Sommer
Anon.
Eileen Monahan
In memory of Teresa
and James Storey
Nolan & Quinlan
Simeon Gillan
Vivion Kinsella
Con Brio
Ward’s Pharmacy
Mary Martin
Mary McDonnell - Tír na nÓg
Rory O'Connor
M. & B. McCormack
Sligo Academy of Music
Anon.
Gabrielle and Denis Tims
John Coleman
Lisa Winters O'Donnell
Luisa McConville
Sligo Grammar School
Dervoille and Nigel Corcoran
Friends
Anna Fewer Hamilton
Anon.
Sligo Festival of Baroque Music Committee:
Festival Director: Rod Alston
Committee: John Fahy, Mary Bell, Lizzie Kinsella, Imelda Harte,
John Coleman, Steve Wickham.
Compiled and Edited by Lizzie Kinsella
Design by Daragh Stewart
Funded by
SLIGO
MUSIC
SERIES
2016-2017
THE MODEL SLIGO
7pm FRI 16 SEPT 2016
KALEIDOSCOPE IN SLIGO
Culture Night 2016. Free entry
8pm FRI 14 OCT 2016
NOTTURNO: Hugh Tinney - piano
3pm SUN 27 NOV 2016
VIVA VIVALDI!: Irish Baroque Orchestra
3pm SUN 15 JAN 2017
SLÁN: The Vanbrugh Quartet
8pm FRI 10 FEB 2017
VITALITY: The Piatti Quartet
8pm FRI 24 MAR 2017
ELOQUENT MAGIC
Bertrand/Amoyel duo - cello/piano
8pm FRI 19 MAY 2017
SEXTET: Cooney, Hickey, Gibson,
Aspell, Johnston and O’Kane
www.con-brio.org
Nolan and Quinlan
Secret Gardens of Sligo
Diverse Printo
www.sligobaroquefestival.com