Voices of change as Bach Festival ushers in new era
When spring turns to summer, fans of the Carmel Bach Festival know fabulous music lies just around the corner. Members of the prestigious international ensemble gather in Carmel in about a week, ready to dive into rigorous rehearsals for the two-week event that begins July 16.
The orchestra, chorus, chorale and soloists enter a new era this summer when music director and conductor Paul Goodwin joins them for his inaugural season as the festival's leader. A full generation has passed since the famed Carmel event has welcomed a new maestro. Excitement runs high among musicians, staff and patrons alike, all of whom can catch first glimpses of his musical approach and sparkling personality during a series of open rehearsals the week before the gala opening night celebrations.
Goodwin hails from London and brings with him a brilliant new concertmaster, Peter Hanson, also from the U.K. Last year, longtime music director and conductor Bruno Weil handed the baton to Goodwin after a sensational final season. He and beloved concertmaster Elizabeth Wallfisch transformed the Bach Festival ensemble into a leading group of 18th century music specialists adept in contemporary classical performance as well. Goodwin, too, brings a background that combines a deep knowledge of early music performance on historical instruments with high acclaim as a leader of contemporary ensembles.
Though the festival instrumentalists and orchestra principals remain exactly as Weil left them, with the exception of the new concertmaster, Goodwin introduces a new core of vocal soloists this season: countertenor Daniel Taylor, tenor Rufus MŸller and baritone Alexander Dobson. Kendra Colton returns this year as the festival's lead soprano.
Festival dramaturge and vocal coordinator David Gordon is delighted with the lineup of vocal soloists this year, including the new fellows of the prestigious Virginia Best Adams master classes, which he oversees. It is a tribute to the international success of this program that principal singer Taylor along with other soloists engaged this year to sing in Bach's "St. John Passion" are graduates of the master class.
Former Adams fellow David Neuman will reprise his role as Jesus this year in the "Passion," and Adams alumnus Michael Anderson sings the tenor arias. Taylor returns to the festival for the first time since 1993 when he made a memorable debut as one of the four Adams fellows.
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The orchestra, chorus, chorale and soloists enter a new era this summer when music director and conductor Paul Goodwin joins them for his inaugural season as the festival's leader. A full generation has passed since the famed Carmel event has welcomed
They will present three diverse programmes, featuring Monteverdi's monumental Vesper settings, dramatic music from the baroque era, and virtuoso violin music from the 16th and 17th century. And on the romantic side of the classical spectrum,
This is, not coincidentally, how Robert Mealy, director and concertmaster of this year's Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, takes his bows. The group's concert Thursday at Jordan Hall was devoted to Baroque-era orchestral showpieces;
Quicksilver, a period-instrument sextet, took the stage at Emmanuel Church to play a program of vigorous, texturally rich sonatas from the dawn of the Baroque era. The lateness of the hour was not so unusual: the Boston Early Music Festival,
We do know that the period ending 1700 produced some inspired music that combined the best of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.” The Clarendon Scholarship enables Andrew to undertake a DPhil that is a continuation of his Masters study.
A festival of classical music in Oudtshoorn : Oudtshoorn News
The third Klein Karoo Klassique in Oudtshoorn will warm up the freshest Karoo winter in a festive manner from Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 August.
Combine a top class symphonic opera gala programme, one of the most moving sacred classical choral works in the repertoire, chamber music performances with a fresh interpretive approach, and vocal music ranging from the early baroque to highlights from the classical and romantic repertoires as well as a few lighter, more contemporary concerts. Add art exhibitions, regional food, velvet-smooth wine and you get the third Klein Karoo Klassique’s recipe to warm up the freshest Karoo winter.
The Cape Philharmonic Orchestra’s (CPO) Gala concert, once again under the charming leadership of Brandon Phillips, includes jewels from the opera and operetta repertoire. The soloists are Conroy Scott (baritone) and Friedel Mitas (soprano). The talented young Mitas, who grew up in Oudtshoorn, recently won the first Olitalia Rialto Bursary Competition. The Opera Gala Concert is made possible by Absa.
The CPO, St. George’s Singers, Scott and Mitas will also perform together with selected Karoo voices in the Klein Karoo Festival Choir during the closing concert of the festival, which features Mozart’s Requiem. The Festival Choir, with John Theodore as repetiteur, has been rehearsing from the beginning of May. This performance will be, as was last year’s oratorio, under the directorship of Dr Barry Smith, founder of the St. George’s Singers.
Klein Karoo Klassique is enriched this year with the presence of an ensemble of South African early music specialists, known collectively as the Cape Consort. Playing on historic instruments and employing historical performance practice, they explore popular and less-known highlights from the baroque repertoire. They will present three diverse programmes, featuring Monteverdi’s monumental Vesper settings, dramatic music from the baroque era, and virtuoso violin music from the 16th and 17th century.
And on the romantic side of the classical spectrum, the renowned South African accompanist Malcolm Nay and the visiting Polish cellist Maciej Lacny will perform Schubert’s melodious Arpeggione sonata, Brahms’s brooding first sonata and Fauré’s poetic Elegy.
Klein Karoo Klassique again provides a platform for several of South Africa’s leading young professional classical artists. The mezzo soprano, Minette du Toit-Pearce, overall winner of the ATKV Muziq competition in 2006, will present the opening concert of the festival, again with the support of the ATKV.
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