We have two lovely events planned in September at the Archiduc café, Antoine Dansaert’s Street, Brussels. This wonderful Art Deco bar is the perfect setting for our programme of Kurt Weill songs from the 1930s and 40s. The café was founded in 1937 as a classy and discrete establishment and it’s interior still boasts some of […]
I was very happy to be singing with Stevie Wishart’s group Sinfonye this summer, performing Stevie’s Vespers for Hildegard of Bingen as part of the York Early Music Festival in York Minster. The Vespers is Stevie’s creative re-imagining of a choral evensong, and it was written in honour of Hildegard of Bingen who was made […]
How popular is Germany these days? Today the BBC World Service reported that Germany has once again been voted the most popular country in its latest ‘mainly positive influence’ poll. This came as a bit of a surprise to me, as I recently read about a serious political spat between the Hungarian and German governments and I had heard […]
Music + Practice is a new on-line journal that combines the knowledge of musical theorists with the experience of music practitioners. Access is free! I am delighted to announce that the first edition includes an article of mine that discusses performance choices for Organum Duplum. Here is the link to the full text.
‘Inner Garden’ brought together the music and lingua ignota (the unknown language) of Hildegard Von Bingen; the composer Stevie Wishart; members or FoAM and Ghent’s Vooruit; me; and the glasshouse plants. The result was a unique dawn-to-dusk event where the music truly became a part of its context. Here is an audio fragment of Viriditas […]
