FEBRUARY
FEBRUARY
TREE OF STRINGS
Saturday 22 February
6 - 8:30pm, an outdoor twilight recital
Cloudehill Gardens, Olinda, VIC
Folk and baroque music of Ireland
Tickets: www.cloudehill.com.au
$35/ $25 (under 16)
Playing Irish music feels like storytelling, but with notes instead of words. Melodies carve out the shapes of hillsides and glens, streams and forests, and rhythms place figures into this melodic landscape to dance, sing, rejoice or mourn. With roots stretching back through the centuries, traditional Irish tunes were also part of Europe’s baroque period. Come and discover the beautiful compositions and arrangements of Ireland’s folk and baroque repertoire played on modern and period instruments by Evergreen Ensemble.
Celtic harp & Voice: Claire Patti
Concertina & Small Pipes: Sarah Wade
Baroque violin: Shane Lestideau
Baroque cello: Lucy Price
MARCH
A NIGHT IN BRITTANY
Monday 16 March
12-12:45pm, Primrose Potter Salon, VIC
Melbourne Recital Centre's Relaxed Performance Series
Breton folk & French baroque music
Tickets: soon
A relaxed performance is intended specifically to be sensitive to and accepting of audience members who may benefit from a more relaxed environment, including (but not limited to) people with autism, learning disabilities and sensory or communication needs. They are designed to create a safe and welcoming environment for patrons which includes a relaxed attitude to sound and movement, use of Auslan clapping, house lights up, and doors remaining open for the duration of the concert.
Baroque Oboe: Kirsten Barry
Baroque violin: Shane Lestideau
Celtic harp & Voice: Claire Patti
Baroque cello: Natasha Kraemer
APRIL
SCOTLAND'S TENDUCCI
Monday 6 April
6pm, Primrose Potter Salon
Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC
featuring countertenor Max Riebl
& keyboard soloist Donald Nicolson
Tickets: Here $40/$29 concession
(or $68/$50 when buying our MRC 2-concert package)
Giusto Tenducci was the equivalent of an 18th-century rock star. As a revered castrato, his reputation was second only to the famous Senesino, earning him a ‘seven-figure salary’ in London prior to traveling to Ireland and Scotland. Handsome, charismatic, and wildly talented, he inspired Scottish audiences with his virtuosity and wooed them with his tasteful performances of their own Scottish airs. This concert of rarely-performed Baroque songs, sonatas and suites explores the music of several Italians, including Tenducci himself, who composed in Edinburgh during the 18th century, in addition to Scottish arrangements of J.S. Bach and Beethoven. Performed by Evergreen Ensemble, it features the glorious voice of countertenor Max Riebl and the renowned talents of early keyboard specialist Donald Nicolson.
Countertenor: Max Riebl
Harpsichord & Fortepiano: Donald Nicolson
Baroque violin: Shane Lestideau
Baroque violin & viola: Katie Yap
Baroque cello: Lucy Price
JUNE - JULY
EUROPEAN TOUR!!
Three players from the ensemble will be travelling and performing in Europe. Watch this space for news.
27 & 28 June
Festival du Violon
Plouneour Menez, France
Baroque violin: Shane Lestideau
Baroque violin & viola: Ben Dollman
Baroque cello: Lucy Price
NOVEMBER
TREE OF STRINGS
Sunday 15 November
Albury Botanic Gardens, NSW
Folk and baroque music of Ireland
Tickets: soon
Playing Irish music feels like storytelling, but with notes instead of words. Melodies carve out the shapes of hillsides and glens, streams and forests, and rhythms place figures into this melodic landscape to dance, sing, rejoice or mourn. With roots stretching back through the centuries, traditional Irish tunes were also part of Europe’s baroque period. Come and discover the beautiful compositions and arrangements of Ireland’s folk and baroque repertoire played on modern and period instruments by Evergreen Ensemble.
Celtic harp & Voice: Claire Patti
Concertina & Small Pipes: Sarah Wade
Baroque violin: Shane Lestideau
Baroque cello: Lucy Price
ONE HUNDRED DAYS AWAY
Now an ABC Classics album
Saturday 21 November
Geelong, VIC
Tickets: soon
Sunday 22 November
Castlemaine, VIC
Tickets: soon
Tuesday 24 November
6pm, Primrose Potter Salon
Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC
Tickets: Here $40/$29 concession
(or $68/$50 when buying our MRC 2-concert package)
Evergreen Ensemble performs 18th and 19thC Scottish-Australian music from the collections of the National Library of Australia. Virtuosic arrangements of Scots tunes by Edinburgh fiddlers, Tasmanian strathspeys played on baroque violin, beautiful songs from the Hebrides, baroque opera, and 19thC Australian piano music. The program was recorded in March 2019 for ABC Classics and the album, 'One Hundred Days Away', is currently available online or after the concert.
Baroque violin & direction: Shane Lestideau (2019 National Folk Fellow)
Baroque violin & viola: Ben Dollman
Voice and Celtic Harp: Claire Patti
Baroque cello: Rachel Johnston
Piano & piano accordion: Emily-Rose Sarkova