Where: St Augustine's Catholic Church in BALMAIN
This year our ensemble will resume the musical journey through the baroque era, introducing new instruments and less familiar music works and composers.
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Special Event in Canberra: 'Friday Academies'
See below for more information.
Sunday, 27th May 2012 at 6PM
Australian National University
University House, Balmain Crescent, Acton
This concert will be performed as a tribute to the memory of Jill Downer
‘Janitsch is ….the best specimens of the genre’.
Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer (1727-1789)
Holding an important position with the Prussian Court, Johann Gottlieb Janitsch was a popular composer among his contemporaries. In Rheinsberg, the composer instituted a very popular series of "Friday Academies" at his house in Berlin. Performers included enthusiasts from the Prussian Court Orchestra and many other musicians, both amateurs and professionals. Janitsch was commissioned to compose music for a number of important events in Court, which helped him refine his use of style galant.
Being a good composer, as well a good organiser, he often promoted the works of foreign composers at his “Friday Academies”. "Friday Academies" also inspired Schale's "Monday Assemblies" and Agricola's "Saturday Concerts."
After his death, Janitsch’s manuscripts were given to the Berlin Singakademie, which plundered during World War II. As a result, most of Janitsch's works were considered lost. It is rumoured that a number of manuscripts originating from the Singakademie have been located in the Ukraine. Perhaps these will improve Janitsch's standing once they are catalogued and performed.
Please join us for our own Friday Academy with the music of Janitsch and his colleagues. It will be an exquisite tribute to an exceptionally intelligent composer – a not to be missed experience
ENJOY MUSIC BY:
| Georg Philipp TELEMANN | Concerto in A minor for recorder, oboe, violin & continuo |
| Johann Gottlieb JANITSCH | Quadro in G for recorder, oboe, violin & continuo |
| Johann Friedrich FASCH | Sonata in Bb for recorder, oboe, violin & continuo |
| Antonio VIVALDI | "Del Gardellino" for recorder, oboe, violin & continuo |
| Georg Philipp TELEMANN | Trio Sonata in F for recorder and oboe ("Darmstadt"?) |
| Georg Philipp TELEMANN | Trio Sonata in G minor for oboe & violin from Essercizii Musici |
| Antonio VIVALDI Sonata | Sonata in g minor RV28 [Dresden manuscript] |
| Georg Philipp TELEMANN | Sonata in Bb from Essercizii Musici |
MUSICIANS:
Jane Downer baroque oboe & recorder Hans-Dieter Michatz recorder Stan Kornel baroque violin Monika Kornel harpsichord
Jane Downer - baroque & classical oboe / recorder
After completing a BA (Modern Languages) and BMus (Honours Performance) degree at the University of Adelaide, Jane studied the baroque oboe under the tutelage of Valerie Darke in the UK. A scholarship from the David Reichenberg Trust enabled her to undertake further study with Paul Goodwin, Professor at the Royal College of Music. Jane has performed and recorded with groups such as the Oslo Barokkorkester, Concerto Köln, Academy of Ancient Music, Florilegium, English Touring Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Cappella Coloniensis, The Sixteen, London Handel Orchestra, English Concert, Gabrieli Consort and New College Choir, Oxford. She has toured Spain and the Netherlands with the English Baroque Soloists, and joined The King's Consort for their 2010 European tour of Bach's St Matthew Passion.
As Artistic Director of the Frideswide Ensemble of Oxford, Jane promotes chamber music concerts on historical instruments. In Hong Kong, she has recorded for Radio 4, presented a masterclass at the Academy for Performing Arts, and given a solo recital for the HK Chamber Music Society. She editor and programme-note writer for the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, and has worked as their orchestral assistant. In Australia Jane has performed at the New England Bach Festival, Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival, Adelaide Festival Fringe, Canberra Multicultural Festival, and with Pinchgut Opera. She tutors on courses run by Orpheus Music in Armidale, NSW. In 2012 Jane performs with her baroque chamber group, Austral Harmony, with Adelaide Baroque at the Festival Fringe, and for the Lord Mayor's Baroque Gala concert, and with the Sydney Consort, and Salut! Baroque. She will also participate in the Canberra International Music Festival and New England Bach Festival.
Hans-Dieter Michatz has a long-standing reputation as a performer and educator. His unique blend of a European background and training – his teachers included Ferdinand Conrad, recorder and Barthold Kuijken, baroque flute – and a deep affinity with modern Australian culture have influenced several generations of musicians in his adopted country. As a notable player of modern and baroque flute as well as recorder, he has performed and recorded with many Orchestras and Early Music groups, most notably as principal flute with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra for many years, with Salut Baroque and The Sydney Consort.
As a conductor, he pioneered landmark premier performances of Handel Oratorios, and newly discovered works by J.D. Zelenka, and recently, the first Australian performance of Vivaldi’s ‘Dixit Dominus’ RV 807.
Hans-Dieter teaches recorder and baroque flute at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is Classical Coordinator at the Australian Institute of Music.(AIM). He is also the patron of the Sydney Society of Recorder Players. As part of regular engagements overseas he will be touring to Germany, Luxembourg, Denmark, Poland and the Baltic States with the Sydney Consort in 2011 and 2012.
Tickets at door $30/$20 (conc)
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