Australian guitar virtuoso Craig Ogden and I have just completed a new album of contemporary solo guitar pieces that I have written over the last 14 years. It’s called First Construction in Nylon and is only available at the following link:
http://www.cactusrecords.bandcamp.com
It may be of interest to some of your members and I would be very grateful if you might copy and paste the contents of this email and circulate it to your members. The album can be listened to in full at the site above and, if you like what you hear, you can download the album, with artwork, in a number of formats. You may also order a CD version if you prefer.
I would be delighted to hear feedback or comments on the album from any of your guitarist colleagues at gregcaffreyworld.com and I would appreciate anyone’s support for my music. More on my music can also be seen on my website – but try the album link above first.
Many thanks,
Greg Caffrey
www.gregcaffrey.com
Agnew McAllister Duo Edinburgh
A little note about a concert coming up in February at the National Gallery in Edinburgh.
'The Agnew McAllister Duo are making a welcome return to the National Galleries of Scotland to perform works from the Italian and German Baroque in keeping with the collections on display in the gallery.'
Agnew McAllister Duo
Thursday 3rd February 2011 - National Gallery, Edinburgh
Time: 6pm
Tickets: Free
Hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Aisling & Matthew
'The Agnew McAllister Duo are making a welcome return to the National Galleries of Scotland to perform works from the Italian and German Baroque in keeping with the collections on display in the gallery.'
Agnew McAllister Duo
Thursday 3rd February 2011 - National Gallery, Edinburgh
Time: 6pm
Tickets: Free
Hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Aisling & Matthew
Exeter Guitar Festival 2011
Preliminary details of the 2nd Exeter Guitar Festival which will run this year from August 13 - 20. The new web site with application forms etc. will be up and running soon.
Course tutors/visiting artists - Stephen Gordon, Gerald Garcia, John Mills (tbc), Alison Smith, Vida Guitar Quartet (Mark Ashford, Mark Eden, Helen Sanderson, Chris Stell).
This is an intensive course, for a maximum of 16 guitarists of at least grade 6 standard with good reading ability and will comprise of guitar ensemble, classes, workshops, tuition and concerts.
Stephen and Gerald will coach two small ensembles to study, rehearse and perform. Works to include the 3rd and 6th Brandenburg Concertos by Bach in new arrangements by SG.
Accommodation and classes are held in a grade II listed Georgian Town House in the centre of Exeter. The concert series will be in the nearby Phoenix Arts Centre.
Best wishes
Steve Gordon
www.esgmusic.com
Course tutors/visiting artists - Stephen Gordon, Gerald Garcia, John Mills (tbc), Alison Smith, Vida Guitar Quartet (Mark Ashford, Mark Eden, Helen Sanderson, Chris Stell).
This is an intensive course, for a maximum of 16 guitarists of at least grade 6 standard with good reading ability and will comprise of guitar ensemble, classes, workshops, tuition and concerts.
Stephen and Gerald will coach two small ensembles to study, rehearse and perform. Works to include the 3rd and 6th Brandenburg Concertos by Bach in new arrangements by SG.
Accommodation and classes are held in a grade II listed Georgian Town House in the centre of Exeter. The concert series will be in the nearby Phoenix Arts Centre.
Best wishes
Steve Gordon
www.esgmusic.com
News from the Lute Society
1.OOPS! ERRATUM IN LUTE NEWS 96
The last piece in the music supplement, from the Balcarres lute book, is transcribed for baroque lute, not arranged for renaissance lute, as stated!
2. LUTE SOCIETY ‘CLOSED’ FOR A WEEK 20-26TH JANUARY
I am going to the Italian lute society meeting on Sunday 23rd, in Florence, and will be travelling by rail, for several days on either side of the meeting, so will be incommunicado between 20th and 26th
3. EU PROJECT
I like to introduce our EU-project to you as this might be of interest for the members
of the lute society. The MIMO project is a cooperation of 11 institutions respectively
Musical instrument museums holding historical as well as ethnographic collections.
Our aim is to present our collections online in Septmeber 2011 on the portal of
www.europeana.eu. This service will be free. We are working out a standard of photos as
well as thesaurus and multilingual database (6 languages). Of course, this database will
offer various search functions, such as instrument maker's name, ethnicity or region of origin.
Please kindly let me know, wether you like to send an invitiation via your mailing list, we
than would like to send to you our project flyer PDF as well as an invitation to subscribe the
MIMO newletter. This subscription/registration on the MIMO website (see link below) will enable the subscribers to participate in an online evaluation of our project's database content, which will take place in the coming weeks. For researchers as well as instrument makers, this is a chance to improve the MIMO database according to the users' need.
Kindly let me also know about other associations in UK, which might be interested, we like to
Offer this chance to as many experts as possible.
Best wishes for the coming New Year 2011
Susanna Schulz
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Susanna Schulz
Wissenschaftliche Museumsassistentin i. F.
Abteilung Musikethnologie,
Medien-Technik und Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Arnimallee 23-27
14195 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: ++49 (0)30 8301 336
Fax.: ++49 (0)30 8301 292
email: s.schulz@smb.spk-berlin.de
www.mimo-project.eu
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4. LUTE SONG CONCERT IN YORK 18TH JAN
Concert of Elisabethan lute songs and lute solos, held on 18th of January '11 at 1pm at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York.
Performers :
Rosamund Cole, Lizzie Marshall - voices
Elena Cicinskaite - lute.
5. LUTE RECITAL, OXFORD 1st FEB
Oxford Concert - Tuesday 1st February, 1300-1400Lute Recital at The Bate with Richard MacKenzieIl liuto italiano - The repertoire of a northern Italian lutenist c1630featuring music by Kapsperger, Milano, Terzi, Melli and PiccininiAdmission: FREEBate Collection of Musical Instruments, Faculty of Music, St Aldate's, Oxford, OX1 1DBhttp://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/forecast-of-events.html
6. CAMBRIDGE WORKSHOP 12th FEB
A reminder about our next workshop! Philip Cave and Sally Dunkley, both founder-members of The Tallis Scholars, will be co-directing a day of music by Philippe Rogier, a contemporary of Victoria who would have been much better-known had more of his output survived. His music is hugely engaging and rich, and this is a rare opportunity to learn about it with some leading experts.
The workshop will work on some music a cappella, and other pieces with cornetts, sackbuts etc. We still have space for more singers in all parts except soprano, and for a couple of bass viols, theorbo and more brass players. Please apply as soon as possible to reserve your place. Email us for a booking form.
The workshop is on Saturday 12th February, in the Chapel of Girton College, Cambridge, where there is plenty of parking space. You might like to note that Philip Cave's professional group, Magnificat, will be performing music by Rogier with His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts the following Saturday, 19th February, in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge (details at
http://www.cambridgeearlymusic.org/).
With good wishes for 2011,
Selene Mills Membership Secretary, Eastern Early Music Forum 5 Tunwell's Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge CB22 5LJ 01223 847330 info@cambridgeearlymusic.org
7. FRENCH CHILDREN’S LUTE GROUP ON YOUTUBE
Avec ma classe et les jeunes élèves nous avons monté un spectacle que nous sommes allés jouer à Genève. Il y a des extraits du spectacle que P. Boquet a filmé sur you tube : http://www.youtube.com/user/SFLUTHLe spectacle s’appelle “Luthomanie”...
Claire Antonini
The last piece in the music supplement, from the Balcarres lute book, is transcribed for baroque lute, not arranged for renaissance lute, as stated!
2. LUTE SOCIETY ‘CLOSED’ FOR A WEEK 20-26TH JANUARY
I am going to the Italian lute society meeting on Sunday 23rd, in Florence, and will be travelling by rail, for several days on either side of the meeting, so will be incommunicado between 20th and 26th
3. EU PROJECT
I like to introduce our EU-project to you as this might be of interest for the members
of the lute society. The MIMO project is a cooperation of 11 institutions respectively
Musical instrument museums holding historical as well as ethnographic collections.
Our aim is to present our collections online in Septmeber 2011 on the portal of
www.europeana.eu. This service will be free. We are working out a standard of photos as
well as thesaurus and multilingual database (6 languages). Of course, this database will
offer various search functions, such as instrument maker's name, ethnicity or region of origin.
Please kindly let me know, wether you like to send an invitiation via your mailing list, we
than would like to send to you our project flyer PDF as well as an invitation to subscribe the
MIMO newletter. This subscription/registration on the MIMO website (see link below) will enable the subscribers to participate in an online evaluation of our project's database content, which will take place in the coming weeks. For researchers as well as instrument makers, this is a chance to improve the MIMO database according to the users' need.
Kindly let me also know about other associations in UK, which might be interested, we like to
Offer this chance to as many experts as possible.
Best wishes for the coming New Year 2011
Susanna Schulz
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Susanna Schulz
Wissenschaftliche Museumsassistentin i. F.
Abteilung Musikethnologie,
Medien-Technik und Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Arnimallee 23-27
14195 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: ++49 (0)30 8301 336
Fax.: ++49 (0)30 8301 292
email: s.schulz@smb.spk-berlin.de
www.mimo-project.eu
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4. LUTE SONG CONCERT IN YORK 18TH JAN
Concert of Elisabethan lute songs and lute solos, held on 18th of January '11 at 1pm at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York.
Performers :
Rosamund Cole, Lizzie Marshall - voices
Elena Cicinskaite - lute.
5. LUTE RECITAL, OXFORD 1st FEB
Oxford Concert - Tuesday 1st February, 1300-1400Lute Recital at The Bate with Richard MacKenzieIl liuto italiano - The repertoire of a northern Italian lutenist c1630featuring music by Kapsperger, Milano, Terzi, Melli and PiccininiAdmission: FREEBate Collection of Musical Instruments, Faculty of Music, St Aldate's, Oxford, OX1 1DBhttp://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/forecast-of-events.html
6. CAMBRIDGE WORKSHOP 12th FEB
A reminder about our next workshop! Philip Cave and Sally Dunkley, both founder-members of The Tallis Scholars, will be co-directing a day of music by Philippe Rogier, a contemporary of Victoria who would have been much better-known had more of his output survived. His music is hugely engaging and rich, and this is a rare opportunity to learn about it with some leading experts.
The workshop will work on some music a cappella, and other pieces with cornetts, sackbuts etc. We still have space for more singers in all parts except soprano, and for a couple of bass viols, theorbo and more brass players. Please apply as soon as possible to reserve your place. Email us for a booking form.
The workshop is on Saturday 12th February, in the Chapel of Girton College, Cambridge, where there is plenty of parking space. You might like to note that Philip Cave's professional group, Magnificat, will be performing music by Rogier with His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts the following Saturday, 19th February, in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge (details at
http://www.cambridgeearlymusic.org/).
With good wishes for 2011,
Selene Mills Membership Secretary, Eastern Early Music Forum 5 Tunwell's Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge CB22 5LJ 01223 847330 info@cambridgeearlymusic.org
7. FRENCH CHILDREN’S LUTE GROUP ON YOUTUBE
Avec ma classe et les jeunes élèves nous avons monté un spectacle que nous sommes allés jouer à Genève. Il y a des extraits du spectacle que P. Boquet a filmé sur you tube : http://www.youtube.com/user/SFLUTHLe spectacle s’appelle “Luthomanie”...
Claire Antonini
Note from Matthew McAllister
Just a short note about two concerts coming up this month.
Maelasta - Sunday (23rd Jan) - Kirkmahoe Parish Church, Kirkton - 2:30pm.
The recital will include works by Moilno, Gragnani, Ysaÿe, Stevenson, Brouwer & Paganini.
'Maelasta - Feargus Heatherington (violin) and Matthew McAllister (guitar) have appeared in major concert halls and venues across the UK including the Sage, Gateshead, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Harty Rooms in Belfast and the National Galleries in Edinburgh. They have performed and given workshops as far afield as Denmark and Abu Dhabi and recorded a debut album Maelasta for Natural Studio Records. The duo performs a wide range of music from classical works to traditional Scottish music.'
Tickets are £8 and are available from the Midsteeple, Dumfries / Thomas Tosh, Thornhill /at the door / or tel 01387 740 045 to reserve.
The village of Kirkton is situated very close to Dumfries in the Scottish Borders.
Agnew / McAllister Duo - Forfar Arts Guild - Thursday (27th Jan) - 7:30pm.
Repertoire will include works by Locatelli, Handel, Bach, Caffrey, Wella & Brouwer.'Flautist Aisling Agnew & Guitarist Matthew McAllister are celebrating Ten Years of concert giving during 2011. Since giving their debut recital in Belfast in 2001 the duo have built a worldwide reputation as one of the finest and most popular exponents of the genre.'
Forfar Arts Guild Concerts take place in East and Old Church Hall, Chapel Street, Forfar.
Tickets are available on the door more information and reservations on 01575 572324.
Hope to see you at a concert!
Best wishes,
Matthew
Maelasta - Sunday (23rd Jan) - Kirkmahoe Parish Church, Kirkton - 2:30pm.
The recital will include works by Moilno, Gragnani, Ysaÿe, Stevenson, Brouwer & Paganini.
'Maelasta - Feargus Heatherington (violin) and Matthew McAllister (guitar) have appeared in major concert halls and venues across the UK including the Sage, Gateshead, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Harty Rooms in Belfast and the National Galleries in Edinburgh. They have performed and given workshops as far afield as Denmark and Abu Dhabi and recorded a debut album Maelasta for Natural Studio Records. The duo performs a wide range of music from classical works to traditional Scottish music.'
Tickets are £8 and are available from the Midsteeple, Dumfries / Thomas Tosh, Thornhill /at the door / or tel 01387 740 045 to reserve.
The village of Kirkton is situated very close to Dumfries in the Scottish Borders.
Agnew / McAllister Duo - Forfar Arts Guild - Thursday (27th Jan) - 7:30pm.
Repertoire will include works by Locatelli, Handel, Bach, Caffrey, Wella & Brouwer.'Flautist Aisling Agnew & Guitarist Matthew McAllister are celebrating Ten Years of concert giving during 2011. Since giving their debut recital in Belfast in 2001 the duo have built a worldwide reputation as one of the finest and most popular exponents of the genre.'
Forfar Arts Guild Concerts take place in East and Old Church Hall, Chapel Street, Forfar.
Tickets are available on the door more information and reservations on 01575 572324.
Hope to see you at a concert!
Best wishes,
Matthew