CONTINUUM Programme "Cosmopolitan”
GERMANY Sonata in E Minor for flute and continuo J.S.Bach La Diane & Les Silvains from the First Book of Harpsichord music Francois Couperin Two unaccompanied pieces from Titre XIX for solo cello Jean-Louis Duport Sonata in G major for flute and continuo Jean Marie Leclair Amarillia for solo flute J. Van Eyck Two Fantasias for Harpsichord Giles Farnaby Sonata in D minor for flute &continuo George Frideric Handel
Cello Sonata VI in B flat major Antonio Vivaldi Preludio, Allemanda, Largo, Corrente
Hamburger Sonata for flute and continuo C.P.E. Bach
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ELIZABETH WALKER studied as a junior at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded the Sally Wainwright woodwind prize in 1985 and later at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She continued her postgraduate studies abroad in Holland, with Wilbert Hazelzet. In 1992, she became Head of Woodwind and Recorder at the Centre for Young Musicians, London, a post she relinquished shortly after the birth of her second child. She currently teaches at Wells Cathedral School and at the City of London School for Girls and examines graduate and postgraduate students at the Guildhall, RCM and Birmingham Conservatoire. Highlights for this year include performances of Rossini’s Barber of Seville with Armonico and Haydn’s Creation with the English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner and a recital with ‘Continuum’ at the British Flute Convention. Her first solo CD recording of Telemann Fantasias was recently reviewed in the British Flute Society magazine “as perfect a demonstration of the modern wood flute’s capabilities as one could wish to hear.” and is released on the Quartz record label, http://www.quartzmusic.com/artist/27.htm |
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CHRISTOPHER POFFLEY studied the cello at the Royal College of Music with Joan Dickson where he obtained his B.Mus. Since then he has specialised in period performance practice working with all the leading period instrument groups in the UK including the English Concert, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. For several years he was sub-principal in John Eliot Gardiner’s international groups, the English Baroque Soloists and ORR playing continuo and solo roles. In June 2005 he appeared in the Beethoven BBC film Eroica as one of two cellists. Over the last four years he has given many recitals specializing in performances of the Bach unaccompanied cello suites in cathedrals and concert halls throughout the UK. He lives in Suffolk with his wife, the viola player Rebekka and their seven children. |
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MICAHEL OVERBURY was awarded an Organ Scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read music and studied the organ with Gillian Weir. Harpsichord tuition continued with Kenneth Gilbert. After graduating he was successively, an assisting organ scholar at King's College, Cambridge, Assistant Organist at New College, Oxford, a deputy organist and choir master at the Cathedral and Abbey Church at St Alban's, Director of Music at Eagle House Preparatory School for Boys, and Master of the Song School at Newark, Nottinghamshire. After winning First Prize in the 1982 Manchester International Organ Competition, he appeared twice as soloist at the Royal Festival Hall and has continued to play with numerous choirs and orchestras, including Sinfonia Viva (formerly the East of England Orchestra), the Wren Orchestra, the Orchestra of St John's Smith Square, the Milton Keynes Chamber orchestra, and English Sinfonia, and has featured on several recordings, including four solo discs. Michael is currently Director of Music of the Priory Church of Our Lady & S Cuthbert, Worksop, a founder member of Mvsica Donvm Dei, playing on period instruments mainly in the East Midlands, and is Director of Music of the Nottingham Boys Choir. |
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