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Maria Keohane
Maria Keohane (born 13 May 1971) is a Swedish soprano who has performed at festivals in Europe and made many recordings, especially of sacred music. Life and career Keohane was born in Manchester to a Swedish mother and an Irish father. She and her mother moved to Smedjebacken in Sweden when she was five. She still resides there. She had many fiddlers in the family on her mothers side, and started playing the violin at the age of nine. She also sang in the local church children's choir. Keohane planned to become a veterinarian, and interned at Falu djursjukhus, where she was offered a job, but was encouraged to pursue a career in music. She studied at the , the University of Gothenburg and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. In 1998 and 1999, she performed with the Texas Bach Choir and baroque trumpet virtuoso Niklas Eklund as a guest artist. She won a prize at the international van Wassenaer competition in 2000 and has received a number of scholarships from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Ek
Hans Ek (born 1964 in Uppsala, Sweden), is a conductor and arranger working in the meeting between classical music, jazz, pop and folk music. He has worked with symphony orchestras in Sweden, as well as in Norway, Denmark, Britain, Canada, Lithuania and Turkey. Ek has in recent years been musical director of the Polar Music Prize ceremony. In recent years he has also devoted his time to film music. He has orchestrated and recorded music for films such as '' Let the Right One In'' directed by Tomas Alfredson, ''Troubled Water'' (Erik Poppe), ''A Man Comes Home'' (Thomas Vinterberg), ''Effi Briest'' (Hermine Huntgeburth), ''At Point Blank'' (Peter Lindmark), and ' (Bettina Oberli). Since 2013 he is on tour with Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström of the Esbjörn Svensson Trio Esbjörn Svensson Trio (or e.s.t.) was a Swedish jazz piano trio formed in 1993 consisting of Esbjörn Svensson (piano), Dan Berglund (double bass), and Magnus Öström (drums). Its music had classical, roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Times
''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is considered a newspaper of record for Ireland. Though formed as a Protestant nationalist paper, within two decades and under new owners it had become the voice of British unionism in Ireland. It is no longer a pro unionist paper; it presents itself politically as "liberal and progressive", as well as being centre-right on economic issues. The editorship of the newspaper from 1859 until 1986 was controlled by the Anglo-Irish Protestant minority, only gaining its first nominal Irish Catholic editor 127 years into its existence. The paper's most prominent columnists include writer and arts commentator Fintan O'Toole and satirist Miriam Lord. The late Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald was once a columnist. Senior international figures, including Tony Blair and Bill Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Ulrik Mortensen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (born 1955) is a Danish harpsichordist and conductor, mainly of Baroque solo music, chamber music and early music repertory. He was a professor in Munich in 1996–99 and has since then been artistic director of Concerto Copenhagen. He received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize in 2007. Early life and education Lars Ulrik Mortensen was born in 1955. His father was the conductor Bent Mortensen. He studied with Karen Englund ( harpsichord) and Jesper Bøje Christensen (figured bass) at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and with Trevor Pinnock in London. Career He has a career as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, North and South America and Japan. From 1988 to 1990 he was harpsichordist in London Baroque, and from 1990 to 1993 he was a member of Collegium Musicum 90. He appears regularly with singer Emma Kirkby, violinist John Holloway and cellist and gambist Jaap ter Linden. He has recorded for Archiv Produktion (3rd harpsichord in Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kobow
Jan Kobow (born 1966) is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied, and Baroque opera. Professional career Jan Kobow was born and raised in Berlin. He was a singer and soloist of the ''Staats- und Domchor, Berlin'' with Christian Grube. He studied the organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and graduated in church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in 1994. He continued to study singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Sabine Kirchner, graduating in 1999. In the field of historically informed performance he has worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and took part in the ''Bach Cantata Pilgrimage'' of John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir. In 2002, he recorded several cantatas for Pentecost of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, conducted by Ludger Rémy, with one voice per part, the four soloists forming the choir. In 2003 he recorded Bach cantatas with Philippe Herreweghe and the Collegium Vocale Gent, Johannette Zomer, Ingeborg Danz and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John Passion
The ''Passio secundum Joannem'' or ''St John Passion'' (german: Johannes-Passion, link=no), BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the older of the surviving Passions by Bach. It was written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig and was first performed on April 7, 1724, at Good Friday Vespers at the St. Nicholas Church. The structure of the work falls in two halves, intended to flank a sermon. The anonymous libretto draws on existing works (notably by Barthold Heinrich Brockes) and is compiled from recitatives and choruses narrating the Passion of Christ as told in the Gospel of John, ariosos and arias reflecting on the action, and chorales using hymn tunes and texts familiar to a congregation of Bach's contemporaries. Compared with the ''St Matthew Passion'', the ''St John Passion'' has been described as more extravagant, with an expressive immediacy, at times more unbridled and less "finished". The work is most often heard toda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Pierlot
Philippe Pierlot (born 1958) is a Belgian viola da gamba player and a conductor in historically informed performance. He is also an academic teacher at the royal conservatories of The Hague and Brussels. Career Born in Liège, Pierlot learned to play the recorder, the guitar and the lute at the age of twelve. He studied playing the viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken. In 1980, he founded the ensemble Ricercar Consort, with the violinist François Fernandez and the keyboard player Bernard Foccroulle, focusing on the performance and recording of little-known music in historically informed performance. Several contemporary compositions were dedicated to him. He also plays the baryton, for which Joseph Haydn composed around 150 works. In 1999, he revived Marais's opera ''Sémélé'', which had not been performed for 300 years, after composing some missing parts. Until 2006, Pierlot was professor for viola da gamba at the . He has been a teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricercar Consort
The Ricercar Consort is a Belgian instrumental ensemble founded in 1980 together with the Ricercar record label of Jérôme Lejeune. The founding members were violinist François Fernandez, organist Bernard Foccroulle, and viola da gamba player Philippe Pierlot. The initial repertoire was focussed on the German Baroque, and the Consort was closely identified with the series ''Deutsche Barock Kantaten''. In recordings and concerts, the Consort was joined by baroque specialist singers including; Greta De Reyghere, Agnès Mellon, countertenors Henri Ledroit, James Bowman, tenor Guy de Mey, and bass Max van Egmond, as well as the cornett player Jean Tubéry. The consort is associated with the ''Festival Bach en Vallée Mosane'' held in the valley of the Meuse. Recordings < ...
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Stephan MacLeod
Stephan MacLeod is a Swiss bass and conductor focused on Baroque music in historically informed performance who has performed internationally. He was first bass of the Huelgas Ensemble for five years and took part in the complete recording of Bach's cantatas by Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan as both a soloist and a choir member. He founded his own ensemble, Gli Angeli Genève, and has also been professor of singing at the Lausanne Conservatory. Career MacLeod was born in Geneva. He first studied piano and violin, then voice in his hometown, then at the Musikhochschule Köln with Kurt Moll, and in Lausanne, with Gary Magby. In Cologne, he became interested in historically informed performance and collaborated with Reinhard Goebel and his Musica Antiqua Köln. He was first bass of the Huelgas Ensemble for five years. He worked further with Philippe Herreweghe, Gustav Leonhardt, Jordi Savall, and others. He appeared in Europe and beyond. He founded the ensemble Gli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Jörg Mammel
Hans Jörg Mammel (born in Stuttgart) is a German tenor in opera and concert. Mammel received first musical training as a member of the boys' choir Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben. After aborted legal studies, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Winfried Toll, Werner Hollweg and Ingeborg Most. After several master classes in Europe, Mammel collaborated with conductors such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Markus Teutschbein, Marcus Creed and Philippe Herreweghe. Mammel's repertoire includes major concert works and operas including song cycles and contemporary music. He has participated in premieres of works by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Mammel sang among others the title role of Monteverdi's ''L'Orfeo'' in Iceland. He was a guest artist at the Theater Freiburg, the Theater Koblenz and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. In 2008 Mammel performed the title role in Mozart's ''La clemenza di Tito ' (''The Clemency of Titus''), K. 621, is an '' opera seria'' in two act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Mena
Carlos Mena (born 1971) is a Spanish countertenor opera singer. He has previously worked with groups such as Al Ayre Español, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, and Ricercar Consort and has an interest in the twentieth-century repertoire. Life and career Carlos Mena initially worked as a countertenor in masterclasses with Charles Brett and then relocated to Switzerland in 1992 to study a Diploma of Reinaissance-Baroque Music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. His teachers here were Richard Levitt and René Jacobs, and he was awarded the diploma in 1997. His operatic performances have included Handel's '' Radamisto'' (title role), Monteverdi's ''L'Orfeo'' (Speranza), Handel's ''Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno'' (Disinganno), and John Cage's ''Europera 5''. His recital ''De Aeternitate'' (Ricercar Consort) won a Diapason d'Or in 2002. Discography * ''El Cant de La Sibilla Mallorca - València (1400-1560)''. Montserrat Figueras, Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial de Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnificat (Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat, BWV 243, is a musical setting of the biblical canticle Magnificat. It is scored for five vocal parts (two sopranos, alto, tenor and bass), and a Baroque orchestra including trumpets and timpani. It is the first major liturgical composition on a Latin text by Bach. In 1723, after taking up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, Bach set the text of the Magnificat in a twelve movement composition in the key of E-flat major. For a performance at Christmas he inserted four hymns ('' laudes'') related to that feast. This version, including the Christmas interpolations, was given the number 243.1 (previously 243a) in the catalogue of Bach's works. Likely for the feast of Visitation of 1733, or another feast in or around that year, Bach produced a new version of his Latin Magnificat, without the Christmas hymns: instrumentation of some movements was altered or expanded, and the key changed from E-flat major to D major, for perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachtrack
''Bachtrack'' is a London-based international online music magazine which publishes listings of classical music, opera, ballet and dance, as well as reviews of these genres, interviews and general feature articles. History Bachtrack Ltd was registered on 3 December 2007 by David Karlin and Alison Karlin. The website bachtrack.com was launched in January 2008, the following month. ''Bachtrack''s event finder initially covered the UK only. In 2009, coverage expanded to include the US and Europe. The finder permitted users to "search for events by date, country, city, festival, venue, work, composer or musician". By 2010, the site listed 7,000 events and was being described favourably by both local London and national UK press. ''Bachtrack''s first mobile app was launched in late 2009. In July 2010, ''Bachtrack'' was named as no. 5 in ''Classical Music'' magazine's top ten Web Winners. Later in 2010, ''Bachtrack'' started publishing reviews of classical music to accompany its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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