Masterlärare 2025!
Även denna sommar har vi glädjen att bjuda in två masterlärare, en på gitarr och en på luta, till festivalen, som äger rum söndag 27 juli till lördag 2 augusti.
Gitarrist Lorenzo Micheli och lutenist Elizabeth Kenny medverkar med konsert och masterclass.
Elizabeth Kenny
is one of Europe’s leading lute players. Her playing has been described as “incandescent” (Music and Vision), “radical” (The Independent on Sunday) and “indecently beautiful” (Toronto Post). In twenty years of touring she has played with many of the world’s best period instrument groups and experienced many different approaches to music making. She played with Les Arts Florissants 1992-2007 and with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 1997-2015 and still returns to initiate seventeenth century projects such as The Hypochondriack and A Restoration Tempest.
Her research interests have led to critically acclaimed recordings of Lawes, Purcell and Dowland, and to the formation of her ensemble Theatre of the Ayre . (see below) As well as regular collaborations with singers such as Robin Blaze, Ian Bostridge and Nicholas Mulroy in recital, she has a great fondness for the viol consort repertory and has recorded William Lawes’ Royal Consort with Phantasm, as well Dowland’s Lachrime ( 2016). Elizabeth also appears alongside Ian Bostridge on Warner Classic’s Shakespeare Songs, which won a 2017 Grammy Award for ‘Best Classical Solo Vocal Album’.
As a soloist she is committed to a diverse range of repertoire, from the ML Lutebook (a much-praised CD released on Hyperion records)to new music for lute and theorbo: she has premiered works by James MacMillan, Heiner Goebbels and Benjamin Oliver, and these will be recorded alongside seventeenth century solo music for theorbo in October 2018 for Linn records. With Theatre of the Ayre she judged the National Centre for Early Music’s Composers’ Award in 2016.
Liz Kenny is Director of Performance at the University of Oxford, and professor of Lute at the Royal Academy of Music. she was Professor of Musical Performance and Head of Early Music at Southampton University 2009-18. She was an artistic advisor to the York Early Music Festival from 2011 to 2014.
Theatre of the Ayre is Elizabeth Kenny’s platform for bringing dramatically-minded singers and players together to create inspirational programmes of seventeenth century music. Their first project, The Masque of Moments, drew on research undertaken during her AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts at Southampton, and toured England, Belgium and Germany in 2007-8, being broadcast in all three countries. They followed this with a tour of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, a live recording of which was released on the Wigmore Live label in January 2011.
Several smaller-scale projects (Ayres and Dialogues, Dowland; Anniversary Collection and Setting the Baa High: English pastoral) toured the UK in 2013, as well as a unique collaboration with members of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: Lutes&Ukes. Its education arm, Youths Lutes and Ukes involved the players teaching and performing with a total of 360 children in London and York. Theatre of the Ayre won a Follow-on-Funding award from the AHRC which enabled a second Lutes&Ukes tour, The Wolves of St Elvis and a recording of The Masque of Moments for Linn Records, released in February 2017.
on The Masque of Moments
Recording of the Month: ‘This beautifully recorded disc will no doubt be one of my highlights of 2017.’MusicWeb International
gloriously skilful and varied in texture…(a) sense of genuinely collective, community music-making that gives this recording such personality and charm.
Gramophone April 2017
Attracting audiences with the familiar is a well-worn tactic, but the Theatre of the Ayre likes to do things differently… Its weapons: a freshness of approach and a quasi-improvisatory freedom of delivery.Financial Times
Lorenzo Micheli
has taken up a busy concert career throughout the world since winning the first prize in some of the most prestigious international guitar competitions (Alessandria, “Guitar Foundation of America”). He has played more than 600 concerts all over Europe, in two hundred US and Canadian cities, in Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America, as a soloist and with orchestra. Since 2002 he has been performing worldwide in duo with Matteo Mela – under the name of “SoloDuo” – in such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Seoul’s Sejong Hall, Kiev’s Hall of Columns and Vienna’s Konzerthaus. Their duo was welcomed by “The Washington Post” as “extraordinarily sensitive – nothing less than rapturous”.
His discography (more than 20 titles on the labels Naxos, Stradivarius, Pomegranate, Soundset and Amadeus) includes the music of Dionisio Aguado, the Quartets, op. 19, by François de Fossa, the Sonatas by Viennese composer Ferdinand Rebay, a CD of 17th Century Italian music for baroque guitar, archlute and theorbo, a collection of Arias and Cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, the complete guitar Concertos and the 24 Preludes and Fugues for two guitars by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, a double CD of chamber masterpieces by Mauro Giuliani, the complete guitar works of Miguel Llobet, Antoine de Lhoyer’s Duos Concertants, three anthologies of music for two guitars (“Noesis”, “Solaria” and “Metamorphoses”), and the album “Morning in Iowa” (with David Knopfler). His latest recording, “Autumn of the Soul”, was released by Contrastes Records.
A very active editor and researcher, he has published solo and chamber works with guitar by such composers as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Ferdinand Rebay. He is in charge of a collection of music for two guitars for the Canadian publisher “Les Productions d’Oz”.
Lorenzo lives in Milan, Italy, where he studied Greek and Latin literature at the University. He teaches at the University School of Music in Lugano, Switzerland, and he is Artist in Residence at both the University of Colorado Boulder and Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. In addition, he serves as guest faculty at the “Universidad Pedro de Olavide” in Sevilla, Spain, and the Conservatorio “A. Boito” in Parma, Italy.
Lorenzo Micheli si è formato a Milano e Basilea, e – dopo aver vinto il primo premio nei concorsi “M. Pittaluga” di Alessandria e “Guitar Foundation of America” di Charleston – ha intrapreso un’intensa attività artistica che in vent’anni lo ha portato in 25 paesi europei, in oltre duecento città di Stati Uniti e Canada, in Africa, in Asia, in Australia e in America Latina. Da solo, in duo e con orchestra, Lorenzo ha suonato nelle sale da concerto di tutto il mondo, dalla Carnegie Hall di New York alla Schubertsaal di Vienna, dalla Sala delle Colonne di Kiev all’Auditorio Nacional di Madrid, dalla Tchaikovsky Hall di Mosca alla Sejong Hall di Seoul. Insieme a Matteo Mela nel 2002 ha dato vita a “SoloDuo”, uno tra i duo di chitarre più noti al mondo, che il “Washington Post” ha definito “extraordinarily sensitive – nothing less than rapturous”.
La sua discografia annovera una ventina di titoli per le etichette Naxos, Stradivarius, Pomegranate, Brilliant, Amadeus e Solaria, e comprende tra l’altro un disco di “Arie e Cantate” di Alessandro Scarlatti per voce e continuo (con Massimo Lonardi, Matteo Mela e Renata Fusco), i 24 Preludi e Fughe per due chitarre e i Concerti di Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, le opere complete di Miguel Llobet, l’album “Morning in Iowa” (con David Knopfler), tre antologie di musica per duo di chitarre e una serie di monografie dedicate a Dionisio Aguado, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Antoine de Lhoyer, Andrea Falconieri, Ferdinand Rebay, Mauro Giuliani e François de Fossa (con Enrico Bronzi e Ivan Rabaglia). Il suo ultimo disco come solista, “Autumn of the Soul”, è stato pubblicato dall’etichetta spagnola “Contrastes”.
Lorenzo vive a Milano, dove ha studiato lettere antiche all’Università degli Studi. Ha insegnato per quasi dieci anni al Conservatoire de la Vallée d’Aoste, e dal 2011 è professore di chitarra al Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, dove è anche Responsabile della Performance; inoltre, è “Artist in Residence” presso la University of Colorado Boulder e la Columbus State University, ed è uno dei docenti dei Master del Conservatorio “A. Boito” di Parma e dell’Università “Pedro de Olavide” di Sevilla. Insieme a Matteo Mela, Lorenzo dirige una collana di musica per chitarra presso l’editore canadese d’Oz.
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