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ANDREAS HELM,
artistic director, conductor, recorder,
oboe
Andreas Helm studied recorder, oboe and methodology with Carin
van Heerden at the Bruckner Konservatorium in Linz, where he
completed his degree in 1999. Subsequently he studied baroque
oboe with Alfredo Bernardini at the Conservatorium van
Amsterdam graduating in 2002.
From 2001 to 2003 he was principal oboe and solo recorder
player with the European Union Baroque Orchestra.
He is a member of Rossi Piceno, and Schikaneders Jugend, a
trio performing alpine folk music from around 1800s. Together
with the conductor Heinz Ferlesch he found the period
instrument group Barucco. In addition he plays both oboe and
recorder with a large number of European orchestras including
Wiener Akademie, L’Orfeo Barockorchester, Les Talens Lyriques,
Freiburger Barockorchester, Concerto Köln and Concentus
Musicus Wien and the Irish Baroque Orchestra. He has toured
extensively all over Europe, USA, Mexico, Singapore, South
Africa and the Far East. He is the recipient of several
international prizes and awards including the Bonporti Prize
in Rovereto, Italy and the Gradus ad Parnassum award in
Eisenstadt, Austria.
Andreas Helm teaches regularly at the Aestas Musica Summer
School of Baroque Music in Varaždin, Croatia and at the
Austrian Baroque Akademie in Gmunden.
He has been teaching at the Konservatorium Wien
Privatuniversität and at the Kunstuniversität Graz.
www.barucco.com
www.rossipiceno.com
www.schikanedersjugend.at
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ANNE MARIE
DRAGOSITS, harpsicord
studied harpsichord with
Wolfgang Glüxam at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende
Kunst in Vienna and with Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot at the
Royal Conservatory, The Hague. She has also taken master classes
in basso continuo from Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Jesper
Christensen.
She regularly performs as a soloist and a continuo player
throughout Europe, playing with chamber music formations such
Barocksolisten München and la Gioconda, l´Orfeo Barockorchester,
Neue Hofkapelle München, Marini Consort Innsbruck and Camerata
Salzburg.
She was awarded first prize at the Schmelzer competition in Melk
in 2005; since that time, she has performed at major European
festivals such as the Resonanzen at Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the
Festival van Vlaanderen in Bruges, the Residenzwoche München and
Itinéraire Baroque. Anne Marie Dragosits appears on numerous
recordings; her first solo cd with Italian harpsichord music
from the seventeenth century was recorded on the original Giusti
from 1681 in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg in
November 2010.
She is regularly invited to teach master classes, as an
accompanist, she appears at masterclasses and competitions such
as the Festwochen der Alten Musik Innsbruck, the Internationale
Tage für Alte Musik Weinberg, the Akademie für Alte Musik
Bruneck, the Internationaler Wettbewerb für Alte Musik in
Brunnenthal and others. In addition to her performances, she
works as a senior lecturer at the Kunstuniversität Graz.
www.dragosits.org |
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ADRIAN
BUTTERFIELD,
violin, viola, chamber music
A former chorister at St.
Paul’s Cathedral and a graduate of Trinity College Cambridge,
Adrian is Musical Director of the Tilford Bach Society and
Associate Musical Director of the London Handel Festival and
directs from the violin or conducts ensembles such as the London
Handel Orchestra and Players and the Theatre of Early Music,
Montreal.
His solo recordings include CPE Bach Violin Sonatas (Atma),
Bach’s Concerto for oboe and violin (Analekta) and Handel’s
Violin Sonatas (Somm). His recording of Leclair's 1st Book of
sonatas (Naxos), the first in a projected complete cycle of the
violin sonatas, was released to great acclaim in 2009.
He leads the London Handel Players whose recent Handel
recordings, of his Op.2 and Op.5 trio sonatas, “Handel at Home”
as well as the Violin Sonatas, all for Somm, have received
glowing reviews. They appear regularly at the Wigmore Hall and
across Europe and North America. He also leads the Revolutionary
Drawing Room which specializes in classical and romantic chamber
music on period instruments.
Works he has conducted include Bach's B minor Mass, Handel’s La
Resurrezione, Purcell's Fairy Queen, Cavalieri’s
Rappresentatione di Anima e Corpo and Rameau’s Pigmalion and
recent appearances include numerous baroque concertos as well as
violin concertos by Mozart and Beethoven.
He works regularly with the Southbank Sinfonia, is Professor of
Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music in London and
teaches on the Aestas Musica Baroque Course in Croatia.
'This is one of those recordings you will want to return to
again and again.'
Julie Anne Sadie Gramophone Nov 09 (Leclair sonatas Book 1).
adrian.butterfield@virgin.net |
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LAURA VADJON,
violinThe first Croatian
performer on the baroque violin Laura Vadjon is artistic
director and concertmaster of the Croatian Baroque Ensemble.
Ever since the ensemble was formed in 1999. she has extensively
appeared as a soloist and leader of numerous concerts at home
and abroad, and gave a large number of first Croatian
performances of the works by forgotten composers and great
baroque masters.
She has performed and recorded with great success both as a
soloist and chamber musician, and is considered a major expert
in the early Italian baroque repertoire and in the works by
Handel and Mozart.
As a musician with a specific and distinctive tone and style,
Laura Vadjon is well known for her original and ingenious
interpretations which reveal her as a connoisseur of the
dramatic and affective features of baroque music.
She plays on an authentic period instrument, the work of Italian
18th century violin maker G.B. Guadagnini.
She performed with ensembles such as: Concert Spirituel, London
Handel Orchestra, Canzona, Florilegium, L'Arte del Mondo,The
Musicians of the Globe.... and has been working intensively with
important baroque experts such as Laurence Cummings, Catherine
Mackintosh, Richard Eggar, Stefano Montanari, Herve Niquet,
Odile Edouard, Werner Ehrhardt, Christopher Stembridge, Philip
Pickett...and others.
The winner of numerous awards such as Milka Trnina and Porin,
Laura Vadjon has performed in about twenty countries of Europe,
Russia, Japan, South America and Cuba.
She is a professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music, where she
teaches the historic interpretation of the 17th and 18th century
music. She is an assistant professor at the Academy of Music in
Zagreb, where she teaches chamber music of the 17th and 18th
century, taking into account historically informed performance
practice.
laura.vadjon@gmail.com |
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RACHEL BROWN,
baroque flute
Best known for her
moving and virtuosic performances on a huge range of flutes,
Rachel Brown is an acknowledged authority on historical
performance practice, an inspirational teacher and an
entertaining and illuminating speaker.
Rachel’s recital discs of French Baroque Music and Quantz
Sonatas established her reputation and her recording of
virtuosic works by Schubert and Boehm on simple-system,
ring-keyed and Boehm alto flutes has been described as ‘a
revelation’. As a soloist she has recorded extensively and
toured in Europe, Japan and North America with a comprehensive
concerto repertoire from J.S. Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann to
Mozart. She has given many performances of the newly discovered
Handel Flute Concerto and her championing of the works of the
Berlin School has reawakened interest in the largely unknown
masterpieces by Quantz. Her dazzling recordings of the Quantz
and C.P.E. Bach Concertos have won international acclaim. Rachel
appears on many Telemann discs with Collegium Musicum 90 and her
recording of the complete Handel flute and recorder sonatas op.1
with the Academy of Ancient Music is due for release shortly.
She is a founder member and soloist with the London Handel
Players with whom she has recorded three discs of Handel’s
chamber music, described as ‘perfection itself’.
A dedicated teacher, Rachel has given masterclasses in the USA,
Canada, Sweden, Poland, Spain, Ireland, Holland, Switzerland and
New Zealand. She taught for many years at the Royal Northern
College of Music, followed by stints at the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama, the Birmingham Conservatoire and as
lecturer in classical studies at the Guildhall School. She is
currently professor of baroque flute at the Royal College of
Music. She is author of the Cambridge University Press handbook
to The Early Flute and has composed cadenzas for the new
Bärenreiter edition of the Mozart Flute Concertos.
Rachel has launched Uppernote, her own recording label and
publishing house, (see rachelbrownflute.com) with a tour de
force recording of the complete Telemann Fantasias and another
new disc and Urtext/facsimile edition of Quantz sonatas.
www.rachelbrownflute.com
rachelbrown.butterfield@virgin.net
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CATHERINE DENLEY,
vocal technique
Born in Northamptonshire, contralto Catherine Denley studied at
Trinity College of Music, winning prizes there for Lieder and
French Song. After two years with the BBC Singers she embarked
on a solo career which has taken her all over the world. She has
worked with all the major British orchestras and many eminent
conductors.
Notable highlights have included the premiere of Europera by
John Cage in London, Paris and Berlin; Handel's Messiah with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony;
Britten's Spring Symphony for
Dutch and Polish Radio; Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Sir John
Eliot Gardiner in Japan; Mahler's Resurrection Symphony in
Odessa and Kiev and his Symphony of a Thousand for TV in Dublin;
Bach's St Matthew Passion in the Gewandhaus, Leipzig and
Mozart's Requiem in the Salzburg Mozartwoche and at the BBC
Proms.
She has also sung Schumann's Scenes from Faust with Sir John
Eliot Gardiner in New York and the Proms; Handel's Hercules and
La Resurrezione with Marc
Minkowski in Paris and Lyon; concert tours with Ton Koopman,
Trevor Pinnock and Paul McCreesh (including the St Matthew
Passion with eight voices) and Bach's Easter Oratorio and
Vivaldi Solo Cantatas with the Israel Camerata.
Catherine has well over fifty recordings to her credit: these
cover a wide
range of music, but she is particularly renowned for her Handel
discs, some
of which have won international awards.
denley.c@btopenworld.com
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DADA RUZA,
CHOIR
A graduate from the Zagreb Music Academy, Dada teaches
conducting and vocal technique at the Varazdin Music School. Her
Girls choir has won several international competitions.
dada.ruza@gmail.com
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MARY COLLINS,
dance
is an early dance specialist
of international repute. She works with dance, theatre and TV
companies as an adviser, choreographer, dancer and actress and
tours regularly giving master-classes, lecture-recitals and
workshops.
Mary revives original choreography and gesture for historical
performance. Credits include Purcell’s operas Dioclesian, Dido &
Aeneas, The Fairy Queen, The Indian Queen and King Arthur;
Blow’s opera Venus & Adonis; Charpentier’s Acteon and
Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo; Gluck’s ballet
Don Juan; Rebel’s Les Elemens and Rameau’s Pygmalion. She was
Movement Director for the Croatian National Theatre’s production
of ‘Le s Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Lully/Moliere in Autumn 2009
and Handel’s ‘Il Pastor Fido’ at the London Handel Festival in
2010. Mary teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal
College of Music in London and, outside London, at Birmingham
City University – the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music. Outside
the UK she has also given courses for the Norwegian State Ballet
School and the Norwegian Music Conservatoire in Norway, Hanyang
University and Seoul University in South Korea and The
University of Music in Bucharest. In Romania, Mary also inspired
and helped establish the Orange Young Musician Award which was
created to find and promote young musical talent throughout the
country. After four successful years the competition has earned
high regard internationally for its standards and integrity. She
has made several programmes on various aspects of early dance
and its music for TV Cultural. Education work spans every
age-group and includes projects for the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment, The National Trust, English Heritage and The
British Museum. Her resource book for teachers ‘The Art that All
Other Arts Do Approve’ is on the Recommended Reading List in the
UK. As well as Aestas Musica, Mary is a faculty member of the
Ringve International Summer Course in Norway.
maryt_collins@yahoo.co.uk
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JOSEPH CROUCH,
violoncello
began his musical education
as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, and later at King’s
College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. Since
completing his studies he has quickly established himself as one
of the country’s outstanding baroque instrumentalists playing
with the Academy of Ancient Music, the Gabrieli Consort, the
Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment…He now combines his
playing commitments with a full teaching schedule.
oeycrouch@yahoo.co.uk
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