The Portrait Players

Baroque trio 🎶 @clairegeosop @kristiinawatt #Mirinohl

[Music in Durham @musicdurham]

REVIEW: An excellent start to this year's @DurhamMusicon series with a captivating concert by @portraitplayers including a welcome return to Durham for soprano @clairegeosop and some truly mesmerising theorbo playing. https://t.co/yKZQY3tM2j

[Claire Ward @clairegeosop]

It’s the last day of our crowdfunder for the Louise Labé Song Project commissioning @Clare_Elton to write @portraitplayers a mini song-cycle on Labé’s sonnets! We’re £110 off our goal! You can read all about the project on our website/insta/facebook. Thank you for the support! 🤩

[The Portrait Players @portraitplayers]

@OperaPrelude Thanks so much for sharing @OperaPrelude we loved our concerts with you and Xavier!

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Over on our Insta we have been sharing the sonnets of Louise Labé to tell our followers about her poetry and about our crowdfunder to get her words set to music! We are now just £400 away from our target! You can follow along over on Insta and read more about it at the link ⬇️

[The Portrait Players @portraitplayers]

Tomorrow we are in Oxford @NewCollegeOx New Space.

[The Stoller Hall @StollerHall]

🌟 Exciting Announcement! 🌟

🎶 Introducing our incredible lineup of Emerging Artists 2024/25 at The Stoller Hall: @portraitplayers @vulvavoce @GleaveRylan The Akiko Quartet & The Lyons Mouth ✨

Find out more below!
https://t.co/Qr8d2rrRQF

[The Portrait Players @portraitplayers]

We are now @MakingMusic_UK Phillip and Dorothy Green Young Artists!

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The second in our Sonnet Sundays!. Extract from O beaux yeux bruns by Louise Labé… a fitting verse for us 🎻Help us get these amazing poems set to music! https://t.co/I9TgqE90eX

[The Portrait Players @portraitplayers]

Enjoying our Northumberland retreat before tomorrow’s concert @NorthumbriaUni

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Our crowdfunding for this project can be found at this link! https://t.co/QpnL3thK5o

[The Portrait Players @portraitplayers]

Happy IWD!! On this day we are very happy to announce our Louise Labé Song Project! Collaborating with @Clare_Elton we will be commissioning a mini song cycle based on the love sonnets of Louise Labé. 🧵

[The Portrait Players @portraitplayers]

We will be exploring her sonnets over a series called ‘Sonnet Sundays!’

[The Portrait Players @portraitplayers]

Louise Labé was a 16th century writer. Born to a family of ropemakers, she became a writer within the salons of Lyon. Her sonnets explore unattainable love in an overtly passionate style from a female perspective!

[The Portrait Players @portraitplayers]

Interval selfie from last night performing our programme “A Madness Most Discreet” at 22 Mansfield Street. A gorgeous evening

[Nicholas Beale @Starcourse]

Superb performance by ⁦@portraitplayers⁩ of 17th C music by Handel, Purcell & others. Much of it done in the (female-run) Salons of Paris.
Definitely an ensemble to watch!👏👏👏

[The Portrait Players @portraitplayers]

@Starcourse Thank you so much 😊

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Today at the New Generation Baroque Ensemble Development Day, we found Lady Dering @RCMLondon - thought to be the first female British composer to have her works published (alongside having 17 children!)Thanks @yorkearlymusic & @BBCRadio3 for a great, inspiring and helpful day!

[The Portrait Players @portraitplayers]

Joy at today’s rehearsal prepping for tomorrow’s New Generation Baroque Ensemble Development day! (Claire creating the content and therefore not photographed) @yorkearlymusic

[Claire Ward @clairegeosop]

Some things I’m doing soon! + auditions + teaching + admin and more admin + probably even more admin + training for a 10km swim (gulp) hope to see you somewhere. More info on website 👋