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