MUSICA ANTICA
MASTERCLASSVIOLA DA GAMBA BAROQUE VIOLIN
CHAMBER MUSICBAROQUE ORCHESTRA
10-12 FEBRUARY, 2012
ACCADEMIAMUSICALE
SHERAZADE
ORPHEON FOUNDATION COURSES 2012
ROMA: 10-12 February, 2012THOIRY (F): April 14-21LABRO, Italy; July 7-16VIGNOGOUL, (F): July 27-August 5IBIZA, Spagna: September 7-16 CASTELLO DI DUINO, Italy: September 21-30
Information: [email protected]+43-650-4003731
Tutor: José VázquezCourse open to viola da gamba, violin, violoncello, violone, flute, harpsichord, singers
Themes:
1. The Viola da gamba in France: Marin Marais , Sainte Colombe, Forqueray, De Caix d'Hervelois, Boismortier.
2. Johann Sebastian Bach & German SchoolTelemann, Schenck, Kühnel, Höffler, Nicolai3. Viola da gamba Consort: Sight-reading prerequisite. English, Italian, German Music of the 16th-18th. CenturiesSome instruments: original viole da gamba, violins, violas, violoncellos of the Vázquez Collection of the Orpheon Foundation will be available for use.
Accademia di Musica SherazadeVia Mondovì, 20, 00183 RomaMetro linea A: fermata Ponte LungoAutobus: 649, [email protected]
tel: 06 70613372cell: 340 6707405Send per email: Name, birth date, address, telephone, email
Course cost: € 200Inscription fee: € 20
MASTERCLASS VIOLA DA GAMBA
Systematic development of a technical basis for the stylistic interpretation of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical repertoire, based on the treatises of Ganassi, Ortiz, Simpson, Rousseau, Danoville, Louilié & others.
Works by Diego Ortiz, Christopher Simpson, Tobias Hume, Marin Marais, Forqueray, J. S. Bach, Telemann, C. F. Abel and others.
VIOLA DA GAMBA CONSORT
Advance level consort playing: proficient sight-reading in the standard clefs is a prerequisite. A number of the original viols of the Vázquez Collection will be made available to the participants.
THE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORICAL STRING ENSEMBLE MUSIC
Works by Heinrich Biber, Georg Muffat, Giovanni Legrenzi, Johann Rosenmüller, Marc-Antoine Charpentier & other masters of the 17th C. for ensembles of violins, violas da gamba, etc. Works for strings by Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, Marais.
Open also for keyboard instruments, winds, singers.
The Orpheon Foundation wishes to open your eyes and ears to the marvelous world of string instruments of the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Classical Periods. The collection now contains over 200 instruments (viola da gamba, viola d'amore, violin, viola, violoncello, violone, baryton) and historical bows dating mostly from 1560 to 1780, all restored to their original playing conditions and placed at the disposal of members of the Orpheon Orchestra, Orpheon Consort and professional musicians from all over Europe for concerts, recordings, contests and study purposes. Its owner, José Vázquez holds that it is the living acoustical heritage – the sounds that these instruments produce for those living today – that interests us, and not their mere decorative flair as objets trouvés from aristocratic residences of our distant past. We wish to hear what these instruments have to say and we wish to learn from them about the manner of performance of their musical heritage from the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Classical Periods.The instrument maker and the composer have long perished, but their legacy lives on, enriching our lives today as they enriched the lives of many along the way and will continue to enrich the lives of many in generations yet to come.
The exhibition at the Castello di Duino (Trieste) may be visited throughout the year. Please, consult visiting hours: www.castellodiduino.it
www.orpheon.org
José Vázquez, Cuba, studied at Northwestern University (Chicago) and performed in the Collegium Musicum of the University of Chicago under the direction of Howard Meyer Brown before undertaking professional studies of the viola da gamba with Hannelore Müller and Baroque violin with Jaap Schroeder at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. In 1980 he was appointed to the Conservatory of Music in Winterthur, Switzerland, where he teaches performance practice, viola da gamba and baroque violin. In 1982 he was appointed professor for viola da gamba at the University of Music in Vienna, Austria. Concerts as soloist (viola da gamba concerti, passions) with various European orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra Amsterdam, Zürich Opera Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, Irish National Symphony Orchestra, Thessaloniki State Orchestra, The Smithsonian Chamber Players under directors such as Riccardo Chailly, Florian Heyerick, Günter Jena, Helmut Rilling, Franz Welser-Möst. Recordings with diverse ensembles (Ex Tempore, Belgium; Hans-Martin Linde, Switzerland; Musica Antiqua Köln, Germany...). Founder and director of the Orpheon Baroque Orchestra and Orpheon Consort, with which numerous recordings have been made.
In recognition of his artistic achievements the Austrian G o v e r n m e n t awarded José V á z q u e z t h e Silver Cross-of-H o n o u r f o r Merit of the R e p u b l i c o f A u s t r i a . ( S i l b e r n e s Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste u m d i e R e p u b l i k Österreich)