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New Zealand conductor
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Serenade (Western Classical Music in India)
2023-09-23 18:31:50
A Quest for Perfection
There was a moment during the recently held House Concert organised by F. Marikar hosted at the magnificent Thapar House in Kolkata, where it seemed as though the Muses had conspired to produce a uniquely well-arranged set of circumstances to accompany the music being performed. The Effem Ensemble, comprising musicians who trace their lineage directly or indirectly to the extraordinary work done at the Behala Oxford Mission by the legendary Father Theodore Mathieson, launched into the Oboe Quartet composed by […]
2022-03-10 07:31:00
The Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship celebrates 20 years of helping women conductors with a global concert series
[…] Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta Marzena Diakun (2015 Associate Fellow), Music Director of Fundación Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid Marta Gardolińska (2017 Associate Fellow), who will guest-conduct the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice Laura Jackson (2004 Fellow), Music Director of the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra Jeri Lynne Johnson (2005 Fellow), Founder and Artistic Director of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra Carolyn Kuan (2003 Fellow), Music Director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Holly Mathieson (2013 Honorable Mention), Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia Valentina Peleggi (2015 Fellow), Music Director of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra Chloé van Soeterstède (2019 Fellow), Music Director of the Arch Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra. They will be assisted during the TACF-sponsored weeks by 2022-24 Fellow Anna Duczmal-Mróz, 2022-24 Associate Fellows Irene Delgado-Jiménez and Marie Rosenmir, 2022-24 Award Recipients Kalena Bovell and Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, and 2017 TACF award winner Barbara Dragan. Three of these women – […]
2020-08-14 09:20:36
Switched On: Opera North's programme of out-door events and digital projects
[…] premiere in County Durham in May 2020, and the work was developed in partnership with local communities. The work will now be created digitally and released as a 60 minute film. Participants in the Community Chorus and members of the community taking solo roles in the opera have been rehearsing with Opera North’s music team via Zoom sessions during lockdown; their parts will each be recorded individually. Directed by Caroline Clegg and conducted by Holly Mathieson, the film of Song of Our Heartland will be filmed on location at Locomotion and the surrounding area and recorded by the Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North and the newly formed Community Chorus, with solo roles shared between members of the Chorus of Opera North and community participants. John Savournin's Whistle Stop Opera: Hansel and Gretel compresses Humperdinck's opera down to just 40 minutes with a cast of four accompanied by an accordion […]
2020-07-19 10:56:12
A Life On-Line: Garsington Opera Unmuted, Handel times two from Göttingen, and Eboracum Baroque
[…] leading Baroque violinists. Like the ETO video (see below), the result gets into the essentials of technique in a way that simply going to a concert misses. [YouTube] English Touring Opera's sequence of videos continues, not only with singing lessons and more, but with fascinating videos exploring the nitty gritty of opera production, under the title Warm Technical. So this week soprano Sky Ingram, baritone Stephan Loges and conductor Holly Mathieson (who were all performing in the 2020 English Touring Opera production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte), talked about manipulating the tempo in the opera [YouTube] By accident I came across Irish National Opera's on-line Seraglio, Mozart's opera done as a mini-series set in contemporary lock-down, with lots of the dialogue replaced by texting. The production style is visually engaging and imaginative, I loved the way in the introduction to her aria, Blonfr goes […]