Ensemble Molière, Les Visionnaires

12.30 lunchtime

Thursday 30th August

Les Visionnaires

Ensemble Molière

Flavia Hirte, Baroque flute
Alice Earll, violin ♦ Kate Conway, viola da gamba
Satoko Doi-Luck, harpsichord

Venue: LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church
please use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose
car parks, about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC in Church Road

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Season Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor

Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert &
Arts Society

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Programme

Michel Blavet (1700-1768)
arr Satoko Doi-Luck
Overture to 'Le Jaloux Corrigé' (1752)

François Couperin "Couperin le Grand" (1668-1733)
La Visionnaire for solo harpsichord (c1690)

from the trio sonata 'Les Nations' (1726)
Second Ordre: L'Espagnol   Second Set: The Spaniard
    1   Sonade
            Gravement, et mesuré – très lentement
            Vivement – doux et affectueusement
            Légèrement – gayement –
                              air tendre – vivement et marqué
    6   Gigue Lourée   modérément
    7   Gavote tendrement, sans lenteur
    9   Bourée gayment
    10 Passacaille noblement et marqué

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
from 6 Quadri (1730)   Paris Quartets
Quartet No 4 in g minor
    1 Andante
    2 Allegro
    3 Largo
    4 Allegro

Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.

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Ensemble Molière

Ensemble Molière was formed by participants of the Dartington International Summer School and is based in London with performers from Japan, the UK, Germany and Australia. The ensemble have performed throughout the UK and Europe; including performances at the MAfestival fringe in Brugge and the Oudemuziek fringe in Utrecht. 2017 has seen the ensemble make their debut at the London Festival of Baroque Music as part of their Future Artists Scheme and compete as finalists in the International Young Artists Competition at the York Early Music Festival. The ensemble has also premiered their first cross art opera project Pygmalion, part funded by Arts Council England and supported by Stroud Green Festival and BREMF. Ensemble Molière has been invited to perform live on BBC3 In Tune with highlights from Pygmalion and also their spoken word and music programme, 'Medicine and Mortality'. They have also recorded their first EP, a collection of French baroque dance movements entitled, 'Dance Sweets', which will be available to buy later in the year.

"Pygmalion has to be one of the most exciting projects out on the early music scene today. It is historically informed and wonderfully performed by a cast of stunning young singers and players." - Clare Norburn, Artistic Director, Stroud Green Festival & Co-Artistic Director, Brighton Early Music Festival

"Having heard the stylish Ensemble Molière a couple of times in the summer of 2015, one thing that struck me in particular is their consistent quality. Their devotion to the delicate, playful and by all means extremely demanding French repertoire I found quite rare indeed" - Albert Edelman, Concertgebouw Brugge

"Ensemble Molière brought us rather overlooked and sometimes neglected music from the French baroque and presented it with an artistic flair that added real texture to the enjoyment of the music...an excellent concert." - Eric Page, G Scene Magazine

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Flavia Hirte, flute

Alice Earll, violin

Flavia Hirte, baroque flute, flautist, flutist,

Flavia Hirte was born in Berlin and moved to the UK in 2006. She currently lives in London, working as a freelance flautist and teacher. She completed her Master's degree at the Royal College of Music with distinction in 2015, where she studied with Lisa Beznosiuk and Rachel Brown. As a Music Talks Scholar, her studies were supported by an Ian Evans Lombe Award as well as by the MBF Postgraduate Performance Award, the Seary Trust and the YLCE. Performing on both historical and modern flutes, Flavia is active across Europe as a chamber and orchestral musician.

As well as her performances with Ensemble Molière, Flavia plays with two other chamber groups. Both Concord Winds and The Fattscheck Project focus on Classical repertoire and aim to promote neglected musical works. Alongside her degree she participated in a number of prestigious training programmes, including; the OAE Experience Scheme, Jeune Orchestre Hector Berlioz, Dartington Baroque Orchestra, AAM Workshop, Brighton Early Music Live!, Vadstena Academie and the European Union Baroque Orchestra.

As an orchestral musician she has played with groups such as The London Handel Orchestra, Oxford Baroque, The Bach Players, Florilegium, The Hanover Band, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Brandenburg Baroque Soloists and Musica Saeculorum. Flavia has appeared as a soloist on a number of occasions, performing concertos at the Guildhall, the RCM and with the Amadè Players both in London and at the 2016 Tilford Bach Festival.

For more information on upcoming concerts and teaching please visit: www.flaviahirte.com

Alice Earll is a young and engaging British violinist specialising in period instrument performance. Alice studied under Pavlo Beznosiuk at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating in 2016 with a first-class degree and the Bickerdike Allen Prize for achievement.

She has since gone on to perform with the Academy of Ancient Music at the BBC Proms and as part of the Lincoln Centre's Mostly Mozart Festival. She has also played at Shakespeare's Globe as part of 'Vivaldi's The Four Season. A Reimagining' with music by Max Richter and performed with various other groups such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Avison Ensemble, Ex Cathedra, Ensemble Marsyas and as a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO).

In 2017 Alice was hand-selected to perform with the Ambronay European Baroque Academy, under the direction of Paul Agnew. The group toured Europe with their ground-breaking setting of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, performed entirely from memory.

As a soloist, Alice has performed Telemann’s Concerto for Three Violins in F Major alongside Rachel Podger at the Wigmore Hall and has recently recorded a CD of English violin sonatas by Joseph Gibbs with Eboracum Baroque.

As a founding member of Ensemble Molière, Alice has performed at the Brighton Early Music Festival, Bruges Early Music Festival and made her BBC Radio debut on Radio 3's In Tune.

She plays on a Thomas Kennedy violin on loan from the Harrison Frank Foundation.

Performances this year include; Dancing with Bach, a solo recital at The Old Chapel Court in Tewkesbury, B Minor Mass with AAM and Tenebrae, the EUBO Gala Concert in Antwerp, Ormisda with Opera Settecento at the Halle Handel Festival and Agrippina with AAM at The Grange.

Kate Conway

Kate Conway studied baroque cello and viol with Jonathan Manson at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with distinction, after gaining first class honours in Classics from Jesus College, Cambridge.

She has performed with Solomon’s Knot, English Touring Opera, and the Feinstein Ensemble, and was selected for the Handel House Talent Scheme 2016-17. Kate also plays with Musica Poetica and Chelys Consort of Viols (performing in our recent concert at St John's), and is a founder member of Ceruleo, who were Ensemble Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for 2016-17.

A keen chamber musician, Kate was twice awarded the RAM Nancy Nuttall Ensemble Prize, and was a recipient of the D Day Fund Award and Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize for Consort Music. She participated in RAM concerts directed by Rachel Podger, Margaret Faultless and Laurence Cummings, and regularly played continuo for the Kohn Bach Cantatas series, most notably alongside the Thomanerchor Leipzig.

She has also taken part in masterclasses at the Greenwich International Early Music Festival and RCM Festival of Viols, performing to Christophe Coin, Alison Crum, Vittorio Ghielmi and Paolo Pandolfo. More recent projects have included concerts at the Cadogan Hall, Southbank Centre and King’s Place, and live broadcasts on Radio 3’s In Tune with Ceruleo and Ensemble Molière.

Satoko Doi-Luck

Satoko Doi-Luck studied composition at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music before coming to England to continue her composition studies at the Royal College of Music as a scholar supported by the PRS Sir Arthur Bliss Foundation, the Alice Templeton Award and an Overseas Artist grant from the Japanese Government.

As a composer, Satoko recently wrote short new works for the Orchestra of Age of Enlightenment which ave been performed as part of OAE's the Night Shift tour in autumn 2013 and spring 2015.

Satoko then studied harpsichord and continuo with James Johnstone, and is a recipient of the Raymond Russell award. She has taken part in masterclasses by Menno van Delft, Ton Koompan, Andreas Staier, Kenneth Weiss, Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music.

Satoko has been awarded the Junior Fellowship in Harpsichord/Continuo at the Royal College of Music, and was also selected as a participant of the Handel House Talent Scheme 2015-2016. She is also a member of Ceruleo, and has performed with La Serenissima, Birmingham Opera Company, English Chamber Orchestra, Tenebrae, and Shakespeare's Globe.
www.satokodoi-luck.com

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Concert at Home

If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:

Michel Blavet arr Satoko Doi-Luck
Overture to 'Le Jaloux Corrigé' (1752)

Here we have the four lively performers from Ensemble Molière we shall be hearing at our concert:

François Couperin "Couperin le Grand"
La Visionnaire for solo harpsichord (c1690)

played here by Valentino Ermacora:

from the trio sonata 'Les Nations' (1726)
Second Ordre: L'Espagnol Second Set: The Spaniard
I. Sonada [Gravement, Tres lentement, Vivement, Affectueusement, Legerement, Gayement, Air rendre, Vivement] -
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV. Seconde Courante
V. Sarabande
VI. Gigue louree
VII. Gavotte
VIII. Rondeau
IX. Bouree
X. Double de la Bouree precedente
XI. Passacaille: Noblement, et marque, vivement

You can listen to the full work here, whereas we only have time for four movements at the concert.
The players are Ensemble Hesperion XX, who include some major names (with their instruments described in the brackets):
Claude Wassmer (bassoon, Prudent, c.1760)
Stephen Preston (baroque flute, R. Tutz, after Rottenberg, mid XVIIIc.)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord, after F. Blanchet)
Ku Ebbinge, Michel Henry (oboe I/II, O. Cottet, after Ch. Schleger, XVIII c.)
Hopkinson Smith (theorbo, J. v. de Deest)
Jordi Savall (bass viol, B. Norman, London, 1697)
Chiara Banchini (violin I, L'école Maggini, Tesaro, XVIII c.)
Monica Huggett (violin II, R. Ross, after N. Amati)

George Philipp Telemann
from 6 Quadri (1730)   Paris Quartets
Quartet No 4 in g minor
    1 Andante
    2 Allegro
    3 Largo
    4 Allegro

In this recording we hear Eva Caballero, flute (Eva has given concerts in the lunchtime series), Joseph Tan, Baroque violin, Vladimir Waltham, Baroque cello and Joseph Chesshyre, harpsichord: