NCEM York Early Music Festival 2020

Saturday 11 July
Event 25 10.00am – 4.00pm
(Informal performance
3.30pm – observers welcome)
Venue York Cemetery Chapel, Cemetery Road
Tickets £18 (Students £10)
A CHORAL WORKSHOP
directed by Robert Hollingworth
We return to the elegant surroundings of York
Cemetery Chapel for a workshop featuring two
of the pieces featured within The Sixteen’s 2020
Choral Pilgrimage - by Victoria and Josquin - and
two contrasting works by Monteverdi and Gesualdo
inspired by the Renaissance programmes which
‘book-end’ the festival this year.
The workshop is open to all voices (SATB) with
confident sight-reading skills (the music will
be available to download from our website
in advance). Details from www.ncem.co.uk/
yorkworkshop20
Book tickets for event 23 at the same time,
and get a £5 discount!
Event 27 12.30pm – c.1.30pm
Venue St Olave’s Church, Marygate
Ticket Unreserved seating: £16 (£14 | *Under 35s £6)
L’APOTHÉOSE
Laura Quesada flute Victor Martínez Soto violin
Carla Sanfélix cello Asís Márquez harpsichord
Event 26 11.00am – c.12 noon
Venue Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate
Tickets Unreserved seating: £11
(£9 | *Under 35s £6)
Free to Festival Friends and NCEM Patrons
MINSTER MINSTRELS
directed by Ailsa Batters
with Rachel Gray cello
VARIATION ON A THEME
Variation was a popular compositional method
during the 17 th and 18 th centuries, to be found in
variations on popular tunes, but also in forms
such as the ground bass, which spun elaborate
variations over a repeating bassline. The Minster
Minstrels explores the use of variation in a
programme which will include the joyful Carman’s
Whistle, the more
Supported by
reflective Ah, Robyn, and
the use of ground bass
in the music of Henry
Purcell and John Blow.
TO MONSIEUR CLARGES
We are delighted to welcome the winners of the 2019
York EM International Young Artists Competition back
to the stage as they prepare for their prize – winning
CD recording with Linn.
Their programme revolves around the works of Carl
Philipp Stamitz, an 18 th -century German composer
and instrumentalist whose work now sits within the
Spanish National Library.
‘overwhelming energy…exquisite finesse…overflowing
imagination…bombproof mutual understanding.’
Scherzo
lapotheoseensemble.com
Photo: Segio Albert
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