NCEM York Early Music Festival 2020

Sunday 5 July
Event 6
Venue
Tickets
2.00pm – 3.00pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
Reserved seating. Free to those attending other events within the Festival but please do book in
advance to avoid disappointment.
THE EARLY MUSIC SHOW
Join us for a live broadcast of this popular show,
presented by Hannah French, and meet selected guests from the 2020 Festival.
YORK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Immediately following the broadcast, the Festival
will present its eighth biennial Lifetime Achievement
Award to violinist Catherine Mackintosh.
Catherine Mackintosh (known to the profession as Cat) is
one of the most notable pioneers of the British early music
scene. After picking up a treble viol while at music college she
never looked back. Consort-playing gave her the foundations
of understanding the aesthetics and the language of baroque
music, and that was soon translated to the violin. She led
a number of orchestras, notably Christopher Hogwood’s
Academy of Ancient Music, and later co-founded and led the
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for two decades.
As a founder of the Purcell Quartet she recorded and
performed all the major works of the baroque trio-sonata
repertoire (and much more) the world over. She was
also Britain’s pioneer and champion of the viola
d’amore. Cat’s influence as a teacher and
educator has been unique and far-reaching,
with many generations of violinists, violists
and other instrumentalists passing through
her hands at the Royal College of Music, the
Royal Conservatoire The Hague, and on
numerous courses world-wide.
The York Early Music Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award
honours major figures who have made a significant difference to
the world of early music and has been presented every other year
since its inauguration in 2006. The previous winners have been:
the Kuijken brothers (2006); Dame Emma Kirkby (2008); James
Bowman (2010); Jordi Savall (2012); Andrew Parrott (2014);
Anthony Rooley (2016) and Trevor Pinnock (2018).
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