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Currently working as second Kapellmeister and assistant conductor at Theater Heidelberg, Gad received the first prize in the MDR Conducting Competition (MDR Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig), in 2011.
In its eighth year the Brecon Baroque Festival, set in the lush surroundings of the Brecon Beacons National Park, turns its eye to the ‘Eternal City’, Rome. Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque are joined by a line-up of internationally-renowned soloists.
Celebrating a year since we launched Percius, we’d like to take a moment to reflect upon a few firsts for our artists during the past year.
Rachel launches her new website, www.rachelpodger.com and celebrates the release of her latest album, 'Guardian Angel' with concerts in Kings Place and Cambridge
The film of I Fagiolini and Circa’s hit show How Like An Angel has won its category in Dancescreen 2013 at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. The film, produced by Polyphonic Films Ltd. originally for The Space in 2012, was nominated in the Camera Re-work category of the awards.
The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, together with the Monteverdi String Band, baroque trumpet specialists the Altenburg Ensemble, chorus and soloists all directed by JanJoost van Elburg, will perform the UK premieres of Muffat Missa In Labore Requies and Fux Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis in Exeter on 30 August.
Percius is delighted to announce that Rachel Podger has been shortlisted in the Baroque Instrumental category, and The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, directed by David Skinner, and I Fagiolini appear in the shortlist for the Early Music Award.
Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation, David Starkey’s new four part series for BBC Two Music and Monarchy will begin this Saturday at 20.10. David Skinner was a consultant musicologist for the series and he and Alamire feature in Episode 1 Crown & Choir this Saturday, 20 July, and in Episode 2 Revolutions on Saturday 27 July.
We are delighted to welcome Annie Barton to the team as an Associate. Annie, currently based in Prague, will be supporting specific projects and utilising her considerable language skills in several European territories including France, Italy and the Czech Republic.
The CD, the first in The Sixteen’s series of planned recordings of Music from the Polish Baroque, sees Dougan and The Sixteen exploring works of the little-known composer Bartłomiej Pękiel.
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