Early Music NSW
Instrument Makers
Carey Beebe Harpsichords. Construction, restoration. maintenance, parts, Korg tuners, tuning, hire. Sole Australasian Agent for The Paris Workshop.
02 9534 2002
Simon Brown, violin maker trained in Cremona. Baroque classical construction, restoration, period conversions, repairs. 25 Taringa St. Ashfield 0421 769 211
Recorder & Early Winds Servicing & Repairs. Recorder Specialist, Owen Watkins; Northern Beaches; Ph 0423 058 475 or
Tuition & Musical Services
Viol Tuition, beginners to advanced. Jenny Eriksson; Putney. Ph (02) 9809 5185, Mobile 0412 459 155 or www.maraisproject.com.au.
Baroque & Modern Violoncello: Tim Blomfield BMusEd, Baroque V'cello Certificate (The Hague) 02 9555 7442. Birchgrove.
Baroque Violin: Rafael Font BMus MMus. Lessons in Summer Hill. Phone 0431 921 064 or
Baroque Violin lessons: Anna McDonald. Also teaches
classical and romantic repertoire in period style.
Lessons are in Leichhardt, Sydney.
Please phone 0403 605 747 or
Figured Bass/Continuo: Anne Whelan BMus(Hons) Adelaide. 3 1/2 years post-grad study Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and with Ton Koopman, Amsterdam. 02 9402 5572. St. Ives.
Harpsichord, Theory, Kodaly Method: Lyn Brown BMus (Harpsichord perf. Oslo Musikhogskole; Post-grad DipMusEd, Hungary). 02 9519 5303. Newtown.
Recorder, Baroque flute and Baroque style tuition: Mikaela Oberg BMus (Recorder) MMus (Early Music). Beginners, Modern instruments and chamber groups welcome. Phone 0407 286 074 or . Summer Hill, Sydney.
Recorder Tuition: Catherine Weaver BMus DipEd.
Mt Victoria, Blue Mountains. 0437 405 674 or
Renaissance & Baroque Dance : Dr Fiona Garlick
The Early Dance Consort; Beginners & Advanced Classes, North Sydney 02 9416 5765 or
Early Music Websites
Early Music publications/CD's
Based in Queensland, Saraband Music provides early music from a huge range of fantastic publishers from around the world. Gut strings, CDs, facsimiles, and Saraband's own editions are available now. See the website for free downloads, vast catalogues and more. Contact: Patrice Connelly +61 (0)7 3129 0537 www.saraband.com.au or
A large range of printed music for viols, recorders and
more available at Orpheus Music.
If items are not in stock nor listed in our database we can order it in including facsimiles and rare editions.
To search through our database please visit our web
site at www.orpheusmusic.com.au
or write to Orpheus Music PO BOX 1363 Armidale NSW 2350 ph 02 6772 2205 fax 02 6772 6874 or
Grancino Editions based in the US.
Originally based on Dr. Nona Pyron's collection of over 8,000 works from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, which she amassed through many years of research into the early history of the cello and related instruments, Grancino Editions includes works for Early Violin, Early Viola, and Ensemble, Early Flute, Early Double Bass, and Spanish Cathedral Music in the Americas.
Issues a monthly newsletter containing scholarly articles, links to 17th and 18th century music and images online and information about latest publications.
www.grancinoeditions.com
Some sites providing free downloads
VOCAL
ChoralWiki - Brian Russell's Music Page
Werner Icking (with Folop Viol Scores)
King Charles Singers (madrigals)
Kantorei Archiv (Instrumental, keyboard and vocal (choral, masses psalms cantatas) in PDF and MIDI; lots of European composers)
INSTRUMENTAL
Free sheet music from Johan Tufvesson
free-scores.com - free sheet music
Dolmetsch Online - Sheet Music
Project Gutenberg - The Sheet Music Project
The Viola da Gamba Society of America - Free music
FACSIMILES
The Juilliard Manuscript Collection
Dissertation on D'Astorga (has all his solos cantatas, pages 163-238)
Wolfenbütteler Digitale Bibliothek (has lots of facsimiles of books, including a facsimile of La rosa Bella; in Chansons de 3 Voix - you have to go down to page 84, which is numbered as the 2nd leaf of page 34 in the manuscript. The site has mostly facsimiles of treatises etc and to find the music ones is a challenge. The French chanson book by itself can be accessed from Un Doulx Regard with an index of the songs.
Early Music Ensembles
The Marais Project is one of the few professional ensembles in Australia based around the viola da gamba. It was founded by viola da gambist Jennifer Eriksson in 2000 with the aim of performing the complete works Of the great French Baroque gambist and composer, Marin Marais. Although maintaining its focus on Marais, the group has expanded its repertoire to include collaborations with art forms such as dance and poetry, joint concerts with World Music ensembles such as Mara!, and commissioning new works by Australian composers. Former Sydney Morning Herald music critic Fred Blanks included Jennifer Eriksson in his list of Sydney's "20 greatest musicians".
Information, ticket and CD sales at:
ph 0412 459 155 or
Salut! baroque, is one of Australia's most dynamic early music ensembles, bringing together Australia's finest baroque musicians in a chamber orchestra of up to twelve members. Formed in 1995 and led by artistic directors Sally Melhuish and Tim Blomfield, the ensemble is well known to Australian audiences, performing annual subscription series concerts in Canberra and Sydney. To date, Salut!baroque has released 5 CD's: Italian Instrumental and Vocal Music from the Seventeenth Century; Georg Philipp Telemann, Cosmopolitan London, Salut! Baroque 1995-2005 and Food of Love.
Contact: t: 02 6251 6522/ 02 9555 7442 f: 02 9555 1828
Consort 8. A mainly recorder and mixed instrument ensemble of selected, experienced players (and sometimes singers) performing 13th century to contemporary works, plus commissioned items and work by Australian composers. www.consortviii.wordpress.com
Muffat Collective. Small baroque specialist string ensemble. www.themuffatcollective.com.au
Quick Connect
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra
The Choir of Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney
Hobart Society of Recorder Players
Bach Akademie Australia, dir Madeleine Easton
Camerata Academica of the Antipodes
Associations
Australian Viola da Gamba Society.
Since 2000, the Society has a proud record of achievement in serving the needs of players in Australia and New Zealand by holding workshops and producing both a regular newsletter and a journal 'Chelys'. The main activity is the annual 4 day Easter Viol School held at various locations around Australia, supplemented with other 1 and 2 day workshops in
Sydney, Melbourne and other centres. For details of these events and other useful information about viols please visit www.avdgs.org.au
Sydney Society of Recorder Players
The Sydney Society of Recorder Players was formed in 1956 to promote the playing of the recorder and to foster interest in the musical repertoire of the instrument from medieval to modern times. The Society provides opportunities for recorder players throughout Sydney and surrounding districts to meet and play. The Society supports other associations with similar aims. We sponsor the composition of original music for recorders.
Contact: www.sydneyrecorders.com.au or by
Early Music Society of Victoria Inc
Lyn Hawkins, President
Canberra Recorder & Early Music Society
Recorder & Early Music Society of Western Australia
Monica McTaggart, President, phone (08) 9382 3318
Early Music Society of Queensland
Australian Association of Musical Instrument Makers
Victorian Recorder Guild
The Organ Music Society of Sydney
The National Centre for Early Music, York, U.K.
Early Music America (EMA)
For Sale
Gamba, 6 string by Ben Hall (1977) after a Jaye instrument in the British Museum.
Good condition. $8,000. Plus, an Ashmead bow, $2,000.
Moeck Bass Recorder: Meisterstuck design (1980s) maple. Fully chromatic, choice of 2 top caps to enable direct blow or bocal. Well maintained, key pads good, speaks well whole range, all in good working order, solid case.
A bargain at $1650. Postage extra $50.
Catherine Weaver, Blue Mountains, NSW
0437 405 674 or
German made cello circa 1920 which was converted to baroque in 2002 by Simon Brown (Dip. Liuteria Cremona). Documents available upon request. It features modern fingering action as the length of the neck was not altered, a brilliant, bright crisp tone and volume which makes it a valuable instrument to have in a collection if one is wanting to swap between playing it with a modern instrument. It has had some repairs completed by Gabor Balough who knows this instrument well.
Selling for $25,000 ono.
Please call Karella Mitchell 0401 232 760
Baroque violin: Made 2003 by John Wu, complete with baroque bow and violin case.
$3,000. Located Central Coast but can come to Sydney.
Ph John 0400 232 880, or
Moeck Treble Recorder A415.
$800
Margaret 02 9639 7331 or
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