Baroque Workshop
The New Zealand School of Music Baroque Workshop is not so much
a group, as an opportunity. Interested students meet each week
to study baroque performance using instruments from the school's
early instrument collection, performing concerts both as part of
the workshop, and working alongside New Zealand's leading period-performance
musicians in concerts outside of the school. In addition,
the Baroque workshop has been used on a number of occasions to
accompany Opera Victoria. Recent productions include: Monteverdi's Orfeo (2002),
Eccles' Semele (2001) and Purcell's King Arthur (1995)
under visiting early music specialist and musical director of
the Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman.
The Baroque Workshop is able to draw on the expertise of its academic staff
in Baroque musicology and performance practice. Staff includes Douglas Mews (harpsichord,
fortepiano, organ), Euan Murdoch, Peter Walls, Shelley Wilkinson, Richard Hardie
(baroque strings), Penelope Evison (baroque flute), Michael Kirgan and Iaan Wilson
(natural trumpet), Edward Allen (natural horn), Katrin Eickhorst-Squire (recorder)
and Greer Garden (voice).
Every Monday,
2.10 pm, Room 211
NZSM Kelburn Campus
Victoria University
Gate 7, Kelburn Parade
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December 7, 2007
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