Edinburgh Barok will play the latest in the University of Dundee' series of evening concerts this Thursday.
Their programme explores Italy's rich century of string writing, and the development of the instrumental Sonata featuring works by well known composers as Vivaldi and Scarlatti and including a violin sonata by Corellia and another with a harpsichord accompaniment by Fontana.
Edinburgh Barok was formed in 1986 by a group of professional musicians to play 17th and 18th century chamber music on baroque instruments or good modern copies, and in the appropriate style. Their wide-ranging repertoire includes unpublished and rarely heard Scottish early music which they normally edit themselves from manuscripts and early printed copies. The group performs regularly at Music Clubs, Museums, Galleries and stately homes throughout Southern Scotland, sometimes accompanying the Edinburgh Early Dancers in costumed programmes of Historical Dance, and gives an annual concert at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The concert will take place in the University's Chaplaincy centre at 7.30pm on Thursday 2 May. Tickets are priced at £6, £4 concessions and £2 for students and unemployed and are available from Graeme Stevenson, University Music Co-ordinator on 01382 348148 or on the door.Notes for Editors
LAWRENCE DUNN graduated from Bath University and studied violin with David Hume in Edinburgh and Malcolm Layfield in Manchester. He gives regular solo and chamber recitals throughout Scotland on both modern and baroque instruments, with a special interest in early collections of Scots fiddle music which he plays on the instrument for which it was intended, i.e. the baroque fiddle. As a freelance violinist he has played with various orchestras, including the Scottish Baroque Players and the City of Glasgow Symphony Orchestra. He is also a member of Quernstane, and has recently taken over as Leader of the Edinburgh Light Orchestra and as director of the Philomusica of Edinburgh.
JANE BLACKIE read Music and English Literature at Edinburgh University. She studied harpsichord and continuo with the late Michael Chibbett, then with Robert Woolley in London and David Roblou at summer schools, gaining her ARCM in harpsichord performacne. Jane teaches harpsichord and piano, presents guided tours of and recitals on Edinburgh University's Collection of Early Keyobard Instruments, and performs as a freelance harpsichordist. She is the author of "A New Musick Room: a History of Edinburgh's St. Cecilia's Hall".
ALASDAIR MITCHELL graduated as Music Faculty Medallist from Edinburgh University, studying cello with the late Joan Dickson and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After postgraduate conducting studies with Igor Markevitch, and at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, he won 2nd Prize in the 1974 International Conducting Competition in Copenhagen. As conductor, Alasdair has worked with the major Scottish orchestras and has edited and recorded the orchestral and choral works of McEwen with Chandos; he also teached Conducting at Edinburgh University and the RSAMD. As cellist he performed solo with the Scottish Early Music Consort and since 1989 has been cellist for Edinburgh Barock.