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Friday, February 3, 2012
MASTER CLASS WITH DAME EMMA KIRKBY
Henry Purcell: An Evening Hymn (Helene Brunet)
Barbara Strozzi: Lagrime Mie (Erin Cooper-Gay)
J.S. Bach: Blute Nur from St. Matthew’s Passion (Agnes Zsigovics)
Sarah Anne Churchill, harpsichord/piano
Originally, Emma Kirkby had no expectations of becoming a professional singer. As a classics student at Oxford and then a schoolteacher she sang for pleasure in choirs and small groups, always feeling most at home in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. She joined the Taverner Choir in 1971 and in 1973 began her long association with the Consort of Musicke. In seeking a sound appropriate for early instruments she had enormous help from Jessica Cash in London, and from the directors, fellow singers and instrumentalists with whom she has worked over the years. Emma Kirkby feels privileged to have been able to build long-term relationships with chamber groups and orchestras, in particular London Baroque, the Freiburger Barockorchester, L’Orfeo (of Linz) and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, as well as with some of the younger groups – the Palladian Ensemble and Florilegium. In 1999 Emma Kirkby was voted Artist of the Year by Classic FM Radio listeners, and in November 2000 she received the Order of the British Empire.
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Walter Hall
Free admission. Open to the public.
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