2019/2020 Season
Patron: Linda Nicholson www.ssemk.org
Saturday 4th April 2020 Reception: 6.30pm Concert: 7.30pm
Nicolette Moonen violins Pawel Siwczak harpsichord & chamber
organ
His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster
reader
The Sorrowful Mysteries from The Rosary Sonatas Heinrich Ignaz
Franz Biber
Sonata 6: The Agony in the Garden Sonata 7: The Scourging of
Jesus Sonata 8: The Crowning with Thorns Sonata 9: The Carrying of
the Cross
Sonata 10: The Crucifixion Passacaglia Organ Music by Heinrich
Scheidemann & Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Readings by Herbert, Donne, Marvell, Southwell, Augustine of
Hippo & Anonymous 10th century
Continuing the theme of our 2019 Lent Concert with reflective
words and music, SSEMK presents an evening exploring the unique
sounds of the second of Biber’s triptych. Often evoking a mood of
profound contemplation, the six sonatas follow each other through
the gospel story of Good Friday. Each will be interspersed with
organ music of Buxtehude and Pachelbel and contemporaneous poems.
Nicolette Moonen is well known to SSEMK audiences as the artistic
director of The Bach Players who were Artists-in-Residence for the
first four years of SSEMK’s existence. Her taste in music has been
shaped by a love of languages. She is passionate about the
connection between language and music. She teaches at the Royal
Academy of Music in London and directed the baroque orchestra at
Dartington from 1998 to 2013. Nicolette studied with Jaap Schröder
and Sigiswald Kuijken and has played with most British and other
European baroque orchestras (Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, English
Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, the
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, amongst many). She has been
invited to lead ensembles such as Collegium Vocale Gent, La
Chapelle Royale, Ex Cathedra, the European Union Baroque Orchestra,
and English Touring Opera.Nicolette is joined by Pawel Siwczak,
winner of the 8th Broadwood Harpsichord Competition, who now spends
a busy career as a continuo player and conducting from the
keyboard, collaborating with, amongst others Florilegium, The Bach
Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gabrieli Consort
and Players, The King's Consort, Capella Cracoviensis, BBC
Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia, Scottish
Chamber Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra amongst others
both at home and abroad. SSEMK is delighted that His Eminence
Cardinal Nichols has agreed to participate in this special
event.
Tickets: £21.00 £18.50 £16.00
Saturday 16th May 2020 Concert: 7.30pm
Katy Bircher baroque flute James Johnstone harpsichord
The Flute Sonatas and Partita of Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata in e for flute & continuo, BWV 1034 Suite in f minor
for harpsichord, BWV 823
Sonata in A for flute & concertante harpsichord, BWV 1032
Partita in a for unaccompanied flute, BWV 1013
Sonata in b for flute & concertante harpsichord, BWV 1030 Of
unfailingly remarkable quality, all these works exploit the full
potential of an instrument which was only just coming into its own
when they were written as it superseded the recorder. The concert
will include a selection from the six sonatas and, in addition, the
A minor Partita for solo flute. Katy Bircher is established as a
specialist of early flutes, performing with such groups as The
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Concerto Copenhagen, The Dunedin
Consort, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and La
Serenissima. Katy teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama and at the Centre for Early Music Performance and Research at
Birmingham University. For more than two decades James Johnstone
has been active as a soloist and continuo player, performing and
recording with all the major UK-based period instrument ensembles,
as well as groups in Germany, Canada, Italy and Holland. He appears
on twenty-two recordings on Deutsche Grammophon with the Gabrieli
Consort and Players and ten discs with Florilegium on Channel
Classics. James is professor of early keyboards at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama, and at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of
Music and Dance.
Tickets: £23.00 £21.00 £17.00
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