From April 22 to 24, 2022, a symposium will be held at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen on the subject of ‘John Dowland’s activities on the continent’.
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On April 2 and 3, the Société Française de Luth” (SFL), organizes their annual lute days in Paris
Continue reading “Annual lute days in Paris: 2 and 3 april 2022”Charlotte De Ley instrumentbuilder
Being the child of two professional musicians, music was all around me growing up. Since 2011 I have been putting my heart and soul in the practice of musical instrumentmaking. A short while after becoming a Vocatio laureate in 2018 and receiving a grant that enabled me to acquire decent tools and machinery I started my own business as a self-employed luthier.
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Zefiro Torna announces spring with timeless music, alchemy, bio-art and musical theater
After a richly filled autumn with performances in the Netherlands, France, Portugal and Latvia, Zefiro Torna will be a guest in her own country again in the coming months. In addition to concerts by BALSAM and Sluimer, the program also includes a CD recording of Time Crawls, a new creation with Muziektheater Transparant, and the long-awaited premiere of PAST >I ORAL.
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Yearbook 2021
Today our Yearbook 2021 was published, containing ao The lute in the Parisian salons of the 17th century by Fred Jacobs, new discoveries about John Dowland by André Nieuwlaat, and Jack Scholten found two relatively little-known lute players in the Album Studiosorum, the list of registrations at the University of Leiden.
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Violin decomposes as it is ‘eaten’ by a mushroom in a one-year timelapse
A one-year timelapse of a decomposing violin accompanies German composer, Sven Helbig’s, latest work.
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International Summerschool for Early Music 2022
From 2 to 9 July, the 34th International Summer School of Early Music will take place in Vallice, Czech Republic. Brian Wright teaches the lute and early romantic guitar.
New editions autumn 2021
Who dreamt already about playing music by famous classical composers who never wrote original works for lute? Baroque lute players are now getting some new editions which will solve this absence.
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