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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