Vlad Smishkewych and Galway Early Music present:

Col vento e’l tasto – Music of the Seicento for Winds and Keyboard

Eva Legêne, recorders Conor Hastings, cornetto and cornetto muto Stephanie Dyer, sackbut Yonit Kosovske, chamber organ and harpsichord

13 March 2017 – 3:00 o’clock p.m. – St. Joseph’s Church, Galway

Intrada a4, from the Banchetto Musicale Johann-Hermann Schein (1586-1630)

Sonata 5a Dario Castello (c. 1590-c. 1658)

Rimes italiennes Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562- 1621)

Variations on ‘Nasce la pena mia’ Johann Schop (ca. 1590-1667)

Pulchra es amica mea (diminutions upon the motet by Palestrina) Francesco Rognoni (1570-1626)

Bravade (from Der Fluyten Lust-Hof) Jacob Van Eyck (c. 1590- 1657)

L’Eroica a tre & Ciaccona Andrea Falconieri (1585?-1656)

Capriccio Cromatico Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665)

Canzona ‘La Cattarina’ Merula

Ciaccona Merula

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This programme is presented with the generous support of the Galway City Council and Galway Early Music. Special thanks to Maura Ó Cróinín, James Harrold, Aiden Scanlon, Aodán Ó Dubhghaill and Olga Buckley at RTÉ lyric fm, REMA: the European Early Music Network, REMAradio.eu, Canon Martin Downey and St. Joseph’s Church. Many thanks to Michael Shields for the use of his harpsichord for this performance.

Eva Legêne, recorder virtuosa, is known throughout Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia for her remarkable performances. Born in the Netherlands as member of the third generation in a large family of musicians, Eva Legêne studied with Frans Brüggen, and taught at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. In 1985 she became professor of music at the Early Music Institute of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (Bloomington, Indiana) and director of the summer Seminars in Baroque Woodwinds and Dance. In 2009 she retired from Indiana University and now divides her time between Europe and the USA. She continues concertising and teaching master classes in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Eva Legêne is a frequent guest at international Early Music Festivals and has appeared in concert with many renowned early music artists such as Frans Brüggen, Hopkinson Smith, Bruce Dickey, Sigiswald, and Barthold Kuijken, John Gibbons, Arthur Haas, and Jacques Ogg. She regularly tours the US with world-renowned viola da gambist Wieland Kuijken. She has published several articles on music-related historical subjects and has recorded for radio and television in Europe, the USA, Australia, Canada, and Asia, and for the labels Telefunken, Denon, Focus, and Rondo Records. A recording with music by Telemann with Michael McCraw (bassoon), the late Washington McClain (oboe), and Corey Jamason (harpsichord) will soon be released by Focus Records.

A native of Dublin, Conor Hastings was born into an extensive musical family, and was exposed to a wide variety of music from an early age. He began to learn the Recorder at age five, and the Trumpet at age twelve, at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He went on to study Orchestral Trumpet at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. During the course of his studies he stumbled upon the Renaissance Cornetto, and very swiftly took to Historical Performance on original instruments. Whilst at the Royal Welsh he studied Cornetto part time with Jeremy West (His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts) and Gawain Glenton (The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble), and has since been an active Performer in the UK. In 2014 he began his studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, under the tutelage of the legendary Bruce Dickey. Since completing his studies, Conor has performed all over the world with The King's Consort, The Gabrieli Consort and players, The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Sestina, and was just recently appointed a full and permanent member of His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts. He has performed solo and ensemble recitals in Ireland as part of the Music in Monkstown Festival, and is dedicated to bringing the Cornetto to a wide audience in Ireland. In addition to his performing schedule, Conor is a busy teacher of the Cornetto, and recently began to tutor students in his old College in Cardiff, hoping to expose as many people as possible to the world of early music.

Born and raised in South Wales, trombonist Stephanie Dyer read Music at King’s College, Cambridge and discovered her passion for historical performance at the Dartington International Summer School in 2012. A year later she became the first ever principal study sackbut student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying with newly appointed professor Adam Woolf. Stephanie was Regent Fellow (2015–16) of the Academy and was awarded MMus (Historical Performance & Research) with Distinction in 2015. During 2016–17 Stephanie is undertaking further study at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland under the tutelage of Bruce Dickey and Charles Toet. Having worked frequently with world-renowned historic brass ensemble His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts since her first term at the Academy, she was delighted to accept the invitation to become a permanent member of the group in July 2016. Stephanie enjoys a varied career alongside a busy performing schedule with HMSC. As a period instrumentalist she works with such distinguished ensembles as The Sixteen, The King’s Consort, The City Musick, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Classical Opera and, in 2017, Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists. A highly versatile musician, Stephanie was also trombonist for the recent production of ‘She Loves Me’ at one of London’s off-West End theatres, the Menier Chocolate Factory.

Yonit Kosovske performs on harpsichord, fortepiano, chamber organ, and modern piano. As a keyboardist and artistic director, she maintains a performance and teaching career that encompasses solo and collaborative repertoire spanning the Renaissance through Contemporary music. Originally from the United States, Yonit moved to Ireland in 2011 when she was appointed Lecturer in Classical Piano Chamber Music Performance on the faculty of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. She has previously taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, from where she holds a Doctor of Music degree. Other degrees include a Master of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Music from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. Her book “Historical Harpsichord Technique, Developing La douceur du toucher” was published by Indiana University Press in 2011. In addition to her freelance concert career, Yonit's current research involves her new "Chrome Attic" project, a multi-media online space featuring her solo chromatic recordings, photography, and writing about music, meaning & metaphor.