THE 24TH ST ANNE' 'S BACH FESTIVAL

Friday 19 July 2019

at 1.05 pm

LUNCHTIME CONCERT III

PRELUDE TO BACH

performed by members of

THE CITY BACH COLLECTIVE

Hazel Brooks baroque violin

Poppy Walshaw wiola da gamba

Dan Tidhar chamber organ

appearing with kind support from

White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities

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St Mary- -at-Hill Church, Lovat Lane EC3R 8EE PERFORMERS' BIOGRAPHIES

Hazel Brooks studied at Clare College, Cambridge, then went on to study the violin at the Hochschule fur

Musik in Leipzig and the Guildhall School of Music in London, where she specialised in early music. Here she

won the Christopher Kite Memorial Prize and the Bankers Trust Pyramid Award, and she was a finalist in the

international competitions in York and Antwerp. Hazel now works regularly as a recitalist and in chamber

She has given solo recitals in most major venues throughout the UK as well as in , Italy,

Russia and Spain. She is musical director of the City Bach Collective, frequently leads orchestras, and has

released various solo CDs, .Hazel has an interest in unusual instruments, especially the viola d'amore, and is

also in demand as a medieval- -fiddle specialist throughout Europe and America.

After a period as an honorary fellow at the University of Southampton, Hazel is now a researcher at the

University of Leeds, investigating violin music from seventeenth-century , sponsored by White Rose

College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) and the Arts & Humanities Research Council. Hazel enjoys

turning dusty old manuscripts into living performances. Her ongoing collaboration with keyboard- -player

David Pollock to revive early English violin sonatas has led to several ground- -breaking recordings, the latest being sonatas by Gottfried Finger on the Chandos label

Poppy Walshaw read Music and Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, then studied with Alexander

Baillie in Bremen, Germany, gaining her postgraduate diploma with the highest possible mark. She was

subsequently a Continuo Scholar at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Alison McGillivray and Louise Hopkins

Poppy works throughout Europe, including with the English Baroque Soloists (EBS), Orchestra of the Age of

Enlightenment, and Arte dei Suonatori (Poland), and is continuo cellist for The Hanover Band, including acting

as a soloist in Beijing. She has performed as continuo cellist of EBS for Sir John Eliot Gardiner in New York,

playing to HRH Prince Charles (also as a soloist) and coaching the Monteverdi Choir apprentices. Recent

concerto performances have included concerts with Fiori Musicali, and with Arte dei Suonatori broadcast on Danish and Polish radio.

On viola da gamba, she has performed in Australia with the Academy of Ancient Music, for many renditions of

the St John and St Matthew Passions, and in consort for Sir John Eliot Gardiner's recent CD "Love is come again Poppy also teaches the Alexander Technique in Islington and Sevenoaks

Dan Tidhar studied harpsichord with Mitzi Meyerson in Berlin and with Ketil Haugsand in Cologne. He

currently combines a busy performance schedule as harpsichordist and organist with research in musicology teaching, and collecting and restoring historical keyboard instruments. Dan is active as a recitalist and continuo

player with various ensembles, both locally and internationally. His continuo playing can be heard on several recently released CDs, e-g. with the Chelys Consort of (BIS) and Syrinx Winds (Resonus). He has

performed in numerous festivals (including Stour Music, Southwell Music Festival, Roman River Festival

Regensburg Alte Musik, and many more), and is a regular member of various ensembles including Syrinx

Winds, Concentus7, and the early keyboard duo with Francis Knights. Dan is a well- -published researcher in

various fields, particularly in computational analysis of early music.

At Cambridge, Dan is a Research Associate at Wolfson College, a member of the Faculty of Music and the

Centre for Music & Science, and has recently started teaching harpsichord as an Associate Lecturer at Anglia

Ruskin University. Dan maintains a modest collection of historical keyboard instruments and provides

restoration and tuning services for similar instruments in Cambridge and further afield. PRO GRAMME

PRELUDE TO BACH

Gottfried Keller (died 1704)

Prelude and Ciaconna

David Petersen (c.1650-1737)

Sonata no. 5inG minor from Speelstukken [1683]

Adagig, Allegro, Adagio-Allegro, Adagio-Presto, [Adagio]

Johann Jakob Walther (c.1650-1617)

Sonata no. 10 inD major, from Hortulus Chelicus [1688]

Preludio, Largo-Presto-Adagio, Aria, Sarabande, Giga

Johann Schop (died 1667)

Lachrimae Pavaen, from 't Uitnemend Kabinet (1646]

Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023

[Preludio], Adagio ma non tanto, Allemanda, Gigue CONCERT SOCIETY NOTES

Admission to this recital is free, but the whole concert -- including the hire of this building - - costs us

toell over E250 to put on, so we welcome your generous contribution towards our expenses

Domations can be left in the baskets near the entrance (where there are also Gift Aid envelopes

available) or on the refheshments table near the kitchen. Coffee and biscuits are available before the performance

Directly after today's concert, at around 2. 15 pm, the Music Society will hold its AGM at the

Guild Church of St Margaret Patters (EC3M 1HS, just across the main road on the north side of

Eastcheap). All are welcome to attend and participate in some critically important discussions about

the future of the Society.

Full concert listings are published on our website, musicathiIl.org.uk,y and you can also follow

us online via our Facebookpage, www.facebook.com/MusicAtHill/.

The 24*h St Anne's Bach Festival runs throughout July. Still to come this month

FRIDAY26 JULY Festival Day marking the 50th Anniversary of St Anne' 's Music Society and Music-at-Hill

LUNCHTIME CONCERT at 13.05

Yu-Wei Hu baroque flute, Magdalena Loth-Hill violin, Kate Conway viola da gamba, Johan Ldfving theorbo

'Hidden Giants: Bach and his great female contemporaries'

* GALA CONCERTO FINALE at 18.00

CITY BACH COLLECTIVE with soloists Hazel Brooks violin, Belinda Paul oboe, Dan Tidhar harpsichord

JS Bach: Ouverture, BWV 1070; Air from Suite no. 3, BWV 1068; Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041

Harpsichord Concerto in A major, BWV 1055; Double Concerto for oboe & violin BWV 1060

This concerto finale will be followed by a special Golden Jubilee reception, to which all concert-goers are welcome. The guest of honour will be Simon Lindley, former Leeds City Organist and Organist of Leeds Minster,

whose organ recital series at St Anne & Agnes, GreshamStreet, gave birth to the Society back in 1969.

SUNDAY 28 JULY at 18.00

CITY BACH COLLECTIVE

Hazel Brooks leader & director

Bach Festival Vespers featuring J.S.Bach Cantata BWV 9,'Es ist das Heil uns kommen her