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 London 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 Germany, 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 England, 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 viol 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 Viols (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