Gillian Keith
Soprano
Many thanks to Gillian, who performed with us yesterday at the Chipping Campden Festival. What resulted was a glorious performance, on an equally glorious Bank Holiday Monday.
Read MoreSpeed Interview – Guy Cutting
Thu 2 May 2013
Tenor Guy Cutting joins us on 17 May for the third and final instalment of Bach’s Cantatas and Brandenburg Concertos. He took a break from rehearsals to speak with us about some of the simpler things in life.
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Mildly Rude?
Wed 1 May 2013
We’re very pleased to announce that we’ve added a concert entitled Mildly Rude? to our 2013/2014 Southbank Centre season. Rounding off our Gamechangers series, it’s a opportunity to hear music from one of Britain’s unsung classical heroes, William Boyce.
Read MoreGiuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Composer
Himself: Despite his innate musical ability (he began studying music at the age of three), Verdi’s application for the Milan Conservatory was rejected due to his lack of piano technique and discipline. In 1839, he moved to Milan and he had his first success with Nabucco and also his first failure, with the comedy Un…
Read MoreEllie Cowan
Education Officer
Hi, I’m Ellie, the Education Officer for the OAE. Thanks to the range of projects we deliver in the Education Department, my day-to-day job can be very different. From booking players and rehearsal spaces, liaising with schools to organising workshops or trips to the concert hall, collating and organising music for projects, compiling and creating…
Read MorePlayer Lists
Sun 28 Apr 2013
After a recent radio performance, we were contacted by a listener, who asked why we didn’t make players lists readily available online… We thought this was a pretty good point, so here they are.
Read MoreFinishing the Donkey
Sat 27 Apr 2013
One of the joys of working in OAE Education is the variety of projects you get to work on.
Read MoreCurrent Distractions
Thu 25 Apr 2013
A Viola player using the latest technology to create a musical composition, an artist based in Singapore that can create life-like images with just paint and resin – there’s so much to see here and all so culturally nourishing. Plus, if you can make it to the bottom, there’s a picture of Haydn in hair…
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Cantatas & Brandenburg Concertos: Audience reaction
Wed 24 Apr 2013
On 19 April, we performed on the Kings Place stage for the second of our three Cantatas and Brandenburg Concertos concerts.
Read MoreA couple of celebrations…
Tue 23 Apr 2013
Today is not only St. George’s Day but also World Book Day, so we thought we’d mix some British music with some literature-related music and the result is a new Spotify playlist, including Purcell’s works on Shakespeare, Monteverdi’s on Petrarca, Strauss on Cervantes… Add some Dowland, Britten, Tallis, Sullivan and of course the most well-known…
Read MoreCimbasso
James Anderson, OAE musician, tells us a bit about his Cimbasso which he’ll be playing at our Glyndebourne performances of Falstaff this summer…
Read MoreJohn Butt: In Conversation
Thu 18 Apr 2013
As we prepare for the next in our series of three concerts at Kings Place celebrating the musical genius of J.S Bach (coming up tomorrow night), we caught up with conductor John Butt to find out more about the composer himself and what makes him so special. For full information and booking details, visit the…
Read MoreOAE Tots go Strings: what you heard
Mon 15 Apr 2013
We had great fun in our OAE Tots go Strings concert on Saturday and hope you did too. If you’d like to know a bit more about what we played, read on: Most of our concert was made up of Telemann’s Don Quixote pronounced ‘Don Keyshot’. See what we did there with our donkey theme!…
Read MoreSally Bruce-Payne – Speed Interview
Fri 12 Apr 2013
Mezzo-soprano Sally Bruce-Payne joins us at Kings Place, on 19 April, for Bach Unwrapped: Cantatas and Brandenburg Concertos. We asked her to take our speed interview, here’s what she had to say.
Read MoreCurrent Distractions
Thu 11 Apr 2013
IT’S THE LAST WEEK OF HALF TERM, which to many of us all over the world means: absolutely nothing!
Read MoreGavin Edwards
Horn
Gavin Edwards studied Horn with Anthony Chiddel and Classical horn with Anthony Halstead, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After graduating he was appointed as principal horn of the Orchestre Sinfonica de Tenerife. On his return to England he joined the Hanover Band in their recordings of Beethoven’s, Schubert’s and Haydn’s symphonies. From…
Read MorePre-concert talk: Creation 9 January 2013
Thu 4 Apr 2013
In this talk Richard Wigmore looks at the history and vivid descriptions of Haydn’s The Creation. Was it ‘programme music’ before its time?
Read MoreSpeed Interview- Shelley von Strunckel
Wed 3 Apr 2013
Ahead of our Insight Club on 6 April, we chatted to astrologist and OAE enthusiast Shelley von Strunckel about Mozart, mysticism and The Matrix…
Read MoreCurrent Distractions
Thu 28 Mar 2013
This week, we asked Jodie Gilliam (OAE Development Administrator) to write our Current Distractions blog. Here’s what’s taken her fancy recently…
Read MoreEaster Egg Hunt
Tue 26 Mar 2013
It’s that time of year guys…the time where we celebrate the joys of new life, the warmer weather (ahem) and indulge in far too much foiled confectionery. So, seeing as we’re sponsored by the lovely chocolatiers Lindt, we thought it was only right to run a chocolate-themed Easter competition. All you need to do is…
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