Katarzyna Kowalik: Harpsichordist, Early Music Specialist

Saturday 16 November 7pm
“For the pleasure of the King”
Fidelio, 91-95 Clerkenwell Rd, Holborn, London EC1R 5BX

Royal Baroque present a programme of the music from the court of the King Louis the XIVth featuring works by Lully, Rebel, Telemann.

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18 November 12.30pm
Harpsichord recital
Handel & Hendrix Museum, London

A private recital featuring works by Handel and Bach.

13 December 2019, 6.30pm
‘Celebrating the harpsichord’
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN

Marking the recent acquisition of a harpsichord with a solo performance by Katarzyna Kowalik, featuring music from various periods and European traditions.

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2 Feb 2020, 11:00 - 15:00
Harpsichord tuning and maintenance workshop
Morley College London

A workshop for harpsichord players and owners focusing on practical matters, like cutting quills, and rules on regulation, maintenance and climate control.
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Sunday 9 Feb 2020 11:30-13:30
Sightreading and working on the piece workshop
Morley College London
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Sunday 9 Feb 2020 14:00 - 17:00m
Harpsichord Chamber Music Workshop for continuo players and pre-formed ensembles
Morley College London
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Friday 6 March 2020, 19:30
Mozart in Italy – Concert 1; The Audition
Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ

PROGRAMME
Mozart Symphony in D, K.100/62a
Guglielmi Aria: “In un mar di tante pene” from Ruggiero
Guglielmi Aria: “Degna non è d’un soglio” from Ruggiero
Guglielmi Aria: “Ah, spiegar non posso” from Ruggiero
Guglielmi Aria: “A morte, men vado” from Ruggiero
Guglielmi Trio; “Ingrata mi sgridi” from Ruggiero
Mozart Symphony No. 9 in C, K.73/75a
Mozart Concert aria: “Se tutti i mali miei”, K.83/73p
Mozart Concert aria: “Ah, più tremar non voglio”, K.71 (fragment)
Mozart Concert aria: “Misero me… Misero pargoletto”, K.77/73e

PERFORMERS
Samantha Clarke soprano
Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano
Stuart Jackson tenor

The Mozartists
Ian Page conductor

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Saturday 7 March 2020, 19:30
Mozart in Italy – Concert 2; The Road to Rome
Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ

PROGRAMME
Piccinni Aria: “Son Romano , e sono amante” from Cesare in Egitto
Celoniati Duet: “Prendi l’estremo addio” from Didone abbandonata
Celoniati Aria: “Se non odo dal mio bene” from Didone abbandonata
Mozart Symphony No. 10 in G major, K.74
Mozart Concert aria: “Fra cento affanni e cento”, K.88/73c
Mozart Concert aria: “Se ardire, e speranza”, K.82/73o
Myslivecek Overture to La Nitteti
Myslivecek Aria: “Povero cor, tu palpiti” from La Nitteti
Myslivecek Aria: “Se la cagion saprete” from La Nitteti
Mozart Contredanse in B flat, K.123
Mozart Minuet in E flat, K.122
Mozart Duet: “Se viver non degg’io” (original version) from Mitridate, re di Ponto

PERFORMERS
Kiandra Howarth soprano
Sarah Aristidou soprano

The Mozartists
Ian Page conductor

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Sunday 8 March 2020, 15:30
Mozart in Italy – Concert 3; The Commission
Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ

PROGRAMME
Mozart Symphony (No. 44) in D major, K.81/73l
Galuppi Aria: “Un pensier mi dice” from Il vecchio geloso
Jommelli Aria: “Misera me!… Ah! ti sento” from Armida abbandonata
Jommelli Aria: “Fra l’orror di notte oscura” from Armida abbandonata
Jommelli Aria: “Misera Armida… Odio, furor, dispetto” from Armida abbandonata
Mozart Symphony in D major, K.84/73q
Gasparini Aria: “Se di lauri il crine adorno” from Mitridate, re di Ponto
Mozart Aria: “Se di lauri il crine adorno” from Mitridate, re di Ponto (1st version, completed by Stanley Sadie)
Mozart Aria: “Se di lauri il crine adorno” from Mitridate, re di Ponto (final version)
Gasparini Cavata, “Pallid’ ombre che scorgete” from Mitridate, re di Ponto
Mozart Cavatina, “Pallid’ ombre che scorgete” from Mitridate, re di Ponto

PERFORMERS
Sarah Aristidou soprano
Kiandra Howarth soprano
Stuart Jackson tenor
The Mozartists
Ian Page conductor

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Tuesday 7 April 2020, 19:30
English Chamber Orchestra with Paul Merkelo, trumpet
Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ

PROGRAMME
Thierry Escaich Baroque Song
Telemann Concerto for trumpet in D major
Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite
Haydn Concerto for Trumpet in E flat major

PERFORMERS
Paul Merkelo trumpet
Adrien Perruchon conductor
English Chamber Orchestra

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Saturday 11 April 2020, 7pm
Yyaî Jesuchristo; Bolivian Passiontide Early Music Concert
Heath Street Baptist Church, 84 Heath Street, London NW3 1DN

El Parnaso Hyspano:
Kate Smith - soprano
Verónica Chacón - Mezzo soprano
Rafael Montero - Tenor
John Sloboda - Bass
Katarzyna Kowalik - Harpsichord & Organ
Robert Gutierrez - Quena (Andean flute)

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Tuesday 26 May 2020, 6.30pm
The Art of the Baroque Viol
Handel & Hendrix Museum, London

Ibrahim Aziz (viola da gamba) presents a programme of solo viol music from the 18th century featuring unaccompanied pieces and pieces with continuo by composers such as Marais, Handel and Schenck. With Kate Conway (viola da gamba) and Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord).
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Monday 10 August 2020, 1pm
‘French Collection’ Harpsichord Recital
St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square

A harpsichord recital promoting Katarzyna Kowalik debut album ‘French Collection’.
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Saturday 3 August 2019 8pm
‘The Art of the Duello: Italian Grounds and Skies’
Oropesa del Mar, Castellón Province, Valencian Community, Spain

Royal Baroque present 'The Art of the Duello: Italian Grounds and Skies' - a pro- gramme of Italian baroque music based on the most common ground basses (La Follia, Ciaccona, La Bergamasca,
Passacaglia) as well as the most flamboyant virtuoso sonatas, fea- turing composers such as Bertali, Uccellini and Vivaldi. The afore mentioned grounds were the pop songs of the day, known by all, and trio sonatas gave the opportunity for instrumentalists to pit their technical and improvisational skills against each other, providing a perfect platform for dramatic sparring and dialogue!

Royal Baroque:
Rebecca Vucetic – recorders
Caoimhe de Paor - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp, recorder
Kate Conway – baroque cello
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord

Thursday 15 August 2019 3.30pm
Polish Early Keyboard Music - Performance by Katarzyna Kowalik on the Guarracino virginals and the chamber organ.
Horniman Museum and Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3PQ

Katarzyna Kowalik presents a programme of Polish renaissance and baroque music, featuring
dance movements and examples of intabulations of vocal works for the keyboard by composers
such us: Mikolaj z Krakowa, Jan Podbielski, Marcin Wartecki, Jan z Lublina.

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Thursday 22 August 2019 3.30pm
Musical Parnassus - Katarzyna Kowalik harpsichord recital Horniman Museum and Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3PQ

Musikalischer Parnassus by J. K. F. Fischer (c. 1738) is set of nine dance suites for harpsichord, each named after one of the Muses. Katarzyna Kowalik presents the last of the suites - ‘Urania’, named after the Muse of Astronomy.

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Tuesday 22 October 2019, 6.30-7.30pm
A Tale of Two Georgs
Handel & Hendrix, 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4HB

Handel and Telemann were both forced by their fathers to study law and both dropped out of their law schools to become composers. They were lifelong friends, corresponding regularly and the two even shared a passion for gardening, and exchanged bulbs via post!

Royal Baroque present a programme of chamber music by Handel and Telemann, reuniting them in Handel’s own Music Room.

Tickets: £15
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Thursday 24 October 3.30pm
Hear it Live!
Horniman Museum and Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3PQ

Performance by Ibrahim Aziz (viola da gamba) and Katarzyna Kowalik (square piano) featuring works by Abel, J.Ch.Bach and W.A.Mozart.
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13th November 2019
‘La Lucrezia'
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co Durham DL12 8NP

Accompanying the exhibition dedicated to the Italian Baroque master Guido Reni featuring his painting ‘Death of Lucretia’ Amade Players perform Handel's Cantata ‘La Lucrezia'.
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Tuesday 12 February 2019 at 6.30pm
‘French Collection’ harpsichord recital
Handel & Hendrix
25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4HB

A recital celebrating Katarzyna Kowalik’s first solo harpsichord release French Collection. This selection demonstrates a variety of the French style, featuring composers such as Rameau, Moyreau, Fouquet, and Royer.

Tickets: £12

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Sunday 10 March 2019, 6pm
Buxtehude & Bach by Royal Baroque ensemble
Heath Street Baptist Church
84 Heath Street, Hampstead, London NW3 1DN

Royal Baroque:
Daniel Sagstuen Sæther - countertenor
Christiane Eidsten Dahl - baroque violin
Kate Conway - viol
Katarzyna Kowalik - organ

PROGRAMME:
Dietrich Buxtehude: Trio sonata op. 1 D minor
Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 232 (B minor Mass): Agnus Dei
J. S. Bach BWV 244 (St Matthew Passion): Erbarme Dich
Dietrich Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D
Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 248 (Christmas Oratorio):
Schließe, mein Herze, dies selige Wunder
Buxtehude: Trio Sonata op. 1 A minor
Buxtehude: Jubilate Domino

Website: http://heathstreet.org/events/
Tickets: £10 / £5 students - on the door

Tuesday 19 March 2019 at 6.30pm
Jane Austen’s Mr. Handel
Handel & Hendrix
25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4HB

A programme of music by Handel from the Jane Austen music collection, which would have been played in her household, including extracts from the Water Music, Judas Maccabeus as well as recitatives and arias from Handel’s most famous operas.

This programme is performed in full Regency costume, with period music interspersed with readings from Austen’s novels and entertaining descriptions of life in the Regency era.

Literary Music are Rosie Lomas (soprano) and Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord).

Tickets: £12

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Sunday 24 March 2019, 6pm
Spotlight on the Set Works
St Mary the Virgin Church, Primrose Hill, Elsworthy Road, NW3 3DJ

Programme of GCSE and A level set works including:
Bach Brandenburg Concerto no. 5
Stravinsky Symphony of Winds
Milhaud – Le boeuf sur le toit
Ives – The Unanswered Question
Shostakovich 5th Symphony, 4th movement

Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra with pupils from The Camden School for Girls

Wednesday 10 April 2019
Buxtehude & Bach by Royal Baroque ensemble
Capilla de la Residencia Virgen del Carmen – Sagunto (Valencia)

Royal Baroque:
Daniel Sagstuen Sæther - countertenor
Christiane Eidsten Dahl - baroque violin
Kate Conway - viol
Katarzyna Kowalik - organ

PROGRAMME:
Dietrich Buxtehude: Trio sonata op. 1 D minor
Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 232 (B minor Mass): Agnus Dei
J. S. Bach BWV 244 (St Matthew Passion): Erbarme Dich
Dietrich Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D
Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 248 (Christmas Oratorio):
Schließe, mein Herze, dies selige Wunder
Buxtehude: Trio Sonata op. 1 A minor
Buxtehude: Jubilate Domino

Tuesday 23 April 2019, 6.30pm
Music Inspired by Fear of Illness in the Pre-Anaesthetic Era
Old Operating Theatre Museum, 9A St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY

Description:
This experience will be divided into two parts: First, there will be a short overview by Dr. Nick Newton of the fear of illness and impending surgery on individuals in the 17th & 18th Century, followed by an introductory talk from Dr. Tim Smith, focusing on the aetiology and management of bladder stones in the pre-anaesthetic era.

These brief introductions will set the scene for a concert by the Royal Baroque Ensemble, under the direction of Katarzyna Kowalik, of music composed by Marin, Lully, Froberger, Couperin and Zelenka reflecting the patient's anxieties concerning illness, surgery without anaesthesia and the close encounters with imminent or untimely death. Part of the programme will be the legendary 'Tableau de l'opération de la taille' by Marais - a musical depiction of the stages of an operation for removing a urinary bladder.

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Tickets: £20.00

 

Friday 26 October 2018 at 7pm
'French Collection' CD launch concert.
Katarzyna Kowalik harpsichord recital

Polish Club 'Ognisko', 55 Prince's Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PG

A recital celebrating Katarzyna Kowalik’s first solo harpsichord CD ‘French Collection’ release. A selection of harpsichord repertoire which demonstrates a variety of the French style, from noble dances to flamboyant and innovative sonority, featuring composers such us: Rameau, Moyreau, Fouquet, Royer.

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Saturday 10 November 2018   10:00 AM
Couperin 350th Anniversary
The Old Library and Chapel, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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On Saturday 10 November 2018, the exact 350th anniversary of the birth of the great French composer François Couperin (1668 – 1733), there will be celebration featuring a complete performance of his keyboard works in one day, on harpsichord, spinet, clavichord and organ. This will include the four books of Pièces de clavecin (1713, 1717, 1722 and 1730) in order, as well as the two organ masses.

The professional performers will include Mark Kroll, Jane Clark, Penelope Cave, Katarzyna Kowalik, Aidan Phillips, Luke Green, Satoko Doi-Luck, Jonathan Hellyer Jones, Mark Purcell, Francis Knights, Dan Tidhar and many others.

Sunday 25 November 2018, 11am - 2pm
Improvising of the harpsichord
Workshop with Katarzyna Kowalik

Morley College, London

Learn how to improvise a chaconne, a toccata or a prelude on the harpsichord. Two harpsichords will be available for some duo playing too. Suitable for harpsichordists as well as pianists of Grade 6 and above.

Sunday 2 December 2018, 3.30pm
'Baroque Kaleidoscope' by Royal Baroque ensemble
Polish Social and Cultural Association
238-246 King Street, London W6 0RF

Christiane Eidsten Dahl - baroque violin
Rebecca Vuc?etic´ - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen - baroque harp, recorders
Kate Conway - viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord

Royal Baroque ensemble present 'Baroque Kaleidoscope' - a selection of French, German, Italian and Polish baroque music featuring composers such as: Mielczewski, Rebel, Telemann, Vivaldi, Uccellini.

Booking open from 15 November, tel: 02077362629 / 07900463189.

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Thursday 13 December at 7pm
'Double the Bells' by Double Entendre
Katarzyna Kowalik & Pawel Siwczak - harpsichords
The Cello Factory
33-34 Cornwall Rd, Waterloo SE1 8TJ

A festive programme for two harpsichords featuring Carillons, Musettes and Christmas music by Daquin, Couperin, Fouquet, Corelli.

Tickets £15 to include light refreshments

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Sunday, September 16, 2018: 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
ONE LAST SONG - IS NOT THIS SONG WORTH STAYING FOR?
The Portrait Gallery, Holburne Museum, Bath

At a concert in Bath, eight years after their broken engagement, Anne Elliot begins to hope that Captain Wentworth may still be in love with her. The Literary Music ensemble, led by superb soprano Rosie Lomas, whirl us from the high-spirited dances of the Musgrove home, to ballads telling of dangers on the high seas and finally, into the elegant concert halls of Bath society with songs and arias from the period.

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Part of the Jane Austen Festival.

Saturday 2 August 10.30 pm
The Art of Duello: Italian Grounds and Skies
Castell del Papa Luna, Peñíscola, Spain

Royal Baroque:
Christiane Eidsten Dahl – baroque violin
Rebecca Vucetic – recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp, recorder
Kate Conway – baroque cello
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord

Royal Baroque present 'The Art of the Duello: Italian Grounds and Skies' - a pro- gramme of Italian baroque music based on the most common ground basses (La Follia, La Bergamasca, Ciaccona, Passacaglia) as well as the most flamboyant virtuoso sonatas, fea- turing composers such as Bertali, Castello, Cima, Uccellini and Vivaldi.

20 July 15.30 - 18.00
Improvising on the harpsichord
Morley College, London
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Learn how to improvise a chaconne, a toccata or a prelude on the harpsichord. Two harpsichords will be available for some duo playing too. Suitable for harpsichordists as well as pianists of Grade 6 and above.

Monday 23 July 12 noon
Harpsichord recital
Handel & Hendrix, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

Caoimhe de Paor - recorder
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord

A private recital featuring most famous Handel's harpsichord pieces.

17 Jul 2018 - 20 Jul 2018, between 18:30 - 21:30
Morley Summer School Harpsichord Course
Morley College, London
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This intensive course involves discussion of techniques and interpretation of music within the early music sound-world.

A knowledge of basic harpsichord skills is essential.

Repertoire to be studied: works by Francois Couperin.

Thursday 19 July 3.30pm
Recital for recorder and harpsichord
Handel & Hendrix, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

Caoimhe de Paor - recorder
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord

A private recital featuring most famous Handel's Sonatas for recorder and continuo.

Saturday 30 June at 7 pm
'The Art of the Duello: Italian grounds and Skies'
St Andrew’s Kingsbury
Old Church Lane,
Kingsbury, London NW9 8RZ

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Royal Baroque ensemble:
Christiane Eidsten Dahl - baroque violin
Rebecca Vuc?etic´ - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen - baroque harp, recorders
Kate Conway - baroque cello
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord

Royal Baroque present 'The Art of the Duello: Italian Grounds and Skies' A programme of Italian baroque music based on the most common ground basses (La Follia, La Bergamasca, Ciaccona, Passacaglia) as well as the most flamboyant virtuoso sonatas, featuring composers such as Bertali, Castello, Cima, Uccellini and Vivaldi.

22/05/2018
Music and Medicine - Royal Baroque ensemble
Handel & Hendrix in London
Royal Baroque return to Handel House to perform music by composers such as Marais, Froberger, and Handel. The pieces reflect the composers' illnesses, anxieties concerning surgery without anaesthesia as well as the remedies of the time and healing powers of music.

Tickets: £12
20/05/2018
Jane Austen's Music - Literary Music
Tabley House, Knutsford, Cheshire
A programme dedicated to Jane Austen, featuring music from the period, readings and anecdotes, presented by the Literary Music.
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18/05/2018
The May Fayre
Handel & Hendrix in London
Inspired by the infamous annual celebration that took place near Brook Street for most of the 18th century, we’re bringing back the May Fayre for the 2018 Museums at Night festival.

An extra special evening of live Baroque music, dramatic performances and interactive activities to celebrate the history of Mayfair.

Venue: Handel House and the Hendrix Flat
Tickets: £15-25
16/05/2018
Classical Opera Educational Project Finale
TBC
Each year Classical Opera deliver annual MOZART 250 Education Project to between 60 and 120 primary school children and their teachers. Through a series of workshops with period-instrument musicians, children learn about Mozart’s music, devise their own plots and texts, compose their own music and finally perform their finished operas to an audience of family and friends.
27/04/2018
Hanseatic Reflections
Schott Music London, 48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7BB
Naomi Okuda Wooderson - recorder
Chris Hartland - oboe
Jan Zahourek - viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord

Music by Handel, Telemann, Mattheson, Roman, Linike.
26/04/2018
Royal Baroque: Italian Greatest Hits of the 1600s.
Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead, London NW3 1DN
Royal Baroque ensemble:

Christiane Eidsten Dahl – baroque violin
Rebecca Vučetić – recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp, recorders
Kate Conway – viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord

Music by Merula, Marini, Uccellini, Vivaldi and others.

Part of the Baroquestock Festival
30/03/2018
Concert for Good Friday
St Martin’s, Church Street, Epsom, KT17 4PX
Programme:

Gregorian Chant – Jesu Dulcis Amor Meus
Bach – Agnus Dei from B Minor Mass
Pergolesi – Stabat Mater

Natalie Johnson-Hyde - soprano
Emma Watkinson - alto
Katarzyna Kowalik - organ
Lucia Capellaro - cello
Alexis Bennett - viola
Laura Rickard - violin
Lucia Veintimilla - violin

Free entry with a retiring collection.
23/02/2018
Handel’s Birthday
Handel & Hendrix in London
Join us for a celebration of Handel’s birthday!

For one day only we’ll be opening the doors of London’s most musical address for free.

Plus there will be live music from the Amadè Players and refreshments on offer throughout the day to all our visitors.
The music will take the form of 15-minute recitals, starting on the hour every hour. The first one will be at 11am and the final one at 4pm.

Drop in at any time to enjoy the music and a piece of cake.

Tickets: Free entry
04/02/2018
Harpsichord tuning and maintenance workshop
Morley College, London
A workshop for harpsichord players and owners focusing on practical matters, like cutting quills, rules of regulation, maintenance and climate control.
11/11/2017
Brighton Early Music Festival
Komedia Studio, Brighton
'Tales in Music' with Little Baroque Company
26/10/2017
Music Inspired by Illness in the Pre-Anaesthetic Era
The Old Operating Theatre, 9a Saint Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY
DESCRIPTION
This event will offer a short overview by Nick Newton of the emotional impact of illness and impending surgery on individuals in the 17th & 18th Century, followed by an introductory talk from Tim Smith, focussing on the aetiology and management of bladder stones in the pre-anaesthetic era.
These brief introductions will set the scene for a concert by the Royal Baroque Ensemble, under the direction of Katarzyna Kowalik, of music composed by Marin, Lully, Froberger, Couperin and Zelenka reflecting the patient's anxieties concerning illness, surgery without anaesthesia and the close encounters with imminent or untimely death.

Royal Baroque:
Christiane Eidsten Dahl - baroque violin
Rebecca Vučetić - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen - baroque harp, recorders
Kate Conway - viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord

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Doors will open at 6:30 PM.
*Access: The museum is only accessible through a 52-spiral staircase.
25/09/2017
SEVENOAKS LITERARY FESTIVAL: JANE AUSTEN’S MUSIC
SHIP THEATRE, WALTHAMSTOW HALL SCHOOL, HOLLYBUSH LANE, SEVENOAKS TN13 3UL
2017 is the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, and who better to provide a fitting tribute than soprano Rosie Lomas and pianist Katarzyna Kowalik from Literary Music?

Rosie Lomas and Katarzyna are young classically trained musicians who perform programmes inspired by the works of some of our best-loved authors. Combining music and song together with spirited readings by Rosie, Jane Austen’s Music explores music in Regency society and in Jane Austen’s life and novels. Emma Kirkby praised Literary Music for its combination of ‘lovely sounds, historical awareness and enthusiasm, giving fresh life to words and music’.

This will be a treat for lovers of music and Jane Austen.
12/09/2017
Early music recital
Holst Room, Morley College London, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7HT
Ibi Aziz (viola da gamba and baroque cello) and Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord) join forces in this Early Music recital.
01/07/2017
Vivaldi Four Seasons
Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Vivaldi Four Seasons with the "Magec String Ensemble"
29/06/2017
Vivaldi Four Seasons
Teatro Guimerá, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Vivaldi Four Seasons with the "Magec String Ensemble"
25/06/2017
Vivaldi Four Seasons
St Etheldreda's Church, 14 Ely Place, London EC1N 6RY
Vivaldi Four Seasons with the "Magec String Ensemble"
17/06/2017
STROUD GREEN FESTIVAL - Little Baroque Company
Hornsey Vale Community Centre, Mayfield Road N8 9LP
Little Baroque Company:
Jenni Harper soprano
Catherine Mackintosh and Helen Kruger violin
Oakki Lau viola
Carina Drury cello
Katarzyna Kowalik harpsichord

The Little Baroque Company is joined by their hero, violinist Catherine Mackintosh, and stunning soprano Jenni Harper for a trio of English greats: cantatas by William Hayes and John Stanley and instrumental works by George Frederic Handel. This immersive production of sumptuous cantatas all portraying love and pleasure will be accompanied by tea or coffee and cake!
11/06/2017
Double Entendre - Music for Two Harpsichords
St Michael's Battersea, Cobham Close, London SW11 6SP
A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in either of two ways, having a double meaning (typically one of the interpretations is rather obvious whereas the other is more subtle). Two young exciting harpsichordists: Katarzyna Kowalik and Pawel Siwczak are both Polish, both studied with same teachers (with Wladyslaw Klosiewicz in Warsaw and with Carole Cerasi in London), and both are based in London, no wonder they decided to form a harpsichord duo as a result of their common passion. Their ‘double entendre’ programme for two harpsichords is a perfect opportunity to explore the subtleties of the harpsichord music and it’s double meanings filtered by two different minds of these inquisitive and imaginative harpsichordists.
25/04/2017
Chamber music from the baroque
Morley College, London
Ibi Aziz (viola da gamba and baroque cello)
Peter Wendland (viols and recorders)
Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord)
Peter Collyer (baroque viola)

Programme: Marais, Rameau, Telemann
14/04/2017
A Concert for Good Friday
St Martin’s, Church Street, Epsom, KT17 4PX
A selection of Soprano and Alto arias/duets from the Bach passions and other works.
11/04/2017
BACH COFFEE CANTATA - London Handel Festival
The Charterhouse, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6AN
Handel Overture from Ariodante, HWV 33
Bach Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Bach Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211 ‘Coffee Cantata’

Little Baroque Company

Special performances for Handel Supporters, including Friends of the London Handel Festival

2pm (with coffee & cake)
4.30pm (with coffee & cake)
7pm (with wine & nibbles)

Decadence, drama and delight - Bach's Coffee Cantata as you've never seen it before and a command performance just for Handel Supporters and their guests by exclusive arrangement at the Charterhouse.
Fully costumed, this colourfully staged show, specially adapted to the historic Great Chamber, will present Bach's comic cantata depicting the rise of the coffee house in the 18th century. A wonderfully immersive performance complete with refreshments!

Tickets
£30 for 2pm/4.30pm performances for Handel Supporters (£40 for guests) - unreserved seating
£40 for 7pm performance for Handel Supporters (£50 for guests) - unreserved seating

Please note that only Handel Supporters (including Friends) can make a booking for this date, but are welcome to bring guests with them.
11/04/2017
BACH COFFEE CANTATA - London Handel Festival
The Charterhouse, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6AN
Handel Overture from Ariodante, HWV 33
Bach Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Bach Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211 ‘Coffee Cantata’

Little Baroque Company

Special performances for Handel Supporters, including Friends of the London Handel Festival

2pm (with coffee & cake)
4.30pm (with coffee & cake)
7pm (with wine & nibbles)

Decadence, drama and delight - Bach's Coffee Cantata as you've never seen it before and a command performance just for Handel Supporters and their guests by exclusive arrangement at the Charterhouse.
Fully costumed, this colourfully staged show, specially adapted to the historic Great Chamber, will present Bach's comic cantata depicting the rise of the coffee house in the 18th century. A wonderfully immersive performance complete with refreshments!

Tickets
£30 for 2pm/4.30pm performances for Handel Supporters (£40 for guests) - unreserved seating
£40 for 7pm performance for Handel Supporters (£50 for guests) - unreserved seating

Please note that only Handel Supporters (including Friends) can make a booking for this date, but are welcome to bring guests with them.
11/04/2017
BACH COFFEE CANTATA - London Handel Festival
The Charterhouse, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6AN
Handel Overture from Ariodante, HWV 33
Bach Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Bach Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211 ‘Coffee Cantata’

Little Baroque Company

Special performances for Handel Supporters, including Friends of the London Handel Festival

2pm (with coffee & cake)
4.30pm (with coffee & cake)
7pm (with wine & nibbles)

Decadence, drama and delight - Bach's Coffee Cantata as you've never seen it before and a command performance just for Handel Supporters and their guests by exclusive arrangement at the Charterhouse.
Fully costumed, this colourfully staged show, specially adapted to the historic Great Chamber, will present Bach's comic cantata depicting the rise of the coffee house in the 18th century. A wonderfully immersive performance complete with refreshments!

Tickets
£30 for 2pm/4.30pm performances for Handel Supporters (£40 for guests) - unreserved seating
£40 for 7pm performance for Handel Supporters (£50 for guests) - unreserved seating

Please note that only Handel Supporters (including Friends) can make a booking for this date, but are welcome to bring guests with them.
02/04/2017
Foundling Sunday: The Amadè Players
The Foundling Museum, London
Members of The Amadè Players perform a chamber programme of violin and vocal works including Handel’s Violin Sonata in D, HWV 371; Pepusch’s Corydon; and Telemann’s Locke nur, Erde. Bringing early works to life through musicianship of the highest quality and in-depth musicological research, The Amadè Players offer an historically-informed sound through exciting performances. This event is run in partnership with the London Handel Festival.

As part of Foundling Sunday, this event is preceded by a tour of Child’s Play by artist Mark Neville.

15:00 | Museum admission + a nominal ticket charge: £5, £3 concessions & Foundling Friends / LoveMusicPass members £2.50, concessions £1.50 / Free for Patrons
17/03/2017
final concert of the Classical Opera Mozart 250 educational project
Paul Robeson Theatre, The Treaty Centre, High Street, Hounslow, Middlesex TW3 1ES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1VQ4zRz6sc
09/02/2017
All the Mornings of the World
Handel & Hendrix in London
Royal Baroque ensemble presents a programme inspired by the famous French film ‘Tous les matins du monde’ (All the Mornings of the World). The movie is set during the reign of Louis XIV and is about the eminent musician Marin Marais looking back on his young life when he tried to become a pupil of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, and features much music of the period, especially for the viola da gamba. Royal Baroque performs music featured in this fascinating movie, including works by Lully, Marais, and Sainte-Colombe.
Royal Baroque:
Christiane Eidsen - Dahl - baroque violin
Rebecca Vučetić - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp
Kate Conway – viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord
11/12/2016
Inspired by Jane Austen - Literary Music
St Michael's Battersea, Cobham Close, London SW11 6SP
A lively programme inspired by the loves and works of Jane Austen presented by Literary Music: Rosie Lomas (soprano) and Katarzyna Kowalik (fortepiano).
10/12/2016
A Family Christmas
Handel & Hendrix in London
Caoimhe de Paor (recorders) and Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord) present an interactive concert for families at Christmas time, exploring Christmas music from the past by George Frideric Handel, Claude Balbastre and Jacob Van Eyck, as well as festive music by Johann Sebastian Bach and François Couperin. Come along and help perform music about the baby Jesus and alarm clocks!
Venue: Studio
Tickets: £10 and £6 students
01/12/2016
Christmas for Instruments
Handel House Museum, London
Royal Baroque present a programme of the most exquisite music composed for Christmas, including the famous ‘Christmas Concerto’ by Corelli, as well as works by Charpentier and Balbastre, amongst others.

Royal Baroque:
Caoimhe De Paor - recorders
Rebecca Vučetić - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp, recorder
Kate Conway – viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord

Venue: Music Room
Tickets: £10 and £6 student
20/10/2016
Vivaldi Gloria by Candlelight
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Brandenburg Choral Festival

Bach – Brandenburg No 3
Bach – Concerto for 2 Violins
Vivaldi – Gloria

Twickenham Choral Society
Brandenburg Baroque Soloists
Christopher Herrick Conductor
16/10/2016
Harpsichord Recital: Katarzyna Kowalik in tribute to Wanda Landowska
The Polish Hearth Club, South Kensington, London SW7 2PN
Katarzyna Kowalik pays a tribute to legendary harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, who rescued the harpsichord and its music from oblivion.
The programme of the concert is featuring some Landowska’s favourite pieces, including works by Johann Sebastian Bach, François Couperin and others, but also Landowska’s own compositions.
Member Ticket Price: £ 12 including wine.
Non-member Ticket Price: £ 15 including wine.
Student Ticket Price: £ 10 including wine.
09/10/2016
French Splendour & Italian Virtuosity
New Malden Methodist Church
The repertoire includes works of Couperin, Vivaldi, Marais and Sammartini.

Michał Rogalski - oboe
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord
Kate Conway - cello
21/09/2016
Harpsichord recital
Polish Embassy, London
A private concert for the Polish Ambassador and special guests.
11/09/2016
'Sisters and Suitors' - Literary Music
Portrait Gallery, The Holburne Museum, Bath
Sisters and Suitors - an evening of music and words, exploring love in its many forms in Sense and Sensibility.

Soprano Rosie Lomas and the Literary Music Ensemble return to the Jane Austen Festival with a musical programme inspired by Sense and Sensibility. Discover how Eleanor and Marrianne's private battles between passion and propriety are mirrored in the music, art and ideals of their day.

Tickets £18
04/09/2016
'Le Concert des Nations' harpsichord recital - Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe
STADSKLOOSTER, Utrecht
Harpsichordist Katarzyna Kowalik presents a musical journey through Europe, Africa, The Americas, and The Far East, illustrating the cultural differences and national features captured in the harpsichord music by Frenchmen: Lully, Couperin, Rameau, D'Anglebert, Forqueray, Moyreau, Noblet and Royer.
Part of the Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe.
03/09/2016
Double Entendre - Music for Two Harpsichords - Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe
RASA, Pauwstraat 13a 3512 TG Utrecht
A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in either of two ways, having a double meaning (typically one of the interpretations is rather obvious whereas the other is more subtle).
Two exciting harpsichordists: Katarzyna Kowalik and Pawel Siwczak are both Polish, both studied with the same teachers (with Wladyslaw Klosiewicz in Warsaw and with Carole Cerasi in London), and both are based in London, no wonder they decided to form a harpsichord duo as a result of their common passion. Under the name Double Entendre they present a programme of music for two harpsichords or four hands featuring works by Handel, Purcell, Couperin, Le Roux, Buxtehude, Mozart & Boccherini.
It is a perfect opportunity to explore the subtleties of the harpsichord playing. It is also neither obvious nor impossible to capture countless meanings filtered and delivered by two different minds of these inquisitive and imaginative performers, in their intertwining interpretations.
Part of the Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe.
02/09/2016
'Le Concert des Nations' harpsichord recital - Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe
Zuylenspiegel, Zuilenstraat 5 3512 NA Utrecht
Harpsichordist Katarzyna Kowalik presents a musical journey through Europe, Africa, The Americas, and The Far East, illustrating the cultural differences and national features captured in the harpsichord music by Frenchmen: Lully, Couperin, Rameau, D'Anglebert, Forqueray, Moyreau, Noblet and Royer.
Part of the Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe.
21/07/2016
Rebel Rebel
Handel House Museum, London
Jean-Féry Rebel (1666 – 1747) was an innovative French Baroque composer, violinist, harpsichordist and conductor. He was a real rebel of his time as many of his compositions
are quite original, based on complex counter-rhythms and audacious harmonies they were not fully appreciated by listeners of his time and may still sound shocking nowadays. Royal Baroque make their Handel House debut with an exquisite programme of music by this revolutionary
composer.

Programme
Jean-Ferry Rebel:
Les Elémens
Les Caractères de la Danse
Les Plaisirs champêtres

Musicians
Christiane Eidsten Dahl (baroque violin)
Rebecca Vučetić (recorders)
Kaisa Pulkkinen (baroque harp, recorder)
Kate Conway (viola da gamba)
Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord)
11/07/2016
Morley College Harpsichord Summer School
Morley College, London
Katarzyna Kowalik runs a four day Morley harpsichord summer school. This advanced course involves discussion of techniques and interpretation of music within the early music sound-world. A knowledge of basic harpsichord skills is essential. Repertoire to be studied: J.S.Bach - 6 French Suites BWV 812 - 817.
09/06/2016
Telemann and his friends - Recorder & Harpsichord Recital
St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, London NW1 2BA
Programme:
G.Ph.Telemann / Fantasie
G.Ph.Telemann / Sonata in d minor
G.F.Handel / Sonata in D major HWV378
J.S.Bach / Sonata in C major BWV1033
etc.

Naomi Okuda (recorder)
Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord)

Admission: Free (Retiring collection)

enquiries: lgsm703@gmail.com
07772 436 662
23/05/2016
Literary Music - Regency Music
Tabley House, Knutsford, Cheshire
Rosie Lomas - soprano
Katarzyna Kowalik - piano

Tickets £20 (£18 Friends of Tabley)
Available from Christopher Tetlow tel: 0161 9282137, email: christophertetlow@hotmail.co.uk, or friends@tableyhouse.co.uk
14/05/2016
Royal Baroque ‘Italian Stravaganza: Follia, Ciaccona, Bergamasca’
St John the Evangelist, Kensal Green, London W10 4RA
Royal Baroque presents an exciting programme of Italian baroque music by Marini, Uccellini, Corelli, Bertali, Merula, Falconieri and Vivaldi.
Musicians:
Christiane Eidsten Dahl – baroque violin
Rebecca Vučetić – recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp, recorders
Kate Conway – baroque cello
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord

Tickets £8 and £6 concession (on the door)
07/05/2016
Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight
Southwark Cathedral, London
London Concertante
Ben Norris Guest Director/Violin
Martyn Jackson Violin

Programme:
Mozart – Divertimento in D
Pachelbel – Canon in D
Bach – Violin Concerto in A minor
Purcell – Fairy Queen Suite
William Walton – Music from Henry V
Vivaldi – “Spring” & “Summer” from The Four Seasons
08/03/2016
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY WITH THE ASSOCIATED COUNTRY WOMEN OF THE WORLD - The Amadè Players
St John's Smith Square, London
PROGRAMME
Antonio Vivaldi
Sinfonia in Bb, RV.162
Kyrie in G minor, RV.587
Violin Concerto in A major "Ecco", RV.522
Concerto for Recorder in C minor, RV.441
Gloria in D major, RV.589

The Amadè Players
amadeplayers.com
13/02/2016
'I love a ballad' - Shakespeare Songs in the 19th Century
King's College, London
'Come gather, fine ladies and gentlemen, for an evening of song and scholarship. In this event, Oskar Cox Jensen will be discussing the subject of Shakespeare and Song in the 18th and 19th centuries, accompanied by expert performers in historical practice from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Foregoing the solemn lieder and art-song of the German and Italian traditions, the focus here is on English song in all its diversity, from rough topical ditties sung in the gutter, to the loveliest works of Arne and Linley. We will hear how theatrical composers updated and expanded the songs within Shakespeare's plays; see how Shakespeare's lyrics made their way into the street and the alehouse; and laugh and grimace at comic takes on the Tragedies from burlesques and the music hall.'

'What you Will': King's Shakespeare Festival, February - August 2016
Part of Shakespeare400
17/01/2016
Double Entendre - Music for Two Harpsichords
St Michael's Battersea, Cobham Close, London SW11 6SP
Two Polish harpsichordists, Katarzyna Kowalik & Pawel Siwczak present music for two harpsichords or four hands, from French baroque to fandango.
15/12/2015
Literary Music / Jane Austen's Music
Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead, London NW3 1DN
Inspired by the wit, romance and charm of Jane Austen's writing, pianist Katarzyna Kowalik and soprano Rosie Lomas explore music in Regency society and in Jane's own life and novels.
14/12/2015
Christmas for Instruments with Royal Baroque ensemble
Recital Room, Blackheath Halls, London SE3 9RQ
Royal Baroque make their Blackheath Halls debut with an exquisite programme of baroque Christmas music, including works by Corelli, Charpentier, Daquin, Heinichen and Balbastre.

Royal Baroque:
Christiane Eidsen - Dahl - baroque violin
Rebecca Vučetić - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp, recorder
Kate Conway – viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord
13/12/2015
The Amadè Christmas
Handel House Museum, London
The Amadè Players German arias by Handel and arias from Christmas cantatas by Bach and Scarlatti.

Tickets
£9, £5 students

Booking line: +44(0)20 7399 1953
Book online via arttickets
10/12/2015
Handel House Festive Showcase
St George’s, Hanover Square, London W1S 1FX
Musicians

Cathy Bell (mezzo-soprano)
Edwin Hillier, Composer-in-Residence Apprentice
Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord)
Caoimhe de Paor (recorders)
Marie van Rhijn (harpsichord)
Elspeth Robertson (recorders)
George Ross (cello)

Description

Handel House invites you to St. George’s Hanover Square to celebrate the success of the new Handel House Talent Scheme and our Composer-in-Residence Apprentice. Each of the six HHT members will grace us with exquisite baroque music, both as soloists and as ensembles and there will be a world premiere of the Composer-in-Residence commission for Handel House. All of this exciting action with fusions between music of the great baroque period and of the present day will be injected with festive carols and ditties for all of the audience to sing along to.

Tickets £10

Booking line: +44(0)20 7399 1953
Book online via arttickets
05/12/2015
Concert in Conjunction with the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Little Oratory, Brompton Road, London
Opera Lyrica presents a concert of Lully, Purcell and Blow to demonstrate the influence of Louis XIV in Europe in general, and England in particular. The concert is to accompany a conference taking place on the same date, hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Tickets: £17
20/11/2015
MY HEART SWIMS IN BLOOD
Bloomsbury Coffee House, 20 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9RE
An evening of the dulcet sounds of soprano Miranda Heldt singing a variety of Baroque arias & J.S Bach's 'Mein Herze Schwimmt in Blut' cantata. The concert will explore the drama of the Baroque in song and the relationship between words and music. Excellent accompaniment on the harpsichord with Katarzyna Kowalik.
15/10/2015
The Secret Garden - Harpsichord Recital
Handel House Museum, London
Katarzyna Kowalik explores some of the most mysterious titles in the harpsichord repertoire and pieces inspired by nature that transports one to the most imaginative baroque ‘Jardin secret’ or ‘secret gardens’.
Katarzyna is a Handel House Talent recipient.

Tickets
£9, £5 students

Booking line: +44(0)20 7399 1953
Book online via arttickets
10/10/2015
GALA CONCERT 5th Anniversary of DEVONIA CONCERT SERIES - Celebrating Bach
Devonia Church, Islington, London N1 8JJ
with GÓRECKI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
19/09/2015
JANE AUSTEN - IN MUSIC AND LITERATURE
Ventnor Arts Club, Isle of Wight
Inspired by the wit, romance and charm of Jane Austen’s writing Literary Music's fascinating programme explores music in Regency society and in Jane's own life and novels.
Soprano - Rosie Lomas
Piano - Katarzyna Kowalik
13/09/2015
Music & Matchmaking A celebration of 200 Years of Emma in music and words.
Holburne Museum, Bath
Part of the Jane Austen Festival.

Soprano- Rosie Lomas
Pianist- Katarzyna Kowalik

Following the success of Sense & Sensuality in 2012 Literary Music returns to the festival to celebrate the bicentenary of Emma.

In this entertaining and lighthearted programme of songs, arias and readings the music of Emma's world is brought to life and, with it, the secret liaisons and romantic agendas it conceals.
31/08/2015
PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DI MONTISI - HARPSICHORD MASTERCLASS WITH SKIP SEMPÉ
UTRECHT, PAUSHUIZE Paushuize Kromme Nieuwegracht 49 3512 HE Utrecht
The harpsichord summer course held in Montisi in Tuscany has in a few short years grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. For the first time this Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht. A top international selection of young keyboard players will during nine days in Utrecht recieve lessons from three harpsichordists who do not teach at any conservatory. And you can sit in on it.

28-30 Aug: Pierre Hantaï
31 Aug-2 Sep: Skip Sempé
3-5 Sep: Bob van Asperen

In collaboration with Piccola Accademia di Montisi.
Held in English.
21/07/2015
Summer in the Square
Grosvenor Square, London
Cathy Bell (mezzo-soprano)
Caoimhe de Paor (recorders)
Elspeth Robertson (recorders)
Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord)
14/07/2015
Plaisir des dieux - the 18th century French baroque music
The Church of St Edmund the King, Lombard Street, London EC3V 9EA
Naomi Okuda (recorder)
Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord)

Admission £12 including drinks after the concert
Tickets at the door
Enquiries: LGSM703@GMAIL.COM or 07772 436 662
11/07/2015
International Young Artists Competition Final
The National Centre for Early Music, York
'Telemann in Paris'

Georg Philipp Telemann: Paris Quartet No. 6 in E minor TWV 43

Royal Baroque Ensemble:
Christiane Eidsten Dahl - baroque violin
Rebecca Vucetic - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp
Kate Conway – viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord

Part of the York Early Music Festival.
10/07/2015
International Young Artists Competition Recital: 'Pour le plaisir du roi…'
The National Centre for Early Music, York
'Pour le plaisir du roi…'
Baroque chamber music by Lully and Rebel.

Royal Baroque Ensemble:
Christiane Eidsten Dahl - baroque violin
Rebecca Vucetic - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp
Kate Conway – viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord

Part of the York Early Music Festival.
06/07/2015
Royal Baroque: Lully, Rebel, Telemann
Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead, London NW3 1DN
Programme:
Jean-Baptiste Lully:
Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turcs
Trios pour le Coucher du Roi
Jean-Féry Rebel:
Les Plaisirs champêtres:
Georg Philipp Telemann:
Paris Quartet No. 6 in E minor TWV 43

Royal Baroque Ensemble:
Christiane Eidsten Dahl - baroque violin
Rebecca Vucetic - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp, recorder
Kate Conway – viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord
19/06/2015
Music, dance and gallantry in 18th-century France
The Wallace Collection, London
Cathy Bell - mezzosoprano
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord

A private concert for the Handel House Friends.
13/06/2015
Devonia Concert Series: Sonatas & Arias of German Baroque
Devonia Church, Islington, London N1 8JJ
George Frideric Handel and Carl Philip Emanuel Bach were two of the most prominent German composers of the 18th-Century. They received a similar education and their careers flourished roughly around the same time. This is, however, where the similarities end.

These two giants of baroque music never had an opportunity to meet in person. Although they enjoyed and respected each other’s work, their compositional styles could not be more different.

Join us for the recital which juxtaposes the Italian style of Handel’s works with the jarring and extravagant harmonies of CPE Bach and gives the two composers a chance to "meet" on one stage.

Maud Millar - soprano
Michal Rogalski - oboe
Kate Conway - cello
Katarzyna Kowalik - harpsichord
12/06/2015
Royal Baroque: Lully, Rebel, Telemann
St. Mary-at-Hill Church, London
Programme:
Jean-Baptiste Lully:
Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turcs
Trios pour le Coucher du Roi
Jean-Féry Rebel:
Les Plaisirs champêtres:
Georg Philipp Telemann:
Paris Quartet No. 6 in E minor TWV 43

Royal Baroque Ensemble:
Christiane Eidsten Dahl - baroque violin
Rebecca Vucetic - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp
Kate Conway – viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord
06/06/2015
200th anniversary of Jane Austen's Emma
Godmersham Park, Kent
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's "Emma", Literary Music presents an entertaining and lighthearted programme of songs, arias and readings, in which Emma's world is brought to life.
A private concert for the Jane Austen Society, Kent Branch.
26/05/2015
Royal Baroque: Lully, Rebel, Telemann
Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead, London NW3 1DN
Programme:
Jean-Baptiste Lully:
Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turcs
Trios pour le Coucher du Roi
Jean-Féry Rebel:
Les Plaisirs champêtres:
Georg Philipp Telemann:
Paris Quartet No. 6 in E minor TWV 43

Royal Baroque Ensemble:
Christiane Eidsten Dahl - baroque violin
Rebecca Vucetic - recorders
Kaisa Pulkkinen – baroque harp
Kate Conway – viola da gamba
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord
30/04/2015
Handel House Talent: Katarzyna Kowalik
Handel House Museum, London
Harpsichordist Katarzyna Kowalik presents a musical journey through Europe, Africa, the Americas, and the Far East, illustrating the cultural differences and national features captured in the harpsichord music by Frenchmen: Lully, Couperin, Rameau, D'Anglebert, Forqueray, Moyreau, Noblet and Royer.

The idea of the portraying nationalities was quite common in the baroque era: In 1726 François Couperin published a collection of four pieces under the title Les Nations - a chamber music tribute to four European nations, which includes 4 types: The Franchise, The Spanish, The Imperial, The Piedmontese. Jean Philippe Rameau follows the baroque fascination in anything exotic. His opera-ballet Les Indes galantes (1735) is thought to refer to exotic lands, not specifically the Indies, but anywhere remote enough to its contemporary audience. The opera consists of the following parts: The Gracious Turk, The Incas of Peru, The Flowers (of Persia), The Savages (with genuine American origins: in 1725 Rameau had heard two Louisiana Indians singing a catchy melody at a Paris fair, and had later made a harpsichord version of it under the title of “Les sauvages”).

Katarzyna explores not only the national features of the most significant European styles and exotic references, but also presents lesser known titles such us: La Canadienne, La Chinoisse and La Japonoisse by Christophe Moyreau as well as La Hongroise by Charles Noblet.

Katarzyna Kowalik is part of Handel House Talent, an new scheme to further the career development of promising young professional baroque music performers.
16/04/2015
Handel House Talent: Cathy Bell
Handel House Museum, London
Programme to include songs, arias and cantatas by Handel, Purcell and Alessandro Scarlatti.
14/04/2015
British Harpsichord Society Recital: Double Entendre
Handel House Museum, London
A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in two ways or having a double meaning (typically one being obvious whereas the other is more subtle). Two Polish harpsichordists: Katarzyna Kowalik and Pawel Siwczak, both studied with the same teachers (with Wladyslaw Klosiewicz in Warsaw and with Carole Cerasi in London), are based in London and so their ‘double entendre’ programme for two harpsichords will explore these subtleties in music and its double meanings.
09/04/2015
Handel House Talent: Caoimhe de Paor
Handel House Museum, London
Caoimhe de Paor (recorders) and Katarzyna Kowalik (harpsichord) present a programme centred around the repertoire of the Stylus Phantasticus movement from the 17th century, a style which has its roots initially in the improvisational and virtuosic style of organ toccatas and fantasias of composers such as Merulo and Frescobaldi, and which was later transmitted north through composers like Froberger.
31/03/2015
Forgotten Vienna
St John's Smith Square, London
The Amadè Players present music by Ditters and Moravian émigré Waňhal, exploring the lost repertoire of eighteenth century Vienna, accompanying the launch of the Forgotten Vienna CD recorded at St John’s for Resonus Classics.
14/03/2015
Mini Maestro Family Concert: Baroque Favourites
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
London Musical Arts Ensemble
John Landor Conductor/Presenter
14/03/2015
Pachelbel Canon by Candlelight
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Programme

Vivaldi – Spring from the Four Seasons
Pachelbel – Canon and Gigue
Bach – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Marcello – Oboe Concerto in D minor
Handel – Alexander’s Feast Concerto Grosso
Bach – Air ‘on the G string’
Bach – Gavotte
Bach – Concerto for Oboe and Violin in D minor

With Meet the Music, and entertaining discovery even in the interval.

London Musical Arts Ensemble
John Landor Conductor
11/03/2015
London Handel Festival: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR HANDEL
The Foundling Museum, London
with the Amadè Players.
07/03/2015
British Harpsichord Society Recital: Landowska in London
Handel House Museum, London
Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichordist, pianist, musicologist and teacher, was passionate about early music and a leader in the harpsichord revival at the beginning of the 20th century. She is the subject of this lecture-recital led by harpsichordist Kasia Tomczak-Feltrin who will be joined by her Polish colleagues Katarzyna Kowalik and Pawel Siwczak.

This will also be an opportunity to present a project of the French ‘Association pour la Sauvegarde de l’auditorium de Wanda Landowska’ from St Leu la Foret, Parisian suburb, where in 1927 Landowska created her Temple de la Musique Ancienne: auditorium, school, recording space, and meeting place of the intellectual and artistic elite of the twenties and thirties. Today the association is about to return this place to its former glory through creation of a Harpsichord and Early Music centre.

The programme will include Landowska’s favourite repertoire as well as her own harpsichord compositions.
12/02/2015
KATARINA DORDEVIC (baroque violin) & KATARZYNA KOWALIK (harpsichord) RECITAL
St John's Church, Harrow
Bach Sonatas for harpsichord and violin.
08/02/2015
Rebel & Telemann
St Michael's Battersea, Cobham Close, London SW11 6SP
Rebel & Telemann - Exquisite delights of French style performed by Royal Baroque ensemble.
Directed by Katarzyna Kowalik
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Tickets £10 / £5
http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/musicatstmichaels
Box office tel. 0333 666 3366 (booking fees apply).
Also available at the door.

24/01/2015
John Landor’s Mini Maestro Family Concert: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Come on an exciting journey through falling leaves and drifting snow. There are parties and horse-riding in ‘Autumn’, and fun on the ice and lovely times by the fireside in ‘Winter’.

London Musical Arts Ensemble
John Landor Director and Presenter
24/01/2015
Vivaldi Four Seasons
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Programme:

Handel – ‘Alexander’s Feast’
Pachelbel – Canon
Bach – Gavotte
Bach – ‘Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring’
Mozart – Divertimento in F
Vivaldi – Four Seasons

London Musical Arts Ensemble
John Landor Director/Presenter
16/01/2015
Telemann's Travels
St. Mary-at-Hill Church, London
Royal Baroque ensemble presents a programme of Telemann's Travels, including a rare selection of Polish Dances and a Paris Quartett.
15/01/2015
Vivaldi Gloria by Candlelight
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Programme

Bach – Violin Concerto in E minor
Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No.3
Vivaldi – Gloria

Vivace Chorus
Brandenburg Baroque Soloists
Miki Takahashi Violin
Jeremy Backhouse Conductor
16/12/2014
Jane Austen's Birthday
The Masonic Hall, Old Orchard Street, Bath
Join Literary Music with Adrian Lukis and Caroline Langrishe for an evening of Austen delights in the original Theatre Royal in Bath. Now the Masonic Hall this wonderful old building was formerly the theatre Jane Austen knew well, wrote about in Northanger Abbey and attended in 1799.
09/12/2014
CHRISTMAS AT THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM
The Foundling Museum, London
The Amadè Players return to The Foundling Museum with a performance of music for Christmas... Christmas 1749, that is. With Handel working for the benefit of the young Foundlings, their musical education and tastes were in safe hands - we present a programme of pieces likely to have been heard by the children and their carers. Handel's Blessed are They that considereth the Poor forms the basis of the concert, joined by Jirí Cart's sonata for flute, and a series of Christmas carols from the time, all performed on period instruments.
06/12/2014
Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society Concert - Handel Messiah
Wells Cathedral, Somerset, BA5 2US
Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano), Louise Mott (mezzo soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), Andrew Kidd (bass), Music for Awhile Orchestra (on period instruments), Matthew Owens (conductor).
Book early for Handel’s greatest Oratorio, in the annual performance from the Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society (www.wcos.org.uk).
Tickets: £10.00 – £25.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office (01749 672773) and at the door.
04/12/2014
A FOUNDLING'S CHRISTMAS
Handel House Museum, London
The Amadè Players present a programme of music which reflects just what a Foundling may have heard during the long, cold winter nights of the 1750s, with a selection of English and German traditional carols. To this we add the luxurious cantata Lucretia, and a flute sonata by Jiri Cart, a Czech contemporary of Handel.
02/11/2014
Regency Music
Burgh House, London
A private concert with the Literary Music.
12/10/2014
Music in New Malden
New Malden Methodist Church
The repertoire features works for oboe and continuo of two most prominent German Baroque composers - Handel and CPE Bach.
Performers:
Michal Rogalski – oboe
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord
Kate Conway – cello
10/10/2014
Handel & CPE Bach
St. Mary-at-Hill Church, London
A lunchtime recital featuring music of Handel and CPE Bach for oboe and continuo.
Performers:
Michal Rogalski – oboe
Katarzyna Kowalik – harpsichord
Kate Conway – cello
13/09/2014
RAMEAU. British Harpsichord Society Recital
Handel House, London
Jane Clark introduces the complete harpsichord works of Rameau, briefly explaining their background. The style of the 1706 suite harks back to the 17th century with its opening unmeasured prelude and following dances. In the 1724 suites Rameau introduced several new techniques which he claimed to have invented and which were copied by Domenico Scarlatti who visited Paris in 1724 & 1725. This will be referred to and the far from obvious titles of some of the pieces will be explored.
11/09/2014
Vivaldi Gloria by Candlelight
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Programme

Bach – Brandenburg Concerto no 3
Bach – Violin Concerto in E major
Vivaldi – Gloria

Performers

Lea Singers
Brandenburg Baroque Soloists
Persephone Gibbs Violin
Benjamin Goodson Conductor

Our first concert this evening is a triumph of Baroque brilliance, with Persephone Gibbs leading the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists in a Bach double, and Benjamin Goodson’s magnificent Lea Singers joining for the Vivaldi.
28/06/2014
Regency Music
Athenaeum Club, London
A private concert with the Literary Music
25/06/2014
L'Amour Lament - In The Flesh Festival
Goldsmiths University of London
Lament is a piece of Movement and Song, inspired by Henry Purcell’s Baroque Opera Dido and Aeneas. Our main figure is Dido: a queen and ruler, who reveals her fragile female side when she falls in love with Aeneas. Uncertainty, torment, pain and despair, which will eventually lead to suicide are explored through movement set on Dido’s Opera Arias.
18/06/2014
HANDEL RODELINDA
The Foundling Museum, London
with The Amadè Players
27/05/2014
Jane Austen's Music
Bollington, Cheshire
With Literary Music
23/05/2014
Classical Salon
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Solos and ensembles by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, CPE Bach and Robert Burns.
16/05/2014
“Pour le Plaisir du Roi...”
St. Mary-at-Hill Church, London
“Pour le plaisir du Roi...” is a refined programme featuring music written for the daily entertainment of the king Louis the XIVth, presented by the Royal Baroque ensemble.
14/05/2014
At Home with the Bachs
Hatchlands Park
Songs and a quodlibet for voices and keyboard tracing the domestic musical day of the Bach household performed by Guildhall Cantata Ensemble.
13/05/2014
Brilliant Baroque Concerti by Candlelight
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Programme:
Vivaldi – Flute Concerto Il Gardellino
Holst – Brook Green Suite
Vivaldi – Sinfonia No.2
Tartini – Concertino for Clarinet
Vivaldi – Sinfonia No.2
Purcell – Chaconne
Mozart – Salzburg Symphony No.2
Clarke – Trumpet Suite

Brandenburg Sinfonia
Robert Porter Conductor
11/05/2014
At Home with the Bachs
New Malden
Songs and a quodlibet for voices and keyboard tracing the domestic musical day of the Bach household performed by Guildhall Cantata Ensemble.
28/04/2014
Bach St John Passion
Milton Court Concert Hall
Bach’s iconic masterpiece is presented for the first time in Milton Court by a group of students and alumni of the Guildhall School, alongside musicians from other UK music colleges.
18/04/2014
Telemann's Brockes Passion + Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
St Martin's Church, Epsom
with Natalie Johnson-Hyde - soprano
02/04/2014
MESSIAH: HANDEL AND THE FOUNDLINGS
The Foundling Museum, London
The Amadè Players present Handel's Messiah as performed in 1760 at the Foundling Hospital. In a pre-concert talk at 16:30 learn the history of Messiah at the Hospital, and explore the baroque instruments used in Handel's day.

31/03/2014
An Evening with Frederick and Carl
Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Pavlo Beznosiuk directs musicians from the Historical Performance department in a programme featuring the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach to mark his 300th anniversary.
30/03/2014
Mother's Day: Mr Darcy Unwrapped
The Forge, London
Be transported into the world of Jane Austen over an elegant afternoon tea, with songs and arias from the era, passages from Austen's novels and Regency costume. Soprano Rosie Lomas and Pianist Katarzyna Kowalik are joined by Mr Darcy in this programme of songs and readings celebrating Austen's most famous hero. In this musical exploration discover why Darcy still has so much sex-appeal today and how our perceptions of him have changed over 200 years. Hear about the etiquette and scandals of Regency life and why fashion of the day was described as 'the fashion for nudity'.
Bring a shawl, bonnet or fan and join us for an afternoon of Regency indulgence including a glass of punch on arrival, live music, readings and regency gossip followed by a delicious afternoon tea, finishing with a showing of the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice lake episode!

4pm Concert and readings
5pm High Tea
6pm Pride and Prejudice screening
28/03/2014
‘A Joyful Noise!’
Milton Court Theatre, Barbican, London
Guildhall Baroque Double Reeds
Gail Hennessy director

Music for baroque double reeds and voices, with works by JS Bach, Heinichen, Vivaldi and more.
13/03/2014
Guildhall Consort
Lecture Recital Room, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
Much sought-after choral conductor Aidan Oliver directs the Historical Performance department's advanced vocal ensemble.
12/03/2014
London Handel Festival - 'Les Plaisirs de Versailles'
St George’s, Hanover Square
This intriguing programme of French baroque music for voices, recorders, harp, theorbo and harpsichord contrasts Charpentier's entertaining cantata with Couperin's Lamentation setting for the Tenebrae service. This performance is part of the London Handel Festival.
10/03/2014
'Les Plaisirs de Versailles'
Blackheath Halls
This intriguing programme of French baroque music for voices, recorders, harp, theorbo and harpsichord contrasts Charpentier's entertaining cantata with Couperin's Lamentation setting for the Tenebrae service.
01/03/2014
Vivaldi Four Seasons and Gloria by Candlelight
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Programme:
Vivaldi – Four Seasons

Vivaldi – Gloria

Brandenburg Baroque Soloists
Choir of Royal Holloway

Rupert Gough Conductor
24/02/2014
Historical Performance Masterclass with Richard Tognetti
Lecture Recital Room, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
As part of the School’s new partnership with the Academy of Ancient Music, violinist, conductor and composer Richard Tognetti leads a masterclass with Historical Performance students.
21/02/2014
MOZART'S HARMONIE
Goldsmiths University of London
Mozart's Harmoniemusik for wind instruments and 'Große Messe' in C minor K427.
With The Amadè Players.
25/01/2014
John Landor’s Mini Maestro Family Concert: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Vivaldi – Four Seasons

A whirlwind tour of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with barking dogs, chattering birds, raging storms and all the glories of nature.

London Musical Arts Orchestra
John Landor Presenter/Conductor
25/01/2014
Vivaldi Four Seasons
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Programme
Vivaldi – Four Seasons
Handel – Concerto Grosso ‘Alexander’s Feast’
Handel – Larghetto
Bach – Chorale from Cantata 147: ‘Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring’
Mozart – Divertimento No 3 in F

London Musical Arts Orchestra
John Landor Conductor
www.lmaorchestra.com
02/01/2014
Tic-Toc-Clock - Harpsichord Recital
Handel House Museum, London
Katarzyna Kowalik performs a solo harpsichord recital featuring pieces for a musical clock by Handel, Bach and Haydn as well as French repertoire influenced by clocks. This concert will include an introductory overview of Mechanical Musical Clocks and the music composed for them by Guildhall DMus student Emily Baines.
04/12/2013
Academy of Ancient Music Side by Side
Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Rebel Les Caracteres de la Danse
Handel Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 3
Purcell Theatre Music
Telemann Don Quixote Suite
Academy of Ancient Music & Guildhall Baroque Orchestra
Pavlo Beznosiuk director
03/12/2013
Christmas Concert
Chelsea Town Hall, London
with the Alma Mater ensemble
01/12/2013
Jane Austen's Birthday Concert
Staffordshire
Literary Music performs a programme of 'Jane Austen's Music' for the Jane Austen Society Midlands Branch.
22/11/2013
St Ceciliatide Festival - Harpsichord Recital
Stationers' Hall, London
A harpsichord recital featuring music by female composers and portrayals of women by male composers, including works by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Jacques Duphly, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer and legendary harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. Presented as part of the St Ceciliatide International Festival of Music.
10/11/2013
Illuminating Britten
Garden Room, Barbican Centre, London
with the Guildhall Vocal Consort directed by Eamonn Dougan
23/10/2013
Vivaldi and the Venetian Foundlings
The Foundling Museum, London
Concerto for 2 trumpets in C major, RV 537
Concerto for 2 cellos in G minor, RV 431
Gloria, RV 588
with The Amadè Players
08/10/2013
The Guildhall Cantata Project
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Italian Cantatas performed by the Guildhall Cantata Ensemble
29/09/2013
Jane Austen's Music
St Bartholomew’s Church, Westwood Hill, Sydenham
with Literary Music
24/09/2013
Handel Lucrezia
The Foundling Museum, London
A private performance with The Amadè Players
21/09/2013
Open House at Handel House
Handel House, London
Open House London is an annual event allowing visitors free entry to London’s buildings, old and new, some of which are not normally open to the public.
This weekend entrance to Handel House Museum will be free to visitors with live music played by Katarzyna Kowalik to whisk you back to 18th century London.
15/09/2013
Organ Recital
Kazimierza Wielka, Poland
350th anniversary of the Feast of the Cross Church
15/08/2013
St Lawrence Jewry August Music Festival
St Lawrence Jewry, Guildhall Yard, London
The Alma Mater Ensemble will present a kaleidoscope of song with works by Schumann, Mendelssohn and Michael Head. The programme will include Schubert’s setting of Psalm 23 and his portentous lament Coronach.
21/07/2013
Mrs Gaskell's Music
Stratford–upon-Avon
Literary Music presents music from Elizabeth Gaskell's novels as part of the Gaskell Society Conference.
09/07/2013
French Flamboyance - British Harpsichord Society Recital
Handel House, London
Katarzyna Kowalik explores the French ornate style and its influence on German composers through works by Chambonnieres, d’Anglebert, Rameau, Fux and Gottlieb Muffat.
08/07/2013
El Armonya de los tres mundos - The Harmony of Three Worlds
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
The first Spanish Oratorio, Golden Age Polyphony, Mexican Baroque Villancicos
The Guildhall Lutes and Voices
Directed by Andrew Lawrence-King
23/06/2013
Purcell: Music for Pleasure and Celebration
St. Alfege Church, Greenwich
PURCELL: 'Rejoice in the Lord Alway', 'My heart is inditing',
'Te Deum' & 'Jubilate', 'Welcome to all the pleasures',
'Now does the glorious day appear'.
BLOW: 'Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord'

Thomas Tallis Society Choir
Albion Baroque Orchestra
05/06/2013
Corelli & Bach
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
Guildhall Baroque Orchestra directed by Pavlo Beznosiuk
Corelli Concerto Grosso Op 6 no 1
J.S. Bach Suite in b BWV 1067
Corelli Concerto Grosso Op 6 no 3
J.S. Bach Suite in C BWV 1066
22/05/2013
Bach - The Architect Of Modern Music
The Foundling Museum, London
The Amadè Players present a concert examining how JS Bach helped to form our understanding and canon of Western Art Music with three of his ground breaking Brandenburg concerti. Showcasing Bach's output, the Amadè Players will perform nos. 2, 5 and 6 for mixed ensembles of soloists on period instruments.
25/04/2013
St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Vivaldi
London
Wimbledon Choral Society
Brandenburg Baroque Soloists
Conductor Neil Ferris
Vivaldi Gloria, Four Seasons
14/04/2013
Royal Albert Hall - Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610
Royal Albert Hall, London
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
La Serenissima
Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610
13/04/2013
Monteverdi Vespers by Candlelight
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Monteverdi – Vespers of 1610
Fieri Consort
Brandenburg Baroque Soloists
Robert Porter Conductor
Part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival
10/04/2013
London Handel Festival - Anna Starushkevych's Recital
St George's, Hanover Square, London
Anna Starushkevych - mezzo soprano
Royal Baroque:
Rafael Font Viera violin
Kaisa Pulkkinen harp
Carina Drury cello
Katarzyna Kowalik harpsichord

Handel Aria: Lascia ch’io pianga from Rinaldo HWV7
Bernasconi Aria: Se non ti moro allato from L’Adriano in Siria
Pergolesi Aria: Confusa, smarrita from Catone in Utica
Vivaldi Aria: Sposa son disprezzata from Bajazet RV703
Handel Violin Sonata in G minor Op 1 No 6
Aria: Cara sposa from Rinaldo HWV7
Aria: As with rosy steps the morn from Theodora HWV68
Aria: Vivi, tiranno… from Rodelinda HWV19

Anna Starushkevych was the Winner of the Handel Singing Competition 2012.
25/03/2013
At the Foot of the Cross at St Clement Danes
St Clement Danes, London
Lenten settings for Holy Week, featuring Arvo Pärt's magnificent Stabat Mater and Charpentier's Le reniement de St Pierre.
Guildhall Consort
Conductor Eamonn Dougan
Part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival
14/03/2013
Handel for Sopranos
St George's, Hanover Square, London
Suite in B major HWV354
Cantata: Nel dolce dell'oblio HWV134
Cantata: Mi Palpita il cor HWV132
Cantata: Un’alma innamorata HWV173
Cantata: Alpestre monte HWV81
Duet: Va, speme infida HWV199
Duet: Amor gioie mi porge HWV180

Students from the Historical Performance Department at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Directed by Katarzyna Kowalik harpsichord
Part of the London Handel Festival
03/03/2013
'Sweet melodious sound'. Dowland and his contemporaries.
Hatchlands Park, Surrey
'Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch...doth ravish human sense'. A programme of his finest songs, as well as contemporary instrumental settings for harps, virginals and recorders, exploring the extraordinary influence of this master of melancholy.
Guildhall School Cantata Ensemble
Part of the Guildford International Festival
01/03/2013
Guildhall Baroque Orchestra
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
Guildhall Baroque Orchestra
David Watkin director
Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major BWV 1068
Bach Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major BWV 1069
Handel Selection of arias