December 2009

A Press Kit page has been added to the website, with a downloadable biography, and programme suggestions.

In January 2010, Francesca will be spending two weeks in the USA, where she will give concerts and workshops in Boston, New York and Philadelphia.

From January 2010, Francesca will be the recorder teacher at Muziekschool Amsterdam Noord.

Francesca graduated from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in October 2009, but will be remaining in Holland for the time being, where she is busy performing and teaching.

 

August 2009

Francesca has won second prize in the soloist category at the International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music in Krakow, Poland (www.instytutsztuki.pl).

Concerts have been updated to the end of 2009; concerts for 2010 will be added shortly.

 

August 2008

The Generate Project continues to grow: the latest two works to be finished are Oltre lo sguardo, a piece for Paetzold and tape by the Italian composer Alessio Rossato, and Elegie, by the American composer Peter Gilbert, for alto recorder and tape. Watch this space for details of the premieres!

The duo BlankPage with Gilberto Bernardes will perform in Amsterdam's Bimhius as part of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2008, as well as giving concerts in Portugal during August.

The start of the 2008/9 season will see a new collaboration between Francesca, Max Ehrhardt (harp), Francine Vis (soprano) and Anja Engelberg (gamba). It will focus on early Spanish and French music, and will involve several concerts in the Netherlands and Germany during November and December 2008.


September 2007
Francesca is currently involved in a new project: the GENERATE project, which will involve the commissioning of two new programmes of music. One will be for recorder solo, and one for recorder and harpsichord. Both programmes will include pieces with and without live electronics and/or tape. To date, composers from the UK, U.S.A, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Austria, Italy and Spain are taking part.

The idea of the project is to explore the new in all its forms. Older, canonical works will be programme together with the new works, ranging from anonymous Mediaeval songs and dances, to fourteenth-century ballatas, variations of van Eyck, Bach suites, and many of the seminal contemporary works for recorder, by composers such as Andriessen, Berio, Stockhausen, Tedde, Eggert and others. Together with this, contemporary improvisations (with and without electronics) and early improvisations will also be performed- thus including all possible incarnations of the 'new'. 

First performances of the complete programmes will be sometime in the 2008/9 season, although a number of the works will be premiered throughout Europe before this time. If you are interested in writing for this project, or would like to know more, please contact Francesca. News about this project will be updated regularly.


June 2007

Francesca has been invited to join the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme for a second year.

Francesca has been invited to perform a marathon four concerti in a single concert in the Music in Ancient Krakow Festival in Poland.

May 2007

Francesca has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Study-Abroad Studentship to continue her studies in Amsterdam. See the Leverhulme Trust website for details (www.leverhulme.ac.uk).