August 2008
Apologies for the length of time between updates...
Francesca's agenda has (finally) been updated, with concerts up to the end of 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.
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.
Francesca has also begun planning for a new project which should have its culmination in Summer 2009. Loosely in the idea of a Gesamtskunstwerk, it will combine improvisation and new pieces in a one-hour, uninterrupted performance. For this, Francesca is very happy to be working with Laurens van der Wee (composer/sound design), Roel van Doorn (sound design), Laura Carmichael (clarinet), Max Ehrhardt (harp) and Francesco Cort (harpsichord).
September 2007
Apologies for the length of time between updates...
Francesca's agenda has (finally) been updated, with concerts up to the end of 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.
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.
Francesca has also begun planning for a new project which should have its culmination in Summer 2009. Loosely in the idea of a Gesamtskunstwerk, it will combine improvisation and new pieces in a one-hour, uninterrupted performance. For this, Francesca is very happy to be working with Laurens van der Wee (composer/sound design), Roel van Doorn (sound design), Laura Carmichael (clarinet), Max Ehrhardt (harp) and Francesco Cort (harpsichord).
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.
Francesca has moved house! Details in the Contact page.
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).
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).