Author: Reidun Turner

CHRISTOPHER TYE AND THE ART OF PROPORTION

Sat 8 to Mon 10 March 2025 at Mount Carmel Secondary School, 361 Sandy Bay Road, Sandy Bay

The 2025 AVdGS annual viol school will be held in beautiful Hobart/nipaluna. Viol players of all levels, including beginners, are welcome. Using the music of Christopher Tye as a focus, we will immerse ourselves in three days of playing music for viols.

We are also thrilled to offer the opportunity to spend the final afternoon of the school with one of the world’s greatest viola da gamba virtuosos, Paolo Pandolfo. Paolo will also be giving two solo concerts in the Hobart Town Hall on Sunday March 9. Discounts are available for school participants.

Paolo Pandolfo appears with the support of Van Diemen’s Band

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There will be a September Viol Workshop in Victoria organised by Knobby Clarke, in Glen Waverley, VIC 3150. Chosen works will be Galliards by Anthony Holborne. Treble and tenor players are especially welcome. Booking essential as numbers limited. 

Contact dawclarke@gmail.com or 0408 793 793 for queries and pdf of detailed program. Attendees please RSVP by Wednesday 18^th so seating can be arranged.

The Australian Viola da Gamba Society is proud to announce a special Viol School in collaboration with Consortium, with the theme of English Consort Music.

The Annual Viol School will run between Saturday 8 June to Monday 10 June, at Carlton North Primary School, Lee Street, Carlton North.

For more detailed information, click here

Follow this link to complete your ENROLMENT online

WELCOME
A warm welcome to the Autumn 2024 edition of the newsletter, and our many thanks to all the contributors to this edition. Below you will find updates on viol activities across Australia, including Rachel Walker in Canberra, Patrice Connelly in Queensland, and Knobby Clarke in Victoria. We look forward to seeing many of you over the King’s Birthday Weekend at the Annual National Viol School in Melbourne!

–RUBY BRALLIER & ALASDAIR MCANDREW

 

2024 AUSTRALIAN VIOLA DA GAMBA SOCIETY ANNUAL VIOL SCHOOL — MELBOURNE

The Australian Viola da Gamba Society is proud to announce a special Viol School in collaboration with Consortium, with the theme of English Consort Music. Tutors will be Reidun Turner, Laura Vaughan, Ruth Wilkinson, Ruby Brallier and John Weretka.

The Annual Viol School will run between Saturday 8 June to Monday 10 June at Carlton North Primary School, Lee Street, Carlton North.

The link to complete the enrollment form is https://forms.gle/F2XW6tSLL3c2Vs4n9.

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The inaugural music series at Christ Church in the quaint Victorian town of  Daylesford was put on with great success last year. Victoria Watts tells us a bit about what it’s all about.

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An insightful and fascinating look at the publication of a Sicilian manuscript for Bass Viol that originates from the second half of the 17th century.

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Listening to the Goldberg Variations as arranged for viol consort by Richard Boothby from Fretwork, and played by them.

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The Coptfold Consort meets in the afternoon of the first Sunday in every month.  We seek to recruit another tenor and another treble player.  For further details, please contact Knobby CLARKE as dawclarke@gmail.com

A new facsimile edition from Atelier Philidor.

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A luthier called Richard Jones makes viols constructed according to a Renaissance pattern and designed to be played at 440Hz.

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