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Review of Croissants & Whiskey concert at Tempo Rubato, Friday November 25, 2022

“Croissants & Whiskey” is the engaging name of a newly formed quartet, whose members and instruments are:
Joy Lee: harpsichord
Ryan Williams: recorders
Katie Yap: baroque viola
Miranda Hill: G violone

(All this, and more details, can be found on their web page https://croissantsandwhiskey.com.)  All four players are expert instrumentalists as well as being highly sensitive musicians.  Their inaugural concert was earlier in 2022.

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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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A hands on evaluation of Aquila’s new range of synthetic ‘red strings’.

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Dear members and viol friends,

It’s my pleasure to deliver the enrolment form and information regarding next year’s National Viol School in Beechworth.
Friday 7th April – Monday 10th April 2023
Beechworth Secondary College, Beechworth VIC

As well as a gorgeous location, we are very excited to have secured a stellar line up of tutors: Joshua Keller (USA), Pippa Macmillan (UK, Canada), Laura Moore, Lizzy Welsh and John Weretka.

As this school is being held over the Easter long weekend and Beechworth is a popular tourist destination for that time of year, please don’t delay in securing accommodation. As outlined in the attached document, there are options for accommodation in the Beechworth surrounds that may also be suitable.

We also plan to run a partner’s program taking full advantage of all the fabulous activities in the local area.

Click here for detailed information

Please follow this link for the ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM:

We hope to see you there!
Reidun Turner
President and Musical Director, Viol School 2023

 

National Viol School

The AVdGS Committee has been working hard to secure a National Viol School for this year albeit with an altered format.

We’ll be running the National Viol School concurrently in Melbourne and Canberra. For those members who are unable to attend either location, lectures and selected classes will be available as a resource online. We’ll also be running virtual social gatherings and lectures between the two locations.

Exact venues are yet to be confirmed as with tutors, but we are looking solely at our substantive Australian talent for tutors.

 

SAVE THE DATE – National Viol School

June 11-13^th 2022

Canberra & Melbourne – Exact venues TBC

Online streams of lectures and selected classes available for all members

Membership Renewal

With all this happening, it’s time to renew your membership for 2022. Click HERE to pay your membership through Trybooking.

Membership gives you lots of benefits:

• Access to online viol videos, including lectures on viol related topics, deep dives into some of our favourite viol music, and viol playing techniques.
• Online viol-related news
• National Viol School
• Public liability insurance for consort events where all participants are paid members