Continuum
Elizabeth Walker Flute
Christopher Poffley Violoncello
Michael Overbury Harpsichord
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Continuum
offers a unique opportunity for audiences to experience ultimate baroque
masterpieces combined with exhilarating contemporary music for flute, cello and
harpsichord.
With Continuum you can choose:-
A full length recital combining pace, variety, virtuosity and musical rapport.
and/or
An Educational Workshop. The group have a wealth of experience, teaching musicians of all ages and talents, and will readily explain how their years of Early Music study have shaped their performance in this programme. Their individual teaching experience is highlighted in the biographies below.
Sample Repertoire:
Music for flute cello and harpsichord
J.S. BACH, E minor or B minor Sonata
G.P. TELEMANN Methodical sonatas
J.M. LECLAIR Sonatas
C.P.E. BACH Hamburger Sonata
G.P. Handel Sonata in B minor
Solo FLUTE
Telemann
Solo Fantasias, Debussy Syrinx
Solo CELLO
Suites by
Benjamin Britten and J.S. Bach
Solo HARPSICHORD
Ligeti
Hungarian Rock, Passacaglia ungherese and Continuum. J.S. Bach Chromatic Fantasy
and Fugue
ELIZABETH
WALKER
studied as a junior at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded the
Sally Wainwright woodwind prize in 1985 and later at the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama. She continued her postgraduate studies abroad in Holland, with
Wilbert Hazelzet. In 1992, she became Head of
Woodwind and Recorder at the Centre for Young Musicians, London, a post she
relinquished shortly after the birth of her second child. She currently
teaches at the City of London School for Girls and examines graduate and
postgraduate students at the Guildhall, RCM and Birmingham Conservatoire and in
September she is looking forward to joining the teaching staff at Wells
Cathedral School. Highlights for this year include performances of Rossinis
Barber of Seville with Armonico and Haydns Creation with the English Baroque
Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner. Her first solo CD recording of Telemann
Fantasias was recently reviewed in the British Flute Society magazine
“if you like her sound as much as
I do, you will want to listen to them over and over again.” and is
released on the Quartz record label,
http://www.quartzmusic.com/artist/27.htm
CHRISTOPHER
POFFLEY
studied the cello at the Royal College of Music with Joan Dickson where he
obtained his B.Mus. Since then he has specialised in period performance practice
working with all the leading period instrument groups in the UK including the
English Concert, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment. For several years he
was sub-principal in John Eliot Gardiners international groups, the English
Baroque Soloists and ORR playing continuo and solo roles. In June 2005 he
appeared in the Beethoven BBC film Eroica as one of two cellists. Over the last
four years he has given many recitals specializing in performances of the Bach
unaccompanied cello suites in cathedrals and concert halls throughout the UK. He
lives in Suffolk with his wife, the viola player Rebekka and their seven
children.
MICAHEL
OVERBURY
was
awarded an Organ Scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read
music and studied the organ with Gillian Weir.
Harpsichord tuition continued with Kenneth Gilbert.
After graduating he was successively, an assisting organ scholar at
King's College, Cambridge, Assistant Organist at New College, Oxford, a deputy
organist and choir master at the Cathedral and Abbey Church at St Alban's,
Director of Music at Eagle House Preparatory School for Boys, and Master of the
Song School at Newark, Nottinghamshire. After winning First Prize in the 1982
Manchester International Organ Competition, he appeared twice as soloist at the
Royal Festival Hall and has continued to play with numerous choirs and
orchestras, including Sinfonia Viva (formerly the East of England Orchestra),
the Wren Orchestra, the Orchestra of St John's Smith Square, the Milton Keynes
Chamber orchestra, and English Sinfonia, and has featured on several recordings,
including four solo discs. Michael is currently Director of Music of the Priory
Church of Our Lady & S Cuthbert, Worksop, a founder member of Mvsica Donvm Dei,
playing on period instruments mainly in the East Midlands, and is Director of
Music of the Nottingham Boys Choir.
Contact liz@lizwalker.co.uk for booking details and availability.
Morceaux
de concour
A programme of music for flute and piano performed on Elizabeths original Louis Lot flute no 435 built in Paris in 1859. Lot was the official maker of Boehms newly patented keyed flute todays modern flute. Some of the music in this programme was composed in order to extol the virtues of this new instrument.
Pianist - Richard Shaw
'To Imitate a bird'
A programme for recorder and voice
This ensemble has collected together some varied and virtuosic music written for the soprano voice, recorder and harpsichord. All of the music was inspired by bird song and includes the renaissance composer Van Eyck's expressive 'Engels Nachtegaeltje', the highly ornamented french baroque 'Le Rossignol en Amour' by Couperin and famous Handel Aria's 'Augelletti, che Cantate' and 'Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire'.
Classical Wind Quintet on tour in Australia.
This ensemble specialises in performing music from the classical era on authentic instruments. Programmes include music by Mozart, Reicha and Hummel for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and french horn. Pictured here are (from left to right) Jane Booth, Julia Plaut, Martin Lawrence, Cherry Forbes and Elizabeth Walker.
For more information, contact Elizabeth Walker - liz@lizwalker.co.uk or tel 07808 579979