C o n c e r t s
C o n c e r t s
26 Oct 2024
SPLENDOURS OF THE BAROQUE
Shane Lestideau, guest director and violin
Tim Drylie, tenor
Andrew Welsh, harpsichord
Local chamber orchestra, Hepburn Players, present a program of favourite concertos and arias from the Baroque period. Composers include Bach, Vivaldi and Muffat, and also Haydn, whose long and prolific career spanned the late Baroque and early Classical periods.
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27 Oct 2024
FESTIVE FRENCH BAROQUE
Renowned early music specialists, Greg Dikmans (baroque flute) and Shane Lestideau (baroque violin), perform duos from 17th and 18thC France. Elegant and graceful, colourful and conversational, this music will transport you from the Salon of The Heights to the court of King Louis XIV himself.
2:30pm, Salon, The Heights heritage House, Geelong
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1 Dec 2024
NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW
Evergreen Ensemble will explore the musical sound-worlds of the homelands of ancestors prior to migration to Australia. Drawing inspiration from the tips of a family tree that reach back to the eighteenth century, Evergreen will evoke wintery tunes and songs popular at that time; the sound-track to lives of forebears who were tenant farmers and labourers from the Isle of Man, Denmark’s island Fyn, Aberdeenshire in Scotland, East Prussia, sooty London and Ulster province in the north of Ireland.
Claire Patti - harp, vocals
Meredith Beardmore - flute
Jess Foot – oboe, fiddle, cor
Shane Lestideau - fiddle
Sarah Wade - recorder, concertina, smallpipes
Louise Godwin - cello
Lyrebird Concert Series, Melbourne
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For more information on upcoming concerts, please refer to the following websites or contact me for details:
Evergreen Ensemble: www.evergreen-ensemble.com
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: www.brandenburg.com.au
Melbourne Baroque Orchestra: www.melbournebaroqueorchestra.com
On Demand 2020
Commissions
2017
"Saturation" by Alice Chance.
Commissioned and premiered by Evergreen Ensemble at the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
Baroque Violin, Baroque Viola, Baroque Cello.
I'm passionate about Australian music and being part of the writing, commissioning and performing of new works by Australian composers. In 2016 I launched the Australian Baroque Sonatas Project (ABSP) with Evergreen Ensemble. The goal is to commission a series of sonatas for period instruments written by Australian composers. Inspired by the music of 17th and 18th centuries, the sonatas are not written in imitation of the 'baroque style' but aim to find a new voice for old instruments within the Australian musical landscape. The first four commissions have been from the Sydney-based composer, Alice Chance.
2018
"Odd Ditty" by Alice Chance
Commissioned by Evergreen Ensemble. Recorded and premiered in 2018
Voice (soprano), Harp, Baroque violin, Baroque Guitar, Bass Viola da Gamba
2019
"Song" by Alice Chance
The commission was enabled by a successful Pozible campaign in 2017
Solo Baroque Violin
2020
"Mosaic"
The commission was enabled thanks to the Robert Salzer Foundation.
For string quartet