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Handel with flair! Barnaby Smith's debut solo album release and conducting premieres

Friday 29 October 2021

As the new season starts, conductor, countertenor and Artistic Director Barnaby Smith unveils his debut solo album, ‘Handel’ with Mary Bevan and The Illyria Consort. He looks forward to conducting the world premiere of VOCES8’s new orchestral programme ‘A Christmas Cracker’ in LIVE From London Christmas, before conducting debuts with Nederlandse Reisopera, at Nuremberg festival with the Academy of Ancient Music, and on disc with the Philharmonia Orchestra. 

Ysaÿe, Jack Liebeck © Kaupo Kikkas

Five-star season start for Jack Liebeck : new album Ysaye

Friday 8 October 2021

Jack Liebeck celebrates a five-star season start with his new solo album release, ‘Ysaÿe’, released on 8 October. The Times newspaper hails ‘Ysaÿe’ as an “exceptional release" giving the album a five-star review and noting “an old-time virtuoso reborn, able to fiddle away with such a flourish that you expect his violin to catch fire.” Jack’s concert season opens in return concerto performances with orchestras including the Philharmonia and Santtu-Matias Rouvali, BBC Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony before he launches his first Australian Festival of Chamber Music as the festival's new Artistic Director.

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Spring shoots: new festival, albums and artists

Thursday 4 February 2021

We’re thrilled to unveil Percius’ new projects page which includes LIVE From London and the third festival in its series, LIVE From London - Spring, plus new programme collaborations including Joanna MacGregor’s Soul of a Woman and I Fagiolini’s ‘Re-Wilding The Waste Land’. We look forward to upcoming album launches including Mozart world premieres from Rachel Podger and Christopher Glynn in March and a solo Ysaÿe album from Jack Liebeck in May, as well as showcasing conductor Barnaby Smith.

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I Fagiolini new online: Choral Chihuahua; Sing The Score & The Full Monteverdi; Gramophone Gala

Monday 11 May 2020

Today marks the launch of a new podcast series by I Fagiolini in collaboration with The Sixteen, Choral Chihuahua. I Fagiolini unveiled its new film series #NotInThisTogether last night as part of Gramophone’s ‘Winners’ Lockdown Charity Gala’ in aid of Help Musicians. The group shares its weekly series #SingTheScore, it’s online interactive venture for singers #SingTheScoreExtra, and looks forward to a new EP release of John Wilbye on CORO. Upcoming film releases including The Stag Hunt (Janequin’s 'La Chasse'), and The Full Monteverdi film which will be available online for the first time in honour of Monteverdi’s birthday anniversary on 15 May. Read on to find out more about I Fagiolini’s new online offerings...

Simon Crawford-Phillips © Nikolaj Lund

Debuts, Discs and new Departures - 3D Crawford-Phillips

Friday 7 February 2020

Following the release of three new albums on 7 February highlighting his multi-faceted performing career, conductor/pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips makes his debut with Sinfonia Varsovia in the Lutoslawski Chain Festival (8 February), debuts with Zurich Chamber Orchestra (touring with Daniel Hope), celebrates his Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival’s anniversary at the Wigmore Hall, and tours his award-winning Västerås Sinfonietta to the UK in Wild Waves and Woods with Lawrence Power and Paul Watkins.

Jack Liebeck © Kaupo Kikkas

Jack Liebeck: new Professorship and Artistic Directorship

Monday 13 January 2020

We are delighted to share that the Royal Academy of Music today unveils Jack Liebeck as its new Émile Sauret Professor of Violin, as the Australian Festival of Chamber Music announces Jack as its new Artistic Director from 2021.

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Rejoice, Rejoice! Spanish debuts and new Chief Conductorship for Eamonn Dougan

Thursday 12 December 2019

Jersey Chamber Orchestra has announced Eamonn Dougan as its new Chief Conductor; this as he makes his debuts in Bilbao and Seville, conducting Handel’s Messiah for Fundacio La Caixa with Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Sociadad Coral de Bilbao and Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla.

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