London Ear Festival organised 2 workshop events
Friday 28 March at 10am
Workshop for harpists and composers led by the captivating performer Gabriella Dall’Olio on contemporary harp repertoire, at Holywell Music, near Tate Modern.
Born in Bologna, Italy, Gabriella studied in Italy, France and Germany with Pierre Jamet and Fabrice Pierre, Jaqueline Borot, Giselle Herbert and Anna Loro. Now based in London, she continues to follow an international and high profile career performing and teaching the harp.
Gabriella is deeply committed in promoting 20th and 21st century music: enthusiastic and open about avant-garde and contemporary music and the development of new sounds and techniques on the harp, she has collaborated with many years with Gruppo Musica Insieme di Cremona, the leading Italian chamber group for Contemporary Music, and with Kontraste, one of the busiest German Ensembles to promote new music.
Her critically acclaimed recordings span solo, chamber and orchestral works on the Claves, Koch, Stradivarius, Dal Segno and Ambitus labels, and she has also made many live recordings for French, German, Italian and Swiss Radio. Her wide and varied repertoire covers most solo, concertos, chamber music repertoire as well as orchestral works (symphonic, operatic and ballet).
Internationally active as a soloist and chamber musician, Gabriella has given recitals and concerts throughout Europe, USA, the Far and Middle East. She also freelances with some of the most outstanding UK and European orchestras: the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Gabriella is head of harp studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
Having received requests to widen the scope of our planned harp masterclass we are pleased to announce our harp workshop is open to harpists and composers.
The workshop will cover the following areas:
What is modern and contemporary music, approaches and extended techniques, repertoire, etc
An exploration of works of composers in attendance
A brief introduction to the trio by Holliger for Oboe, Viola and Harp that will be performed at the London Ear final concert.
Free! The event is also open to observers and will be of interest to composers as well as harpists of all levels. Harps for use in the workshop are kindly provided by Holywell Music.
Saturday 29 March at 10am
Workshop for singers and composers led by legendary vocalist Linda Hirst on contemporary singing techniques, at The Warehouse, Studio 2.
Linda Hirst was born in Huddersfield and studied flute and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her career began during the early music revival of the early seventies, with Roger Norrington, John Eliot Gardiner and David Munrow. From 1974-78 she was a Swingle Singer, she then co-founded Electric Phoenix. With both groups she travelled the world, leading to work with many living composers, and becoming internationally renowned, in particular for her performances of contemporary music.
She has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, conductors and chamber ensembles in festivals, broadcasts and recordings. Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire has been a constant thread through the last 25 years, and she has just completed a series for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.
Recent concerts have taken her to the Buenos Aires Festival of Contemporary Music to sing Berio and Scelsi, and to Taipei for performances of Benedict Mason’s Chaplin Operas with the Ensemble Modern. This season she will sing Lachenmann in Cologne and Huddersfield with ensemble recherche.
Linda is head of the vocal department at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Having received requests to widen the scope of our planned vocal masterclass we are pleased to announce our vocal workshop is open to vocalists and composers.
The workshop will cover the following areas:
What is modern and contemporary music, approaches and extended techniques, repertoire, etc
An exploration of works of composers in attendance
Singers please bring your own accompanist if required (piano provided!).
Free! The event is also open to observers and will be of interest to composers as well as singers of all levels.