Performing cellist, baroque cellist, 19th/early 20th century performance style, researcher and teacher based in London and Winchester (Hampshire)

12 Sep

Morning talk on J.S. Bach Cello Suites

  • 11:00 am
  • John Whitgift Cube, Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon CR9 1DG

Lecture recital for the London Mozart Players Friends Cellist Erlend Vestby explores the J.S. Bach Cello Suites from a historical perspective and through his own experiences as a performer and teacher. You are invited to a behind-the-scenes peak into the learning processes of the suites where some of the questions performers tend to ask will be discussed. Ways of understanding musical shaping and rhetoric stands central. Live examples will be played on both the modern classical cello as well as on the period instrument.

27 Oct

Gothic Opera: Rip van Winkle

  • 7:30 pm
  • Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, London

This Halloween, join us for a now-forgotten operetta - coming back to London over 140 years after its premiere. ​ Rip Van Winkle is a forgotten English-language operetta by Robert Planquette based on two stories by Washington Irving - Rip van Winkle and the famous Sleepy Hollow. The piece premiered in London in 1882, running for almost 300 performances, but the English version hasn’t been performed since. With a cast of exceptional singers, Gothic Opera will be approaching this charming piece with fresh eyes, and reinvigorating it with a new chamber arrangement and newly-written dialogue.

28 Oct

Gothic Opera: Rip van Winkle

  • 7:30 pm
  • Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, London

This Halloween, join us for a now-forgotten operetta - coming back to London over 140 years after its premiere. ​ Rip Van Winkle is a forgotten English-language operetta by Robert Planquette based on two stories by Washington Irving - Rip van Winkle and the famous Sleepy Hollow. The piece premiered in London in 1882, running for almost 300 performances, but the English version hasn’t been performed since. With a cast of exceptional singers, Gothic Opera will be approaching this charming piece with fresh eyes, and reinvigorating it with a new chamber arrangement and newly-written dialogue.

30 Oct

Gothic Opera: Rip van Winkle

  • 7:30 pm
  • Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, London

This Halloween, join us for a now-forgotten operetta - coming back to London over 140 years after its premiere. ​ Rip Van Winkle is a forgotten English-language operetta by Robert Planquette based on two stories by Washington Irving - Rip van Winkle and the famous Sleepy Hollow. The piece premiered in London in 1882, running for almost 300 performances, but the English version hasn’t been performed since. With a cast of exceptional singers, Gothic Opera will be approaching this charming piece with fresh eyes, and reinvigorating it with a new chamber arrangement and newly-written dialogue.

31 Oct

Gothic Opera: Rip van Winkle

  • 7:30 pm
  • Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, London

This Halloween, join us for a now-forgotten operetta - coming back to London over 140 years after its premiere. ​ Rip Van Winkle is a forgotten English-language operetta by Robert Planquette based on two stories by Washington Irving - Rip van Winkle and the famous Sleepy Hollow. The piece premiered in London in 1882, running for almost 300 performances, but the English version hasn’t been performed since. With a cast of exceptional singers, Gothic Opera will be approaching this charming piece with fresh eyes, and reinvigorating it with a new chamber arrangement and newly-written dialogue.

01 Nov

Gothic Opera: Rip van Winkle

  • 7:30 pm
  • Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, London

This Halloween, join us for a now-forgotten operetta - coming back to London over 140 years after its premiere. ​ Rip Van Winkle is a forgotten English-language operetta by Robert Planquette based on two stories by Washington Irving - Rip van Winkle and the famous Sleepy Hollow. The piece premiered in London in 1882, running for almost 300 performances, but the English version hasn’t been performed since. With a cast of exceptional singers, Gothic Opera will be approaching this charming piece with fresh eyes, and reinvigorating it with a new chamber arrangement and newly-written dialogue.

02 Dec

British Sinfonietta

  • 7:30 pm
  • St Michael and All Angels Church, Chiswick, London

Bach – Magnificat BWV 243 and Vivaldi - Gloria, with West London Chorus conducted by Hilary Campbell

Photo: Kate Kantur

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