Sound Unbound18th – 19th May 2019

The Hospital Church of St Bartholomew the Less

Saturday 18th May 2-2.40pmAn Eye for Music from TabeaDebus + Paula Chateauneuf 3.30–4.10pm Viva España! with AndreyLebedev 4.45–5.25pmAn Eye for Music from TabeaDebus + Paula Chateauneuf 6–6.40pmThe Anatomy of the Accordionwith Bartosz Glowacki

Sunday 19th May 2-2.40pmViva España! with AndreyLebedev 3.30–4.10pmAn Eye for Music from TabeaDebus + Paula Chateauneuf 4.45–5.25pmListen, Lovers! from HelenCharlston + Toby Carr 6–6.40pmThe Anatomy of the Accordionwith Bartosz Glowacki @CityMusicF @CultureMileLDN @BarbicanCentre #SoundUnbound #CMFArtist

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Australian-Russian guitarist Andrey Lebedev is on a mission to

redefine the relationship of the guitar to the classical

mainstream. His creative collaborations and track record of

performing new works have garnered him attention from critics

and audiences across Europe, South America, USA, and

Australia. He has been mentored by guitar giants Julian Bream

and John Williams and is a Prize Winner of the Guitar

Foundation of America Competition, the New Elizabethan

Award, and the ARD Music Competition. Concert highlights

include recitals at Wigmore Hall and Wiener Konzerthaus.

Described by The Times as "a charismatic virtuoso", Tabea

Debus is constantly exploring the horizons of music for recorder

and has performed widely in Europe, Singapore, Japan,

Malaysia and the USA. Highlights include concerts at Wigmore

Hall, the Resonanzen Festival at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the

Schleswig Holstein, Edinburgh International, London Baroque,

Brighton, and York Early Music Festivals. She has collaborated

with Iestyn Davies, Rachel Podger, Richard Egarr, and The

English Concert, among many others. She was selected by

Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in May 2018.

Tabea Debus, recorders 2016 CMF Artist

Andrey Lebedev, guitar 2015 CMF Artist

Acclaimed for her musical interpretation, presence and

“warmly distinctive tone” (The Telegraph), Helen Charlston has

quickly established herself as a key performer in the next

generation of British singers. Helen won First Prize in the 2018

Handel Singing Competition and she is a Rising Star of the

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 2017-19. Recent

engagements include performances with Florilegium at

Wigmore Hall (also broadcast on BBC Radio 3), Auckland

Philharmonic Orchestra (NZ), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Orchestra, and recitals at the 2019 London Handel Festival.

Helen Charlston, mezzo 2018 CMF Artist

Praised for creating "a poignant and distinctive sound world"

(Fiona Maddocks, The Observer), Bartosz has performed in

numerous prestigious concert halls including Wigmore Hall,

Royal Festival Hall, Salle Cortot, Colston Hall, Studio SI of The

Polish National Radio, and many others. Alongside his solo

work, Bartosz is a founding member of the leading tango

quintet, Deco Ensemble, and during his career he has

collaborated with celebrated musicians such as Nigel

Kennedy, Trevor Pinnock, and Tanita Tikaram, as well as with

musical institutions like The Royal Opera House, The Royal

Ballet, The National Theatre, and London Symphony Orchestra.

Bartosz Glowacki, accordion 2015 CMF Artist

Both J.S. Bach and Handel suffered from poor eyesight and both – allegedly – had the misfortune

of losing it altogether following botched surgery from infamous British ‘oculist’ John Taylor.

Recorder player Tabea Debus offers a glimpse of an unimaginable medical past through the

music of both Bach and Handel, as well as the work of the visionary medieval polymath, Hildegard

von Bingen. Better known as a composer and mystic, Bingen was also an early writer on eye

colours. The timeless music of Bingen is paired in this recital with world premieres by Cydonie

Banting, Freya Waley-Cohen, and Kate Sagovsky.

Nothing evokes Spain more clearly than the guitar. Painting a musical picture of this historic

country, guitarist Andrey Lebedev presents some of the best-known Spanish guitar music. Starting

in Andalusia, in the South, music by Isaac Albéniz and Francisco Tárrega conjures a cool evening

at the ancient Alhambra palace, and Albéniz’s Asturias – the quintessential Spanish guitar piece –

draws on the region’s rich flamenco tradition. Heading North, Lebedev shares some of Miguel

Llobet's tender Catalonian folksongs, as well as No te escaparás by Australian composer Brett

Dean, a work inspired by the etchings of Francisco Goya, one of Aragon’s most famous sons.

An Eye for Music from Tabea Debus and Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)

Viva España!

They may be 400 years old, but the solo vocal works (a voce sola) of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-

1643) and Barbara Strozzi (1619-77) offer an intensity and emotional breadth worthy of modern

opera. Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and lutenist Toby Carr pair these two great Italian

composers in a programme book-ended by Strozzi's lovelorn cantata L'Eraclito Amoroso and

Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna, the only surviving fragment of his 1608 opera, L'Arianna.

Alongside these Italian gems, their programme includes Henry Purcell’s desolate song O Solitude

and the world premiere of a new work for mezzo-soprano and lute by Owain Park.

Listen, Lovers! from Helen Charlston and Toby Carr (theorbo)

There are few instruments more versatile than the modern accordion. Like a portable orchestra at

your fingertips, the accordion is as comfortable on the street corner as the concert stage. Polish

accordionist Bartosz Glowacki explores the anatomy of this kinetic, red-blooded instrument in a

programme ranging from J.S. Bach to Piazzolla via Rameau and Sofia Gubaidulina. Alongside

music written for the accordion, such as Gubaidulina’s brash and mocking Sonata ‘Et Expecto’

and Piazzolla’s toe-tapping Libertango, Glowacki presents arrangements of Baroque keyboard

music by Bach and Rameau, as well as Krzysztof Penderecki’s angst-ridden Polish Requiem.

The Anatomy of the Accordion

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by equipping outstanding musicians with the tools, skills, experience, and

networks they need to build and sustain rewarding and profitable careers.

Through an annual competitive audition process, we select classical soloists

and chamber ensembles, as well as jazz, folk, and world musicians. These

‘CMF Artists’ then engage in an innovative two-year programme, which

includes artistic and business mentoring, as well as professional development

workshops. These workshops cover a range of topics such as managing

finances, tax and pensions, legal input on copyright and contracts, plus

presentation and interview skills, promotion and publicity strategies, and

much more.

We work with the CMF Artists to develop professional promotional tools such

as websites, photos, recordings, and videos, as well as providing help with

commissioning and other projects to ensure that each musician develops a

unique niche and selling point. We present CMF Artists in our own recital series

and residencies and arrange performance opportunities at venues and

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