Guest Artist 2023
Hans-Dieter Michatz recorder
Hans-Dieter Michatz is looking back at over half a century of pioneering historically informed performance practice. His European background and training influenced several generations of students and professionals in Australia. He has worked as a flute and recorder player with many ensembles and orchestras here and overseas, as well as conducting ground-breaking choral, orchestral and opera performances, eg.: staged Handel Oratorios in collaboration with director Paul Thom and first performances of sacred works by JD Zelenka and A Vivaldi, with renowned researcher J. Stockigt.
Besides his acclaimed recording of Telemann’s ‘Sonate Metodiche’ with Linda Kent and the 6 Concerti with Monika Kornel (MOVE Records), he featured as a principal soloist in the ABC Classics Brandenburg Concerti and in Salut Baroque, Sydney Consort and Brandenburg Orchestra CDs. Hans-Dieter has taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music since the early 1990s, was a Classical Coordinator and lecturer at the Australian Institute of Music (AIM) and currently teaches in the AMPA Classical Program.
It is with deep gratitude for the opportunities and generosity he was able to experience from fellow musicians and audiences over many years that Hans-Dieter is now beginning to take his leave from the concert platform.
Guest Artists 2021
Richard Butler tenor
Richard Butler made his symphony orchestra debut in 2014 singing Handel’s Messiah in a joint concert series with Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth Symphony Orchestras. He returned to WASO recently to sing Bach’s St John Passion and has been a soloist for various projects for Joseph Nolan at St George’s Cathedral in Monteverdi’s Vespers, St Matthew Passion and Judas Maccabaeus. Also in Perth, at UWA, Richard sang Britten’s War Requiem.
Richard sang the role of Pilate in Pärt’s Passio for the Adelaide Chamber Singers and the Song Company, was the evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion for the Australian Haydn Ensemble’s collaboration with St James’s Church, King St, Sydney and evangelist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion for Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the late Richard Gill as well as for Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide. He also sang the title role in Britten’s St Nicolas for Brett Weymark and the Sydney Chamber Choir. Richard has appeared as a soloist in various Australian Brandenburg Orchestra concert series, including Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Mozart’s C Minor Mass and Bach’s Magnificat. Very recently Richard was tenor soloist for Bach Akademie Australia’s launch concert series of various cantatas including the Ascension Oratorio as well as for Pinchgut’s inaugural concert series, singing Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Telemann’s Donner-Ode. Richard is a former Choral Scholar of King’s College, Cambridge, lay clerk at Westminster Cathedral and soloist in various projects for the Gabrieli Consort.
The Early Dance Consort
The Early Dance Consort specialises in the recreation of early European court dance, with a repertoire extending from the dances of the Renaissance and Baroque ballroom and stage to the social dances of the Classical era. The Consort has appeared with leading early and chamber music ensembles including the Australia Ensemble, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Capella Corelli, Elysium Ensemble, Adelaide Baroque, The Musicke, Pastance, Renaissance Players, Telemann Ensemble, Marais Project, Sydney Conservatorium Early Music Ensemble, Evergreen Ensemble, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong and in 2020, Consort 8.
Choreographer and dance researcher, Fiona Garlick, first trained in classical ballet, Fine Arts, and earned a PhD for her work on French court dance at the court of Louis XIV. As artistic director of the Early Dance Consort Fiona has led early dance presentations, and choreographed for concerts and productions of early operas, ballets and plays. Co-director John Barnard trained in jazz ballet before turning to historical dance while studying architecture at the University of Sydney. He and Fiona have travelled widely in Britain, Europe and the USA to further their understanding and practice of early dance. John partners with Fiona both in performance and teaching activities ranging from evening classes and summer courses in Sydney to specialist workshops and lecture demonstrations.
Fiona & John are delighted to have been given this opportunity to appear with Consort 8 again. They can count many of its members as colleagues and friends, having worked together in various performance and workshop settings over the years.
Musicians
Susan Christie (Artistic Director) ~ recorder, viol
Tim Chung ~ countertenor, percussion
Susan Foulcher ~ recorder, viol
Jane Grimm ~ viol
Jude Huxtable ~ recorder
Daniel Murphy ~ recorder, viol
Annabelle McIver ~ viol
Robert Small ~ recorder
Catherine Upex ~ viol
Louise Welsh ~ percussion
Bernard Williams ~ recorder, baroque guitar, theorbo
Guest Composers
Brian Kogler
Clive Lane
Louise Welsh
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