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EUBO is delighted to announce that Hypovereinsbank Luxembourg (HVB Luxembourg) has confirmed its sponsorship of the orchestra in 2008. We are very grateful for the generous support, which will enable EUBO to develop its relationship with the Centre Culturel, Touristique et de Congrès Trifolion, the Festival International d’Echternach and the City of Echternach. for further information, go to sponsors |
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Read about the EUBO in a recently published article on the European Commission's London office website (April 2008).
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Programme Book 2007
Download pdf-files of the 2007 EUBO programme book, including information about tutors, tours and musicians:
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New recording: Bach, Fux and Rameau recorded with Music Director Lars Ulrik Mortensen
In
December 2007, EUBO recorded repertoire for a new CD, including a Suite
from Concentus Musicus by Fux, the Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066
by JS Bach and a Suite from Rameau's opera Zoroastre, at St Michael’s
Church in Oxford.
The recording will be available on the label Gift of Music in
2008.
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It is my great
pleasure to welcome you to this season of concerts by the superbly accomplished
young players of the European Union Baroque Orchestra. Every year the
orchestra renews itself, drawing on the diversity of European music talent
and developing the skills and enthusiasm of some of the finest performers
of baroque music as they enter the professional world.
This is an important moment to sit as President of the Council of Ministers
of Culture. The European Commission, led by President Durao Barroso, has
indicated that ‘the time is ripe for a new European agenda for culture,
which takes into account the realities of today’s globalising world’.
The Council of Ministers shares this vision and in the coming years we
will be aiming at increasingly placing civil society and cultural organisations
at the forefront of our initiatives in intercultural dialogue and in making
the European Union’s benefits more evident to its citizens. We will go
on further developing policies and intergovernmental initiatives so as
to stimulate the creativity of Europeans and to highlight its contribution
to innovation as well as social and economic cohesion and development.
EUBO is ideally placed to play a major part in achieving these goals.
It represents and presents the common heritage of our European music from
one of its greatest periods. It is faithful to the tradition of that heritage
while demonstrating its relevance and appeal to present day audiences.
EUBO is a uniquely valuable and effective ambassador for both our European
culture and our European young people. Wherever the Orchestra plays, whether
in Europe or around the world, it demonstrates the vitality of our culture.
It shows also how an organisation started and supported by the European
Union can contribute in a way that would be far more difficult for any
nation to do by acting on its own. Through EUBO, the whole Europe and
every European can show what spiritual enrichment and enjoyment a true
measure of real cultural co-operation can bring.
On behalf of my fellow Culture Ministers, I wish this generation of EUBO
players every success in their future careers and address to them our
thanks for their commitment. To those who will be listening to them this
year, do enjoy the best of beautifully performed European music.
Isabel Pires de Lima
Minister of Culture, Portugal
President of the EU Council of Ministers of Culture
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10-year planning diaries available - place your order now!
EUBO has produced a new edition of its now famous (A4) 10-year planning diary covering the period 2006 to 2015. View a sample page (actual size A4). Copies are available from the EUBO office priced £6 (UK) or €10 (Europe ex UK) each, including postage and sales tax (VAT). Payment by credit card or sterling cheque only.
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EUBO's Music
Director Lars Ulrik Mortensen
receives the 2007 Leonie Sonning Music Award, recognising his outstanding
work as a harpsichordist and conductor in the early music field.
The award was first made in 1959 to Igor Stravinsky, and other recipients
have included Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Yo-Yo Ma and Alfred Brendel.
For full details see Leonie
Sonnings Musikfond. Our congratulations to Lars Ulrik!
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The European Union Baroque Orchestra with The Hilliard Ensemble and New College Choir (University of Oxford) performing J S Bach's St John Passion in Castellon, Spain. Directed by Edward Higginbottom, performances took place in Oxford (UK) and Salamanca, San Sebastian and Castellon (Spain).
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