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The
artists we currently are working with include:
Roy
Goodman
| Lars Ulrik Mortensen
| Fabio
Biondi | Reinhard Goebel
Paul Goodwin | Ton
Koopman | Andrew
Manze
Roy
Goodman
Music
Director of EUBO since 1985, Roy Goodman has directed the Orchestra in
some 44 tours, more than 250 concerts and on six CDs. He is also Principal
Conductor of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in Winnipeg, Principal Guest
Conductor of the Swedish Northern Opera in Umeå, and a regular guest
conductor all over Europe. His discography includes over 100 CDs of repertoire
ranging from Monteverdi to Holst’s Planets. His work in the opera
field has taken him recently to San Fransico and Stuttgart, Karlsruhe,
Drottningholm and London. In 2002 Roy was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
of Music by the University of Hull, UK.
Lars
Ulrik Mortensen
Lars
Ulrik Mortensen, after a long association with EUBO as harpsichord tutor
and guest director, will take over from Roy Goodman as Music Director
in November 2003. Highly regarded as soloist and chamber musician, Lars
Ulrik Mortensen is becoming increasingly known as a conductor. He is currently
the Artistic Director of Concerto Copenhagen, and appears regularly directing
opera at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where his most recent success
was Handel’s Giulio Cesare. Mortensen’s discography is extensive
and he has received awards worldwide for his recordings. Between 1996
and 1999 he was professor for harpsichord and performance practice at
the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and he teaches at numerous courses
for baroque music throughout the world.
Fabio
Biondi
Fabio
Biondi began his career playing with groups such as La Capella Real, Musica
Antiqua Vienna, La Chapelle Royale and Les Musiciens du Louvre, before
founding his own ensemble, Europa Galante, in 1990. With Europa Galante
he has enjoyed massive success, particularly with his CD of Vivaldi’s
Four Seasons. As soloist and guest conductor Fabio Biondi works with many
orchestras, including the Santa Cecilia in Rome, Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra,
the Opera of Halle, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra,
New York Collegium, of which he is permanent conductor, Orchestre Nationale
de Montpellier, and Orquesta Ciudad de Granada. He directs EUBO for the
first time in 2002.
Reinhard
Goebel
Reinhard
Goebel and his ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln, founded in 1973, are
known worldwide for lively interpretations of 17th- and 18th-century works
and for virtuosic and imaginative historical performance practice. Musica
Antiqua Köln recordings, on the Archiv label, are now considered
standard, and have been showered with international awards and prizes,
amongst them several Gramophone Awards. Shortly after recording Biber's
Mystery Sonatas in 1990, a freak paralysis of his left hand abruptly ended
Goebel's career as Konzertmeister of MAK, a role he had always performed
from the violin. Goebel took the courageous decision to re-learn his instrument,
holding it with the right hand, whilst continuing to direct his ensemble
during the years of his 'second apprenticeship'. Today, Goebel is once
again able to conduct from the violin, holding the instrument with the
right hand and the bow with the left.
Paul
Goodwin
Paul
Goodwin, for many years the foremost baroque oboist of his generation, is
now firmly established as a conductor. His principal conducting posts are
Associate Conductor of The Academy of Ancient Music and Principal Guest
Conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra. His interest in the theatre
began with a staged version of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, with producer
Jonathan Miller, and has continued with regular opera productions for Opera
North, Karlsruhe, Lisbon and Athens. Paul is keen to bring early instruments
and contemporary music together and has commissioned a series of contemporary
pieces for The Academy of Ancient Music, the first of which is by John Tavener,
and the second by David Bedford.
Ton
Koopman
Harpsichordist
and organist Ton Koopman has been involved with EUBO since its inception
and was responsible for the development of its annual pattern of activities.
Best known for his work with his own Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, he is
engaged with them on projects to record all the cantatas and all the organ
works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Ton is also chief conductor of the Netherlands
Radio Chamber Orchestra with whom he performs repertoire up to the mid-nineteenth
century. Ton Koopman publishes regularly, is Professor of Harpsichord
at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and is an Honorary Member of the
Royal Academy of Music in London.
Andrew
Manze
Having
first worked with EUBO in 1989, violinist Andrew Manze has been a regular
guest artist since then. After a period as concertmaster of the Amsterdam
Baroque Orchestra, he was appointed Associate Director of The Academy
of Ancient Music in 1996. Andrew is an exclusive recording artist with
Harmonia Mundi USA and was HM's Artist of the Year in 1998. This collaboration
has resulted in many, award winning recordings with Romanesca, Richard
Egarr, Jaap ter Linden and the AAM, including discs of sonatas by Biber,
Schmelzer and Tartini, and concertos by Vivaldi, Bach and Handel. Alongside
his outstanding solo career, he has recently been appointed Music Director
of the English Concert.
Roy
Goodman
| Lars Ulrik Mortensen
| Fabio
Biondi | Reinhard Goebel
Paul Goodwin | Ton
Koopman | Andrew
Manze
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