TABEA DEBUS

The VRS has joined forces with Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) to present a new series of four online concerts, highlighting some of the extraordinary young artists they’ve represented and nurtured.

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Described by The Times as a ‘charismatic virtuoso’, Tabea Debus is much sought after as soloist, collaborator, teacher and communicator. Current projects include the development of an animated story-game for children, funded by a 2020 CAG / Richard S. Weinert Innovation Award; and a series of music and puppetry videos for primary school children. Over the last year Tabea has won the Soloists Prize at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany, a Concert Artists Guild prize in New York, and 1st Prize in the Society of Recorder Players/Moeck Competition.

Toby Carr is known as an engaging and responsive artist, performing with some of the finest musicians in the business. Having studied at Trinity Laban and the Guildhall School he is now active as a soloist, continuo player and chamber musician working in the field of historically informed performance, bringing old music to new audiences in exciting and innovative ways. This has included working with many of the foremost period instrument groups around, including Dunedin Consort, Academy of Ancient Music, The English Concert, La Nuova Musica, and Irish Baroque Orchestra.

Ohrwurm

“I was [un]able to think of any thing, but remained all night transported.” – Samuel Pepys

Music has a tendency to continue playing inside our minds, whether we want it to or not. From Pepys we gather that musical earworms are a longstanding phenomenon: Ohrwurm explores how tunes and dances wormed their way into many aspects of music-making in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe.

Anonymous (14th century)
Lamento di Tristano & La Rotta

Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638)
Ciaccona for solo theorbo
Ciaconna Medley
After various Italian composers including Antonio Bertali (1605-1669), Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665) and Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Anonymous (16th century)
La Monica or Une jeune fillette

Pierre-Francisque Carroubel (1556-1611/15)
Spagnolette – from: Terpsichore, Musarum Aoniarum (Michael Praetorius, 1612)

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Fantasia per il Flauto senza Basso No. 3, TWV 40:4
Largo/Vivace/Largo/Vivace – Allegro

Johann Schop (1590-1667)
Pavane Lachrimae

John Dowland (1563-1626)
Sir John Smith, His Almain
Captain Digorie Piper, His Galliard
The Earle of Essex Galiard, or Can she excuse my wrongs