http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsxSCPT2sSQ&
I have begun making recordings (from the limited technology available on my laptop) of interesting pieces that I have found in out of copyright collections available to download from the Petrucci Music Library. This is one of them; I think it would make a fun piece to learn for a student of about Grade 8 standard.
I am also posting recordings of exam pieces for my students on the same 'channel'.
This blog shares my activities as a pianist, harpsichordist, teacher and singer in Edinburgh, Scotland. I welcome enquiries if you are looking for a pianist or harpsichordist for your exam, recital, evening of entertainment. I studied as a musicologist, and as a writer specialise in baroque music (I am the chap who recently discovered a Vivaldi flute concerto in a Scottish archive!). As a performer my interests range widely from Monteverdi to interwar 'light' music and much in between.
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Sunday, 3 April 2011
Are you a singer looking for something different or a challenge?
I am a pianist-singer seeking to collaborate with another singer to perform songs mainly from the 20s and 30s.
I am looking for someone who sings in a style that is generally 'classical' in approach, and appropriate to styles of singing in the 20s and 30s---but not necessarily someone with classical training. The most important quality I'm looking for is the ability to sing in tune! Some of the songs demand a reasonably high/lighter voice (mezzo soprano or tenor).
I have the idea of a duet called 'Dolores and Percy', which will involve a bit of acting (although the music will be the focus). Dolores is flirty and inconstant, while Percy (me) is mildly inhibited and serious-minded. They argue but somehow the music comes off...
I would like to consider putting on this 'act' at the Edinburgh Festival. If this interests you do get in touch!
Andrew Woolley
I am looking for someone who sings in a style that is generally 'classical' in approach, and appropriate to styles of singing in the 20s and 30s---but not necessarily someone with classical training. The most important quality I'm looking for is the ability to sing in tune! Some of the songs demand a reasonably high/lighter voice (mezzo soprano or tenor).
I have the idea of a duet called 'Dolores and Percy', which will involve a bit of acting (although the music will be the focus). Dolores is flirty and inconstant, while Percy (me) is mildly inhibited and serious-minded. They argue but somehow the music comes off...
I would like to consider putting on this 'act' at the Edinburgh Festival. If this interests you do get in touch!
Andrew Woolley
2011 so far
This year so far has been quite a varied one. In addition to working with a number of ABRSM exam candidates, I've been involved as an organist with the University of Edinburgh Renaissance Singers and have worked as an accompanist and piano teacher at Clifton Hall School near Ratho.
Performing with the Renaissance Singers has been great fun. Inevitably concerts this year have taken the opportunity to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) with a series of concerts featuring his music and that of his contemporaries. Previously unfamiliar with much Victoria, I was convinced by the end that this is truly great music. For the concerts I sung bass (and sometimes tenor!) and played some keyboard dances by Cabezon on the organs at St James the Less, Penicuik, and the Canongate church, Edinburgh, as best I could (I am not trained as an organist!).
At Clifton Hall School, I have been accompanying students for exams, and for what was a spectacularly successful production of The Sound of Music, the first large-scale production the school has attempted since it expanded to become a senior school as well as a junior school. It was a pleasure to be involved in this production, which ran for two nights at the end of March, was many months in the making, and pulled together an array of expertise and support. Together with a small group of student and teacher instrumentalists, I was responsible for providing the accompanying music. What I need to do now is to compare how this production fares with the film, which I've never seen...
Performing with the Renaissance Singers has been great fun. Inevitably concerts this year have taken the opportunity to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) with a series of concerts featuring his music and that of his contemporaries. Previously unfamiliar with much Victoria, I was convinced by the end that this is truly great music. For the concerts I sung bass (and sometimes tenor!) and played some keyboard dances by Cabezon on the organs at St James the Less, Penicuik, and the Canongate church, Edinburgh, as best I could (I am not trained as an organist!).
At Clifton Hall School, I have been accompanying students for exams, and for what was a spectacularly successful production of The Sound of Music, the first large-scale production the school has attempted since it expanded to become a senior school as well as a junior school. It was a pleasure to be involved in this production, which ran for two nights at the end of March, was many months in the making, and pulled together an array of expertise and support. Together with a small group of student and teacher instrumentalists, I was responsible for providing the accompanying music. What I need to do now is to compare how this production fares with the film, which I've never seen...
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