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Upcoming Performances

• Spring 2011 - SPAV US TOUR
  New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and more
  SPAV ("Vivaldi's Women") tours the eastern United States. Called Vivaldi and the Women of the Pietà, this new dramatized performance is being created for this special tour (Nikolaus Morris is writing the script). Stayed tuned for more information, but in the meantime please view this great promotional video for the US tour.
• 8 September 2010 - MONTEVERDI VESPERS
  Frari Church, San Polo; Venice, Italy (9.30)
  Sue has been selected as just one of 10 singers (as a Tenor) to join Philip Thorby for the 400-year anniversary performance of this masterwork by Monteverdi, in Venice, at the Frari church, with period instruments. Monteverdi is buried in the Frari, and we will be performing the work on one of the feast days for which Monteverdi may have written it. I will be singing some of the tenor solos! For more information, visit earlybyrd.org.uk.
• 26 June 2010 - BUSHES & BRIARS
  St. Olave's Church, Marygate; York (8.00)
  York Cantores performs folk songs, including arrangements by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Percy Grainger and John Rutter. See York Cantores for more details.
• 19 March 2010 - BAROCCA
  National Centre for Early Music; York (7.30)
  Barocca is an innovative all-female production combining Baroque music, gorgeous costumes, light staging, and a stunning multimedia dramatic presentation. Sue will sing the Tenor lead role of Testo in Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda as well as in the Alto chorus in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. The UK premiere follows previous Italian productions, which received great acclaim. Sue joins soloists Morena Aulicino, Wai-Yin Li, Eleanor Rose Midgley, Chloë Clifford-Frith and Marina Theodoropoulou and a full period continuo. See the Barocca page for more information, and to purchase tickets.
• 27 Feb 2010 - HALL OF HARMONIES
  National Railway Museum: York (19.00)
  Sue will sing "Nigra sum" as a female Tenor, with gamelan accompaniment, from underneath a train! From the galleries, from the depths, from amid the historic locos - the sounds of Europe and Asia ring out. Multiple performers burst forth into the magnificent spaces of the Great Hall of the Railway Museum with adaptations and arrangements of works as various as Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, well-known Japanese melodies and new works especially composed for the occasion. Please note that this is promenade performance without fixed seating, see this page for more information.
• 6 January 2010 - SENSORIUM
  The Guildhall; York (8.30)
  World-premiere of noitcelfeRReflection by Emily Kalies, a one-woman multimedia musical and dramatic presentation. Sensorium is part of The Links Project, and presents a diverse evening of interactive visual, aural and haptic installation work and performances designed to stimulate the senses. Experience a series of immersive, cross-media artworks presented within winding paths and pockets of light in the Guildhall. Video by Rheya Brigden and Dan Vivash. Performance installation - 7-10pm flexible entry, licensed bar, all proceeds benefit the Lord Mayor's charities.
• 10 December 2009 - CAROLING
  Banks Music Store; York (5 - 7)
  Caroling with Juniper, joining Opera Jorvik, including Britten's Ceremony of Carols and other holiday favorites.
• 5 December 2009 - NEEMF WORKSHOP
  St Oswald's Church; Guiseley (10.30 to 4.30)
  NorthEastern Early Music Forum presents the workshop A Venetian Christmas in Guiseley. Led by Graham Coatman and Suzanne Fatta, the day will explore the influence of the late Renaissance Venetian tradition of polychoral music, and its assimilation by non-Italian composers (Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Hassler, Schütz and Zielinski.) For more information and to register, see their website.
• 2 December 2009 - JUNIPER CONCERT
  Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Music Department; Heslington, York (6.45 - 7.15)
  Juniper Trio performs as part of the University of York Cocktail Concerts series. Enjoy a mix of repertoire, including a few holiday favorites, before Choral Classics with the University's Chamber Choir and Orchestra (performing Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams and Faurè). Juniper will sing Bryars, Poulenc, Christmas music from Georgia, a Renaissance round, a gospel hymn, and beautiful arrangements of holyday classics such as 'King Jesus Hath a Garden,' 'Stille Nacht,' and 'In Dulci Jubilo'. See our MySpace page for more information.
• 22 November 2009 - RV BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
  St. Hugh's College; Oxford
  SPAV, along with friends and supporters, celebrates a very special 60th birthday (Richard Vendome, founder and musical director) with a day-long set of performances, open rehearsals and workshops. Some events will be open to the public - stay tuned for further information.
• 24 October 2009 - FESTIVAL MEDITERRANEA
  St George's Basilica; Victoria, Gozo, Malta (20:00)
  SPAV ("Vivaldi's Women") sings at the world-famous Festival Mediterranea in Gozo, Malta. Concert of music by Vivaldi, with original instruments and costumes. Artistic Director Richard Vendome also presents an organ concert the previous day on an 18th century instrument he has restored.
• 23 October 2009 - FESTIVAL MEDITERRANEA
  Aula Mgr. G. Farrugia, St. Geoarge's Basilica; Victoria, Gozo, Malta (20:00)
  World-premiere of Ultime mie speranze, a song written for Sue by composer FL Dunkin Wedd. The poem, translated by me, is by my great-grandfather, and expresses his desire to return to his homeland in Sicily. Enjoy the Festival Mediterranea's inaugural event with the unique experience of hearing a late 18th century British Pipe Organ in the relaxing ambience of the parish house of St George's Basilica with organist Richard Vendome.
• 23 Sep 2009 - SPAV'S DVD BROADCAST
  Sky Arts TV Channel (17:30)
  Sky Arts broadcasts SPAV's forthcoming DVD, a new production of Vivaldi's Gloria which will be available for purchase before Christmas, but you can see the performance in its entirety on TV.
• 21 Sep 2009 - RECORDING STUDIO
  Music Research Center studio (14:00)
  Juniper is in the Trevor Jones Studio to record a demo. Sue will then be joined by other singers to workshop Sigismondo d'India's villanelle for her dissertation research.

• 20 September 2009 - SPAV ON TV
  Sky Arts TV Channel (21:00)
  Sue is featured as a Bass singer with Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi ("Vivaldi's Women") in a documentary on Sky Arts Channel for Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd. Peter Ackroyd's Venice begins a 4-part series featuring the music of SPAV, as the relationship between Vivaldi and the women of the Pietà is explored. Episode Three: "The City as Music" airs on the 20th, while the series starts on the 6th. Please view this video to learn more about the series.
• 18 September 2009 - LANGUEDOC WORKSHOP
  La Maison Verte; Roujan, France (20:00)
  12-19 September 2009 in Roujan, France at La Maison Verte. Leaders include Robert Harre Jones (The Orlando Consort), Berty Rice (soloist) and Francis Steele (Director; The Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen). Special focus on early works of the Renaissance period - Machaut to Dunstable via Josquin as part of an intense practical survey of the whole period.