Violin, Cello, and Harpsichord, June 2006
Partners for this concert
Artworks on display will be courtesy of Stop Laughing This Is Serious Gallery, Blackheath.
10% of ticket revenue will go to the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, Blackheath for their Winter Appeal.
Forthcoming concerts
Don't forget! The Apollo Trio will be performing Haydn, Beethoven, Frank Martin, and Dulcie Holland, on the 11th and 12th of August.
Violin, Cello, and Harpsichord
7:30 pm, Friday, June 16th 2006, at Werona
2:00 pm, Saturday, June 17th 2006, at Werona
Look forward to a baroque feast with Biber's Mystery Sonatas!
This exciting work will be performed on violin by Maria Lindsay, accompanied by Sydney based harpsichordist, Monika Kornel, and baroque cellist James Beck from the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Maria will be using two violins –- not at the same time! -- with gut strings, and which will be tuned, off stage, to different pitches for each piece. This tuning process results in the violin resonating in different ways making it sound like a different instrument – a common baroque technique. The tuning will be done by Stan Kornel, a violinist with the Sydney Symphony. The music itself is based on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.
Please note: the concerts will start ½ hour earlier than usual. The Friday concert will commence at 7.30pm and the Saturday concert at 2.00pm. This is due to the length of this extraordinary piece of music.
Artist biographies
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 Maria Lindsay (violin)
Maria Lindsay graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and has held positions with the Sydney Sympony and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. She has toured extensively in Australia and overseas. Maria has appeared as guest concertmaster a soloist with several Sydney orchestras. She is a founding member of the Linday trio and the Apollo Trio, with whom she performs in Sydney and regional NSW. She has performed as soloist and member of the Trio Australia and has performed contemporary chamber music with Klangforum Vienna and the Seymour Group Sydney. She initiated the Blackheath House Concert Series, of which she is Artistic Director. (Read full biography.)
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 James Beck (cello)
Melbourne-born James Beck was educated at the Universities of Melbourne & Western Australia, the Victorian College of the Arts and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Since 1999 James has performed primarily with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and he also works regularly with the ABC Classic’s Sinfonia Australis and The Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra. As a studio artist James has recorded albums with Phil Cebrano, Kate Cebrano, Powderfinger, Jon Stevens and Coda and toured with Anthony Callea. James also works on the other side of the recording booth as an editor for ABC Classics. (Read full biography.)
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 Monika Kornel (harpsichord)
Monika performs regularly as both soloist and continuo player with ensembles and orchestras including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the St. Laurence Baroque Orchestra, and the Solut! Baroque. In 1998 she also appeared in the Sydney Bach Festival. With her early music ensemble The Sydney Consort, Monika gives regular concerts in Sydney and Canberra, as well as touring interstate for Musica Viva and recording for ABC Classic FM. In June and July 2005 Monika performed during her first European tour with the Sydney Consort, of which she is co-founder, and has been a part of the Marais project from the beginning. (Read full biography.)
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