by philip | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog, General, Maris Project Concerts
We’ve just started a new CD which has made us reflect a little on why we actually bother to record at all. The process of making a recording has little relationship to a conventional performance. There you are, sitting in an air conditioned room behind two sets...
by philip | Oct 8, 2011 | Blog, Maris Project Concerts
Concert preview by Jennifer Eriksson Our final Marais Project concert for 2011 is a celebration of our instruments as much as the music we are presenting. Back in 2002 I became the proud owner of a viola da gamba by Reinhard Ossenbrunner, one of the world’s finest...
by philip | Sep 22, 2011 | Blog, Commissions and New Music, Maris Project Concerts
“The Ossenbrunner Twins” is a celebration of the fact that Australia is now home to two of the world’s finest viola da gambas. The concert’s title, “The Ossenbrunner Twins”, pays homage to Reinhard Ossenbrunner, the leading German viola da gamba maker who lives and...
by philip | Sep 6, 2011 | Blog, Maris Project Concerts
2.00pm Sunday 18th September, 2011 Presented by Moss Vale Uniting Church, cnr of Argyle and Spring St, Moss Vale (1.5hrs south of Sydney) What follows is an edited version of the program notes for the concert on 18 September. Southern Highlands Spring Concert Moss...
by philip | Jul 31, 2011 | Blog, Commissions and New Music, Maris Project Concerts
The story to date “The Marais Project’s” August 14 concert “Viol Song” is a journey through music for viol and voice that spans five countries and four centuries. It reflects both where “The Marais Project” has come from and where we might be headed. When I founded...
by philip | May 2, 2011 | Blog, Marin Marais, Maris Project Concerts
Age does not necessarily beget wisdom. But as our ensemble, The Marais Project, enters its “Tweens”, (the term coined by marketers to describe the almost-teenager-yet-no-longer-child), we thought it timely to reflect on where we as a group, and the Australian early...
