Flute Ensemble ends Loulé Early Music Ensemble

The Church of Nossa Senhora da Assunção, in Alte, receives, on Saturday, the 22nd, at 21 pm, the closing concert […]

The Church of Nossa Senhora da Assunção, in Alte, receives, on Saturday, the 22nd, at 21 pm, the closing concert of the XIII Encontro de Música Antiga in Loulé. Loulé's Flute Ensemble takes the stage to present a show dedicated to the German composer and musician GP Telemann.

The Flute Ensemble was formed in December 1994 by students from the Loulé Municipal School of Music, under the supervision of Professor Francisco Rosado.

He has performed at school auditions, in churches and in other cultural spaces: Casa da Cultura and Art Gallery of the Convento Espírito Santo in Loulé, Infante D. Henrique Archeological Museum, in Faro, Setubal School of Education, Regional Conservatory of the Algarve Maria Campina, in Faro, Instituto Superior Afonso III, in Loulé.

And more recently, he performed at the concert of students of the 2008st Meeting of Consorts of Flutes of Loulé in March 2008 and in musical moments integrated in the Festival MED 2009, 2010 and 2009 and the Festival Clássica in Cacela XNUMX.

He has so far recorded three CDs, with plays from the Middle Ages to the XNUMXth century, with the support of the Loulé City Council, and has participated in all editions of the Encontro de Música Antiga, which takes place annually in this municipality.

The American magazine “American Recorder“ and the English magazine “Recorder Magazine”, magazines specialized in recorders, published, respectively, in January and March 2003, articles about the participation of the Ensemble in the IV Encontro de Música Antiga in Loulé.

Some members of the group participated in the master classes taught by the Dutch flutist Bert Honig (from the Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam ensemble), by the Belgian flutist Bart Spanhove (from the Flanders' Recorder Quartet), by the German flutist Kerstin de Witt (from the Flautando Köln quartet), and by the Dutch flutists Karel van Steenhoven (from the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet) and Paul Leenhouts (director of The Royal Wind Music) at the Encontros de Música Antiga in Loulé, as well as in other master classes in previous years, namely with the Portuguese flutists Pedro Couto Soares and António Carrilho.

In 2007 two members of the group participated in the flute master class guided by Peter Holtslag at the XXV International Course on Early Music in Tomar.

More recently, some members of the group have participated in master classes in solo flute, with Pamela Thorby, and in Renaissance ornamentation, with William Dongois, both in Loulé.

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