Story-Singers of the English Baroque
Story-Singers of the English Baroque - 2023 Faculty
“A through-bass to each song…”
Story-Singers of the English Baroque
July 3 - 8 2023 in E’se’katik (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada)
FACULTY
Jonathon Adams - baritone/director
Thomas Baeté - viola da gamba (Transports Publics, Club Mediéval)
Charles Daniels - tenor
Christophe Gauthier - harpsichord/organ
Lucas Harris - lute (Tafelmusik)
Rebecca Hass - mezzo-soprano (Pacific Opera Victoria)
Jesse Plessis - keyboard
Ellen Torrie - soprano (Apprentice Instructor 2023)
“Story-Singers of the English Baroque” is a weeklong program offered by Jonathon Adams at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (Lamp). Advanced voice students and professional singers may apply. This course will highlight the relationship between solo singer and continuo while exploring aspects of style, ornamentation and rhetoric. We aim to synthesize the experience of some of the world’s leading continuo players and baroque singers within a safe space informed by the tenets of traditional Indigenous storytelling and community building. The seventeenth century provides us with a locus of rhetorical, political, and musical material which will fuel dialogues between faculty and participants in masterclasses, group discussions, rehearsals, scholarly presentations and performance settings. Beginning with the lute songs of John Dowland and ending with the works of Henry Purcell, we will utilize a wide range of historical and contemporary sources as we examine the many influences on English song during the seventeenth century. As this course takes place in E’se’katik (Lunenburg), on unceded Mi'kmaq territory, we will delve into the colonial dimensions of this repertoire and familiarize ourselves with the events taking place on this land during the period in question. There will also be a strong focus on hyper-personal programming and ‘storytelling-as-activism’, mirroring the work of the Nistwayr Collective (Jonathon Adams, Rebecca Hass and Jesse Plessis) throughout the week.
Applications can be submitted through our website.