Palace Music summer concert
Conrad Steinmann – recorder
Helma Franssen Steinmann – recorder
Reet Sukk – recorder
Taavi-Mats Utt – recorder
In cooperation with Early Music Studio Cantores Vagantes
Program:
Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)
Intrada, Padouana (from : Ludi Musici, Prima Pars 1622)
Conrad Steinmann (b. 1951)
les symphonies de Tniky (2024, Alghoza)
(depart de Sulawesi/la mer indienne et larrive
Madagascar/les fouilles Teniky/reflexions/fin de lexpedition
Samuel Scheidt
Fantasia 4 Voc. Super Io son ferito (from : Tabulatura nova 1624)
Conrad Steinmann
4pm (2013)
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Pari Intervallo (1976)
Summa (1977)
Georg Ph. Telemann
Fantasias 1 and 7
Johann Heinrich Schein (1586 – 1630)
Suite 17 (from: Banchetto Musicale, 1617)
Allemande + Tripla
Conrad Steinmann was born 1951 in Switzerland. Studied recorder at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Hans-Martin Linde. 1972 Winner of the 1st International Recorder Competition in Bruges (Belgium). Based in Winterthur since 1974. 1975–1982 Lecturer at the Zurich Academy of Music. 1982 Appointed lecturer at the Schola Cantorum in Basel.
1991 Awarded the Art Prize of the C.H. Ernst Foundation in Winterthur, 2016 the Zollikon/Zurich Art Prize. Concerts bring him to all European centres, to Moscow, Estonia, Georgia, Japan and regularly to the Middle East, South America and India as well as to Australia, formerly mainly with the “Ensemble 415” and London Baroque, today with the recorder ensemble “diferencias” and with “Melpomen”.
From 1976 to 2015 collaboration with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Zurich Opera and with his “Concentus Musicus” with music by Monteverdi, Mozart and Beethoven (Symphony V). Numerous recordings, most recently with DIVOX: “Echo”, “Giorno e Notte” (recorder concertos by Vivaldi) and with Musiques Suisses SWISS MADE with diferencias. Initiator and organizer of International Recorder Days (Begegnung Schweiz Osteuropa 1993; encounter with Italy 1997 “incontro” and the Arab world in Sept. 2001 with “Jadal” in Basel and Cairo).
As an Aulos player he shows a unique commitment to the music of ancient Greece. Intensive and long collaboration with the instrument maker Paul J. Reichlin, whose reconstructed instruments are the basis for his newly imagined music of the 5th and 6th centuries BC. With his ensemble “Melpomen” he has developed 4 programmes (“Melpomen”, “Olympionikais oder Pindars Oden” at the end of the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, “Sappho” and new “CHOROS” with music to Greek tragedies). The CD “Melpomen Ancient Greek Music” (Harmonia Mundi/Schola 905263) was awarded with a “diapason d’or”. The second CD “Sappho and her time” with music for the 6th century BC was released by Sony. Scholar of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
2016 Publication of his book “Drei Flöten für Peter Bichsel”, Vom Zauber der Blockflöte, 23 music stories (Verlag Rüffer&Rub, Zurich).
Helma Franssen Steinmann (recorder) was born in Eindhoven (Netherlands). Received classical dance training. Studied recorder at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Since then active as both pedagogue and performer in Switzerland and abroad (Concentus Musicus, Zurich Opera, Ensemble 415, London Baroque). Co-initiator of the International Days for New Recorder Music 2001 Europe – Arab World “Jadal” in Basel and Cairo. Member of the recorder ensemble “diferencias”.
The Early Music Studio Cantores Vagantes was founded in 2011, and since it had clearly developed the characteristics of an independent ensemble in terms of both its membership and repertoire, we adopted the name Gamut Consort in 2016. The ensemble’s work can be divided into several different, mutually supportive directions. First of all, an unusual one: the copying of 16th-century recorders. During the 20th century, many standards for the performance of early music were established, and the music and instruments of the 16th-century recorder consort have not remained untouched by this process. Authentic replica instruments are largely absent from the market; instead, stylized versions are offered in their place, and their use directly affects interpretation. Exact replica instruments help bring us closer to the true nature of this music, but at the same time they require experimentation and a certain amount of retraining. New instruments receive their first practical use within our ensemble, and the repertoire expands accordingly. Gamut Consort is the only regularly active Renaissance recorder ensemble in the Baltic states.
Kadriorg Palace is one the most well known and beautiful historic concert halls in Estonia offering memorable music experiences already for many decades. The tradition of performing music in the baroque palace goes back to 18th century when court music accompanied the daily life. The palace has had the pleasure to welcome many international artists and ensembles for outstanding performances. The construction of the Kadriorg Palace was started by the Tsar Peter the Great of Russia in 1718. It was named Catharinenthal (in Estonian Kadriorg) in honour of his wife Catherine I. The palace was designed by the Italian architect Nicola Michetti and its abundantly decorated main hall is one of the most exquisite examples of baroque architecture both in Estonia and in northern Europe. Kadriorg Palace has always been the crown jewel of Tallinn. The small festive tsars’ palace in the style of Roman Baroque, surrounded by a regular garden, with fountains, hedges and flowerbeds, planned after the model of Versailles. The palace was a summer residence of Russian emperors untill 1917. In the 1920s, and again in 1946-1991 palace served as the main building of the Art Museum of Estonia. In the 1930s, it was the residence of the Head of State of the Estonian Republic. In 2000, it was opened as the Kadriorg Art Museum, which displays the largest collection of old Russian and Western European art in Estonia. Music has been performed in the palace halls since the 18th century. In the past few decades, the most brilliant Estonian and international musicians have delighted listeners in the palace. Regular concerts started to take place in the Kadriorg Palace again in 2014, when the museum launched the Palace Music Concert Series. The extraordinary acoustics and the magnificent interior of the main hall make every concert a truly enjoyable artistic experience. The artistic director of the Palace Music Concert Series is Aare Tammesalu.
In cooperation of the Art Museum of Estonia. Tickets are on sale at the Kadriorg Art Museum and Piletikeskus outlets Supporters: Estonian Ministry of Culture, The Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Public Broadcasting, Tallinn Culture and Sports Department, UNESCO City of Music Tallinn, Kultuurikõla, Pointprint Special thanks: Visit Estonia, Visit Tallinn, Õhtuleht
Concert tickets are not refundable, but if necessary, we can exchange them for passes to other Palace Music concerts.
