Easter Viol School 2008

I have been invited to the Easter Viol School. Held in Sydney at the MLC School in Burwood, I will be teaching beside Jenny Eriksson and Caroline Downer. I will also meet bow maker, Louis Begin, whom I also met on my last trip to Hawaii during the Pan-Pacific Gamba Gathering. Some part of me feels like commissioning a bow from Louis, but I've already got a theorbo on commission and I would like to be able to afford a holiday at some time. I do not have more details on the school, but I imagine there will be opportunities for consort coaching, private lessons as well as masterclasses. In addition, the tutors are in the process of planning a concert during the school. I will post more exact information closer to Easter. 

The Concert Spirituel

The next disc with Ensemble Battistin has been released on ABC Classics. I am mostly heard in the Sonata by Guillemain, which features a really interesting viol part including some really cool and flashy virtuosic passages. I have not received a copy yet, but I suppose at some point of time I'll receive one in the post. I read a PDF of the liner notes online and was very happy to see the changes in my biography. (See my last post on the first CD)

I am not sure if there will be any more CDs to the series, but I hope there will be. Perhaps I will suggest recording the baroque cantata Tobie by Bousset? I read about it somewhere in a thesis, but I have never seen the score. Has anyone heard of this work?