Oo - shiny!

You may have noticed that my nicolawemyss.com site is no longer with us.  This is due primarily to moving away from France, where the account was based, and I rather fancied working in English for a change!  Until the dot com name is back on the register, I decided to try my hand at a free hosting site called Wix and this is the result:

And jolly pleased I am with it, too!  Click HERE for the direct link, and do feel free to let me know what you think of it - here or over there!

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Sing We And Chant It

Last week saw myself and 4 other singers of Ensemble Jacques Moderne fa-la-lahing our way through some French, English, Italian and German Renaissance madrigals, in some exquisite parts of the Loire Region. 

Chateau de la Chatonniere

Les Douves - Onzain

Remind me again why I left...?

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It's All Go!

Only a few weeks after re-locating to The Netherlands, I was back in the South of France for another edition of 'From Rosy Bowers' - a plethora of English baroque music with Le Petit Ensemble, performed in the ancient Cistercian Abbaye of Villelongue, in the Longuedoc. A marvellous place with some marvellous musicians!

But no rest for the wicked - some late Renaissance madrigals with Ensemble Jacques Moderne are calling my name...

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Hither This Way, This Way Bend...

... to the gorgeous theatre music of Mr Henry Purcell.  The tour of 'King Arthur' with Ensemble Jacques Moderne was (apart from everyone's usual January sniffles) a resounding success.  I have to admit that it was also vastly diverting to be amongst a load of French folk singing about how marvellous Britain is.  And singing it exquisitely, too, I have to add!

salle gaveau, paris

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A Rose By Any Other Name...

... would sound the same!  December brought Mozart and lots of it. The 'Mass in c minor' and the 'Davide Penitente': much of the same music under different titles, one in Latin and the other in Italian. Both with student orchestras in the Netherlands (USKO and CM Leiden) in some lovely venues.  Crazy but fun!

stadsgehoorzaal, leiden*

jacobikerk, utrecht*

January sees some more delicious Purcell with Ensemble Jacques Moderne.  Yummy!

* (Photos shamelessly ganked from flickr and picasa because I forgot to take my camera!)

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