We are Crowdfunding to purchase a harpsichord to support our outreach and education work, amongst other things.
For more details please visit: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/harpsichord-campaign
The Brook Street Band is named after the London Street where George Frideric Handel lived from 1723-59. It was formed in 1997 by baroque cellist Tatty Theo, rapidly establishing itself amongst the UK’s leading Handel specialists, winning grants, awards, and broadcasting opportunities from organisations including Radio 3 and the Handel Institute. The Band has enjoyed an unusually stable core-membership, its players working together for over twenty years; this longevity has enabled them to develop a style of performing and music-making that is precise and spontaneous, musicians able to react instinctively to each other and play as one.
Eighteenth-century chamber repertoire has always been the Band’s driving passion, focusing particularly on Handel’s music.
The Band currently performs and teaches throughout the UK and Europe, and has established love: Handel, its own critically acclaimed biennial music festival. It regularly broadcasts for Radio 3 and Classic FM and its extensive discography has been singled out for critical acclaim, accolades including Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice and inclusion in the chamber music/small ensemble selection category at the Grammy Awards. It’s world-premiere recording of “Dragon of Wantley” (an English opera by Handel’s bassoonist J F Lampe) proved to be something of a hit winning the Opera Award in the 2023 BBC Music Magazine Awards. The Band featured at the world’s first ever “Handeliades”, immersive 4-day events of concerts, masterclasses and talks given by world-renowned Handel experts in 2021 and 2023.
We are collaborating with the National Centre for Early Music and BBC Radio 3 on the Young Composers Award 2025, and will be workshopping and premiering original compositions written for The Brook Street Band by composers aged 25 and under.
Lisete da Silva Bull (flute), Rachel Harris (violin), Tatty Theo (cello), Carolyn Gibley (harpsichord).
A chance to play chamber music together with other participants, developing your ensemble skills with expert tuition from members of the popular Brook Street Band, making a welcome to return to The Music Summer School and Festival.
Tatty Theo
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