#Roots Baroque Orchestra moves online
We were scheduled to perform for Cambridge Early Music on 18 November 2020, including an appearance from the young student group we’ve been working with, #Roots Baroque Orchestra. This all had to be postponed due to Lockdown 2, but we’re delighted to have been able to move activities online. Working digitally presents many challenges, but […]
Covid and lockdown
It’s been a terrible year for live music-making, with all but one of our concerts cancelled or postponed since March 2020. There was a brief return to ‘normality’ (whatever that is…) in September 2020, when we performed for Assembly House Classical in Norwich, albeit to a socially-distanced audience, wearing masks. We have our final concert […]
Cambridgeshire Music Live #2020
The Brook Street Band is delighted to be part of #MusicLive2020, for Cambridgeshire Music. This is the Band’s third year participating in the scheme, delivering concerts and workshops for young people across the county, many of whom have limited access to live music. We’re reaching large numbers of new audience members, often performing to whole school communities, […]
Roots
The Brook Street Band is delighted to be part of an exciting new music outreach project, Roots. We’ll be working in collaboration with VOCES8, Cambridge Early Music, Anglia Ruskin University, Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Music. https://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/news/launch-of-new-outreach-project-roots
Judgment of Paris
We’re delighted to be recording Arne’s “Judgment of Paris” which we performed at the London Handel Festival earlier this year, conducted by John Andrews. John has been working for some time to secure this world premiere recording (for the label Dutton), featuring the stellar line up of soloists Mary Bevan (Venus), Susanna Fairbairn (Pallas), Anthony […]
Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo
We’ve long wanted to record Handel’s wonderful sonatas for violin and basso continuo, and 2018 is the year we finally got around to it. We’ve been playing them together since 1995, so it seemed about the right time! The year started with 4 wonderful days of recording sessions in the Great Barn at Oxnead Hall […]
BSB in Hull
We’ve just returned from a fantastic three days in Hull, working with music students at the University, giving a concert with Lisete da Silva, and then rehearsing for our next CD recording. It was a great privilege to be in Hull in its year as City of Culture, and enjoy the splendid new facilities at […]
Hull, City of Culture 2017
We’re really excited about our visit to Hull on 1-2 November 2017. We’ll be working with students on the 1st, and then performing a Bach, Handel and Telemann programme in the stunning new Middleton Hall on the 2nd. We were last in Hull two years ago, and are really looking forward to seeing the city […]
Website development with Intrada Innovations
The summer has been a productive time, making funding applications, renewing relationships with promoters, music festivals and music societies, and planning the Band’s next Handel CD. Some time was also spent mucking around in boats, with the next generation of Brook Street Band members! A big focus however was generally getting the Band’s website in […]
May 2017 Handel
The Brook Street Band is delighted to have been chosen as one of the selected artists on the 2018-19 Making Music scheme.