Lunchbox Concert: Mini Van Diemen's Band
Credit: Albert Comper
Program
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) Sonata a 3 in D major Opus 4 No. 4
Preludio Grave – Corrente allegro – Adagio – Giga allegro
Domenico Gabrielli (1659-1690) Cello Sonata in G Major
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Sonata in D minor K.64 & Sonata in D minor K.141
Sequentia/Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) Processional of Embodied Souls
Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) Trio sonata in E minor Opus 1 No. 5
Grave – Vivace – Adagio – Vivace
About the artists
Lucinda Moon, violin
Lucinda has recorded and performed with early music groups in Australia including the Elysium Ensemble, Chacona (Newcastle), Adelaide Baroque, Salut! Baroque, Latitude 37 and Accademia Arcadia. She has appeared in many Australian Festivals, and in 2015 she was soloist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
As concertmaster of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra from 1995–2008, Lucinda led the orchestra through its national and international concert series and numerous recordings. She has also performed as guest concertmaster and soloist with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Vancouver, and with The Orchestra of the 18th Century in the production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Les Indes Galantes in Poland and the Netherlands.
Katie Yap, violin
Modern and baroque violist Katie Yap plays regularly with Australia’s finest ensembles including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Van Diemen's Band, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Australian World Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and has joined groups like the Academy of Ancient Music overseas. Her greatest love is chamber music, and she is a founding member of prog-baroque quartet Croissants & Whiskey, the Chrysalis Harp Trio, and crossover folk/baroque group Wattleseed Ensemble.
Katie is fascinated by music’s ability to tell stories and bring people together. As the 2022 Freedman Fellow, her project Multitudes explores the nexus of folk, baroque, and new music styles, and a life-long fascination with improvisation.
Natasha Kraemer is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London. A pupil of Jenny Ward Clarke, she specialised in historical performance on Baroque and Classical cello. Natasha performs across the UK, Europe and Australia with many orchestras and chamber groups. These include Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The English Concert, The Gabrieli Players, and The Sixteen.
Nicholas Pollock, theorbo
Nicholas Pollock is an Australian multi-instrumentalist specialising in early plucked strings. Starting out on electric guitar, he then progressed to the renaissance lute, theorbo, baroque guitar, baroque lute, archlute, cittern and most recently the gallichon. A dynamic and versatile performer, Nicholas is equally at home playing guitar in a punk band as performing the intimate lute works of John Dowland on the concert stage. He has a particular interest in the lute and theorbo music of seventeenth-century France.
Donald Nicolson, harpsichord
Dr Donald Nicolson undertook postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague, the Netherlands studying under Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot, focussing especially on the interpretation of the sixteenth-century English virginal music and the keyboard music of seventeenth-century France.
Now a Melbourne-based harpsichordist, organist and pianist, Donald leads an active career in performance and research of the music of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, continuing to work on both sides of the Tasman as keyboardist for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.