Mass for the Feast of St Francis Xavier (2011)

Saturday, 3 December 2011, at 11am
Newman College Chapel, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville

Newman College 2011 Advent Festival

Mass for the Feast of St Francis Xavier
In honour of the Spanish saint Australia’s leading Renaissance ensemble, Ensemble Gombert, performs a Mass by Victoria, whose four-hundredth anniversary falls this year. 

PROGRAM

Tomàs Luis de Victoria Missa Gaudeamus

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS
Deborah Summerbell Jenny Mathers Peter Campbell Andrew Murray
Carol Veldhoven Belinda Wong Tim Van Nooten Samuel Allchurch
Claerwen Jones Rebecca Woods Vaughan McAlley Kieran Rowe
Kathryn Pisani Niki Ebacioni Stuart Tennant Alistair Clark
Maria Pisani
Fiona Seers

Victoria Requiem (2011)

Wednesday 3 November 2011, 7.30pm
All Saints Church, East St Kilda

All Souls Day commemoration.

Tomàs Luis de Victoria Requiem


SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS
Deborah Summerbell Niki Ebacioni Peter Campbell Andrew Murray
Katherine Norman Rebecca Woods Matthew Thomson Samuel Allchurch
Maria Pisani Daniel Thomson
Kathryn Pisani Stuart Tennant

Mozart Requiem (2011)

Saturday, 11 June 2011, 8.30pm
Sunday, 12 June 2011, 8.30pm
St Ambrose Church, Woodend

Woodend Winter Arts Festival

PROGRAM

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem
Completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS
Katherine Norman Niki Ebacioni Tim Van Nooten Kieran Rowe
Deborah Summerbell Belinda Wong Peter Campbell Adam Chong
Carol Veldhoven Yi Wen Chin Daniel Thomson Samuel Allchurch
Fiona Seers Rebecca Woods Vaughan McAlley Andrew Murray
Maria Pisani Jennifer Mathers Stuart Tennant Alistair Clark
Claerwen Jones
Kathryn Pisani


SOLOISTS
Katherine Norman (soprano)
Niki Ebacioni (alto)
Timothy Van Nooten (tenor)
Kieran Rowe (bass)

 

Accademia Arcadia – conducted by John O’Donnell.

Violin 1 Viola Basset Horn Trombone
Rachael Beesley John Quaine Craig Hill Julian Bain
Briar Goessi Heather Lloyd Ashley Sutherland Chris Farrands
Peter Clark Cello Bassoon Glenn Bardwell
Chris Ruiter Rosanne Hunt Simon Rickard Timpani
Violin 2 Edwina Cordingley Brock Imison Arwen Johnston
Meredith Thomas Violone Trumpet
Linda Priebbenow Ruth Wilkinson Tristan Rebien
Felicité Heine Danny Lucin
Jen Kirsner

Monteverdi Vespers (2010): Woodend

Saturday, 12 June 2010, 8pm
Sunday, 13 June 2010, 8pm
St Ambrose Church, Woodend

Woodend Winter Arts Festival

PROGRAM

Claudio Monteverdi Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS
Deborah Summerbell Jennifer Mathers Peter Campbell Kieran Rowe
Carol Veldhoven Belinda Wong Tim van Nooten Samuel Allchurch
Katherine Norman Niki Ebacioni Vaughan McAlley Chris Potter
Claerwen Jones Rebecca Woods Stuart Tennant Brendan O’Donnell
Maria Pisani
Kathryn Pisani

 

Soloists: Deborah Summerbell (sop.), Carol Veldhoven (sop.), Katherine Norman (sop.), Jenifer Mathers (alto), Tim van Nooten (ten.), Vaughan McAlley (ten.), Peter Campbell (ten.), Kieran Rowe (bass), Christopher Potter (bass)

Accademia Arcadia – conducted by John O’Donnell.

Paul Wright, violin Danny Lucin, cornett Samantha Cohen, theorbo/guitar Jacquelin Ogeil, harpsichord
Briar Goessi, violin Peter Reid, cornett Rosemary Hodgson, theorbo Calvin Bowman, harpsichord
Ruth Wilkinson, violone Julian Bain, sackbutt John O’Donnell, organ
John Gluyas, sackbutt
Glenn Bardwell, sackbutt

 

Monteverdi Vespers (2010): Ballarat

Monday, 11 January 2010, 8pm
Loreto Abbey Chapel, Ballarat

Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival

Claudio Monteverdi Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
[version with continuo accompaniment only]

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS
Deborah Summerbell Jennifer Mathers Peter Campbell Kieran Rowe
Carol Veldhoven Belinda Wong Tim van Nooten Julien Robinson
Katherine Norman Niki Ebacioni Vaughan McAlley
Claerwen Jones Rebecca Woods Stuart Tennant
Maria Pisani
Kathryn Pisani

 

Soloists: Deborah Summerbell (sop.), Carol Veldhoven (sop.), Katherine Norman (sop.), Jenifer Mathers (alto), Tim van Nooten (ten.), Vaughan McAlley (ten.), Peter Campbell (ten.), Julien Robinson (bass), Kieran Rowe (bass);

John O’Donnell – Chamber Organ

 

 

 

Spanish Renaissance Vespers (2009)

Saturday, 28 November 2009, 5pm
Newman College Chapel, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville

Newman College 2009 Advent Festival

First Vespers for Advent Sunday
Australia’s specialists in Renaissance music, Ensemble Gombert perform a sixteenth-century Spanish First Vespers for the first Sunday of Advent.

PROGRAM

Tomàs Luis de Victoria Conditor alme siderum
Cristóbal de Morales Magnificat primi toni
Plainchant Psalms and Antiphons
Antonio de Cabazon Organ preludes

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS
Deborah Summerbell Niki Ebacioni Peter Campbell Julien Robinson
Carol Veldhoven Gowri Rajendran Tim Van Nooten Kieran Rowe
Claerwen Jones Rebecca Woods Vaughan McAlley Chris Potter
Kathryn Pisani Yi Wen Chin Stuart Tennant Alistair Clark

John O’Donnell – Organ

Music for a King (2009)

Saturday, 6 June 2009, 8pm
Sunday, 7 June 2009, 8pm
St Ambrose Church, Woodend

Woodend Winter Arts Festival

PROGRAM

George Frideric Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks
George Frideric Handel Coronation Anthems
1. ‘The King shall Rejoice
2. ‘My Heart is Inditing’
3. ‘Let thy Hand be Strengthened’
4. ‘Zadok the Priest’

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS
Deborah Summerbell Jennifer Mathers Tim van Nooten Kieran Rowe
Carol Veldhoven Belinda Wong Vaughan McAlley Samuel Allchurch
Fiona Seers Peter Campbell Stuart Tennant Tim Daly
Claerwen Jones Rebecca Woods Chris Potter
Maria Pisani Niki Ebacioni
Kathryn Pisani Helen Hughson


Accademia Arcadia
John O’Donnell – conductor

La Dafne (2008)

Saturday, 7 June 2008, 5.30 pm
Sunday, 8 June 2008, 5.30 pm
St Ambrose Church Hall, Woodend

Woodend Winter Arts Festival

PROGRAM

Marco da Gagliano La Dafne [Semi-staged opera]

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS
Carol Veldhoven Jennifer Mathers Peter Campbell Kieran Rowe
Fiona Seers Belinda Wong Tim Van Nooten Julien Robinson
Helen Gagliano Niki Ebacioni Vaughan McAlley Chris Potter
Kathryn Pisani Gowri Rajendran Stuart Tennant Tim Daly
Maria Pisani
Claerwen Jones

 

Accademia Arcadia
Sara Macliver (Venere/Dafne)
Sally-Anne Russell (Amore)
Paul McMahon (Apollo)
Daniel Thomson (Ovidio)
Jennifer Mathers (Tirsi)
Helen Gagliano, Claerwen Jones (Ninfae del Coro)
Vaughan McAlley, Stuart Tennant, Tim Daly (Pastores del Coro)
John O’Donnell – conductor
Rodney Hall – director

Feast of Choirs (2008)

Sunday 27 April at 12 pm
Daylesford Town Hall, Daylesford

Feast of Choirs
Hepburn Spring Swiss Italian Festa

PROGRAM
Italian Renaissance sacred and secular works, including Giovanni Bassano Dic nobis Maria

SINGERS

Soprano
Deborah Summerbell
Carol Veldhoven
Maria Pisani
Claerwen Jones
Kathryn Pisani
Alto
Belinda Wong
Niki Ebacioni
Jennifer Mathers
Tenor
Peter Campbell
Tim van Nooten
Stuart Tennant
Bass
Kieran Rowe
Tim Daly
Julien Robinson

Handel & Scarlatti (2007)

Saturday, 9 June 2007, 4pm
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 4pm
St Ambrose Church, Urquart Street, Woodend

Woodend Winter Arts Festival

PROGRAM

Domenico Scarlatti Stabat Mater
George Frideric Handel Dixit Dominus

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS
Deborah Summerbell Jenny George Peter Campbell Alexander Roose
Carol Veldhoven Belinda Wong Tim Van Nooten Philip Nicholls
Fiona Seers Niki Ebacioni Daniel Thomson Tom Reid
Kathryn Pisani Jennifer Mathers Stuart Tennant Tim Daly
Maria Pisani
Claerwen Jones
Kate McBride
Helen Gagliano


Accademia Arcadia
John O’Donnell – conductor