Auncient Hermony

Only two Saturdays until our next concert PARADISO.

The Artists
Hepburn Players are a community orchestra based in Victoria’s Central Highlands. Originally formed as Newlyn Players during the pandemic to find joy in local music making, the group comprises a happy mix of professional musicians and enthusiastic amateur players. Recent performances in Creswick and Newlyn have featured concertos and sonatas drawn from the incredibly rich and varied repertoire of music for Baroque string orchestra. Their program to be performed in the Church, ranges from late Renaissance, through Baroque to the Classical period with works by Dowland, Monteverdi, Handel, Haydn and Telemann. The Telemann Viola Concerto and Haydn Concerto for Violin and Harpsichord will be highlights along with local tenor, Tim Drylie’s (pictured) two songs by Dowland and Monteverdi.


L-R .Tim Nelson, Nigel Smith, Jeremy Blackman, Angus Downing, Judy Turner, Louise Hildyard & Andrew Welsh.

The first concert in Stanbridge Hall will feature
The Recorder Co-op a quartet made up of some of Australia’s most well-known recorder players. Performances are on matched recorder consorts built by recorder makers Danish Ture Bergstrøm and New Zealand’s David Coomber, this ensemble brings back the authentic sounds of the Renaissance era. Comfortable with many musical styles they have a passion for commissioning new works for Renaissance style recorders, drawing from the deep past these special insturments speak to contemporary Australia. In this vein their program includes works by Benjamin Thorn, Miggs Coggan, Rachel Cogan and Ryan Williams heard with the ensemble Saltbush at last year’s Christ Church Concerts. Renaissance composers represented include Byrd, Palestrina, Gervaise, Cabezon, Isaac and Verdelot.



The afternoon concerts will commence with the intimate early music ensemble Auncient Hermony in the Church. Performing together for over 25 years they have established an enviable reputation for graceful, nuanced and dramatic historically informed performance style. They bring a wealth of experience as well as academic scholarship. Auncient Hermony [“awn- shunt-hehr-moh-nee”] is the lowland Scots translation of the English term “Ancient Harmony”. Mezzo soprano Vivien Hamilton is accompanied by baroque guitar, theorbo, recorder, viola da gamba, organ and harpsichord. The musical and cultural friendship between singer and instrumentalist is the nuanced fabric which binds the group’s exploration of early music encompassing English, Scottish, French, Spanish, Italian and German Renaissance and Baroque reperotire. Their program Paradiso presents a selection of elegant yet virtuoso masterpieces for these periods.



Our afternoon concert in the hall will feature solo Florentine born Latin Classical guitarist, Sergio Ercole. With a Masters of Music from Melbourne University Sergio has studied classical guitar with many master guitartists and worked in diverse musical fields, including Orchestra Victoria, New Zealand Symphony, The Cat Empire and ABC TV. He is also a founding member of original Latin/Pop group The Reg Cole Quartet. He has also appeared in many local and overseas guitar festivals. He is active in guitar education through his role as Head of Guitar at Haileybury in which he has collaborated wtih many guitarists and composers, including Tommy Emmanual, the Grigoryan Brothers, Karin Schaupp and Paul Svoboda. Sergio’s program includes works by Vivaldi and Handel, 3 Latin Dances by Sergio, some works from Brasil and Argentina and by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Isaac Albéniz.


Sergio Ercole
The full day at a glance and how you can book.

Some news on our website. Upcoming concert in Daylesford on March 18.

Auncient Hermony Auncient Hermony is a Melbourne-based early music ensemble that specialise's in the performance of Renaissance and early Baroque music.

Our next project - details of UN PARADISO MUSICALE for the Organs of the Ballarat Festival of fine music are on our website ancienthermony.com.

We are thrilled to welcome Quin Thomson and Ann Morgan to our fold in this program of virtuoso madrigals for 2 voices - from the repertoire of the Ladies of Ferrara!

Viv x

Auncient Hermony Auncient Hermony is a Melbourne-based early music ensemble that specialise's in the performance of Renaissance and early Baroque music.

Our next concert will be a double whammy! Two recitals - one program repeated - for the Organs of the Ballarat Festival.

UN PARADISO MUSICALE

Virtuoso Italian madrigals for one and two voices to the accompaniment of Theorbo, Baroque Guiter, Organ, Harpsichord, Recorder, Viola da Gamba. Elegant masterpieces for instruments.
Monteverdi, Luzzaschi, Frescobaldi, Caccini and MORE...

Monday 16th January 2023
Clunes Anglican Church 11 am & 2 pm.

For details please feel free to visit our website auncienthermony.com

Vivien x

Auncient Hermony Auncient Hermony is a Melbourne-based early music ensemble that specialise's in the performance of Renaissance and early Baroque music.

Very happy to be performing again with Rosemary Hodgson, Ruth Wilkinson, Ann Morgan and Quin Thomson in UN PARADISO MUSICALE which will be part of the 2023 Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival of Fine Music.

Date: Monday 16 January
Venue: Clunes Anglican Church
Time: 11 m and 2pm.

Check out our website for details.

Auncient Hermony Auncient Hermony is a Melbourne-based early music ensemble that specialise's in the performance of Renaissance and early Baroque music.

Ruth, Rose and I (Auncient Hermony) are thrilled that to welcome Quin Thomson and Ann Morgan to our fold for our program UN PARADISO MUSICALE. Two recitals on 16 January 2023 in Clunes Anglican Church for the 2023 Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival of Fine Music.

Due to illness AUNCIENT HERMONY'S concert - ANGELS OF PARADISE: An ode to the Ladies of Ferrara at the Melbourne Recital Centre (Primrose Potter Salon) on THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER
has had to be POSTPONED!

Updates will be provided when available.

Auncient Hermony Auncient Hermony is a Melbourne-based early music ensemble that specialise's in the performance of Renaissance and early Baroque music.

A drizzly day in Melbourne - a sunny project to share.

The ANGELS OF PARADISE sang copiously on the theme of LOVE in ALL it's guises...

Cupid’s Mischief
Love and Indifference
Lover’s Anxieties
Fire and Eyes
Mutual Love
Love’s Theatrics
Incursions of Distrust
Lover’s Voices
The World’s Interruptions
Love in Old Age

Anna Guarini's father Giovanni Battista Guarini provided their composers with the most fabulous and heartfelt poetry which suited setting to music.

Come hear our program
Tickets - https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2022/auncient-hermony-angels-of-paradise/

AUNCIENT HERMONY
THE LADIES OF FERRARA
Primrose Potter Salon
Melbourne Recital Centre.
Thursday 6 October 2022 at 6pm.

AUNCIENT HERMONY and GUESTS
Singers: Vivien Hamilton, Amelia Jones, Katherine Norman
Lute: Rosemary Hodgson,
Viola da gamba: Ruth Wilkinson

O PRIMAVERA by Giovanni Battista Guarini

O primavera, gioventu dell’ , bella madre dei fiori,
D'herbe novelle e di novelli amori,
tu ben, lasso, ritorni, ma senza i cari giorni de la speranze mie.
Tu ben sei quella ch'eri pur dianzi,
si vezzosa e bella; ma non son io quel che'un tempo fui,
si caro a gli occhi altrui.

Sweet spring, full of the year's sweet youth, progenitor of flowers, the force that through each stem drives new desire! Now you return; but not to me return those days of splendor in the grass. You are the same as once you were, graceful and beautiful, but I will never be again what once I was dear in another's heart.

Laura, Anna and Livia were the famous Ladies of Ferrara (1580-97) who sang their 'secret' music for the Duke of Ferrara and his guests.

Their fame spread far and wide despite all their concerts/performances being held in secret.

Today, their music appeals to lovers of fine early music.

The meaning and emotions encapsulated within the lyrical and virtuosic threads of the polyphonic harmony tell stories about Cupid, love -both the pleasure and the pain, and elevates our spirits.

Join the warm and inviting voices of Vivien Hamilton, Katherine Norman and Amelia Jones, who are accompanied by Rosemary Hodgson, lute, and Ruth Wilkinson on viola da gamba, in a program of music by Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Luca Marenzio and Francesca Caccini.

These ladies were the superstars of their day... may we boast the same reputation? Come along and see for yourselves.

Thursday October 6th at 6pm (1hr)
Melbourne Recital Centre
Primrose Potter Salon.

Tickets $25/$20 concession
https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2022/auncient-hermony-angels-of-paradise/

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The power and passion of the music of the Ladies of Ferrara is quite spectacular....and so lyrical vocally! They knew how to write for a healthy voice in those days.

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