Concert 1 | Beatus Vir

Beatus Vir

Sunday, 7 May 2023, 3PM
St Francis’ Paddington
457-459 Oxford St, Paddington NSW 2021

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Welcome to the start of Coro Innominata’s 2023 musical year! Our first concert for the year goes perhaps further into the past than we have ever been.

Guillaume de Machaut was composing in France 700 years ago. His Messe de Notre Dame, that we are sampling in this concert, is a strange and marvellous piece that blends what we understand as choral polyphony with sounds that seem to reach even further into the past. Agincourt Carol, from the 15th century, feels very much of its time as this beloved English work celebrates Henry V’s famous victory.

Our program continues to look back even as we perform some brand new music from Heather Percy and David Yardley, both of whom draw from a very old musical toolbox for their music, albeit in wildly different ways.

Barbara Strozzi, Carlo Gesualdo and Claudio Monteverdi occupy the program’s historical middle ground. As its celebratory centrepiece, Monteverdi’s Beatus Vir reminds us, we are indeed blessed to have such musical riches to perform for you.

Nazli E. Sendurgut completed her Bachelor and Master of Music Studies (performance) degree in 2015 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Nazli believes that music is a powerful tool to help others and raise awareness for important causes. She regularly seeks projects outside traditional concert halls, in schools, a cancer clinic, regional Australia, a detention centre and the slums of Bogotá Colombia. She has also performed in the Wiener Kammeroper in Vienna as well as concert halls in the Czech Republic and Italy. Nazli plays on a modern Italian Stefano Marzi cello. She performs regularly with Ensemble Twelve88 and Willoughby Symphony.
Liam Green is a keyboard player and singer, currently completing a bachelor of Historically Informed Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. While attending the Conservatorium High School, Liam studied the harpsichord under Dr. Neal Peres Da Costa, exposing him to wide variety of musical practices and fostering a love of improvisation. This has led him to perform with Bach Akademie Australia, amongst others. Finding particular pleasure in ensemble singing, Liam is a choral scholar at Christ Church St Laurence and St Paul’s College Chapel Choir, has performed with the Song Company and is a founding member of the vocal ensemble False Relations.
Beverly Kwan is in her second year studying a Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In 2022, she was a semi-finalist in the Kendall National Violin Competition and was the youngest player to be selected for the Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra European tour. She has participated in a number of Australian Youth Orchestra programs since 2019 and was a member of the Western Australian Youth Orchestras for six years.
Klara Decker-Stewart began studying violin at age 4 and after graduating from the Conservatorium High school began studying at the Conservatorium of Music under the tuition of Janet Davies. Klara has performed internationally with the Sydney Youth Orchestras and is currently the associate concert master of their flagship Orchestra. Klara has a strong passion for baroque and chamber music and regularly performs in ensembles with highlights including performances in collaboration with the SSO and LSO.
David Yardley – Sancte martyr domini Olave
– Eya, Jhesus Hodie
Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Notre Dame
Anon – Agincourt Carol		Carlo Gesualdo – O Vos Omnes
Claudio Monteverdi – Beatus Vir
Barbara Strozzi – Quis dabit mihi
Heather Percy – Ave Maria

St Francis’ Paddington

457-459 Oxford St, Paddington NSW 2021