Avison Ensemble
Music Celebration Week 2011: Gateshead Viol Consort concert, St. Mary’s Visitors Centre, Gateshead Quays, 15 July 2011
This group of dedicated young performers of the viol (a stringed instrument popular up to the 18th Century) played a range of dance music and other works from the 16th and 17th centuries during a concert given in St. Mary’s Visitors Centre, Gateshead Quays. The Consort was directed by Mr John Finnon, Master of the Viols.
The Avison Ensemble is proud to have sponsored this year’s Music Celebration Week presented by Gateshead Music Service. Hundreds of children across Gateshead were involved in workshops, sing-a-longs, demonstrations and concerts, as well as a WOPPING big, music-filled picnic at Gibside!
The Avison Ensemble is grateful to The Roland Cookson Fund at The Community Foundation and the Arts Council North East for supporting Music Celebration Week.
The Avison Ensemble is the outstanding period instrument orchestra based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays and popularises the music of Charles Avison (1709-1770) and other English classical composers of the Baroque period, such as Garth, Arne and Herschel. The Ensemble also performs Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Geminiani, Pergolesi, Teleman, Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
Music Celebration Week 2011: Gateshead Viol Consort concert, St. Mary’s Visitors Centre, Gateshead Quays, 15 July 2011
This group of dedicated young performers of the viol (a stringed instrument popular up to the 18th Century) played a range of dance music and other works from the 16th and 17th centuries during a concert given in St. Mary’s Visitors Centre, Gateshead Quays. The Consort was directed by Mr John Finnon, Master of the Viols.
The Avison Ensemble is proud to have sponsored this year’s Music Celebration Week presented by Gateshead Music Service. Hundreds of children across Gateshead were involved in workshops, sing-a-longs, demonstrations and concerts, as well as a WOPPING big, music-filled picnic at Gibside!
The Avison Ensemble is grateful to The Roland Cookson Fund at The Community Foundation and the Arts Council North East for supporting Music Celebration Week.
The Avison Ensemble is the outstanding period instrument orchestra based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays and popularises the music of Charles Avison (1709-1770) and other English classical composers of the Baroque period, such as Garth, Arne and Herschel. The Ensemble also performs Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Geminiani, Pergolesi, Teleman, Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.