MARAIS MEETS MUFFAT
Event Date: 16/07/2017, 03:30 pm
North Sydney’s spectacular Independent Theatre in a celebration of the exchange of musical culture
French musicians, not just French customs, had an enormous impact across Europe during the baroque and particularly, upon the various small states that made up what we now call Germany.
17th century Germans adored French culture in much the same way that a 14-year old teenager today might worship a poster of Justin Bieber on her or his bedroom wall.
As American culture had a powerful influence on late 20th century fashion and taste, so it was for Franco-German society during the Baroque era.
The Marais meets Muffat collaboration brings to light some of the delightful but rarely performed music that emerged in Germany as a result of French influences.
In a concert co-directed by Jennifer Eriksson and Anthony Abouhamad, The Muffat Collective and The Marais Project – named, respectively, for a German and French composer - present a rare performance of two suites for viola da gamba and strings by the renowned Georg Philipp Telemann and his lesser-known colleague, Johann Bernhardt Bach, a second cousin to Johan Sebastian Bach.
Also featured are works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and François Couperin.
The Marais Project and its award-winning director Jennifer Eriksson is very familiar to Sydney audiences while The Muffat Collective (Anthony Abouhamad, Matthew Greco, Raf Font-Viera, Stephen Freeman and Anita Gluyas, represents the new wave of Australian Historically Informed Performance (HIP) ensembles.
Composer, professor of rhetoric and traveller, Georg Muffat was the ideal seventeenth-century humanist and gave his name - and his example of a life well lived - to The Muffat Collective.
Tickets: $37 Adult, $27 Concession, $15 student, $10 child
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The Independent Theatre 269 Miller St,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060
The Independent Theatre 269 Miller St,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060
