To quote a fellow tutor on a course in Germany, after a workshop on French Baroque music, "Eileen has the ability of making hard things easy."
2009 activitiesHave a look at the updated list of courses, including a new course starting in southern Germany at the end of August, 2010, together with Marion Doherty.
On August 1st, Eileen conducted NYRO/NYTRO in Cambridge, at the West Road Concert Hall. The programme included music by Maute, Shannon, Jacques and Rameau.
Eileen has started giving workshops for the SRP, and others, on various themes - so far, there has been a workshop on recorder technique (in Lincolnshire), and one on playing unbarred (Renaissance) music (in Cambridgeshire). Both were very well received, and there will be more in the future (see the courses page).
The year started with a concert in Ipswich, given by Recorders Incorporated, which was a great success, and we are looking forward to 2010, already , when the concert will again be held in Ipswich.
The year continues with courses in the UK and Germany, and some new compositions, written for special occasions. They include the Fantasia, written for the opening of an art exhibition, and the Divertimento, written for the 15th anniversary of the Dortmund Recorder Consort. The Divertimento will be given its first performance in Dortmund on Sunday October 25th 2009, at 17.00.
2008 activitiesThroughout the summer, Eileen travelled around Europe, coaching and conducting over three hundred people, and sharing the wonderful music that has been composed either this year, or sometime over the past half millenium!
On May 4th 2008, the Scottish Recorder Orchestra joined forces with the Dortmund Recorder Consort to play a programme of mostly modern music, composed by Eileen Silcocks, Steve Marshall and Dietrich Schnabel. This took place in Dortmund.
SRO also performed at the Scottish Recorder Festival, and in Oban, during June.
Sunday October 5th, 2008, at 2pm in the Reid Hall, Edinburgh. A concert given by SRO and the Dortmund Consort, a repeat of our May concert, this time in the UK, with first performances of some of our latest works.
Towards the end of 2008 came a great occasion - Bristol SRP celebrated their 60th Anniversary, and Eileen composed a piece for them, "Bristol Celebration" (P307), inspired by the initials of Enid & Edgar Hunt, and the number 60!
Read the Courses page for the further news on concert performances with the Scottish Recorder Orchestra in 2008.
Older newsEileen performed in St Edmund's Church, Crickhowell, Wales, on July 1st, in a performance of "A Strand in the Web of Life", by Gillian Stevens.
The Scottish Recorder Festival, on Saturday, June 2nd, 2007, was a great day for playing, as well as for listening to Flauti Animati Scotica, and the Scottish Recorder Orchestra, conducted by Eileen.
In January 2007, Eileen started up a new orchestra, "Recorders Incorporated", made up of talented amateurs and professionals from the UK and The Netherlands, which gave its debut concert on Thursday, January 4th, at the Benslow Music Trust, in Hitchin. The programme contained a mixture of ancient and modern music, including Hassler, Gabrieli, Lawes, Maute, Haverkate and Hilling. The last concert was on Friday, January 4th, 2009, at the St Peter's Centre, in Ipswich.
Eileen's recorder quartet, Flauti Animati Scotica has produced a CD of European Renaissance music. You can order this from the Scottish Music Centre. Here is a short extract.
Eileen's other performances include playing sopranino in Handel's "Rinaldo", with the RSAMD, with performances in the Glasgow and Edinburgh, as well as with Flauti Animati Scotica at the Scottish Recorder Festival in Edinburgh.
Other news: The first performance of Eileen's "Playford Suite" in October 2005 was a great success, and part of a lovely day in memory of Enid Hunt. The day was made up of playing the Suite, and dancing the associated Playford dances.
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