The Marais Project’s new CD Spinning Forth is a gorgeous collection of music which showcases the viola da gamba and its ensemble partners, through dedicated pieces written during its golden age in the 17th century and through its second coming in the 20th century, championed in Australia by viola da gamba player and founding artistic…
Bittersweet Obsessions: Monteverdi and Bach Australian Brandenburg Orchestra City Recital Hall 25 October 2017 The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Bittersweet Obsessions: Monteverdi and Bach is an engaging pastiche of early and baroque music, performed in a dramatised setting by thirteen members of the orchestra, led by concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen. Joined by four vocal soloists – New…
The Marais Project is performing at The Sydney Fringe Festival 2017, presenting Master and Pupil, a music-drama written and acted by James Fraser (The Water Diviner, Devil’s Playground) with music selected by viola da gambist Jennifer Eriksson of The Marais Project. Master and Pupil explores the sometimes fraught relationships between a talented and driven musician and his…