Winchester Baroque

The Programme

Rudolf Balàzs – baroque violin
Helen Willey – poetry
Dr Birgitta Huse – introduction
Daen Palma Huse – commentator

from Violin Partita II in D minor, Köthen 1720
Allemande

from XII Fantasie per il Violino senza Basso, Hamburg 1735
Largo

from The First Booke of Ayres, London, 1613
Author of Light

from Selva de varii passaggi, Milan 1620
Vestiva i colli (after Palestrina)

Black leather shoes
(Poem written for this occasion – reflections on metamorphosis and healing)

from Violin Partita III in E Major, Köthen 1720
Gigue

Seikilos Epitaph, Tralles, 1st or 2nd Century AD

The Artists

Rudolf Balàzs, artistic director of Winchester Baroque, is a London-based Hungarian violinist born in Budapest of a musical family. After his classical violin training in Budapest, he began his studies in the Early Music department at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig with Professor Susanne Scholz. In 2018 Rudolf was awarded his MMus Music (Performance, Musicology, Pedagogy) under the guidance of eminent early music pioneer Elizabeth Kenny and baroque violin teacher Caroline Balding at the University of Southampton.

He appears regularly with fine English and continental ensembles including The Hanover Band, The Sarabande Consort, Orchestra Barocca Lorenzo da Ponte, the Welsh Baroque Orchestra, Barock Orchester Harmonia dell’Arcadia Bamberg, Ensemble OrQuesta, Musica Poetica, Endelianta Baroque and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Rudolf is also concert master of ‘The Reutter Project’ in Hungary, re-discovering compositions by Austrian composer, Johann Georg Reutter (1708-1772). His interests and research stretches from 15th century polyphony through early baroque instrumental diminution to contemporary avant-garde electronic fusion music. Rudolf plays a violin made by Lockey Hill in London in the 1780s.

Dr Birgitta Huse – Social Anthropologist and researcher Birgitta is part of Winchester Baroque’s regulars. Birgitta has worked as an author and publisher, lecturer at universities, in concept development and as trainer in child and adult education. She brings her joyful approach to invite our audiences to partake in musical experiences, inspiring to connect.

Daen Palma Huse – Art historian, writer, curator and researcher, Daen is a PhD candidate at University College London in History of Art. Daen is the Editor and Co-Founder of The Protagonist Magazine. He has collaborated with the National Portrait Gallery, The Wallace Collection, Leighton House Museum, Leica Gallery West Hollywood and most recently was a Research Fellow at the Library of Congress.